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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

Love the fullness of your hair, @OKPrincess!  A very nice pic. 

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???


@San Antonio Gal wrote:

Love the fullness of your hair, @OKPrincess!  A very nice pic. 


Thank you. 

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

You will like the freedom of not having to color it, pay for it, and worry about it.  Go for the natural.

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

Even tho it's a verrry personal decision, I will always encourage a lady who is "chronologically advancing" to let it go grey.  She might be pleasantly surprised how lovely her silver hair is -- or she may choose to go back to the bottle of dye.  Her choice.

 

Got for it, @bargainsgirl!!!!!!

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

Yes to all cancer survivors on tamoxifin--thinning hair can be a side effect!!!! I am currently trying the Kerinique line of hair care that HSN had as a TS a few weeks ago--haven't noticed much yet but I have til the end of Jan to see if it will work for me. 

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

IT'S A 'NO BRAINER'.....If money is a factor, GO GREY....

If you don't want to look old, KEEP  DYING...

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

@bargainsgirl- Based on all the opinions here, why don't you try it out and if you don't like it, you can always go back to coloring...good luck with whatever you decide.  Smiley Happy

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???


@bargainsgirl wrote:

I have dark brown chin length hair and whispy bangs.  My hair has thinned but not sure if it is due to Tamoxifen (2 1/2 more years to go) or genes...I am 65.  I have been thinking of  cutting it short and going grey in hopes that it might stop thinning if I stop dying it.  I am so very tired of the cost as well.  Any thoughts?


@bargainsgirl

 

That is a hard one!  I have been toying with this decision also.  I am a natural blond but my hair darkened as I got older.  My "colored" hair is a very light golden blond and has been for the most of my life.  I now probably have more gray than not and I keep thinking --- should I just let it grow out?  I am going longer and longer between colorings. I do it myself so it is not expensive but I hate doing it.  And my hair is also getting thinner and is more dry than it was and I also thought if I stopped coloring perhaps the condition of it would be better.  I am still torn so I understand how you feel.  Why not give it a shot?  You can always go back to coloring it if you really don't like it at all.  

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

I decided my fate of going gray or keep dying my hair years ago! I have observed women that let their hair grow gray...they all look so O L D!!! They've aged at least 20 years!! That's when my vanity took over my logic. I will never, ever stop coloring my hair. I love the variety I have with going light, going dark, highlighting, lowlighting, etc. I never look the same and I'm certainly not going to get stuck looking a LOT older than I am by having gray hair. 

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Re: Go grey or keep dying???

I envy those of you with grey or white hair evenly on your head.  I am 69+,  have splotches of white hair - in my part towards the back,  and one just in the back.  Otherwise, my natural hair color is a very ashy dark brown which is not very attractive.  So I dye it at home - a warm brown.  My mother had the same color pattern as me along with one of my sisters.  The other three sisters take after my father and they are 100% grey/white.