Beauty

[qtrmoonlady1]

On 4/30/2014 okiebug said:

Thanks for the great thread and the link to Café Grey. I've joined and they are very supportive and friendly. Everyone is waiting for me to post a picture - not my favorite thing to do.

One day I'll post on there, too, but I dread sending a pic - I know how you feel. I notice a lot of women on the site just somehow photograph their hair, with very little or none of their face showing. I should probably wear a mask!

[1MrsT]

On 4/25/2014 Sweet Susie said:

Celebration, I guess the thread did get poofed. It did degenerate into an argument about whether to color/not color which I know was not the point of the thread to begin with.

I want to thank whomever mentioned the Café Gray Forum. I took a look to see if anyone had used gray highlights to ease into going gray and it was mentioned that the highlights can turn brassy (orange) over time. This is a concern of mine because my hair is colored medium brown and orangey highlights is not what I'm after, lol. So that is an issue I'll bring up with my hair stylist the next time I have an appointment and can discuss gray highlights with her.

My stylist did this to help me grow out more easily. She pulled strands of hair through a cap (based on my graying pattern which was mainly all around my face), stripped the color out, then used a neutralizer (some purple colored stuff). I had to go back a couple of times for her to put neutralizer on my hair to take of the yellow that was happening. But it worked beautifully. I wore my hair short then, so it looked like it looked like I had it hi-lighted while it grew out, and after a few hair cuts, the dyed hair was gone...with no hard line of demarcation while it grew out. It was surprisingly easy to grow out. My stylist was a color specialist and had no problem doing this when I first asked about doing something like that.

[beautybee]

I'm not a silver fox yet. I've tried growing out my grays, but it looked very patchy. I'll attempt it again in a few years. I came across the More beauty search 2014 and found this entry. I think she looks fantastic!

http://promoshq.wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/330760/voteable_entries/69030850

[qtrmoonlady1]

On 5/1/2014 beautybee said:

I'm not a silver fox yet. I've tried growing out my grays, but it looked very patchy. I'll attempt it again in a few years. I came across the More beauty search 2014 and found this entry. I think she looks fantastic!

http://promoshq.wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/330760/voteable_entries/69030850

She's really beautiful!

[tototwo]

Thanks beautybee ~~ this proves that gray hair doesn't always make a woman look 10 years older! Some of us older gals still look and feel youthful no matter what color our hair is.

[River Song]

On 4/30/2014 MrsT said:

On 4/25/2014 Sweet Susie said:

Celebration, I guess the thread did get poofed. It did degenerate into an argument about whether to color/not color which I know was not the point of the thread to begin with.

I want to thank whomever mentioned the Café Gray Forum. I took a look to see if anyone had used gray highlights to ease into going gray and it was mentioned that the highlights can turn brassy (orange) over time. This is a concern of mine because my hair is colored medium brown and orangey highlights is not what I'm after, lol. So that is an issue I'll bring up with my hair stylist the next time I have an appointment and can discuss gray highlights with her.

My stylist did this to help me grow out more easily. She pulled strands of hair through a cap (based on my graying pattern which was mainly all around my face), stripped the color out, then used a neutralizer (some purple colored stuff). I had to go back a couple of times for her to put neutralizer on my hair to take of the yellow that was happening. But it worked beautifully. I wore my hair short then, so it looked like it looked like I had it hi-lighted while it grew out, and after a few hair cuts, the dyed hair was gone...with no hard line of demarcation while it grew out. It was surprisingly easy to grow out. My stylist was a color specialist and had no problem doing this when I first asked about doing something like that.

MrsT, thank you for sharing your grow-out experience! I knew there had to be a way to do gray highlights and soften the dreaded 'skunk stripe' grow out period. And after watching those DIY dye-your-hair-completely-gray YouTube videos, I knew that I would need to use the purple neutralizer to keep the gray color from yellowing. Why a 20-year-old would want to dye their hair completely gray is beyond me, LOL, other than making a fashion statement! Luckily, my stylist is also a color specialist and I'm confident she knows how to do gray highlights.

[tototwo]

OK - ready for a little chuckle? I registered on that Silver Sisters' Café website last weekend. Didn't write down my User Name because I knew I'd remember it. Duh. Then I got busy with other things for 4 days............. Anyway, it was just this afternoon that I had time to log in and start reading.

Do you think I could remember the User Name I picked? Of course not! My brain is stuffed with 65 years of information and there wasn't room for a little User Name in there. So I tried a few User Names I've used in the past, but none of them worked. I was feeling reeeally stupid at that point. So I decided to take the easy route and just re-register. I got a message that I couldn't register because there was already a member with the same email. Yes, of course there is. ME!!! (I only have one email address, folks)

Since I couldn't find any way to contact the forum moderators, I guess I'll remain a non-member. Drats!

[151949]

On 5/1/2014 tototwo said:

Thanks beautybee ~~ this proves that gray hair doesn't always make a woman look 10 years older! Some of us older gals still look and feel youthful no matter what color our hair is.

I always think that is the most moronic thing that anyone can say about grey hair. I had grey hair streaks at 24 years old - If i was 10 years younger I would have been a teenager.

[qtrmoonlady1]

On 5/1/2014 tototwo said:

OK - ready for a little chuckle? I registered on that Silver Sisters' Café website last weekend. Didn't write down my User Name because I knew I'd remember it. Duh. Then I got busy with other things for 4 days............. Anyway, it was just this afternoon that I had time to log in and start reading.

Do you think I could remember the User Name I picked? Of course not! My brain is stuffed with 65 years of information and there wasn't room for a little User Name in there. So I tried a few User Names I've used in the past, but none of them worked. I was feeling reeeally stupid at that point. So I decided to take the easy route and just re-register. I got a message that I couldn't register because there was already a member with the same email. Yes, of course there is. ME!!! (I only have one email address, folks)

Since I couldn't find any way to contact the forum moderators, I guess I'll remain a non-member. Drats!

You're not alone - that's happened to me, too, on other sites. It drives me CRAZY!!!!

[1MrsT]

Good luck, Sweet Susie! Just have patience and remember to neutralize! :-)