White hair fashionable

StarSong said:
For years I'd wanted to stop the every-three-week chore of dyeing my hair (alternating at home and at the salon). Then came March 2020 when in-person socialization and salon services stopped dead. With encouragement from some friends and my husband I grabbed the opportunity to grow it out. Not nearly as awful as I'd expected... by summertime most of the previously applied color had faded so much that there wasn't that feared line of demarcation between dyed and natural color.

It's sooo freeing to no longer be a slave to root touch ups. My hair is now grey and white with golden highlights that I have interspersed every six months or so.

I'm extremely happy with my decision. My only regret is that I didn't do it a decade earlier. If I'd known how short the grow-out pain period was going to be, I'd have taken the plunge a lot sooner.
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the thing is tho' with you Star, you look young... and so your hair looks chic, and modern ... if a person already looks old, and lined, and the hair grows in a steely gray.. it's very ageing..
 
RadishRose said:
My hair is now almost completely white. I love it.
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What I like about having all white hair is that my dog and I match! .. I look like his Momma. 😁
 
Geezerette said:
Victor, I feel that most older women don’t give a hoot what guys like you think about their hair style, length or color. They do what they like, feels comfortable, clean, suits their lifestyle, personality, resources. With possibly a nod to what their spouse or significant other thinks.
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Perfect. :)

I've been wanting to go silver for years, but I've finally had to accept that I just can't do it. I love the way it looks on other women, am envious even, but when I try it, I can't find myself in the mirror and it freaks me out.

I admire the beautiful white/silver/grey (purple, green, blue) hair of other older women.

...you guys have me thinking... now I want to dye my roots blue, again.
 
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hollydolly said:
the thing is tho' with you Star, you look young... and so your hair looks chic, and modern ... if a person already looks old, and lined, and the hair grows in a steely gray.. it's very ageing..
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Thanks for your kind words, Hols. I definitely looked younger with brown hair, but simply couldn't bear the constant upkeep of maintaining a full head of brown when almost everything growing in is white.

I'll probably have my stylist go a bit heavier on the golden lowlights next time around. I like some warmth of color against my face, especially because my complexion has sallow Italian undertones.
 
Victor said:
Is white hair fashionable on older women? Long hair. To me it looks very old ,unattractive disdainful. I assume it is dyed or a wig. What is the purpose? Even purple hair is prettier. Your thoughts?
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I don't care if white or long hair is fashionable on older women or, for that matter, a woman of any age. Is that the criteria for how any woman chooses to wear her hair— that she must be fashionable?

What's the purpose? Wearing white or having long hair doesn't require a purpose. If you insist that it does, as far as I can determine, the purpose is the fact that some women with white hair don't want to color it, and some women prefer to wear their hair long because they don't want to wear it short.

My hair is brunette with very little gray. No matter how gray or white it becomes, I have absolutely no intention of ever coloring it. Come what may, I'll embrace it.

Bella✌️
 
Medusa said:
Perfect. :)

I've been wanting to go silver for years, but I've finally had to accept that I just can't do it. I love the way it looks on other women, am envious even, but when I try it, I can't find myself in the mirror and it freaks me out.

I admire the beautiful white/silver/grey (purple, green, blue) hair of other older women.

...you guys have me thinking... now I want to dye my roots blue, again.
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Talk to @Georgiagranny ..she's the Blue haired lady of the forum...:D
 
timoc said:
My hair went white over 40 years ago, it didn't bother me then, it doesn't bother me now, I'm just glad I've still got a bit of fur to keep my lid warm. 😊
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There's a mole on the right side of my chin that I dislike. During a medical for insurance purposes, I asked the doctor about removal. He suggested to leave it alone and grow a beard. That beard I sported for the best part of thirty years but when the white whiskers started sprouting, I shaved it off, preferring the mole than a Santa appearance. Vain? Who me? What do you think the fedora hat was created for?
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www.simplemost.com/nordic-white-hair-is-going-viral/

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www.allure.com/story/growing-out-white-hair-transformation-before-after

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Young models with professionally stripped, colored, styled platinum hair aren't the reality of women on this forum.

There's an enormous difference between highly stylized fashion statements for magazine photo shoots and choosing to embrace (or at least not deny) some of the changes that age imposes.
 
Geezerette said:
Victor, I feel that most older women don’t give a hoot what guys like you think about their hair style, length or color. They do what they like, feels comfortable, clean, suits their lifestyle, personality, resources. With possibly a nod to what their spouse or significant other thinks.
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Not my wife, she still have her auburn red hair. She keeps it looking exactly like it did when we first met. Of course it is a different style, but she keeps the color the same...I loved it on her then, and I love it on her now...

She had a stylish grey wig she surprised me with when we were in our early 30's. I loved it! So, if she decided to go grey, I will like it also...she is just a beautiful woman.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
Not my wife, she still have her auburn red hair. She keeps it looking exactly like it did when we first met. Of course it is a different style, but she keeps the color the same...I loved it on her then, and I love it on her now...

She had a stylish grey wig she surprised me with when we were in our early 30's. I loved it! So, if she decided to go grey, I will like it also...she is just a beautiful woman.
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that's the thing.. some women are just so beautiful they can carry off any style and any colour... altho' I suggest black would be a No-no on any mature woman
 
hollydolly said:
that's the thing.. some women are just so beautiful they can carry off any style and any colour... altho' I suggest black would be a No-no on any mature woman
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You'd think so wouldn't you? I did think so (and it's maybe true of a lot of older women) until I saw a few pictures of my partner's ex-wife. That women is beautiful. She's, I think 69 now and has short cut, jet black hair. And she's gorgeous. Jet black hair and bright red lipstick. How the heck she's pulling it off I don't know, but it's working for her.

We're all so very unique. ♥
 
I think we all get hung up on our looks. What I have found over the years is that as I get to know someone, they begin to look different to me. If they become a friend to us/ me, they almost always look really attractive to me. Now I have been married forever, but we still socialize, and we have friends both male and female. So that is where I get this observation from.
 
Timewise 60+ said:
I think we all get hung up on our looks. What I have found over the years is that as I get to know someone, they begin to look different to me. If they become a friend to us/ me, they almost always look really attractive to me. Now I have been married forever, but we still socialize, and we have friends both male and female. So that is where I get this observation from.
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You're so right! I've met people who at first I didn't find attractive, but after getting to know them, they became downright beautiful.
 
I find grey/silvering/white hair so nice, both on males and females.
As for myself, wish I'd never started with using a toner in my hair
several years ago, but I had grown tired of all lovely white, SO, now
past four months I am in the process of growing it out and no toners,
foils or etc. I am excited about having my complete natural look again
of silvering white :)
 

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