I've been going gray since I was in my 20s. I used to color it religiously till I was about 40 or 45. Then I let the color grow out because I was curious to see if I was 100% gray yet. I wasn't but the salt and pepper wasn't too bad looking. So I quit. Now I'm 95% gray and it doesn't bother me a bit.
I've also stopped wearing colored nail polish unless I'm going to a wedding or someplace fancy. I used to put 3 coats on every 3 nights. This while I had kids in the house. How did I find the time?
I also wore padded bras that I padded more! Sad really....but it was either that or be called Mister. Now I'm glad that there's nothing to sag and bag...lol.
Those are my old grooming secrets. I guess I don't have any now.
What grooming secret are you keeping from everybody?

Lady Clairol and I are very best of friends :)

Well..Icolor my hair...not myself I pay to have it done..not as much as I should but time escapes me. I used to get my nails done every two weeks religiosly..but gave that up because I didn't have time...I put make-up on everyday...jewelry and that is about it..no secrets.

A have tried dying my hair a couple times, but I earned every grey hair I have so will keep them I find dyes unnatural looking, I can pick out all my friends that dye their hair and deny it. No longer do my nails either. I think we did take better care of ourselves when our kids were little!!

some say that my hair is the same gray as my mothers used to be. so I have to be happy about that. never dyed it and never will. I am what I am and I am happy.

I have the "ugly" kind of gray so yes, we slop on lots of reddish-brown. My other grooming tip: Wear pants when not shaved. lol

I'm too cheap to dye my hair....I can buy fabric with that money! Seriously, my hair doesn't take color well....doing it myself never made a difference. And as someone said, I earned every gray on my head, I'm proud of it! I used to do my nails, but I like the $$ I save by not doing them.

I dye my hair maybe twice a year. It has very little gray in it but it is noticable. I don't like My natural color, it is too dark for me. I don't do my nails because the polish turns my nails yellow, yuck. I gave up wearing makeup when my 16yr old was little, I didn't have time for it and now I just don't care. I figure I am already married and hubby likes me (or loves me) just the way I am so why worry about it. I always tell people I am what you see, fat and all. Nothing to hide here.

my hair is white now and grows fast so very difficult to color and not have the new growth show. i hate that. so no coloring for me.

I had dark red hair, naturally. When I was about 38, it started to fade to a sort of ash brown, and every year it because slightly more laced with silver. I did try a couple of times, at great expense, to dye it back to it's original color. My hair rejects dye. It looks great for 2 weeks and then starts to look pink. Not a good look. So, since it's shiny and healthy and doesn't look bad- it just stays with God's highlights.

I do paint my nails. And periodically get a pedicure.

However, I mostly cut my own bangs and about 4 times a year get a real haircut. I don't choose to wear a bra around the house, but I am unfortunately insanely endowed, so going without on a day in which the public will be seen is not an option. And the girls get a little lower every year....

I only wear make-up on days when I have to be lawyerly- which is not very often. Or when I want to get dressed up for dinner or something.

I never had much vanity, and the older I get, the less value it has.

funny topic to read today- today 2 guys in a networking group I belong to made comments to the young chippie I was talking to about how she is so feminine and "put together" so early in the morning. What I am chopped liver? Just because I weight 40 lbs. more and am about 20 years older? I also had my hair done, make up on, jewelry- all the things they pointed out to her.

I just had my hair colored 2 weeks ago- so I don't pay the extra for "highlights". Maybe it was the lack of lipstick....

I do paint my toenails all the time. I like my feet and I hate shoes. So I always wear pretty colors. When I had my Trans Am I wore chrome color to match my car. Now I wear deep red to match the Firebird.

My hair is very long. I have my GGM's Irish hair. Curly and frizzy. It used to be dark brown. It's now more salt and pepper. I see every gray hair as a badge of honor. I earned everyone!!! I have never colored it. I hate the smell. When I was a teen I used to have to help Mom "frost" hers. I always hated it. The last time she asked me to do it, she turned into a bottle blond whether she wanted it or not. She never asked me again. I never learned to use make up, I haven't used nail polish in 25 years, it destroys my nails. I am what I am, warts and all. I must be doing something right, Saturday is our 29th annivesary!

Been coloring the hair so long I forgot when it started - 30 years ago? WOW! It's now burgundy and loving it! Always do my own, and cut my own hair too.
Paint nails now only once in a while when they are long. Make up all the time.

I dye mine too, its long, and I've been getting grays since I was only 25. No nail polish, I waitress, and my nails are icky. Make up yes, not alot, but I like my blush and lipstick!

I use to streak my hair, but I decided to grow old gracefully. When I steaked my hair, I never went in on time for a touch up, I always had outgrowth, so I decided I was done. I am happy with my choice. Life is so much easier and I get positive comments on my hair.

Ironically, I still get asked if I dye my hair :| .

Clear nail polish, but I wear mascara, liner for evenings, and make up when my tan fades.

I refuse to go gray. It looks good on other people, but I'm just not ready! I get it professionally done every 5-6 weeks. I also get pedicures every 3 weeks or so. I would do it myself, but my arms must have gotten shorter with age because I can't seem to reach my toes anymore :) :) :). Actually, the weight may be why I am so adament about getting my hair done. I figure SOMETHING on this body should look good...

I am a salt/pepper too, now.......and I don't use color...I am sorry, gals, but for some reason, DYE just looks like DYE on any one who is "older"....I don't think I have ever seen anyone who has dyed hair, that really looks natural..I dunno, maybe its just me..........the worst ones are the ones with all the wrinkles and no gray hair, very strange! But then, on the other hand, who cares if it "looks" natural or if it "looks" like a dye job, as long as YOU are happy with it !!That is what matters the most..that you are happy with yourself!

I started going gray at 22, started coloring at 25. I still don't know if family trait, hubby or being in the USMC made me go gray, but I did! I color now. Every few years I decide to go gray, I let it grow out a couple of inches and go get it cut short, I love short hair.

This last time hubby suggested I should color it, and he is the one that likes white hair! I look 15 years younger with it colored and my salt and pepper is not the pretty kind, just drab.

I also release "the girls" when at home, they are happier that way! I only wear make up if I am going somewhere. I polish toes, but not fingers.

I color mine. It is long and I am just not old enough to have white hair. It doesn't turn gray, it turns white and just looks terrible. I don't care if it looks colored, it is better than white. If it would turn salt and pepper and be pretty, I would leave it. But I am not that lucky.

I get highlights in my hair and get a hair cut every month. Wear make up every day and use clear nail polish.

With a gray haired husband, I think it is horrible for the wife to color her hair. I'm 62 and have never considered coloring mine. My mother was 79 at her death and had less gray hair than I have. I guess I took after dad.

I use to dye my hair lt auburn. I've blotchy red head complection and it looked natural until late 30's when mule's gray started and I'd have a pink fringe around my face. So, I gave up. A feller at the store a few months back asked if I had my hair bleached around my face......I said thank you. He asked why I thanked him and I said, well for you to think I could afford a fancy thing like that makes me feel good but you not getting a tip. So, I'm happy with my frame of white and the rest is catching up with it.

I use to say I felt so sorry for old ladies who continued to use make up when the wrinkles were deep set and the alligator skin showed streaks, because it looked like they scrumched up their faces and threw the make up in the air and caught it with a frown !!! Now, I'm HER. I use a bigger paint brush. :)

Blessings,
Ruth

I let my hair grow out to it's natural color (which at this point is a pretty white) and was fine with it til three people at the hospital commented that my brother was working this weekend. It wasn't my brother, it was my dad. I colored my hair the next day off.

My DH prefers me without makeup, so I rarely wear it. I'm starting to grey around my face, but intend to just let it go the way nature intended. I can't afford the $$ to color it and keep it up, and have better things to do with my time. A few times a year I will get a pedicure. I used to have my nails "done" every two weeks when I was working. Now they are healthier and happier to just be left alone. So, I'm in the "what you see is what you get" category.

My hair just turns white down the center where the part is. I feel like a skunk (except I have brown hair), so I will color no matter what others think. I am alone now and I color it myself for myself and it costs very little. I rarely leave the house so it is just for me. Maybe later I will go do more things, but right now I really have nowhere to go and I prefer to be home.

I started going gray at 19 (runs in my family). I am only 4' 10 1/2" ( yes, that 1/2" counts!) and I just feel I look too young, even at 57, to go gray. So at this stage of my life I'm not ready to go gray. I'll reconsider again when I hit 60.

Color, what would I do without it! Been doing it since my senior year in college - 20 years or so...God I'm getting old! Never have painted either nails or toes, they just didn't turn out right and I lost the color within about 30 minutes. LOL I gave up on shaving the legs, it doesn't show much so I just quit. Just started using makeup again, my has the price gone UP!

I found my first gray hair in the maternity ward on my first baby!!! I was 19!!! Ive coloured my hair ever since, both salon & home-kit, depending on money at the time! always paint my toe-nails bright colours, but my fingernails are short so usually clear or very pale pink. since ive gained weight in the last 2 years i wouldnt go braless, but will wear a 'secret support' top or t.
oh & oil of olay every day & night!!!

I've spent the last year growing out the last of my hair colour! There are many better things to be spending the guts of 100 euro every visit on, and better ways to be spending the two plus hours it took (like quilting). My eyesight doesn't allow me to go the DIY route, last time I tried I think I dyed the bathroom door more than my hair.

Makeup is for special occasions, same for nail polish.

id be afraid to grow mine out, i feel too young to be stoe gray, especially with 3 little kiddies!! people would think im their grandmother, not their mother!!

I have been going gray since I was 18.
I feel like I have earned each one and I have lots, said I was never going to dye it!
Now look what I have done- went to get a cut and the girl started talking about hilites (how do you spell that)- youngest graduating h.s., oldest graduating college and moving out and our 25th next thing you know I have hilites and love them!!!!
What have I done!!!!

no - I am grey - sometimes white - too lazy and one time someone told me that my scalp would absorb the chemicals and so would the rest of my body, so I don't dye.

Also, the question of the day??Why after a certain age, does the hair stop growing on our legs and underarms and start growing on our chins and chest?? Do we turn into men?? And for men, they get man boobs and walk funny??----ha!

Yes I dye my hair! Got way too much silver in it to let it go, I am a redhead, and really am not ready to deal with the "stripe" in the front! Lol.
As for makeup-wear it everyday even at home, foundation, mascara and lipstick. Also polish my nails and my toenails too. Get a pedicure once in a blue moon as a treat. I look at it this way, If I look good I feed good. Guess I am just a girly girl lol.

I use henna on mine...it does much better than color for me. No nail polish...too much of a pain when i have to find remover and take the last of it off. no makeup in the summer either!

I get my hair highlighted... probably once a year... I let it grow completely out b4 doing it again so I don't end up look'n like a blonde. Even though it's grow'n out, somehow it manages to look ok for 6-9mos. I have thick course hair, that's very 4giv'n. To bad, like my body, I didn't appreciate it when I was younger lol

I'm Pentecostal--don't wear makeup, hair dye, nail polish, jewelry or pants. I used to put a rinse on my hair--usually red before I joined my church. My hair has been silver, pink, blond, and every shade of red from pink to burgundy INCLUDING fire engine red. The rinse didn't always "take" the same way and it didn't seem to ever wash out. Since I've joined my church my hair has grown. It's so thick and long it would take 6 or more boxes of dye to color it now. I've got better things to do with my money. However I will say that my hair is graying very weirdly--I have a dark stripe down the middle of my head and white on either side. Looks sort of like a brown skunk. Maybe God's just reminding me of what a "stinker" I was when I was younger. LOL

I don't use nail polish or dye my hair. I am a little grey at the temples area. I have really long hair and almost every single day someone says to me " Do you know how long your hair is ?" or some thing like it and I was wondering if any one else gets this kind of comment with long hair.
P. S. My hair is approximately 50 inches long.

I'm Italian and I told my daughter that when I'm in the coffin this hair better be black....I've colored it for years, anything you do to yourself to make yourself feel better about you is OK

I have that dull gray that washes you out, so I dye it. Moisturize all the time, little makeup. Have nails done once in awhile. Smile all the time

Yes, all the time. I also get people telling me that I should donate it to "Locks of Love." Usually I just smile and tell them that it's not mine to donate. However I had a lady tell me once that I was being very selfish not to donate my hair. To her I said, "There's organizations that accept cars, trucks and boats for good causes yet you're still driving your car. Why don't you donate it?" She glared at me and walked away.
I also have people that want to know how hard it is to take care of--it's not.
or how long it takes to blow it dry--I don't.