Back to ” snow white” and my 2 littles —- grands are the best! I don’t remember when I started turning gray. I do know my Mom started using ” Loving Care” for years and did it herself with great results. She then decided to not color anymore and her hair was gorgeous. Thick and wavy and to start one silver streak.

I never colored mine because it started with a silver streak as well and looked great. Everyone commented how lucky I was. It was silver with more dark in the back until this year. It’s gone full on snow white just as my Mom’s did. I get it cut every 4 weeks , clippers set on 1-2-3 from nape to top then she finishes with scissors. It is very thick and grows fast. I let it grow out for awhile during Covid and I had a huge mess of very wavy / ringlets uncontrolled hair. I couldn’t wait to get rid of it.

A recent pic late June

I was always dark blond-ish, and in the sun or a good mood it looked like I’d had it professionally streaked or colored, which was fine by me. I colored it only once, just to enhance it for my wedding. Now it is going grey slowly, but since I don’t color it I don’t worry about roots. When I pull it back certain ways, though, or flip it to brush, all that grey under there really shows!

As a little kid, my hair was a medium reddish brown. By the time I was school age, it was very very dark brown. It was the closest to black that a caucasian could have.

I was covering the gray for many years, and did got a little lighter as time

went on. When we moved here, the first salon I went to used a too dark color and I became less pleased with the coloring.... and because it was so dark, the contrast of the new growth was too noticeable too soon.

So, about a year before the Shut Down in 2020, I started to " go gray". My hair grows very slowly so it took about 2 years for it to grow out. Now, depending on the day and the way my hair is combed, I am probably 90% white with some salt and pepper thrown in.

It took me some getting used to, but now I like it.

((I don't like my hair texture though and that's another lifelong saga)).

@Jilly 🙏❤️

I started going gray in my late 20s. My oldest son has been graying now for a few years; he’s 33. I do color my hair and only to match my original color — I’ve never tried to go blonde or anything. The color fades and gets more red-blonde over the weeks, though (between appointments — every 6-7 weeks), which is funny. It didn’t do that when I was younger.

Normal color.

Faded.

I have a few inches of grey. Unless you are right on top of me, and looking at my scalp, it does not appear grey. It looks very light brown. I hate it. I have been dealing with it for a few years now. I put brown wax on that area to cover it all up. It makes a huge difference and takes seconds. I would rather do just about anything than go to a salon, it would cost a fortune and take several hours.

Sitting in the salon now. My hair has been the same color my entire life - dirty blonde. I started getting highlights done in my late teens and never stopped. I go every 8 weeks. I can't imagine changing it. I don't mind the color of my roots and they blend ok IMHO.

I take after my mom and was born with blonde hair. She stayed blonde until the grey started coming in her 60's when she colored it to blend in.

My hair stayed blonde till my late teens. Slowly it turned light brown. If I was out in the sun, I would get golden blonde highlights. By my 30's, it was all light brown. I started helping the sun along getting highlights about 2x a year. I do identify as a blonde and think I look better as one. My hair now in my 60's is mostly blonde with lots of light brown underneath. It had been growing in more brown than grey until recently. Now I'm seeing more grey coming in at the top and around my face. I touch it up myself every other month or so. I go to the salon for a 'real' coloring about 3x a year. I have an appointment next week. I spend a lot of time outside year round.

I color my own. Years ago a stylist friend recommended Naturtint (can get it at WF). I put it on with a brush in a slightly random pattern— although more heavily nowadays with the arrival of grays. I usually blend 2 shades for a streaky highlighted effect. I‘ve asked my salon owner hair cutter to let me know if she thinks it looks not so great but she’s still enthusiastic with my results.

One reason I love my salon.

PS This is his natural color

I started greying in my 20's and started coloring my hair back to its natural brown. I wish I could go naturally grey, but I'm pale and look really washed out with light-colored hair. My hair is fine and thin, too, so I can't even do one of the cute short cuts. I'll have a bob in my coffin...:-)

My hair was blond until I was in my 20s when it seemed to darken up some. Two of my friends were stylists and we played with it a lot adding streaks, going light brown - I was auburn for a while and rather liked that with my coloring (skin).

I suspect right now its more than 50% gray but I don't really know. I have it professionally cut and colored (blond) every 6 weeks.

The expense isn't wonderful but I really enjoy my styist. She's pretty, vivacious, happily married. And she's fast. No overlapping clients, when I am in I have her full attention from start to finish. I can be pulling out of my garage and back in again in an hour + 30 minutes.

We don't know what we'll do when it becomes more gray - agreeing the silver gray color isn't that flattering with my warmer skin tones.

My sister, 2 1.2 years older is fully gray and it works with her skin, eyes, makeup which leans to pink where mine doesnt - I'm peach 😊 She used to have it tinted but was working full time and came to resent it taking up one of her few days off every few weeks and let it grow out to natural silver. (her husband doesn't like it - like that counts for anything, he shaves his head!)

Hi all!

One of the best things I did was letting my natural color grow in during Covid. I wasn't even sure how it would be, since I'd colored heavily for years. I was born quite blonde, but it's now dark blonde to brown, with write streaks only in the front (so far). I look forward to going completely white like my mom. I've tried to grow my hair out a couple of times over the past few years, but always come back to the pixie. It just feels like me.

Back home from having the color done. Probably looks no different than my sweater pic. Which is the way I like it. I prefer if no one can tell if i have been to the salon or not

My hair is in dire need of a cut (and comb by the look of it).

I think you should do what you want with your own hair. If it doesn't make you happy, be open to making a change.

Love your hair

I've always had dark brown hair. If I didn't color, I think I'd be almost completely gray. It's colored to be my natural color.

What a lovely group of women!

Ida, I was hoping hair talk would bring you forth.

@Jilly - your hair cut is very similar to how mine is cut when I wear it pretty long (most of the time). However, your hair color makes your hair look so BEAUTIFUL!! Having your pretty color + natural low lights makes your hair look so much nicer than my really dark brown hair. My ends are quite a bit lighter than my roots - but I wish I had some pretty high lights/low lights (I really don't know the right terms 😂) vs. having hair that basically is one solid color. Absolutely gorgeous hair! Also - if your hair has been thinning out over the past year, I can't imagine how thick it was last year! You are the perfect example of how stunning long HEALTHY hair can be.

@Still trailing - your little kiddos are adorable!! Great photo of the three of you!

@Ida Claire - very cute pixie!

@Sueb20 - your natural color is very pretty. I can't believe how blond it becomes during a 6-7 week period.

@Bunny - your hair style does not look like it needs to be combed. It's the tousled look that everyone wants because it looks so easy to care for and is very attractive (but doesn't work for many people - kind of like when so many women wanted "The Rachel" haircut - but it was rare for the haircut to actually look like Jennifer Aniston's hair).

I wish I looked good with short hair!!

@mtnrdredux_gw - You've looked beautiful in every photo that I've seen of you. I have to admit that I am jealous because you are so photogenic!

On the other hand, I am not photogenic - my two daughters are very photogenic (their dad isn't photogenic either). I am uncomfortable having my photo taken - and it definitely shows in the photos.

@jsk - speaking about photogenic people - a perfect smile!

This little "Home Decorating Conversations" group sure has a lot of attractive women in it (personalities and looks)!

Here’s from a concert the other day Wolfgang Van Halen. I have almost no gray. I colored my hair for years thinking I had gray. I did various reds. I use Overtone semi permanent pink and purple for brown hair. When I was born I had red hair, then strawberry blonde then it was blonde as a small kid and then around 12 it turned darker. I would add some color of a burgundy streaks on the lower layers that could just grow out. I have to find a new stylist since this is how the second one that is giving up her suite for now. Got a Drybar style before the show.

Dani, your kind compliments made my night! Thank you! ❤️

”On the other hand, I am not photogenic…”

I disagree … I’ve seen your picture, you are stunning! 😍

I’m sure my hair has been seen (more than) enough around here🙄 but this is it at its best length.

It varies by about an inch depending on the season and how ”wild” I want to go, lol. I have appointments every three weeks to have the base color (covering gray roots ) and a haircut. Every few months I have highlights and the appointment after that I have lowlights (we wait to see what the sun is going to do to the overall tone). I also get a clear glaze on the appointments where only the base color is applied, and either a darker or lighter glaze (toner) on the other appointments depending again on how the color is looking. Additionally, twice a year I have keratin treatments. My hair is a part-time job, but like Mtn I never want to look like I’ve just been to the salon, and especially cannot tolerate that strip of gray in my part that shows up at 3 weeks + 1 day. We’re still aiming for the natural look—- and believe me, I acknowledge the irony of the situation. I got my first gray hairs in my twenties, decided to fight it and have never looked back. I love those beautiful grays and silvers, just on other people!

(very odd, I posted a photo after the first sentence above but cannot see it. When I click on ”edit” the picture is there. 🤷‍♀️)

You've looked beautiful in every photo that I've seen of you.

Aww, my new bestie! Maybe I am just a scrupulous editor. You don't wanna see the outtakes!

I love all these photos--beautiful women. Thanks for sharing. I shared mine over in the Fine Hair discussion and won't repeat here. But I started graying in my 20s, too, and I've been coloring ever since. My original color is a dirty blond, and my last stylist claimed it is now about 50% gray. She was excellent with color, but has since retired. I haven't found a replacement yet, so DIY-ing the moment.

I'm going to try the Naturtint--thanks, Lisaam! I was going to try to find a new colorist, but, to be honest, my perspective is that of Morz's sister. I just don't want to spend hours experimenting with new colorists and sitting in a salon chair.

One day, I may go gray. I'd be so happy if it looked like Ida's, but my grays are more the salt/pepper variety. If I go gray, I pray my hair ends up like Trail's or Bunny's (I love, love, love your hair).

Second your sentiments— if I was guaranteed a head of hair like the ladies who posted above I’d be sorely tempted to try it. 3Katz is another with spectacular gray / silver hair that is very youthfu.

I posted this on the other thread. Color is god-given. I spend the least amount of time and $ on my hair that I can. Dishwater blond or as my friend said, the color of dust.

Today I was in the art supply store with 5-day hair. Ugh. The young woman helping me said she liked the lavender highlights. The purple shampoo is really supposed to work in the background but I guess not always. I thanked her.