Instead Of Covering Grey Roots, This Hair Colorist Makes Clients Embrace It
According to trichologist Madeleine Preston, most women who are in their 30s should see a few grey hairs here and there, but by the time they get into their 50s, about half of their scalp hairs turn grey. Like wrinkles, silver flocks are part of aging. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with them.
Celebrity colorist Jack Martin is also a firm believer of that. For the past couple of years, he has been on a mission to prove that grey never goes out of style: Martin has developed a technique that allows his clients to gradually ditch the dye. He also posts before-and-after pictures of these empowering transformations to show they look badass. Continue scrolling to check out the latest makeovers, and fire up Bored Panda's previous article if you missed the earlier ones.
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As Martin explained on his Instagram account, the process starts with using a color extractor to remove any remaining artificial color. While preserving the gray roots, he then bleaches the rest of the hair to prep it for the new color.
Next, the crucial part. Martin bases the new color on the hair's natural gray pattern. The clients even have to come in with three to four inches of their roots grown out, so he can analyze the natural coloring of their hair. He then re-creates the pattern on the entire hairdo.
"Some clients have salt and pepper mostly in the front and the back is darker, so I match that and add some darkness to it," Martin told Allure. And just like that, about ten hours later, the women leave his salon enjoying the blend of their natural hue.
The LA-based colorist, who has worked with Sharon Osbourne, Jane Fonda, and other well-known clients, explained to Insider that the coronavirus lockdown has "absolutely" led to even more women around the world deciding to go gray naturally.
"Now, many women have about four to five inches of a new regrowth so they've started to see how beautiful their gray is naturally," he said. "Being quarantined at home for three to four months, seeing how much gray hair they have and how beautiful their gray hair is, many women have changed their minds and decided that they want to go this way."
Pretty. More people should do this instead of covering it up
My older sister always wanted curly hair. She would be so jealous
She looks shocked in the first picture. Then shocked again in the second picture
The person who does these people's hair must be very talented
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To me, the point of going gray is so you don't have to color your hair anymore. These transformations are gorgeous, but if these women want to keep their hair looking like this, they'll have to keep getting recolored just like they did before. Just about all of these include highlights and lowlights and unnatural silver colors, which when growing out will not look as beautiful.
When I started really showing roots in grey, I went for platinum with dark roots . The darker roots are actually my own regrowth. I like it a lot as it isn't platinum all over. So now I only have the get a touch up , maybe every 6 months or so.
That sounds pretty.
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I understand what you mean. However, I bet many of these women don't like the extreme contrast between their grey roots and the color that is growing out, so getting an all-over grey color helps. When the grey-dyed hair starts to grow out, the contrast between their own hair and the dye will be tolerable and they won't necessarily have to get it done again. It just gives them a smoother transition to their own natural grey. :)
Agree. It’s an equal hassle. Either way you have to color it. I’d rather keep my natural color than fake gray just because I have a few gray strands. But a lot of these transformations are amazing. And some of the women have entirely gray hair anyway, and the color you see is just fake.
Yes, THANK YOU, it's so annoying to read comments like: more women should let their naturally white hair grow. Not everyone has evenly gray hair, and it has to be colored somehow to kill the yellowish tones. It's not that your hair pigment just disapears and boom, you get a natural silver mane. You stay in the awkward middle for years, your hair partly gray and partly your natural color.
The yellow tones can be tamed with purple shampoo.
I have a natural silver patch at the top of my head and I hate it. I wish it had more yellow tones, because my skin is yellow toned. I just color it back to my natural blackish. Otherwise it looks like Dollar Store version of Rouge from X-men.
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I was asked by a co-worker (guy) that I needed to color my hair, because the grey makes me look older. WTF?? What is with these people who can't handle the grey? Kate....you keep going grey!! To heck with everybody else's opinions!
Not necessarily Kate. I used to colour my hair all the time, and finally got sick of it and grew it out. It has a natural, highlighted mix of dark grey, light grey and silvery/white and looks like a lot of these "second" shots. Not having to colour it all the time, is the best, and I always get lots of comments on how good it looks. (I'm in my early 50s, with a baby-face, and look a lot younger, so am finally looking closer to my age).
kate h The daily routine of styling (spritzing, curling, blow drying, backcombing) would drive me batty =D
most of these women had very white roots and it doesnt seem like they would have to come back very soon or maybe ever. Some of them will have to, yes, but they're only a few
No. Look at the photos again and see how silver/gray the roots of these women are. Don't be a Debbie Downer.
Agree, but the gray is so much prettier than the colors they were dyeing it before, don't you think? I love the striations. Who knew gray could be so pretty? I am thinking they wouldn't have to get recoloring as often, at least? They will need touch-ups, as you said, though.
I get my hair colored twice a year at the hair school here in town, I use some cheap Walmart recommended-for-color shampoo and conditioner. I LOVE when it's growing out, I LOVE the way the lowlights and highlights and natural and unnatural parts of it change throughout the six months. People decide to 'go gray' for lots of different reasons. Women may do it repeatedly, they may do it once, they may like it, they may not. Everyone's different, don't be such a downer.
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So pretty. I don't think the hair colour actually matters though. It will always look better when hair is freshly cut, styled, shiny and healthy looking.
I can't remember the last time I dyed my hair. More than 10 years ago. I was asked by someone why I don't do it, and my reply is; "With age comes wisdom. Why would i want to cover up my wisdom?" No one says I should color my hair anymore.
I am 40 and had blonde hair as my natural color for the first 32 years of my life. After I had my daughter it turned brown; NOW, it’s turning silver/grey, but looks like it’s turning back to blonde. I have people comment ALL THE TIME about it or question why I don’t color it. I tell them that it helps me look closer to my age; because I look like I’m in my mid to late 20s. I have a 14 year old and an 8 year old and people LOVE to clutch their pearls when they assume you had a kid when you were 13. 🙄🤣
Sassy Dandelion I didn't follow that colour evolution but as long as you're happy with it riight?? Who cares if they clutch their pearls! Good grief. =D =D =D
It's funny how people "assume" what your age is without first asking politely. I had my first child when I was 25 and people thought I was still in high school. When my son had a long hospital stay at the age of 22, I visited him daily and sometimes got strange looks which I didn't understand. Finally one nurse asked if I was his older girlfriend which I quickly corrected. The strange looks stopped after that. 😂
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I am very gray and in my thirties. I am so sad by how many women tell me how brave I am to be going natural. As a woman we are raised to fear age. It disgusts me that a man with silver is distinguished and a woman with silver is old. I am strong and bold and have developed beyond that fear that society will no longer value me because I am no longer young and supple.
Thank you for voicing your wisdom. I don’t remember liking myself or body that much when I was younger. It seems that youth and the things that go with it are prized but also regulated and suppressed too. I’m glad the younger generations don’t have to contend with that as much.
I am a nurse and sometimes I’ll get salty old men when they can’t fluster me comment about my grays showing trying to get under my skin. I just give them my most saccharine smile and say, “Well, I AM 40! I like them! Helps me look closer to my age!”
People who purposely attack someone’s vulnerabilities are dumpster fires, and this also shows how insignificant their values are when it comes to people. They really thought they can get a negative reaction from you with a cheap shot?
Aw, grey hair or not, you're still young! Good for you not to care about society's false values.
I wish they would have included the time and money you have to be willing to pay to do these transformations. I know Jack Martin has mentioned on his insta that these takes 10-15 hours and sometimes have to be done over two days and they can cost you like 800-1500$. I would love to do stuff like this at my salon, but the time and money is too much for most people.
I read in a previous article on him how long it takes. It's mind-boggling! Just walking into a hair salon makes me feel queasy from the chemical smell. I couldn't imagine spending 10-15 hours in one and can't fathom how hairdressers can take it.
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wow these are beautiful! but you'll have to keep going back - that's the only problem. stunning work though!
During lockdown I finally convinced my mom to stop dyeing her her, let it grow out, and go grey. I told her people pay a lot of money to have "silver" hair these days, and she has it naturally 😆 She looks lovely.
Despite the fact that this guy still uses color, he still does a great job. However, the point to going grey, is the lack of upkeep. I wish women were able to achieve this with minimal upkeep.
While these women look good with the new do's It's still dyeing hair, I've never seen the point. I used to dye my mums hair it was a right faff, she got cancer and because of treatment had to stop she looked so much better with natural hair. I was already pretty much decided to never dye my hair as it seemed so much cost/effort after seeing my mum looking so much better with natural hair colour mind was made up. I've never dyed my hair, despite hairdressers constantly suggesting it. I learned to cut my own hair as a result. I still can't understand the appeal of changing your hair colour, perhaps as mine has constantly changed colour naturally I never got bored of it. I went from platinum blond through pretty much every colour except ginger to black. I started going grey 10 years ago it's never bothered me, some other people felt it needed hiding/laughing about. But honestly I couldn't care less, I'm getting older it's only natural.
I stopped coloring my hair when my daughter was about 18 months old. I thought, how can I tell her she’s perfect the way she is if I can’t lead by example for myself? Otherwise, I’ve been every color imaginable; from lavender to black and just about every shade of red. Definitely less expensive to have “virgin” hair!!
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I've vastly enjoyed dyeing my hair almost every colour imaginable, until I started to go grey. Then I stopped because I don't see the point in trying to hide my age.
"Instead Of Covering Grey Roots, This Hair Colorist Makes Clients Embrace It". Maybe we shouldn't "make" women do anything. If a woman wants to dye her hair, that is her choice. Making her go gray isn't progressive. It is just oppression of a different color. Downvote away.......
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"Silver flocks are part of aging"? We 'posa raise sheep as we age?
No, apparently we're supposed to be sheep and mindlessly follow what fashion tells us to do.
they all look great, but they all got kinda silver hair. i'm 28 and my skintone is super pale (i disapear in snow) and if i don't color my hair in a redish/blonde colour, my hair would be white too.. so no i will never embrace my natuarl hair color.. i wished i could but, nope..
Francis, I assure you I am more pale than you. I am so pale that my veins can be seen as bright blue through my skin. I don't tan, ever, and spend every summer being stared at by people who whisper "she must be sick". I always had dark blonde hair but it is slowly turning grey. I will literally be a ghost with silver hair and scare children with a creepy laugh in the moonlight... :D
Hmmm... never thought of that. I'm the palest person I've ever met (bar people with albinism) and have spent my life hearing 'ooh, aren't you pale' and that was with stacks of make up. At the moment my hair is a very pale blonde... I hadn't thought about it going whiter and whiter until i just disappear. 😟 Gulp.
I always met people who think they are paler than me and than are surprise how pale i am :D never met someone who is paler than me... If i stand naked in the sun you get blind xD
@Francis- I can commiserate. The moon reflects off me (I found this out recently while walking at night, wearing a pair of shorts) and I am sure people would get arc eyes if they saw me in a swimming costume.
I'm very pale as well but my natural hair is a yellowish/dirty sink water grey (not silver or white) so it looks really terrible, like I've been using mud shampoo! With white hair you can use toners to have different colours, like mermaid hair, without damaging it!
Maybe i gonna do that :) thanks for the idea
I'm sure they look great when styled professionally, but I'd probably look like my mother if I ever went for grey (I've been going grey since age 25). Still, these ladies do look good with this hair colour.
About seven or eight years ago, one of my then coworkers and I made a pact to stop coloring our hair. One or the other of us said, "My goodness, your gray is so pretty. You should stop coloring it." "Hey, if you will, I will." We did. We keep running into one another and cannot stop complimenting one another on our beautiful grey heads.
They're hair isn't gray... it's silver!
As a hairdresser of over 40 years I'm a little perplexed about how he achieved allot of these colors. When you have built up color you have to strip it out and then what bleach the hair until it's fried to get that silvery look. I mean I don't see any left over gold cast or anything that looks bad here. He's got secrets I want and need! Amazing works!
I've read that he goes through a very lengthy process to gradually change the hair color to the end product you see. I understand that this long process with multiple steps is necessary to protect the hair. He painstakingly takes all of these necessary steps to "do it right." You can check him out on insta for more info...
Another article written about him says the whole process lasts over 10 hours, and that he first uses a colour extractor, then bleach before finally adding the grey dye. Can't imagine the hair is left in better condition as many commenters say.
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I had colored my hair a deep auburn for as long as I can remember. After my divorce in 2004 I wanted a change. My daughter asked me what color my "real" hair was and I told her I wasn't sure, so I let it grow out a bit. Once the roots started showing I had it cut super short (think Jamie Lee Curtis) and WOW! I had streaks of pure platinum. I have kept it short ever since & will NEVER color it again!
I always wanted to do fun colours with my hair, fire blends, oil slicks, that sort of thing but I hated the idea of bleaching it. Now I am going grey (I have a "Rogue" style streak, the rest being more salt and pepper) I am getting to have some fun. I buy coloured conditioner and, because they wash out pretty quickly, I can change up the colour whenever I fancy. The colour doesn't show much on the darker hair but it makes great, colourful highlights!
what brand of 'coloured conditioners' do you use?
I contacted him. His prices start at $3,000! That’s not a typo. Three grand, with a $1,500 deposit to book the appt. A little too rich for me.
yes, wow...if he works 10 hours, that's 300/hr ....if he works full-time at that rate, that's about 600K/year! Wonder if 3K is for the short styles??
Wow!!! Even more than I already knew he charged!
I just don't understand why literally EVERY picture has no hate comments! I mean, these pictures give me a sense of anger and jealousy cuz there are no fellow pandas that are calling these pictures hideous! I hate it!
This doesn't look like it's about color, more about styling. The hair is dyed gray (which beats the purpose of not having to dye your hair anymore), but "stylish gray", and then it's really professionally styled. But if it was natural gray and no styling it wouldn't look good at all. My hair when not styled looks horrific and if I would let it go gray I would look 20 years older than I am.
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Grey hair is actually very nice, it's more akin to blond hair, which is the most prized hair in the world. It just needs styling and trimming. What is not nice is the sharp contrast between the roots and the longer coloured hair. A lot of women believe it's better to have "mostly" coloured and long hair to create the image of youth but there's nothing wrong, or ugly, with looking your age.
The point of all these styles featuring gray as the main color is to show off the stylist's talent. None depends on the color grey as an element; many would be more attractive in another color. Most do not really free the individual from coloring her hair, but merely substitute one coloring regime for another. It's time to give up the "gray hair makeovers", with their barely disguised message that there is some moral content to coloring one's hair, with the more positive message that each woman -- and man -- should do with his hair what appeals most to her or him. And that most definitely includes dumping the message that "unconventional" colors are only for the young.
As usual, all these women have lush thick hair that looks great grey. The nearest to my hair is #28. Thin and sparse looks even worse when it's dull iron grey, I know, I've tried it. Hated every minute of it. Gone back to dying it purple until I really can't be bothered and don't care how I look anymore
I wish my hair was as good-looking as #28!
All of these are colored not naturally grey hair. What exactly is the point you are trying to make? Natural grey rarely looks this way.
Did it appear to anyone else that all of these models looked just like that - models? I don't think there was anyone older than 40-ish
That's some beautiful work right there.
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Such beautiful ladies in this post.
Did you really think he'd choose old unattractive clients to show his "amazing transformations"? He'd have trouble convincing potential clients to do similar.
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Here is a very interesting Long Read: https://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2014/12/colour-dye-how-much-do-we-really-know-about-risks-colouring-our-hair
My mom uses her grey hair to her advantage. She colors her hair purple. She's not totally grey, just around the hairline and crown and then it highlights all over through her black hair. So after coloring it, she has black and purple all throughout and then more purple at the hairline. She literally gets a compliment every day she leaves the house. Been like that for 15+ years. Now with covid, she's obviously not but on the essential days, compliments. These colors were all pretty by it's still coloring. So if you're adventurous, go for some bright colors or highlights. Branch out. Have fun.
Weird how everyone had the exact same shade of platina gray hair.. and some of the women were far too young for "natural" full gray hair.. Something's fishy about this one..
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The silver actually can be there without color my mother's hair is really healthy so when it gets grey it turns out silver but yet she wants hair dye so I imagine it will not last for long
MY MOM WOULD LOVE THIS!!!
I'm now letting my dyed hair grow out to grey and prefer to do so with a hairdresser's help. From the previous article on Jack Martin posted by Rokas, what would put me off going to a good hairdresser like Jack is the total time from start to finish - 10 hours!! First, the use of a colour extractor, next being bleached and then silver colour added. The ladies' hair looks lovely afterwards but I can't believe it's good for the hair. The chemical smell of hair salons makes me feel ill and being in one for 10 hours is far too much for me. Kudos to the ladies who choose to have this done! Just not for me.
Sorry - WITHOUT a hairdresser's help. (Wish there was an edit button on Bored Panda comments.)
These are gorgeous!
I have loads of grey in the front and sides but little grey in back. I am having great difficulty finding a stylist who can actually do this to my hair. Last try at the beginning of covid I ended up with a horrible all over yellow pixie cut that was NOT a good look. Where do I find a stylist who doesn’t charge $200 for this & can actually these gone grey transformations?
Unfortunately, you won't find one that's not jaw-dropping expensive. The whole process is a lot more complicated than it seems and takes 10-15 hours for him to do. Plus he charges $800 - $1500 for the transformation!
I am letting my grays grow, after 3-4 months I just decided to cut it short because it was looking weird between my dark, silver and different degrees of washed Auburn coloring, I actually have very little color left, I am waiting for hair salons to open again, thinking few more months it will be all natural, from there I will decide if I let it grow or keep it short.
Im 40 and just saw some gray hairs... I was kind of sad but after seeing these beautiful women Im going for it!
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They're all very beautiful, but I still want my brown hair back... :-(
Los cortes están buenos, pero las canas les suman muchos años a las mujeres. Es cultura, pero así estamos acostumbrados.
Good luck finding a stylist that can actually do that!
I've seen women doing this for several years now in the US. Why is it a big deal now?
Despite expectations most people have, every one of these women actually looked younger without the ugly dyed hair. That grey blend, all-grey, or silvery look is quite attractive.
This Pandemic has brought about many changes including hair. Some of us learned a new skill over the course of it - doing our own. I miss though having that special treatment, but I sure am glad I'm saving the money.
Is it possible to achieve this same result at home?
Nope, sorry.
See, this is great for ladies with dark hair going gray. I have blonde hair and my grays just makes it look dirty. :(
Appointment please!
I will do this to my hair when I am older!
All look great. A lot of blondes actually look more like they have grey hair than blonde.
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Almost all of these woman are relatively young. I am old and look like an old hag with gray hair. I am in the dye until you die faction and happy!
Does he come to Augusta, GA? Wonder if he does henna too and how much? I LOVE THOSE MAKEOVERS!
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It's not just the colour its the style - and the freedom from constant colouring which is so damaging. All these women look years younger
I'm glad people notice how pretty they are without having to dye their hair :)
As a former stylist, I think these looks are beautiful... on Jane Fonda, Sharon Osbourne and all the other women who are blessed with the money, and personal stylist, to keep these styles fresh. I'd love to take a year or so and assist this guy with these transformations. I'd also love to see a consultation beforehand, complete with the cost. The first time is the gimmick, it's so much easier to work on a 'fresh' head. It's the retouches that will kill you. Above it mentions, "... after 10 hours...". Those 10 hours must make a dent in the personal bank accounts and cover the cost of the amount of products used. Personally, I think this is a passing fad! Especially when you see young women (many actresses, singers, Kelly Osbourne, etc.) who are doing it for the look and not necessity. These are just my professional observations...
Most of these they had just picked the wrong damn color in the first place
I love grey hair! it looks so beautiful.
I started turning gray at thirteen. Yes, thirteen. By the time I was seventeen, I had a patch of gray on the top of my head. Blame it on genetics; both my parents had prematurely gray hair. Prematurely gray hair follows a different pattern, starting on the crown and moving down. I left it natural until my mid-thirties. I now dye it black every six weeks or so. It is also naturally curly, but the gray is thinner and coarser, so it really looks better black.
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This makes me want gray hair
My natural hair are ginger. And as much as I love them, I will enjoy every second of gray hair and finally be able to dye them with every Manic Panic color that exist :D Because sadly there is no healthly way of recoloring hair and doing rainbow ombre, especially ginger hair.
At least I know that... bye the way I’m ginger too!
These ladies look really awesome. I love it.
One of my chemotherapy nurses, in her early 30s, had beautiful gray hair. She said it was natural and had been like that since she was a teenager but she recently stopped coloring it. She showed me the photo on her hospital ID where her hair was brown.
And I have a friend in her 60s who stopped getting her hair colored during the pandemic. She looks so much better, much more real and less uptight.
Where is this guy?! I need to make an appointment!
This infuriates me! I begged my hairdresser, a master colorist in Beverly Hills , to do this about 24 years ago. He said it couldn't be done.
Even in Haircare technology changes. 25 years is a long time and there’s a lot more options now than then. I was a hair dresser roughly around that time, specialising in corrective colouring, and I’d almost never have even attempted this as it would have come out dry, brittle and not natural looking at all, the products just weren’t that great. Plus, lets be real, these ladies still have coloured hair they’re going to have to upkeep, until that’s all grown out, it’s just dyed grey with lowlights.
Omg why do they all look 10 years younger now?
Because they are still fairly young and he's not going to choose great looking before pictures if he can. Plus most have younger styles and wear professionally applied makeup in the after photos.
I'm so jealous of these people. I'm 47 years old and I don't have a single grey hair yet 😭
All of these transformations are stunning! Great job! There is hope for us greying ladies, afterall!!
In every case, hotter and sexier the the before pic!
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In every case, they look hotter and sexier the the "before" pic!
everyone 's skincolor looks so much better with the natural haircolor - like porcelain.
This is another repeat article.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/ask-mr-green/what-environmental-impact-hair-dye
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I'm not tryna be a troll tho. It's a fact and I don't care if you don't like the truth because in other situations if you keep on ignoring it it'll come back with a friend. Hard realisation.
To me, the point of going gray is so you don't have to color your hair anymore. These transformations are gorgeous, but if these women want to keep their hair looking like this, they'll have to keep getting recolored just like they did before. Just about all of these include highlights and lowlights and unnatural silver colors, which when growing out will not look as beautiful.
When I started really showing roots in grey, I went for platinum with dark roots . The darker roots are actually my own regrowth. I like it a lot as it isn't platinum all over. So now I only have the get a touch up , maybe every 6 months or so.
That sounds pretty.
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I understand what you mean. However, I bet many of these women don't like the extreme contrast between their grey roots and the color that is growing out, so getting an all-over grey color helps. When the grey-dyed hair starts to grow out, the contrast between their own hair and the dye will be tolerable and they won't necessarily have to get it done again. It just gives them a smoother transition to their own natural grey. :)
Agree. It’s an equal hassle. Either way you have to color it. I’d rather keep my natural color than fake gray just because I have a few gray strands. But a lot of these transformations are amazing. And some of the women have entirely gray hair anyway, and the color you see is just fake.
Yes, THANK YOU, it's so annoying to read comments like: more women should let their naturally white hair grow. Not everyone has evenly gray hair, and it has to be colored somehow to kill the yellowish tones. It's not that your hair pigment just disapears and boom, you get a natural silver mane. You stay in the awkward middle for years, your hair partly gray and partly your natural color.
The yellow tones can be tamed with purple shampoo.
I have a natural silver patch at the top of my head and I hate it. I wish it had more yellow tones, because my skin is yellow toned. I just color it back to my natural blackish. Otherwise it looks like Dollar Store version of Rouge from X-men.
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I was asked by a co-worker (guy) that I needed to color my hair, because the grey makes me look older. WTF?? What is with these people who can't handle the grey? Kate....you keep going grey!! To heck with everybody else's opinions!
Not necessarily Kate. I used to colour my hair all the time, and finally got sick of it and grew it out. It has a natural, highlighted mix of dark grey, light grey and silvery/white and looks like a lot of these "second" shots. Not having to colour it all the time, is the best, and I always get lots of comments on how good it looks. (I'm in my early 50s, with a baby-face, and look a lot younger, so am finally looking closer to my age).
kate h The daily routine of styling (spritzing, curling, blow drying, backcombing) would drive me batty =D
most of these women had very white roots and it doesnt seem like they would have to come back very soon or maybe ever. Some of them will have to, yes, but they're only a few
No. Look at the photos again and see how silver/gray the roots of these women are. Don't be a Debbie Downer.
Agree, but the gray is so much prettier than the colors they were dyeing it before, don't you think? I love the striations. Who knew gray could be so pretty? I am thinking they wouldn't have to get recoloring as often, at least? They will need touch-ups, as you said, though.
I get my hair colored twice a year at the hair school here in town, I use some cheap Walmart recommended-for-color shampoo and conditioner. I LOVE when it's growing out, I LOVE the way the lowlights and highlights and natural and unnatural parts of it change throughout the six months. People decide to 'go gray' for lots of different reasons. Women may do it repeatedly, they may do it once, they may like it, they may not. Everyone's different, don't be such a downer.
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So pretty. I don't think the hair colour actually matters though. It will always look better when hair is freshly cut, styled, shiny and healthy looking.
I can't remember the last time I dyed my hair. More than 10 years ago. I was asked by someone why I don't do it, and my reply is; "With age comes wisdom. Why would i want to cover up my wisdom?" No one says I should color my hair anymore.
I am 40 and had blonde hair as my natural color for the first 32 years of my life. After I had my daughter it turned brown; NOW, it’s turning silver/grey, but looks like it’s turning back to blonde. I have people comment ALL THE TIME about it or question why I don’t color it. I tell them that it helps me look closer to my age; because I look like I’m in my mid to late 20s. I have a 14 year old and an 8 year old and people LOVE to clutch their pearls when they assume you had a kid when you were 13. 🙄🤣
Sassy Dandelion I didn't follow that colour evolution but as long as you're happy with it riight?? Who cares if they clutch their pearls! Good grief. =D =D =D
It's funny how people "assume" what your age is without first asking politely. I had my first child when I was 25 and people thought I was still in high school. When my son had a long hospital stay at the age of 22, I visited him daily and sometimes got strange looks which I didn't understand. Finally one nurse asked if I was his older girlfriend which I quickly corrected. The strange looks stopped after that. 😂