Beauty

[chiclet]

At 74.   I have an oily scalp and has to be washed everyday.  That made the color fade fast and get reddish so I was never really happy with coloring.  I cannot say I am happy with grey either but at least less work.

[AngelPuppy1]

I stopped coloring in my early 60's.  I started this as an experiment.  I figured if I didn't like it or it looked horrible, I could always start again!  Thankfully, I have lighter hair to begin with, so it was not really glaring.  I am 74 and have not started coloring it.  Once in a while, I think about doing it again and then I think - nah - don't want the bother of it.  When I did color, I didn't like the color the salons produced on me and so for many years I colored my own and had very good results.  

[Roscoe the Rascal]

Still at it and doubt I will ever stop.  I'm 70.

But never say never and it would be easier not to.   I go back and forth on it.  My sister in law is going gray and says she is tired of it.

[CalmInHeart]

I stopped coloring at 55. It was a pain in behind so I just stopped. As it turns out, I have a pretty white gray hair. I love it. 

[jellyBEAN]

I started thinking about it in my early 60's.  I just hated the skunk stripe and didn't want to go to the salon every 6 weeks.  But I took the plunge when I was 67.  I am soon to be 69 now and the gray has fully come in.  Hair is chin length - straight.  The texture has not changed.  I thought gray hair would be wiry, but it's as straight as ever.

Mine is more silvery.  Definitely not white - yet.  When I see pictures of myself with the gray hair it's kind of shocking, but I kind of like it too.

[Shanus]

@Puzzle Piece   I'm not sure...but think about mid-late 60's. It was a chore and very expensive to color it medium to dark brown every 3 wks. I was mostly grey by my 20's...runs in the family.

When COVID arrived, I was so happy to be silver haired. Some friends were rushing to the drugstore to grab boxes of color if they could find any left on the shelf.

[ninjawife]

I started to get grey hair in my early 20s.  My aunt was a stylist so she suggested highlighting to camoflauge the greys and I have been coloring my hair ever since.  Now I have balayage done annually by my stylist and I color my own roots monthly.  So maintaining my color is not expensive or costly time wise.  My hair is naturally medium brown but even highlighted it looks very natural.  I see no reason to go grey as I really like my look and maintaining it is easy.  

[chvall99]

I started on my 70th birthday last March. I have short hair so the transition is complete. I had been coloring for decades. My hair is a soft silver with some black. It wasn’t a number that forced my decision but the difficulty with upkeep. My hair grows quickly so I really had only a couple of weeks before getting very noticeable roots! At least now I don’t have think about what condition my hair color is before going out lol.

[CANDLEQUEEN]

Still coloring at 67, and my mom who lived to be 91 was still having hers colored. 

[Lisa Y]

My dad's side of the family greyed early, as I did at age 27. I started coloring my hair then and haven't stopped. I'm now 60 years old. I'll stop when they have to pull the coloring bottle out of my cold dead hands!😆