Keep your gray or enjoy coloring your hair?

I never dyed my hair but did develop a silver streak in the front. A hairdresser told me some people would love to have a silver streak like I had. Now I'm 99% silver and have no intention of dying it.
What I do worry about is thinning.
I cut my own hair and leave it a little longer right on the top of my head to cover up the thinned area.
Men look fine with a bald spot and if it gets really bad they can shave the whole thing off which is ok also. I prefer that to men who try and comb the hair from just above their ear right over the shiny dome.
 
I think white hair looks gorgeous (look at your mother!), and all-gray hair can also look great. Mine probably isn't going to go all gray, though. (Although who knows, years from now.)

But I don't want to put weird chemicals on my head, let alone on an ongoing basis! LOL
 
I started to let it grow out as the gray started coming in. Even though I did not have a lot, I hated it. I colored my hair auburn most of my life, from about age thirteen on. Now I go to my hair dresser every 6 weeks at least. I just feel better about myself keeping it colored.
 
I have a recessive gene from my mother’s lineage that has kept my hair naturally dark. Best darn thing that I ever got from her! My one cat likes to sit on the back of my couch and lick my hair. I’m either being groomed or given a CAT scan, I don’t know which… 🐱
 
When my grey started in my 40s my 6 years older than me sister was quiteupset i refused to cover them. We lived in same town and especially we when i was taking classes with professors she had had (we both got midlife degrees) she would complain that 'everyone knows you're younger they'll realize i dye mine!'

I had so many issues in 20s and 30s being underestimated, dismissed because people perceived me as younger than I was, that i welcomed my grey. And i was not ever a high maintenance woman in usual sense of word. I dressed professionally for jobs, but rarely wore make up.
 
I can't say that I "enjoy" coloring my hair but I do. Grey or white hair isn't me whether I'm working or not. All the women I know color their hair so I guess I'm just one of the bunch. 🤗
 
I've played with coloring and highlighting my hair since I was a teen, always did it at home. So I didn't start when I was going grey. As I got older I started using a higher quality color with less chemicals in it. For a couple of decades I stuck with a reddish color called Terracotta Blond by Naturtint, my husband loved it so I kept using it.

Just yesterday, after telling him a week ago that I was ditching the red and going back to a brown color, which is my natural color. I read reviews on Tints of Nature brand Light Golden Brown which I planned to try, and the reviews complained it came out dark brown, something I did not want. Yesterday I used the Tints of Nature brand in Toffee Blond, it came out brownish, but not too dark. I'm good with it, but may try another brand or color in the future. If my husband wasn't in the picture (and I'm grateful he is, love him very much), I'd likely grow out my grey, especially if I was not in good health and could no longer color on my own.
 
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I was born a blonde and I will die a blonde. My girls already know that if I am somehow incapacitated,they are to come "touch me up" every couple of months. From what I can see,I have gone a little silver at the temples,but the rest has stayed blonde so far. Of course,I have seen what happened with my three older siblings hair (they are/were all blondes as well) so it looks like mine is just like theirs. And my mom was the same as well. Later in her life,she never colored her hair because it just looked like it was a "frosted" light blonde on darker blonde. Maybe I`ll get to that point too-but I`m already a year older than she was when she passed,so who knows.
 
I kind of go back and forth. I will be turning 55 in just a few days and yes the grey is creeping in. There are times I let it go for awhile and then I look in the mirror and go OMG I have to dye it so I do. I will eventually get to the point where I say the heck with it and let it go.
 
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