Just did! DH hates it, but hes the only one. i always loved my DMs silver hair, and she gave it to me. My prob is that i just dont care to spend a lot of my time on such frivilous things, so i was in an almost perpetual state of need for a color job. grey roots looked worse, so i finally cut off all the colored hair, and i LOVE it!

I have brown hair and have a small white patch in my bangs and some white strands through out my hair. I have told my kids they are going to give me a skunk strip through the middle of my hair. lol

I have never colored my hair and figured if I ever tried it would end up purple or something.

So I guess I am still waiting to see what I will do. I did walk past a lady with white/silver hair the other day and thought it was pretty.

A few years ago, my brother who is 2 years younger than me asked me if I colored my hair. My oldest sister and daughter said no she doesn't. He was like you sure? He has lots of salt and pepper. (made me chuckle)

Well look at my picture and you'll know. I had a bladder biopsy and was told a main factor in getting bladder cancer is hair dye. To dye and die? I chose gray.

I had not seen my natural color since I was 16 years old, and never realized it was grey!!LOL
I have let it go this past year, and it has turned the frosted color the hairdressers could never get it. Paid way too much trying for years to get the color it is now. Oh well,,,,am enjoying it now!!!

I never colored my hair. It is now salt and pepper or maybe alot more salt. My husband likes it and he said he hopes I don't ever change the color of my hair. Hair gloss makes your hair shiny and healthy looking. P.S. I am in my late 60's.

I colored my hair as a young woman. My friend and I did each others. Then I moved away and never colored again. I am 67 and have only touches of gray so far.

I like my gray and have never covered it up, except with a hat in summer.

I love my gray, I dyed my hair for years blond, then I went really short because I have CHF and was unable to do it myself and too tight to pay to get the short hair done when you had to do right away. My hair is very silvery and I REALLY enjoy it. *

Go Grey NEVER.

Elle

i am a red head.(auburn really) .and i have never colored my hair..and it is going gray in the front..alot.
i would be scared to color it..IF i wanted to. my daughter colors hers red..aand it is hard for her to keep up. for some reason, the color red doesn't lst s long as other colors..according to her.
by the way, none of my kids of grands got my hair color..must be true, that it is a resessive trait.

what is hair gloss?

That makes 2 of us. A few friends think I should at least put a wash through it, but I don't want to mess up my color(or lack of). I just turned 52 this week. My grandmother died from bladder cancer, one of the causes was due to the red hair coloring she used all the time.

I have,

and I have a box of hair color that I am not sure I want to use or not! when we do go gray, we save between 5-10 dollars, and we don't have all those chemicals on us or around us. so yeah I am going gray totally...... and the 5-10 dollars can go to something else, could get a nice piece of fabric? the fat squares, about 10 of them?? my math, say about5 then... hehehe. and the list is endless!

Never have, never will. My husband and I are both totally gray. Is very strange when his mother with her black hair introduces her son to someone. So glad I never started - guess it is impossible to stop.

now if we are thinned siknned,

a young girl asked another young girl that I was sitting nest to asked her "is that your grandmother?" being I am gray!! now I could have taken that wrong, but kinda made me feel good( I am not a grand ma)
so the gray is in....

well just remember the Bible says thet the gray haired person has "wisdom" so we are supposed to be wise, sometimes I wonder about me! hehehehehehe

there are so many people that have gray hair and their hair is beautiful!

when we went to Hawaii for our 25th I had a new hair do and lighter color and blond highlights put in it was the best my hair had ever looked but as I said at the beginning of the thread I am gray now and I am staying that way

I am grey/white on the sides and the grey/white hair looks like wings. I get complimented on it all the time, but sometimes (just before haircut time) the hair grows so that it looks like I am ready to take off!!!!!!

I was a redhead, but during the greying process it turned a little more blond. Hey, I'm 72, got a lot of trials and tribulations under my belt, so I am hanging on to every darn hair-white, grey, pink or purple! No, I won't color my hair. Too many people dye their hair and you know it is dyed and to me it just covers the years of learning and the wisdom that goes with it and I am really wise!!!!!!!! Edie

I love my gray. My hair grows very fast so to color it I had to retouch every three weeks. Decided to stop 3 years ago. Know I get so many compliments on my hair. Wish I had stopped years ago. I think its the growing out process that stops most people.

I didn't read all the post so I am sure some of you have said the same thing... I colored my hair for over 20 years cause I started going gray early,... finally just had enough of it as my hair grows really fast.. my husband didnt like it at first but he can get over it... it is all gray now & I get so many compliments on it's color as it is an odd mixture of salt & pepper with a little brown thrown in there!!! The chemicals from the air dye made my hair really thin cause I had to do so often so now hve a thick head of hair again... guess it is up to the person but I love my gray hair

yes, no more coloring...2 years ago after 4th grandchild was born, decided it was OK to sorta look like a granma! It is salt 'n pepper but longer and just decided this week it is going short too!

I have decided to go natural after years of having highlights in my hair. Too Too expensive. My hair is pepper and salt and I truly like the look. More money to spend on fabric and tools.

My hair is not grey, they are just natural high lights!

I did some internet searches to find out if there is anything you have to do differently for gray and white hair. There are a few good tips out there. The #1 thing I read over and over was DO NOT use high heat styling aids on your hair. It will make it turn yellow!
My stylist told me to buy Clairol Shimmer Lights shampoo and conditioner to use once or twice a week. It cleans the yellow and other impurities (minerals from hard water, cigarette smoke, etc.) out of your hair and enhances the color. It does have Violet #2 in it, so if you use it every day you will have 'Blue Hair' - not a look I believe any of us are going for!

Speaking of blue hair; I read a post by a young girl who said she thinks the trend of short, gray hair on older women is the 2000's version of the curly blue perm of the 1900's! Brat.

Have never colored my hair - always was told by my Mama to age gracefully when the time comes. I like it salt and pepper and keep it short and when I need a lift I spritz with gloss and MY-O-MY - do I ever sparkle. LOL

I went to beauty school after high school and my hair has been every color but black. I let it go natural in my early 40's to see if it would look frosted like my Mom's did. It didn't and at lunch with friends on my birthday I asked and they said DYE. So I was back on the train.

In 2002 we were talking about hitting the road fulltime in our RV and DH asked if I was going to take all that long blonde hair on the road. So I spent the winter putting some brown rinse on it until it was grown out enough for the short spiky look.

I am so liberated after a lifetime of roots showing!

Color me salt-n-peppa and loving it.

I started going grey about 50 and it just made me look tired,so I get it colored. However payng out $90.00 every 8 weeks is starting to kill me now that my dh is retired. I think I might try to go grey-see how much I have and be the granny. :XD:

I started going grey at 21, colored for years at 50 let the greys in and now at 59 I am now all white hair I love it and get compliments. I feel I earned this white hair and wear it like it was a privilege to have earned it.

I have earned every single gray hair on my head -- granted, some were more fun than others to earn. But I have very vivid memories of most of them. Life is to be lived and relished enthusiastically.

I have salt and pepper colored hair. I stopped coloring about 4 years ago. At first my husband didn't like it. Now he does! He is totally gray.

I played with hair color for several years in my 20's and learned what a hassle it was to keep the roots from showing. I am definitely still mostly pepper but the salt is visible! I'm 48 and love many people's grey hair because I think it speaks of wisdom and life experience....

ABSOLUTELY!!! and love it..........I have earned every gray one and am proud of who I am naturally.

Yea!
I feel free, it did not look good at first but the past couple of years the gray/white has increased and looks better now.

tjb

Everyone cheered last Christmas when i walked into the room and they saw the grey hair. I coloured it because one side of my head was white and the other side quite dark. I decided to let it grow out after 15 years and it is all a silvery grey with one really white bang on one side. It doesn;t look so bad, so I encourage all to give it a go (saves a lot of money as well).

Never have colored my hair. At 61 it's more salt than pepper and I get lots of compliments. Like Aurora said above, I've earned every single one of those silver threads! I'm happy with it.

I have been thinking about going grey for a few years. My Mom had her hair colored till she was 84. Then when we left it go gray, it just didn't look like her any more. I probably won't go gray.

I agree with this...so many of my friends are half/half blondes now...I know a lady that wears hats every where and she asked why I didn't wear hats...I laughed and said I don't need to cover my roots. she laughed and took it as I meant it. :roll:

I have never colored my hair. I figure I have earned every gray hair on this ol' head.

Yes, I went gray this year. Tired of spending so much money every six weeks to have it done. My hubby and friends all say it looks good so I am happy I did.
Annie