Coloring Hair

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Pandee

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After years of coloring my hair I have decided enough already. It has grown out a couple inches . I am hoping to hang in there. A nice solution would be to cut it short and hurry the process along. Would love to hear anyone who has worked through this process.
 

I'm doing the same thing right now Pandee....all my gray roots are shining thru but since Im going nowhere for awhile, am now curious how long I will let this continue....I dye, trim, and cut my own hair.....was thinking the same as you; maybe cut it really short or better yet, shave it off...
just kidding :D
 
I can't help you as I am one of those gals who just keeps dying it when I see what I think is too much grey.

I do know someone with longer hair and since she is blonde the grey actually blended in quite nicely. She kept getting the ends cut and within a year she was a striking silver grey.
 

I started to grow mine out. I had let my hair grow really long and it is thick so didn't color it. It already took two boxes to color it so I figured everyone else was letting their hair go gray. I started going to a hair salon when I moved here and got it cut (donated my cut hair to Cancer) but not real short. I tried to like it turning gray but didn't really like it. The reason is my natural color isn't really the color I like and not enough of it had turned gray. I have gone back to coloring it, I do it myself. Still using two boxes. I like it much better for myself. I see a lot of people who have gone gray and love it.
 
After years of colouring my hair with henna, I stopped 5 years ago but since my hairs over 3 feet long, I still have a bit of henna on the ends so it looks like an ombré. I had to do my roots every 10 days and anyone who has done henna before knows, it’s not a simple task. The great thing is that my natural colour is a light reddish brown but the outside layer is silver grey so there’s streaks through it that hold colours so well like pink , purple, blue , green etc. Here’s the blue, and pink.
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As my medium-to-dark brown hair started to show gray, I decided: enough with the chemicals. I'm letting it go gray. "Embracing the gray," as they say. The gray is fairly dark, though, so we'll see how this finally pans out -- whether it lightens up or whatever.

If I decide I don't like the color against my natural (aging) but pale skin tone, I won't color the hair. I'll likely just ... add makeup. -hey!- chemicals! But at least I don't have to wear makeup if I don't care to, and I can wash it off at any time.
 
I'm chicken! My hair is long. (not as long as Keesha's) but thick and long. I'm scared to let it go gray and I LOVE long hair. I couldn't ever cut it short! But, It stays dark almost always. All I need is a little touch up from time to time. Gray and beige make my skin look sallow. "Rage, RAGE against the dying of the light!"
 
PopsnTuff said:
I'm doing the same thing right now Pandee....all my gray roots are shining thru but since Im going nowhere for awhile, am now curious how long I will let this continue....I dye, trim, and cut my own hair.....was thinking the same as you; maybe cut it really short or better yet, shave it off...
just kidding :D
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At 89, my mother's hair was still basically brownish/blond. At 70, mine is the same. I had a couple grey hairs show up two years ago - but they fell out. No idea why we don't grey, other than an over-abundance of melanin perhaps.
 
Gaer said:
I'm chicken! My hair is long. (not as long as Keesha's) but thick and long. I'm scared to let it go gray and I LOVE long hair. I couldn't ever cut it short! But, It stays dark almost always. All I need is a little touch up from time to time. Gray and beige make my skin look sallow. "Rage, RAGE against the dying of the light!"
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With adding highlights / low lights , right now is a perfect time to transition and keep your long hair.
I had a horrible transition due to the natural colouring I used. Yours will be much easier.
I will stop over sharing.
I will stop over sharing. 🥺😅
 
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I'd put off getting my hair cut because of doctor appointments the first couple of months. Was able to take daddy for hair cuts but had a hard time having someone off work to stay with daddy so I've not had a haircut since mid December I guess. It's really driving me nuts! Now that it's almost totally gray, the body is gone. No more natural wavy hair. My hair won't even hold a curl if I roll it. Almost immediately falls flat. So all I can do with it is blow dry and spray, spray, spray. Maybe I'll think of shaving it if I can't leave home for another month.
 
I let my natural gray grow out about 3 years ago, after dying it for 35 years. Sure glad I did it now! Apparently, hair dye is the next hysteria buy during the Covid pandemic. First hand sanitizer, then toilet paper, now hair dye, since it's been over a month since hair places closed down, and all those gray roots are showing!! Hair dye is totally picked over here in the stores in Maryland, and my daughter ordered it online on Amazon, and it was only 1 per customer.
 
There’s so many people botching their hair trying to do it themselves. Maybe people don’t know when they will be able to get hair appointments and they are panicking and stocking up on hair dyes.
Who knows?
 

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