I want to see what is under there!

[ksmybuttons]

I've colored my hair for a very long time. I know I have much gray (actually white), I just don't know how much or what it will look like.

I am seriously thinking about letting it go natural, just to take a look.

Any one done it? How did you do it?

 

[Guest]

I've colored my hair for a very long time. I know I have much gray (actually white), I just don't know how much or what it will look like.

I am seriously thinking about letting it go natural, just to take a look.

Any one done it? How did you do it?

Do you color your pubic hair as well or what?

 

[ksmybuttons]

Re: Re: I want to see what is under there!

Do you color your pubic hair as well or what?

What pubic hair?

 

[Cheyenne]

Re: Re: Re: I want to see what is under there!

What pubic hair?

 

[bluespoke]

I've colored my hair for a very long time. I know I have much gray (actually white), I just don't know how much or what it will look like.

I am seriously thinking about letting it go natural, just to take a look.

Any one done it? How did you do it?

There just ain't enough dye in the world for mine!

 

[ksmybuttons]

Look at Emmylou.

 

[Guest]

Look at Emmylou.

I'd do her.

 

[ksmybuttons]

There is a certain amount of ageism associated with being a woman who is gray.

I first colored my hair after an experience when my son was under 1. We went to buy a camera ane the salesman said "This would be a great camera to take pictures of your grandson!"

I fell to the pressure.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

The suggest I have heard given to friends is to color your hair lighter or a close match to the shade you expect to be emerging from your head. You can move to this shade in a couple of steps.

That way you won't look two tone as you grow it out.

 

[ithaqua]

I use one of those hair dye's that washes out in 30 or so days. That way it kinda gradually changes color, and fades back to the natural color. I have friends around 25 that have lots of gray hair, so I see no reason to color it at all.

 

[modest mouse]

Last night I started a facetious thread about Emmylou but truth is her hair is stunning. I love her with that cascade of white, even moreso than when she was younger.

I often think white hair can be a dignified and classy frame to a womans face. As was suggested, perhaps a slight alteration in color will help while it is growing out. No harm in seeing how you feel with your natural hair.

 

[ksmybuttons]

I use one of those hair dye's that washes out in 30 or so days. That way it kinda gradually changes color, and fades back to the natural color. I have friends around 25 that have lots of gray hair, so I see no reason to color it at all.

I did that back in my thirties. I've been using a permanent dye so I will have a line. That is so tacky. It is going to be difficult and ugly during the grow out and I am particular about my grooming.

 

[ithaqua]

What ever you do, don't shave it off. Better to dye it back to close to the orrigional color.

 

[ksmybuttons]

Last night I started a facetious thread about Emmylou but truth is her hair is stunning. I love her with that cascade of white, even moreso than when she was younger.

I often think white hair can be a dignified and classy frame to a womans face. As was suggested, perhaps a slight alteration in color will help while it is growing out. No harm in seeing how you feel with your natural hair.

I didn't see your thread about Emmylou.

Dignified isn't necessarily the look I would want to go for. Classy would be acceptable, but dignified?

I had 1 1/2 feet of hair cut off on Wednesday just to get ready. I am still in shock about that.

Not shaved, just below my ears.

 

[nimbus9]

I think Emmylou's is sexy as hell and I want to have hair like her's when I grow up.

 

[modest mouse]

Maybe dignified isnt the correct term. It sounds like a British school marm and that wasnt what I was thinking.

Class, and some energy as well. The myth that white hair or grey hair is somehow a lower energy or forbids exuberance is exactly that, a myth. Its akin to the lines in a mans face that appear after 40 that often bring forth the features.

Emmylou thread

 

[Rubyfruit]

I touch up my roots every 2-3 weeks because I can't stand to see even a hint of my grey. I think it reminds me that I'm getting old or something.

 

[Cheyenne]

Ah, I'm so glad I'm blessed with "good" genes when it comes to hair color. I should be well into my 60s before any gray is really noticable. I have a little bit now, but it blends in with the rest of my hair well. No hair dye for me- the little bit of gray I have I earned.

 

[ksmybuttons]

Mmmm.

Ruby, I was that way, too. I am trying to get over it, but then I have been around a while longer than you.

Cheyenne, some people have the luck!

Thaniks for the support, MM.

I guess some of us need to be ready to face the ageism thing. Deep breath.

 

[lickerish]

I have a cluster of full on silver in my hair, it's shimmery, it's cool. (I'm almost 26, btw)

My sister started going grey at 16, at 24 she dyes her hair every few weeks to hide it all because it's really grey now!

My mom had the most beautiful (silver) salt and pepper hair, I think I'm probably gonna look like that when I get to be in my 30's or 40's, and I won't mind at all.

 

[Rubyfruit]

Licky, I got my first grey hair at 16 too. Life is so unfair sometimes.

One nice thing about grey is that it does add texture and body to my hair.

 

[MsMuffet]

I have a cluster of full on silver in my hair, it's shimmery, it's cool. (I'm almost 26, btw)

My sister started going grey at 16, at 24 she dyes her hair every few weeks to hide it all because it's really grey now!

My mom had the most beautiful (silver) salt and pepper hair, I think I'm probably gonna look like that when I get to be in my 30's or 40's, and I won't mind at all.

I think it would be beautiful on you as well.


I am highlighting with color, to blend the grey. I have lots too, and have better things to do with my time than worry about whether it looks bad or not. I like to think it adds character!

 

[Guest]

Looking at the thread title I was expecting some one to drag this out..... so I did, just in case.

 

[calypso_21]

I've colored my hair for a very long time. I know I have much gray (actually white), I just don't know how much or what it will look like.

I am seriously thinking about letting it go natural, just to take a look.

Any one done it? How did you do it?

I did it about five years ago. I just let it grow out with a couple rinses here and there to avoid the stripe but when it was completely grown out the huge white streak on my left temple just looked so out of place on me. I also didn't care for looking like I was anything other than the 25 years I was at the time...just because I have salt & pepper hair. Besides being a red head is so much more fun...and it looks good on me with my freckles.

 

[ksmybuttons]

When I first started going gray, all of the lighter, highlighting hairs were going and it was looking pretty drab.

I am hoping there is enough white in it now that it will be more striking. It's just getting there that is going to be a bitch.

I was thinking maybe getting it woven a couple of times, using the color I have dyed it to blend the line.

We are talking about a 1 year goal. I am usually much more impulsive than that...