Dyed hair want to show my grey

[dianna]

I have grey hair and have colored my hair brownish blonde for years, I have about 2 inches of grey showing now and can''t wait for it to grow out and don''t want to cut it short, so how do I get the grey out without paying a fortune with hairdressers.

Help me

 

[firebirdgold]

So you eventually want to be all natural, but right now you look odd while growing it out? Am I reading your post right?

Have you tried the temporary hair dyes like Natural Instinct or whatever it''s called? It gradually washes out in about a month. It should blend the grey hair into the brown hair without showing the line. Since it''s not hard on your hair you can keep it up until your hair has grown out enough that you can cut all of the dyed bits off.

Of course, that''s if the temp stuff covers your grey. You won''t know until you try.

 

[mercoledi]

Assuming that you're trying to transition into au natural:

Natural Insticts never really washes out all the way and can lift some of the color from your dark hairs; the sliver/grey ends up looking kinda dingy. There are a few color-depostiting products that work pretty well, one is Jon Frieda Brilliant Brunnette color glaze. It smells terrible, but makes your hair shiny and does make the grey blend in better (though it doesn't become as dark as your natural color). If you stop using it, or switch to the clear glaze, it washes out. The other product I've used is the bumble and bumble color-depositing shampoo. I used the red one when I had red higlights, and it definitely extended my color and tinged my naturally brown hair mahogany.

It's a tough spot to be in! Mine has *just* grown out and I still have a few inches of color on the ends from 3 years ago Good luck!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I have no idea how you could find it but there was a thread about this *maybe* a year ago. It followed a woman doing the same thing and she explained how she did it. Maybe someone else will remember what I am talking about. Sorry I couldn''t be more helpful!

 

[Skippy123]

Date: 8/7/2007 6:31:57 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring
I have no idea how you could find it but there was a thread about this *maybe* a year ago. It followed a woman doing the same thing and she explained how she did it. Maybe someone else will remember what I am talking about. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

Is it this thread? Tacori, this one seems to be the one you are talkin about.

https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/bye-bye-clairol-going-gray-gracefully.56944/

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Wow skippy you are amazing! That is the EXACT thread I was talking about!

 

[monarch64]

I have no advice to offer but I just wanted to chime in and say kudos to a woman who''s comfortable with her greys! My mom started going grey in her 20''s (so have I!) and colored for years and years, but finally about 5 years ago she got her hair cut pretty short and just let it grow out from there, she''s got GORGEOUS hair and now it''s cut in a modified bob and it looks BEAUTIFUL. I can only hope to be as lovely as she is someday, appearance and otherwise. There''s nothing like seeing an attractive woman with beautiful grey hair that''s cut well and flatters her.

 

[Lynn B]

Interesting thread. I am going gray faster than I care to admit

... and so far, I am still coloring... light brown with various blonde colored highlights.

My current plan is to keep up doing this until I am 60 (picked that number pretty much out of a hat! haha!) and then I will hopefully *gradually* let the gray hair take over. I figured that I would start using wash-out color a few months before the magic birthday

and then maybe get my hair cut real short to help.

The secret to looking great with gray hair is (IMVHO) keeping it from getting that dull, yellow-y tinge and wearing it in a flattering, up-to-date style. I LOVE the look of stylish, pretty, silvery hair on *mature* women. I think that with attractive make-up, and pretty earrings, the look is lovely. In general, I don''t think that the look of older women still sporting the shoe-polish black hair is really very flattering.

 

[door knob solitaire]

I was just in Ulta...which others may have Sephora...anyway they have several products for gray...they are in boxes so I couldn''t see them. But I believe one is shaped like or is like a crayon. Not sure how it works. Then they had some liquid...and maybe a gel. Seemed relatively inexpensive and were definitely not permanent. May only have lasted through the next shampoo.

In your case, a crayon may just do the trick. As you have a specific area you are trying to attact!!!

DKS

 

[AGBF]

Date: 8/7/2007 6:40:01 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring
Wow skippy you are amazing! That is the EXACT thread I was talking about!

She really does have a prodigious memory!

Deb

 

[diamondseeker2006]

I use non-permanent hair color and it basically becomes permanent on the existing hair. My hair person says that if I later want to go gray, I''ll have to have my hair stripped and recolored. But I''m with Lynn on waiting until at least 60 (or maybe 65) before thinking about such things!

 

[chrono]

I have lots of white and am just letting it go naturally. If I wait until 60 or so, it'll be a huge shocker to suddenly see all that white/grey. My mom advised me not to dye my hair because she did so for many years and now has very few/thin hair. She blames it on all the chemicals in the hair dye that caused all that thinning. True or not, I'm not taking that risk.

Dianna, I'm sorry I don't have any ideas/help for you.

 

[lyra]

I started going grey in my 20''s. I am still colouring my hair. I go to a great colourist though. To be honest, when I decide to go fully grey, I will do it at the salon for the best results. It may take several sessions, but I just can''t stand the thought of waiting a couple of years (at shoulder length) to grow it out. I''d rather pay the big $ and have a plan of how to do it. Colouring the roots every 6 weeks is a royal pain!

 

[Lorelei]

I colour my hair a champagne blonde, once my greys start to hit I plan to colour more of a silver to platinum blond so that my hair looks coloured silver white, this I think would be a good compromise and also if the greys are resistant then it doesn't matter if the odd one won't take the colour. I have been colouring for so many years and still have a thick mop, I would miss not doing it!

Diana to answer your question I can't work out if you want to go grey or cover it?

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 8/16/2007 1:33:08 PM
Author: SanDiegoLady

Date: 8/16/2007 11:50:20 AM
Author: Lorelei
I colour my hair a champagne blonde, once my greys start to hit I plan to colour more of a silver to platinum blond so that my hair looks coloured silver white, this I think would be a good compromise and also if the greys are resistant then it doesn''t matter if the odd one won''t take the colour. I have been colouring for so many years and still have a thick mop, I would miss not doing it!

Diana to answer your question I can''t work out if you want to go grey or cover it?

This is what my girlfriend did. Her white hair almost completely matches her blonde, I swear. She''s still in her 40s..

I had a feeling it was a good idea!! I don''t ever want to go grey but I don''t want to overdo the colour " look" so I think this is the most elegant way of approaching it for me. Everyone is so used to be being blond that I think this way would be less noticeable, it gets lighter as I age, but is still blondish, even if silvery.

 

[Ellen]

Date: 8/14/2007 8:35:58 PM
Author: Lynn B

The secret to looking great with gray hair is (IMVHO) keeping it from getting that dull, yellow-y tinge and wearing it in a flattering, up-to-date style. I LOVE the look of stylish, pretty, silvery hair on *mature* women. I think that with attractive make-up, and pretty earrings, the look is lovely. In general, I don''t think that the look of older women still sporting the shoe-polish black hair is really very flattering.

That would be my SIL.

She''s in her mid 50''s and still basically black. We''ve ALL told her she''d look so much better going MANY shades lighter, but she won''t listen.....


I''m really hoping I get my moms hair, it''s a gorgeous white. I have a feeling I may, as the "grey" hairs I do have are actually white. I''ll stop coloring when it hits me it''s time.

 

[suzi]

Date: 8/16/2007 11:50:20 AM
Author: Lorelei
I colour my hair a champagne blonde, once my greys start to hit I plan to colour more of a silver to platinum blond so that my hair looks coloured silver white, this I think would be a good compromise and also if the greys are resistant then it doesn''t matter if the odd one won''t take the colour. I have been colouring for so many years and still have a thick mop, I would miss not doing it!

Diana to answer your question I can''t work out if you want to go grey or cover it?

That sounds like a reasonable plan to me. I''ve always heard women should go lighter as they get older, anyway. One of my friends who starting going grey at a young age used to get her hair "frosted" which I think is a little different than highlights. Maybe a bit more dramatic. At any rate, she had medium brown hair, and just kept asking her colorist to go heavier on the frosting as time went by, and by the time she was nearly all grey, she had a kind of two-toned platinum and grey thing going on which was very attractive.

My mother is going grey in a very natural and attractive way as well. Her greys are very evenly distributed through her hair and it looks like it''s frosted, only it''s natural. I hope that''s what I do. I have a few greys sneaking in there, but so far I''ve not done anything about it. I have light reddish brown hair, with lots of blondish highlights from the sun, and it all sort of blends and looks fine for now.

I know you said you don''t want to go short, but it really is an option. Going to a short shag type of haircut with lots of layers, and having some lighter streaks or highlights put in to blend everything until it all grows out might work for you. Short layered hair with piecey bangs are very in style right now, to

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