I still color my hair because gray just makes me look tired and older than my years. If I had beautiful silver hair like my DH I'd let it go natural, but I just have the boring kind of gray...sigh.

Quit coloring mine 4 years ago. Could never find a color that was me, either it came out red or blonde. Then doing it all the time bothered me. It doesn't bother me that I have salt and pepper, just highlighted right? HA!

got streak in front in my 30's and I left that, but as I became grayer in late 40's on I colored because I was working.Once I retired I stopped because my hair grows fast and it seemed the roots were gray within a week so I decided to let become all gray. I know I would pass as years younger if I colored it, but it is too much work to keep it up.

I decided when I hit the golden year of 70 I would stop the haircoloring, prayed that I'd have my fathers beautiful white hair, God must have heard.. cause I have beautiful snow white hair. I have very fine hair, but keep it short and sexy looking... kids really like it this way.,. and so does hubby. after 6 years now I still like it alot. however, it was a real skunky season when I let it grow out., cause I had been using dark color as my natural was once. good thing I was out of my homne state for 6 months of winter, nobody at home saw how awful it looked.

my advice? hang in there, the money you save you can spend on really good make up, and jewelry.

jacie

Gave it up years ago. My husband is Ok with it. I do not think it makes me look any older.

Yes I had med brown for years and decided to put purple in it and I cut it very short and all of the color is out. loving it both no brown or purple
Debbie

I have been coloring my hair for 15 years, maybe more. I have a lot of gray. I noticed the last time I had it colored it didn't stay as long. My gray is mixed with an awful brown. I hate it. I want so badly to let it go natural..but hate the transition period. I think I will keep coloring it until the time comes that I will have chemo. That will solve the problem...LOL>
Canukninepatch, your hair is beautiful..you are a very beautiful woman.
Peace and blessings,

Yep I am looking kind of skunky at the moment lol, I am done with all the upkeep lol

I started graying at 40 colored my hair for 5 years, and then decided I was tired of the mess at home if I did it or the expense if I had someone else do it. And it wasn't the auburn I knew I could do at home. It was always purple tinted when a hairdresser did it. So I stopped, cut it out every month hairdresser knew I would be coming by !LOL now its a streaked silver-grey with dark grey at the back of my head. My hairdresser now says so many women compliment her on my coloring and she tells them its her natural color !LOL AT 53 I think I have earned the grey LOL (besides it gets me a discount at some stores thinking I am over 65!LOL YES I tell them but they still give it to me)lol

I think about going grey but it is scarey. How do you let it grow out and not look like a two tone job? I would really like to try it because I have so much grey now I put a blonde color on it.

I was a blonde for many years and now that I'm retired, I decided to quit coloring my hair. I found out my hair is a dull salt & pepper so back to the bottle! I'm using a light brown now and just a bit of the gray shows. It looks natural enough without making me feel too old.

Mine had turned grey/white around the front. Going from fron to back I hope, just like my mom's. Guess I'm too cheap to keep coloring it. Besides, it's the inside that keeps me young!

YES and I love the freedom. My hairs grows fast and I never got a full 6 weeks out of any color job. My DH is not fond of the gray and and doesn't complain about the cost to have it colored/touched-up every time I turn around, but he getting used to it and knows that I'm set on keeping it this way so he'll save his energy for a fight he can win.

I've been waiting for my hair to gray and soften my dark brunette hair. It looks like I must color it since my wrinkles certainly show my decades. I have a few grays here and there but not enough together to have a softening effect.

When I first started going gray my kids talked me into coloring my hair. I soon got tired of that and let it go to the silvery gray that I now have. I still use a dab of the blue shampoo to keep the yellow out. I have had people ask me who colors my hair and I tell them the truth. God has been doing it for the last 15 years.

Having just finished chemo, I don't really care what color my hair is when it returns. Just want it back! But I think it will be gray or white and that is just fine with me.

:shock: Me??? Gray??? NEVER!!!

I have been playing with my hair color since Sun In in 7th grade. I've been blond, brunette and now I am happily a redhead :thumbup: Most people think it's my natural color and I love it!

Yep, I did it years ago. I let my hairdresser color my hair, because she sort of shamed me into it - you know, you don't want to look O*L*D, or anything like that! The very first time I washed it, it felt like wet straw, and I said "That's it - no more fake hair for me, no matter how unbeautiful I look." If people can't bear to look at me as I am, then so be it. Meanwhile, I get compliments all the time on my real hair. Look around you at all the magenta-haired women and ask yourself if you've ever seen that color in nature. Don't think so! :lol:

Dont think of it as grey...Think Wisdom. I do i deserve each grey hair on my head, lets see 20 years Marine Corps, 3 sons went to Iraq and Afganstan, 1 son Somolia and some other place 2 daughters..11 grandchildren

After chemo last year my hair came in darker and grey but totally curly love it...

I decided at Thanksgiving to stop the four week torture of coloring my hair and it is about 2-1/2 inches grown out now. I had dark brown hair that I colored since I was 30 (now 55) and I thought it would be better to get a weave to allow for a smoother transition. I have had so many compliments as it is growing out (with the exception of my grown daughters and husband) and I think I am really going to like it. I know that I like not having to color!

I'm 56 and my hair is salt and pepper. It looks really nice, IMHO! ;-) The key to any hair color really is a good hair cut. As long as you keep your hair well groomed and suited to your life style you can look classy regardless of your hair color. It may take a bit getting used to if you're used to coloring your hair but once it's all your own natural color I think you'll love it. (I used to color and highlight my hair and when I decided to quit I did get a shorter hair cut so that it wouldn't take so long to grow out the artificial color). It is very freeing!!! I feel more authentically me.

I used to highlight my hair blonde, it is a dark brown. About 5 years ago, as my gray came in to replace the blonde, I haven't had to do a thing but wash it and roll it on my hot rollers. My gray doesn't bother me, and that is a part of my uniqueness as a person.

I did hair for a long time. So I colored my hair for 20 years, my hair did not like to take color so it was on for an hour. Had to lift my color to get the color my DH liked. When he died I colored it one last time and then stoped (COLD TURKEY - I was 38 at the time). My hair went gray and as we KNOW gray hair doesn't take color well at all. My DH (#2), likes my hair the way it is. I think he likes it, because I have more gray than he does (and to think he is almost 70). Men have ALL the luck (they get US). :thumbup:

I started going grey at 28. I started dyeing my hair when I had it cut. well after 15 years of the hairdresser cutting dyeing and costing me almost $100. every 6 weeks I decided that I would rather spend that on quilt goodies. So I'm now 65 and my hair is snow white with a bit of dark around the nap. It doesn't bother me at all and it sure gives me lots of mad money to spend on quilting etc.
Also what is funny my husband is 73 and I have had more grey and white hair than he has for years and still do.
It doesn't bother me anymore. Give it a try and put the money you would spend in a "cookie jar" and see what you have saved. kjym Kathy

My daughter's best friend is an amazing stylist and she dyed my hair a beautiful red. Everybody commented on how pretty it was and those who had never met me before thought it was natural. When I moved, no one here could duplicate it so I just stopped dying it. Heck, since I don't work outside the home, live several miles from town & the critters don't judge I only get my hair cut when I visit my daughter. :shock: My husband would like for me to pamper myself with visits to the hairstylist just for me. He loves the "silver threads among the gold" and I say I earned every one of those gray hairs. Besides, any time spent at the salon is less time crafting!

Love this statement. Think I'll borrow it since I am not interested in taking the time or money to color my hair. Well, off to the store to buy some nice earrings!!!

I had hair the envy of many of my contemporaries from teens on into middle age. Strictly wash and wear. Now it's slowly graying and I'm in my mid 70s. I hate the wirey texture but hair stylist says coloring won't change that. I'm too cheap to bother with it. After spending far too much time in the sun my skin is awful and my rosacea hasn't responded to treatment so what are a few gray hairs? I rarely bother with makeup but I'm very vain about my weight. Hence my life long membership in Weight Watchers.

I've stayed silver, not gray.

I started turning gray in my thirties and now am completely silver. Everytime I think about color someone will say how they love my hair. I must say it is a pretty silver color. Many years ago someone asked my if I paid to have my hair done like that and I replied, "Oh, did I ever. Day in and day out."

my hair went white right in the front, back when i was in my late 30s. i tried to keep up with my "skunk streak", as my kids called it--but it didn't matter how often i colored it, or what kind of color i used--that white just didn't want to be colored. two days later, there were always very obvious white roots right in the front. i gave up. now when i look at it, i laugh, because there are people who actually pay money to get that streak in their hair! thanks, mom, for the inheritance!

I have finally put a picture of myself as my Avatar. The color of my hair is just like my mom's. Colored it a few times when it started getting gray, but it was too expensive and too messy for me to do by myself. Maybe I would look a few years younger if I colored it, but I would need to lose 70 pounds to make the package complete and I don't see that happening! I get lots of compliments on my hair, especially the color. I know I am fortunate that it is not yellowish or salt & pepper. Thanks, Mom. I probably wouldn't like being a brunette again anyway. We'll never know, 'cause I'm not coloring it, ever!

I figured since I'm a grandmother for the past 9 years, it was time to let it go gray. Besides a lot of people have commented on how nice my gray is looks. The salt and pepper look doesn't bother me.

I colored for many years since I was a teen.... Brown, red, blonde in-between..... Til it got to be too much to cover without roots in 3 days...So I toughed it out til it grew out. Got a really stylish cut and I love it!
My color is silver, very shiny and healthy and I would never think of coloring again. I will be 60 next month and I don't think I look it.
For anyone who wants some support, go to Going Grey Looking Great. It is a wonderfully supportive group of women either thinking or going grey.... Great people! Lots of good info...

Thats me. I have been gray for so long wouldn't want it any other way.

I decided long ago to just go grey...but my mom in her 80's does still dye her hair...kinda funny...but she doesn't want to look grey...and I decided that I would just let nature do it's thing...not all the way grey yet, but getting there!

If my hair would look like that I would stop coloring. I have a dark streak in the very front and some gray streaks on the sides and the back is darker - so I color.


Ruby the Quilter

I keep trying to, but I get about 6 inches out and just can't stand it. I had a streak above the corner of my right eye since I was 20, never bothered me. By my ears, I can't stand. I'm 35 and don't want to be gray, but cost is becoming a huge factor.

I have been grey so long I don't even remember what color my hair was! I got tired of coloring it too.

Have to add that when I was 36, my son told me I had to do something with my hair. He was "too young to have a grey-haired mother"!!!

I have never colored my hair and don't intend to. I'm turning into a silver fox and I surely look good!