I went gray this year after coloring for the last 15 years I just got tired of doing it and the husband doesn't like the new me of course his is white now but that makes no difference. Have any of you given up coloring and do you like the gray and the freedom of not coloring every couple months

Being a hairdress, I hate the grey in my hair, but I'm spending way to much money trying to get things to make quilts and havent gotten my hair done in a while and I just hate it salt and pepper look...But with summer coming and being outside more I'm going to highlite it again soon! LOL did I mention I hate my gray? LOL

yes and loving it

I didn't color much, but I did quit coloring at all. My DIL was a hairdresser and she said people will kill to get the color of my hair as it looks streaked and not just an all over gray. It is a lot cheaper and less trouble!

My mom went gray and it works for her she looks beautiful!!

I'm too young to let the grey show. I'm fighting it.

I have never colored my hair. Immediately after my last child was born I got a grey streak right up front on my cow-lick. I have gotten more grey over the years (yes each hair has a name for the person who turned it). My kids want me to color my hair but it doesn't bother me....

I'm getting grater but don't want to color! Will see how it goes!!

Never coloured my hair and never will. I like it just the way it is.

I color mine as soon as the white starts showing. If it was pretty like my late DH I would leave it. He had beautiful silver hair, but mine turns white and it is not pretty!!!

I'm way too young to go grey but I dont wanna go thru the hassle of coloring every six weeks so I'm livin with it.. :| ONly a few strands here and there but eventually its all gonna be grey - I just know it!! lol..

I love the gray in my hair. I figure I earned every single one of them!!

Nope

Yes, and I love the freedom it gives me. If you wear the right earrings, you can look stunning.

I started to go completely grey at 18 and I'm now 57, almost 58. I've been coloring for a long time and have always said I will not leave this earth with grey hair. I made my husband promise to make sure I don't have a grey track in my casket. But I can't say I haven't at least thought about it. The problem is I've always had a young face and I think I'd have to cut my hair really short. I guess I'm just too vain. My mother always colored her hair as she had premature grey. We didn't live nearby and I remember when she went grey finally. My husband commented that he thought my mother had aged 25 years with the change. So I'm not ready now. Maybe never at this rate. I do admire others who have decided to let their hair go natural.

Yes. I've been coloring my hair since I was 14 yrs old. The hair color doesn't want to cover my gray any more & I am seriously considering letting it go gray & see how it looks.

No, I just can't do it. I'll go to my grave with a bottle of hair color in one hand. Whoops, no grave. I'm being cremated.

I didn't make that decision but my hair has a mind of its own. I figure that whatever is gray has been earned by life's trials. Haven't felt the need to color it yet but it's not that bad. I think you have to go with what you decide you want. If the gray doesn't bother you, leave it natural. If it does, color it.

When my hair grew back after chemo it came in salt and pepper. My husband (and friends) loves it this way so I am keeping it.
The gray is blending evenly and since it is I won't color it.
Sure is alot less work/expense!

I gave up coloring my hair about 4 years ago and love the freedom of not having to do my hair every 6 weeks or so.

I'm 52 & have been colouring my hair for the last 10 or 12 years - I have/had mid-brown hair & usually coloured this with permanent darker or auburn tones. anyway, over the past year or so have noticed that the regrowth was much more noticeable within a week or two of the colour so have changed the colour tones to blonded highlights & it looks much better. The grey hairs are masked, my 'new' hair colour suits my older skin tones & I dont have to think about regrowth. Plus I have reduced the frequency of my hair colours to maybe every 3 - 5 months instead of every 6 weeks to 2 mths.

I was very lucky, as I was a natural strawberry blond, and my hair did not go grey, it just got lighter and lighter. I have never coloured my hair at all

I also love the grey in my hair. I went through a very stressful and very very busy few years when my hair was first noticeably turning grey and I just couldn't find the time to maintain colouring on a regular basis. Then I realised that I was not the slave to hair appointments like my friends and work colleagues. Yeah....freedom....
Biggest compliment---started a new job and two older colleagues were surprised that I wasn't bothered about grey ----within 9 months neither were they! They donated the money that they saved for the next six months to a local charity. Don't know what they do with the extra free time but we are still cheerfully growing grey disgracefully.

I have decided to try going gray but don't know if I can hang in there. It's beginning to look like I have a bowl turned upside down on my head. LOL

I was letting mine go. I hated the look of the grey, but I don't care much for using the chemicals on my hair. Hubby hated the grey. I've since lost a lot of weight and decided to color it again. Now everyone says I look so much younger. I don't think I can stop coloring now! LOL

I have too much gray to blend, but I do the same.Use blonde hair coloring & it makes the gray sparkle.When that no longer works,I'll hope for pretty white hair.

I went gray and have beautiful short salt and pepper hair and love not having to pay out so much money for coloring and the thought of all those harmfull dyes is not good for the brain....Just some advice on the hair color for those that still do .Stay lite,too many still think they can go dark.

I tried dyeing my hair at an early age - late teens. After burning my scalp, I decided no more. My hair color is my natural, some gray is starting to come in, not a big deal. I don't wear makeup, love the natural look instead.
In the end it's who you are inside as a person, not what you look like that matters most.
Over time, looks fade, your inside is the real you.

What my hair stylist suggested was to use a cap and streak lightly with the darkest color still in my natural color. Three to four months later she would frost it lightly. Then the dark again. Haven't bothered lately. My mother's hair is a beautiful sparkling snow white - I keep hoping for that.

I have 3 gray hairs in my bangs I noticed one day after a shower. I named them "Denny, Derek & Landon" after my 3 boys in my life! And they were all 3 right there side by side.......

I stopped colouring my hair about 15 years ago and haven't regretted it at all. I am totally silver grey -- with the exception of a royal blue streak on the right side of my head! :D

I get so many positive comments, especially from the younger generation. They think it is so cool. So many women have said to me that they wish they had the nerve to put a streak in their hair. I tell them "Go ahead and do it. It's only hair, after all."

Nope, never. I have it touched up every 4 weeks. Gray is not for me. Both my mother and grandmother colored til the very end.

yes, i did. the front of my head is a very nice white gray and the back has dark gray through it. since i can't see the back, it doesn't bother me :-D :-D

I started going gray in my early 30's and colored my hair for many years. I finally at age 50 decided that it was too much trouble (hair would not hold color for more then 4 weeks) and went gray, I really like the way it looks. It is a relief not to have fuss with the color and certainly a lot cheaper.

I never did color mine. At one point people thought I had reverse frosted my hair. Now that it is white, I love it and it matches DHs.

I have never colored mine. It is salt and pepper and getting more so everyday. I watched my mother battle gray hair for half of her life, she lived to be 93. Decided that wasn't for me.

i stopped dyeing my hair about 5 years ago...i'm all white now...i had dyed my hair for over 20 years but it reached the point-my white is very dominent- i was upset that i would spend $100 on getting it done in a shop and 2 weeks later i would have a white stripe. the hair dresser told me...there is nothing we can do, your white is very dominent...so i quit wasting my money.
my hubby loves my hair and i do receive comments...my kids (all adults) hate it...
when i stopped dyeing it i was amazed how fast it started growing and how much healthier it is :thumbup:

HAD A baby at 39 and was determined never to look like his grandmother! Have been highlight since college. Decided to let it go and for the past year no highlights.

Grey make me looks dumpy frump dowdy. So bought a box at Sally's beauty supply and dh did the hair again. Happy camper. Sytlist said if parents were s/p I would be too but I want all grey right away. None of this transition stuff.

I have never colored my hair, it is brown with gray starting to come in at age 54. Why would I want to color it - this is who I am. I hate that look of gray hair dyed brown, looks like a fake fur coat. And gray roots showing - yuck! Not for me.
After seeing what my SIL went through trying to ease off coloring her hair at age 60, I'm glad I never started. It took her years to find a style/color (ash blond) she was happy with, after being a brunette.

I let the gray grow out around the time I turned 50, and I get so many compliments on the colour of my hair. I have had complete strangers walk up to me in a Wendy's, or a Beall's, and ask if I got the colour done at a hairdresser's. I think the key is to keep a youthful haircut, and keep moisturizing your skin so your face stays youthful. My hubby and adult daughter love my hair colour, and anytime I verbalize that I'm thinking of colouring it, they say "don't you dare!". In other words - I'm staying with it. I prefer to grow old gracefully.