I stopped coloring too.

Sure,,,I earned it!

I stopped coloring about three years ago and my hair was silver grey. The color was fine but made me feel really old. Have a great hairdresser and she slowly started moving me back to color. I now wear it colored and highlighted with foils. Looks great without really white roots due to the highlighting. Oldest daughter was the one that requested I stop coloring and then she was a big proponent of me starting coloring again.

mltquilt

No dye here, I'm a natural, very silver. Dyed it once, it turned orange, that was it, no more!!:)

I started graying at 16. I've never colored it. It has been pretty gray/white since I was 35. My hair grows so fast, I think I would look like a skunk most of the time if I dyed it, so I don't. My husband says I'd look 10 years younger, but the older I get the more I think so what. I'd still look pretty dang old :-D :-D I like the color it is. I've decided to start telling people I'm 10 years older than I am, then they'll think I look pretty good for 70 :-D

I started going grey at 40 but after radiation I just wanted to keep the hair I had left LOL, don't mind it at all...you go thru a stage of salt/pepper but thats kinda neat too...

love every gray/white hair that is gently showing up on my head. i prefer to keep every strand the way it naturally will be. i have 5 sisters and a mother who all color their gray away. guess im the unique one!

My Mom and 2 sisters have gorgeous thick curly snow white hair. Being the firstborn, I figure my parents didn't know what they were doing...I am fair w/freckles and straight dishwater blonde hair (or at least it was at 17. My hair has been chemically dependent since my sr yr of hs), Went natural for 3 months and was always doing a dble take when passing a mirror...ugh!

I'm not ready either & I recently turned 59, but sure don't feel it. I love my hair colored. Gray, or salt & pepper is not my color, so I prefer my medium auburn. I even get asked if it's natural. I color it myself, so it doesn't cost much. DH is gray, of course & looks great. I just tease him & tell him, this way, people think he is married to a much younger woman! I have always colored my hair, & done it myself. I can't imagine letting it go gray, but someday, who knows. Like someone else said, I would probably have to cut it real short & not ready for that either. Right now, I just pull it back & braid it, & love it. Easy to take care of & stays out of my way, & out of everything else. Do what works for you, if you go gray & don't like it, you can always go back to coloring it!...

Not 100%... I'm fortunate that my grey is come'n in salt & pepper like, but it is getting WAY too much of the salt lol I'm not ready for a real die job, so I started getting my hair lightly highlighted. I still have some grey, but a lot of it ended up a warm 'honey/brown'. With my brown hair, it looks rather natural. I wait until it's almost completely grown out before I have it redone (like 3 hair cuts since I don't go very often to have my hair done lol)

Well, I'd LOVE to have my hair gray and then turn as white as my mother's........but I'm 61 and just now starting to show gray....LOL LOL :mrgreen:

yep, i'm white haired now. trying to keep color on white hair is difficult. i hate seeing someone's roots! so this is it!

I guess you just have to do what you need to do to make yourself feel good about yourself.

I have colored my hair for the past 15 years. I am curious as to what my real hair color would be. I'm trying to gather the courage to go natural.

The first and last time I colored or bleached my hair was in the early 70's. I simply don't spend that much time with my hair, even when I was working if it took longer than 5 minutes to do hair and makeup, it didn't get done. LOL My hair is very coarse, some natural curl, and salt and pepper.

Mother started going gray at 29, she hated it soo much she colored constantly. Every few weeks more color, I didn't like it. To much upkeep, and then the roots would show and i would ask "whats the point?" How does that look "better"? Mom always said one day I would understand. One day I too would run for the color. I don't see it happening. I also got my first gray at 29 a few years ago. I couldn't care less. I find the gray one or two here or there. My dental assistant, she went gray in one spot, so she has this streak of white/gray on the top front of her hair. I love it, I think it is pretty. Would love it if nature was so kind to give me a streak! LOL, o well. Hubby, now he has a lot of gray!

nope, only my hairdresser knows how much grey I have LOL

Since my hair is naturally strawberry blonde, the gray has blended in very well. :D

Gave up on color years ago---allergies made it dangerous!
Now it is a sort of silvery blondie color.....

Yes, it's very liberating!!! I started greying at 19 and gave up coloring about 10 years ago and I'm 58 now. I think that the "beige" hair coloring everyone seems to be using is the new "blue"!

My hair is white & it would be impossible to keep the roots
dyed. I like it white.
Marilyn

It's probably not the hair, but the style. I would try a new short, sassy hair style. You will be surprised to see the difference.

sassy granny P. S. been there, done it.

I have coloed off and on since high school as I hate my natural hair color. Maybe as the gray fills out and the natural color lessens I will stop coloring. In the meantime I hate my mini-skunk stripe right in front. But, figure once I really start going gray won't be long before I am totally gray - my brother who is 8 years older than I am is completely gray now.

Funny you should say that! I have decided to go gray myself. I have colored my hair since I was 15, I'm gonna be 57 this year. I too am very tired of coloring every few weeks, it seems like it needs to be done every other week instead of every 6 weeks. I swear my hair never grew that fast! I have my long hair so it's going to take awhile for it to grow out. I've tried to grow it out a few times but when it gets to having half gray and have blonde I usually cave and color again. I can't make myself have the color stripped out....that would be too sudden.

I color my hair, and I love it!

I just can't do grey!!! My hair is too dark and the grey shows up too much!!
Gotta cover it lol :D

Mine is natural now since I had all of the frosting cut off, but will frost it again soon. Not so much because of grey, but because I like it to have some highlights.

This is funny! I just got my hair cut and am in need of a color also. My mom is trying to talk me into keeping it like it is with all the gray showing....yuk, yuk, yuk!

I am 75 yrs old, only ever had three permenants in my life and never colored my hair. It is dauk brown with a few grey hairs here and there. MY three daughters turned grey in their fortys and all color there hair. I keep it short and curl it with a curling iron after my shower. Takes about 10 minutes and I'm done for the day. MY DH is all grey and my three brothers are almost bald.

This really is just too funny. I also just got my hair cut really short today and told the hairdresser that I think another haircut like this and I might as well give up the color. She agreed and said she thinks I would really like it.
I think white hair is classy. I don't know why I have been putting it off. So at age 65, I'm going for all natural, whatever that might turn out to be.

Thank you for asking this question! It's something I've been thinking about all day. :thumbup:

Just going with the gray...........

My mum had the prettiest gray hair so as soon as mine started to go gray when I was about 43-44, I stopped coloring it, I've been waiting for the last 25 years for it to go completely gray, she was gray when she was 30. I'm soon to turn 70 and I'm still only about halfway there, it's very aggravating.

Gray for me! I am 63 & I decided when I was working in my early 20's that I would not color my hair when I got older. I remember the "old" people coming every 6 weeks with jet black hair. They did not have the products they do now. But, I don't want the bother!! I got a compliment on my hair color just today!

I could have wrote this myself! I have very thick hair past my shoulders. I love it long but after about 3" of grey/white grow in I cave & get it colored. If it was short I would do it myself. I guess I'll try to pull it back during the summer & see if I can live with it. The money is more fun spent on fabric.

Started going grey in my 20's. Colored for over 20 years. I went 'lighter and darker' on my highlighting = and it grew out wonderfully easy. I have been naturally highlighted now for oh, four years now.

I LOVE IT. I have saved thousands of dollars and a tremendous amount of time.

After a bout with breast cancer 6 years ago, I stopped dyeing my hair. It has been very liberating and my hair hasn't been this healthy in years. I now have long, gray, healthy hair. I am 62 and started going gray in my 30's.

After I retire from work I am going to let my hair go gray. It does take a lot of time and money to keep up.

I was a natural dark red head until I turned 24. My hair started to gray with the streak in the front. My sisters, bless their hearts, insisted I color my hair. I bought a box of Lo'Real and colored it. By the time I was 30 I was pretty sure from the looks of my roots that I was completely gray. I colored it for the next 25 years. My husbands didn't even know I colored it until after we were married. I did then, and still do, keep my husband on a 'need to know' basis. They didn't need to know it.

Anyway, about 6 months ago I had a reaction to the dye. I got welts at my hairline. The next time I colored it I tried a different brand - same thing. As soon as the welts and sores would heal It would be time to color it again. I decided "No more" and let it grow out. I keep my hair short so it didn't take long, but boy, did I look ridiculous! I was also worried about how my hair would look.

It looks fabulous! It is shiny platinum (not white, not gray and my stylist says it isn't silver) all over. I couldn't afford to pay someone to color my hair like this. Women - and men! - compliment me about my hair. I can't take credit for it, I got it from my dad.

My sisters, bless their hearts, haven't seen it. I can hardly wait for that day!

I do have to change my wardrobe. I look better in jewel tones and clear colors. When I had the red hair I could wear lighter colors and I always wore a lot of browns and earth tones. They don't look so good now. I also had to change my makeup colors.

I am 57 and was allpretty much white. An ugly, flat, white. So last year after going around feeling frumpy, dumpy & drab, I went and had warm dkish browm woven into my hair. It looks natural. I get it done about ever 2 months & my DH just loves it. Now that it is near Summer I will have some light blonde highlighted into it. I would not do anything at all if it was a pretty white but it is not sparkly at all. Just ugly & flat. I may get it done less, so more white shines through. We shall see. I love this topic and Thank you for starting it. BTW I was much more white that either of my parents that are near 80. *sigh* Made me look so very old!

Oh, I like this thought! New colors in my wardroble, new makeup colors. A total new me! :-D