Gave up coloring the gray hairs a few years ago. Just salt & pepper for me. Now just wash and blow dry. Hubby didn't like it when I colored it anyway. He is all gray. lol

I've told my daughter, when I die this hair better be black!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I was younger my hair was black, started getting grey in my twenties, have never colored it. People always tell me what pretty hair I have. Im 62 now and have more salt than pepper.

Don't know the lady in gray.Color is good.

Don't know how I posted twice.

I started going grey in my 30's and before I was 40 I was totally grey. I had to go every 3-4 weeks to have color touched up. We moved from NJ to Florida in 2000 and I didn't know anyone so I decided to get my hair cut really short and just let the color grow out from there. I'm really glad I did. I ended up with a platinum with natural highlights. People ask me all the time where I get my hair colored. That is really funny because I used to beg my mother to let me dye my hair platinum blonde. It is a whole lot healthier that I stopped putting color on it.

I have seen many people who die their hair and when they let it grow out to the gray, they look so much better. They have a softer look. I have never died mine and it is almost white. I am just too lazy. My hair grows very fast and I would be dying every 2 weeks. I think most of my friends like it. I usually love everyone's gray hair. I have several friends who are all gray and they look great. Your husband is just not used to it. He will adjust.

When I first started getting grays, I thought about colouring. Then they were fairly slow coming in....now I'm 53, still mostly brown and I'm thinking, I still don't want to spend any time or $$ on this. So what happens will happen, gray or not. Not doing the colour thing.

I have never colored my hair .... my hair and my wrinkles tell a story of a good life .... my family love me the way I am ..... when my hair got really thin from chemo no one said a word ...... my hair was naturally curly till I lost my husband 4 years ago today(26th) and it just went straight .... now I have remarried and my hubby loves my hair .... I am 60 and have silver streaks in my strawberry blond hair ... guess Im a naturalist ......lol

I have color hair for over 20 years and because of the new machine I have to take for my heart it cause a chemical reaction and so I have to go grey

NO WAY..like Joanie2 said..I have told my kids to make sure I have a fresh dye job before the bury me *L*

Hair gloss is like a light oil that you apply after you style your hair. Wal Mart carries hair gloss. Sometime it is called hair polish, hair shine or hair glissen. It just makes your hair look healthier.

Well I'm sure sure thinking about it. Is 53 too young to be completely grey?

Never...never, never... will I stop highlighting mine.

My hair grows so fast I have to color it every 3 weeks. Plus it is down to my waist so it is a chore. But I'm not ready to go gray. My husband once said I don't need to color it for him. Believe me I don't do it for him. I do it for me. I'm not accepting my age, 56 very well.

Thank you! I like this idea!
Melody

Me!!! With the money I save I can buy more fabric! After all, whatever color my hair really is, is what God made it. He doesn't make mistakes! It's sooo freeing to know that.

My younger brothers got our mom's hair. Natural curly. Not me. Our mom was snow white at 60. I thought well we'll see what I do. I was a natural blond, and I figured I'd go white real quick. My brothers are snow white, and still have the curly hair (which they hated) and, at 70 I get darker with what looks like highlights. If I'm with my kids or grands to get a senior discount I have to now show an ID. It doesn't make my brothers happy at all.

hi,
I never colored my hair, and am now about 90% gray at 67 yo. My DH has always compllained that I make him look old with my gray hair (he is 82 :lol: ) Anyway this year he started to stop dying his hair, and now I hear nothing.

I have also becauseof the gray hair been receiving senior discounts for a number of years. If young people only associate gray hair with senior I won't dissuade them.

Also now you are seeing some Hollywood types going gray anad it may yet become mainstream.
Sorry for such a long post, but I really like gray. :thumbup:

I don't call it gray, I tell people mind is "God-colored". I decided I AM a grandma so I might as well look like one!--Besides living on social security, I can't afford the coloring. So I am a happy, God-colored grandma!!!!

I quit coloring mine when I turned 70 (This past January.) I have short hair so all the color is gone now and I am like you...I have hair my hairdresser and many of my friends tell me they would love to have. I have one pronounced white streak in the front that my hairdresser said people pay really good money to have put in their hair. I didn't have to pay anyone....it was a gift from God! Being a natural redhead also has it's advantages...the gray never gets that salt and pepper look. It just sort fades into a soft, pretty color.

Thurma

i talked my mom into doing it, she didnt like it. so now she went back to coloring. i dont think dad liked it either.

Tried coloring my hair one time. I loved it until the roots started growing out. I sure don't want to spend the time nor the money to keep coloring so I just let it grow out. Now it's back to no color and I like it that way. Salt and pepper to be sure, mostly pepper (I think) at 62. My mother never colored her hair and she had the most beautiful gray hair. Hope mine will do the same.

I started dyin at age 18 at the age of 47 I decided to go grey. And I lucked out I have a 2inch strip of pure white in the front right side and the rest is brown with grey and I'm 64 now. I feel good about myself grey so thats all that counts.

Me too!

I am loving all these responses... and looking forward to being all gray as soon as the rest of color is cut off. I'll need a new avatar pic!

I color my hair, I tried to let it go gray but i just could not let it grow out. It was just to gray and I am only in my early 40's.

I have been gray for a couple of years now and I love it! I was blonde (it hides the gray better than brown dye) for many years. I let my roots grow out about an inch, then went in and got a buzz cut! My DH Loved the buzz cut. I liked the gray but it has since grown out and I will never dye it again!

I agree with AKDaffyodil. Earned every one of them and it is a pretty head of hair.

As I turned grey, I left it. My opinion is that I earned every single one and am proud to show it off. It also reminds my children what the did to me. LOL :lol:

Got so I just couldn't color it anymore - there was more white than brown. Had tried to color my hair for years - but even the hairdresser admitted it was harder and harder to cover it up. The color just didn't seem to absormb into the hair. Recently got a compliment on what beautiful white hair I have - guess I was right to just stop trying.

Last year I had chemo and radiation and let my hair grow in naturally to shiny grey. I tried it for a while since I didn't feel that great to care about it. But it is back to reddish brown again. I felt so much younger with colored hair.....guess it is vanity but I don't want to feel older than I am....

One October through April it snowed. I thought I needed a change. Those hair dyes at the grocery store needed to have a prescription from a hair dresser ! Dangerous to the novice !
So, I chose the wrong color, multiple times, my hair was like grass, I traveled from hair dresser to hair dresser to get fixed. The guys at work thought I was given a color of the month card for Christmas from my husband.
So, no, I do not dye my hair.. and will let nature take it's course.
BUT, PS, my Mom did not go gray until age 70 ! Its all in the genes !
Ell

glad I adjusted my glasses, I read the title as' have any of you decided to just go GAY"!

Good heavens...that would be a bold question now wouldn't it..

as to going gray...NO...I am a blonde and what is gray is white and not pretty with my aging blonde hair...I will be 50 this year and will ease into it fighting...

I have never coloured my hair, and at 59 not much chance of it happening.I have people that say they wished they could get my colour in a bottle.

Never have dyed my hair. I am going gray and I have earned everyone of them. I so it off with pride.

I have been coloring my hair for 25 years, and I used to have it really dark, bing cherry they called it. But then it started to look black from the buildup and my father said something about it being so dark, so I started to go down on the color chart. I went from dark brown to light brown. But if you leave light brown in too long- it becomes dark brown! I know because
I colored my hair 3 days ago and I used the last of my hair color that I had in the cabinet. It was supposed to be light brown, but something on THE VIEW made me forget about time.... So we'll see how long it takes me to get tired of it. I think it is going to be white like my Mothers. Her hair is very pretty, her mothers was yellow. I don't want my hair to be yellow. I didn't color it for 5 months, and it was getting pretty white where it grew out. And the brown had faded so it was the same color as it was when I was 5. I compared it to some hair my Mom had saved from a haircut back then. I'm really tired of coloring my hair, so I think I will try to grow it out and see what color it comes in. Hubby doesn't like it gray, and his hair isn't gray yet, he is lighter, but not gray. We'll see how it goes.....Maybe I will just put a little lemon juice on it this summer and see what the sun does to it. It is getting thin, so I don't want to mess with it too much. I don't want to go bald!

instead of growing it out, have the color stripped and then color matched so you do not have that tiger stripe on top!

I colored my hair for almost 4 decades. (Gosh, it sounds like a long time put that way.) Last year I decided to go gray and have been growing it out. The first 6 months were the hardest because you could really see the difference. Now I have cut enough of the old hair off that it looks better. I really love the freedom of not coloring plus more money for fabric!