Senior Ladies Here Who Color Their Hair, What Product Do You Use?

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I've been playing with color, highlighting and tinting since I was a teen, starting with lemon juice and sunshine. Now that I've gone gray, things haven't changed much, I still color my hair. It's a pain to do it once a month to keep up with the root growth, but I do it at home and use a more natural product. I told my husband to give me the 'go-ahead' when I can go naturally gray, just playfully though. He likes my reddish color and has for the past 30 years or so, and I really am comfortable with it too.

My mother didn't stop coloring her hair until she was no longer healthy enough to do so in her 70s. I haven't gotten to that point yet, but I don't like all the chemicals they use in many dyes, or at most of the salons out there. I was using typical drug store brands, but now I only use this from the health/natural food store.

For all the ladies here who use coloring, what product and color do you use?

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This is is it..Olia by Garnier..med. brown. I'm a natural brunette going gray. my mom still goes to the beauty shop weekly for everything known to man..haha.. I told her when the day comes she can't make the appointment I'll know she's dead :). This is an old joke between us.
 

At 66 I have most of my natural hair colouring still, but certainly won't dye my hair when I go grey/white. Some years ago I had a bet with my kids that if I dyed my hair purple their father wouldn't notice. I used a wash in, wash out dye, and waited for the reaction when he came in from work. He didn't say anything for about an hour then he looked at me, and said, "There is something different about you, but I can't work out what!":D
 
My dyeing days are over because being a natural auburn, once you have grey in your hair , it is very hard getting the right covering colour, as you never lose your natural colour pigment.

Believe me when I tell you... bright orange is not becoming on a Senior lady :concern:
 
I love Garnier, skin products, hair products, it's a great brand all around. L'Oreal too. Something that keeps ya from getting the scary Lucy look is using a few different shades. deeper on the underneath layer, medium in the middle and lighter highlights. You wear rubber gloves and clips and kind of paint it. I'm pale enough, gray hair and I would look like Joan Didion.
 
I stopped coloring my hair 2 years ago.. I love my silver.. I keep it short in a modern style.. I will never color it again.. in fact.. I wish I had MORE silver.
 
Auburn hair does not turn grey but white. If I allowed it, I would have streaks of shiny platinum white hair. No thanks. I use Babylone by Preference. I probably will still have long wavy red hair, when I am ninety-two? Is that age-inappropriate? I

certainly hope so! I was respectable for twenty years raising children, enough already! Lol. The only reason I am not enjoying

the occasional hit of today's equivalent of purple microdot, or mescaline, is the impurities would probably do me in. Ah, aging bodies. Lol. Lord, I haven't had that stuff since my twenties. We seem to have quite a few redheads on sf. Cool. Blondes have more fun? Don't you believe it!
 
I think it's about lightening it up every few years. Way deep color over fifty or sixty looks overdone. It was fun though at my last job. Casual dress and a big mix of ages. Especially employees from the urban areas enjoyed wigs and weaves with bright hues. A few times for fun I wove subtle crimson or purple highlights into a ponytail, actually got compliments.
 
When I was younger I used henna with pretty good results -- I'm pretty happy with my natural platinum hair now and feel no need to color.

And its so true, fun does not depend on hair color, drugs, booze or shooze --- lol
 
I "condition" my hair with this every month.








I have been red several times as well, but since I am naturally a blonde (albeit a darker blonde now) I like sticking to blonde.
 

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Yep, yer right Cookie. I'll get right on it. Ordering some waterproof hot pink flowered Doc martens ASAP! Lotsa hills around here, mountains too. Must look stylish when I pass out from exhaustion.
 
I hear ya. If you get lost, at least they'll be able to identify you by your footwear. To avoid dropping like a fly, bring along some raisins, good iron will get you back home. My own bright blue/purple hikers always get a good response, if not a raised eyebrow or two.
 
jujube said:
I colored my hair for years but gave up a couple of years ago and let the grey/silver grow out. I'm about half black/half silver now and it's evenly distributed except for the nape of my neck that's still completely dark for some reason. Why there?
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Who knows.... I'm all silver in front.. and dark brown in the back. People have asked me is I have put that silver in purposely .. nope.. that's how nature decided it should be.
 

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