Re: GOING GREY

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

@hopi wrote:
@shoesnbags wrote:
Here we go again. @Susan Louise I'm 76, light brown hair with almost no grey. I don't follow your "life style" nor did my mom or my grandfather, her dad. Yet they too, didn't get enough grey hair to notice any color change. Sometimes it's just heredity. I'm lucky - period. And I don't for a minute think that anyone here is going to reverse her grey hair with diet. Geesh.

Why would you continue to attack her on this issue. She is sharing her life experience. I totally think what she has accomplished is true and worked for her. That's a blessing on her and she is trying to share it because it might work for someone else. It's not that extraordinary of a story. Don't live in such a small framework of what happens to other people when they change their lifestyle.
I also think you are blessed and should be grateful and not so hateful.

@hopi

Seriously? She posted an opinion and I disagreed with it. There was nothing "hateful" in my post. Not sure what you're talking about with the "continue to attack" comment. It was one post. We are allowed to disagree civilly with another poster. That's all I'm going to say on the subject. Maybe you have me confused with someone else.

"Breathe in, breathe out, move on." Jimmy Buffett

hopi · ‎03-09-2010

@patbz wrote:
I had dyed my hair from 31-63; my red hair was very much part of my skin identity. By age 50 I would have gladly let it go natural but I had my son at 45 and I thought he'd get teased about his Grandma. By the time I retired at 62 I had to do my roots monthly and when I started world travel nonstop I ruined A lot of towels. The transition was very easy: A very short pixie and then another 6 weeks later. My hair is a silver white shoulder length. Haven't been inside a salon, period since 2019 ( bought tools from Amazon and watched some tutorials).Conservative my I've saved $10,000 so far and I spend no time on my naturally wavy/ curly hair and don't even dry it ( I use a twisty turban to absorb much of the moisture after a shower). I did change makeup and clothes colors.

@patbz
That puts you in a special category. Amazing.
Too funny about the Grandma thing.

hopi · ‎03-09-2010

@shoesnbags wrote:
@hopi wrote:
@shoesnbags wrote:
Here we go again. @Susan Louise I'm 76, light brown hair with almost no grey. I don't follow your "life style" nor did my mom or my grandfather, her dad. Yet they too, didn't get enough grey hair to notice any color change. Sometimes it's just heredity. I'm lucky - period. And I don't for a minute think that anyone here is going to reverse her grey hair with diet. Geesh.

Why would you continue to attack her on this issue. She is sharing her life experience. I totally think what she has accomplished is true and worked for her. That's a blessing on her and she is trying to share it because it might work for someone else. It's not that extraordinary of a story. Don't live in such a small framework of what happens to other people when they change their lifestyle.
I also think you are blessed and should be grateful and not so hateful.

@hopi
Seriously? She posted an opinion and I disagreed with it. There was nothing "hateful" in my post. Not sure what you're talking about with the "continue to attack" comment. It was one post. We are allowed to disagree civilly with another poster. That's all I'm going to say on the subject. Maybe you have me confused with someone else.

@shoesnbags Sorry.... maybe the word should have been treat her comment with civilly and not with disgusted condescension. You all came out on her with a full attack the last time she share her joyous journey to health.

monicakm · ‎03-16-2010

@Puppy Lips

I'm not there yet. I can't even imagine. I may be an 80 year old with dark brown hair.

hopi · ‎03-09-2010

@monicakm wrote:
@Puppy Lips

I'm not there yet. I can't even imagine. I may be an 80 year old with dark brown hair.

...and there is nothing wrong with that.......

chiclet · ‎03-19-2010

I am in the process now. I got a very short pixie and with 2 more cuts I should be there. I am 74 and I don't think I was fooling anyone with my brown hair. It is a steel gray color Salt and pepper. It feels freeing to give up coloring. It never turned out the way I liked anyway. I cannot say that I will never color again but I love the idea of one less thing I have to do. I always had to fight the orangey color in the brown dye especially after a week or so. Also I have oily scalp that I wash everyday so no shampoo can keep the color as it was after first coloring. I think the color it naturally is will suit my complexion better. If not I will figure it out.

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

I went all gray after coloring for years. I had my hair colored dyed as close as possible to my natural color and let it grow out. It worked well for me.

CJC · ‎03-11-2010

I have seen ladies, both older and younger, who look fabulous in gray hair. I do not because I have definite yellow skin undertones. I cannot wear gray anything, even silver jewelry. My natural color is medium ash brown, but I've been coloring my hair blonde with highlights since age 19....I'm 81 now. I may end my days in a nursing home, but I'll end them as a blonde or else I'll come back to haunt my children who have been tasked with keeping me blonde. 😄

jellyBEAN · ‎04-03-2010

I too am in the process of growing out my gray. My hair length is about chin length and its been 5-6 months since I've had color. My hairdresser has recently closed up shop due to rent increase on her shop.

I want to set up a consultation with another stylist, but am not sure who or where to go. See what he or she suggests as far as growing it out. I want it cut so it's still long enough to tuck behind my ears but short in the back, maybe some side bangs.

I would consider getting some sort of highlights in it for the growing out process, but would prefer to just let it be. My hair is colored a golden brown, and the color looked nice, but at 67 soon to be 68, I feel it was time. I'm getting used to the silver and think it may look fine when all is said and done.

Flowers are nature's way of laughing

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Puppy Lips Here goes my story...again. My dark hair went naturally white/silver with a bit of grey in my late 20s-early 30s. I dyed it for decades until my late 60's.

My stylist suggested an all day session. It took almost 8 hrs. to remove the dye, condition, remove more and condition and then a few more times to get it to a almost very whitish yellow. That's how much bleach is used to get so pale that the toner (I think a greyish/white one) was used near the end that matched my roots (she asked for at least a 2 month NO DYE to match the roots and then a seat under the hood dryer. Then another deep conditioning treatment and a good trim to my already very short pixie.

She said the pixie cut was key since the entire process would be quite damaging. If my hair was longer she'd have to cut it and I would have been in agreement since the sparkly all white part that showed up every 2 wks. was exhausting and needed to be colored every 3 weeks.

There is no "grey dye". The bleaching process and a toner can get it close to your root color, but the toner washes out and needs to reapplied every 4-6 weeks, the ends of hair cut off until there is no more damaged bleach hair and it's all your natural grey.

***Note: I was ALL grey, so there were no darker areas except at the nape of my neck where many women find that's the last area to lighten to grey.

Yes, it was a shock going from almost black to white. I changed up the makeup to a brighter blush and lipcolor and ditched my brown and other warm toned clothing near my very fair face. For several months when I walked passed a mirror I didn't recognize myself and then it was ME. I owned it and salon appts. for a cut every 4-6 wks. w/o color lowered my tab by two thirds. There was no more planning before an event or vacation when and how to get the dye done.I felt free and not attached to my salon appts. The worse that could happen is going a bit longer for a hair cut. No big deal since i cut trim bangs, etc. myself.

Good luck @Puppy Lips if you decide to go ahead with your plan, be prepared for damage from all the bleaching and a possible shorter than you'd like haircut. It will always grow out again.