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07 January 2008
i keep finding gray hairs! Fine by me. I hope I get a cool evil dragon-lady stripe.
Me too. And dye from a box isn't covering them. I'm going to have to start spending $80 a month to get it dyed professionally. Either that, or continue to be bothered by the sight of them in the mirror.
Well eventually you get to say "snow on the roof, fire in the stove," with a twinkle in your eye.
My hair went grey very quickly after having a kid. I am sure it wasn't connected, but still. You are as young/old as you act. Or so I keep telling myself as me an my walker make it to the end of the block and back.
I started going grey in my early twenties. None of my (all younger) siblings have anything like the amount of grey hair that I have. Bastards. I have recently discovered the odd grey eye brow. They are instantly removed.
I don't think it transitions well on dirty blondes like myself
At least it's probably not as noticeable on you as it is in my almost black hair. Plus my grays are not gray, they are white, according to my hairdresser. Which may look pretty someday. But not yet.
I wear my (long, very dark) hair parted in the middle, and that's where all the gray is coming in. It doesn't look "cool evil dragon-lady stripe" to me, it looks like a damn skunk stripe. I feel like that cat in the Pepe le Pew cartoons. When I finally decide to stop dyeing it, I'm going to have to frost my hair while I let the gray grow in, because it'll look ridiculous.
I found my first grey hair the day after my wedding. Looking in the mirror in the hotel I saw this thing, like a piece of wire, growing out of my head. That should have been a warning of things to come.
I found a grey eyebrow hair last week. I am not going to dye my eyebrows. My first thought on finding the thing was, "OH CRAP, grey pubes won't be far behind this discovery." And I'm sure as heck not going to dye my pubes.
This may be the year I stop coloring my hair. I'm just sick of the upkeep. It seems like I'm constantly cutting and coloring (because I have very short hair.)
I've watched Casino Royale about five thousand times lately and I love Judi Dench's hair. I may just go that way with it. I don't care that I'm only 34. I'm just sick of coloring my hair.
I've been going grey for oh... fifteen years or so. Going slow, but it'll be all white, or close to, in less than ten years. If I'm anything like my mom and uncle who started greying at the same time as me, it's closer to six years.
Yes, my brows are grey.
Oh... and I'm TWENTY EIGHT.
It is not a happy thing. I've been doing grey-coverage since before I knew how to drive.
Semi-perm will not cover grey. Nor will shades lighter than your natural color.
I was, at one point, pale brown of the sort that would bleach out to strawberry blonde in summer. I dye several shades darker, and the grey is covered. Since I go red it looks a bit more vibrant, but there's so damn much of the grey now that it makes it look like I went to a pro and had highlights and lowlights and shit done.
I've been lucky with my graying so far. I've got a widow's peak, and that's where they all have been coming in - slowly - over the last couple of years. I'm getting a great evil stripe in the front that will hopefully look really cool in a few years.
No gray pubes, but I'll let you guys know as soon as one turns up.
I have black hair and the occasional bright flaming coppery red one. If family is any indication, I'll start with the gray just before I start going bald. It'll be a race!
I'm graying at the temples and beyond, yet.... a female coworker and I were talking about ages today and she was surprised that I was almost 46. She said she had me pegged for 41 max. That's kinda kewl.
I had a male friend who got his first gray spot - not streak or temple-dash or anything cool - at 17. A big splat of gray on the back of his head it really looked kind of silly. And a girlfriend of mine revealed that her first gray streak showed up at 22. She was a tiny lass who looked seventeen otherwise so a blend of random grays in her nuttty dark brown just didn't work for her.
Mom lucked out and got a cool streak right in the bangs!
I don't think it transitions well on dirty blondes like myself. Just make it look dirtier.
I can see that, and before mom made friends with her nifty silver streak we tried all sorts of cover-ups. She's a golden blond, and most things out there won't cover and are simply designed to bleach. Also, gray hair can be resistant to haircolor, because to a decreased amount of melanin (this is also what makes them "coarse and sticky-outty" or generally wirery because they are so much drier than your other strands of hair). For the coarse here's hair treatments designed to soften gray hair, over here you get them in salons I'm sure you can find them in a drugstrore in the states. Or just go for something designed the fix dry hair. Color-wise on mom's gray we found that Loreal's "casting creme gloss" did the trick (oh shit I sound like an ad) as there are a few natural looking blonds so you can find a match, it sticks to grays, and most imprtant it does not stink like some hair dyes do. It washes out gradually. Then my mom grew to like the streak as it got wider and lands perfectly in her bangs so she quit dying it, which is all cool too. :)
I may just go that way with it. I don't care that I'm only 34. I'm just sick of coloring my hair.
I dyed my hair gray for six months. I had a short perfect bob and bleached it white, and in the white we put a blue-gray and a a few darker streaks of silver gray. The upkeep was a pain in the ass (could only use blue or purple shampoo you all know the kind, right?) and I had to go do that gray rinse often to keep it looking "right" and semi-real. It was the perfect gray hair, because lets be honest, gray hair is cool. Just not if it takes you hours to get it in a salon.. which is why I gave up six months later and let the platinum stay platinum.