have any of you decided to just go gray?
#173
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Iowa
Posts: 911
When I retired almost three years ago...no more coloring/no more perms. Got my hair cut short so it looked better when I took my motorcycle helmet off (hate helmet hair.)
The funny thing was that my 35-year-old son started letting his hair grow at about the same time and ended up with naturally curly hair longer than mine! ;-)
The funny thing was that my 35-year-old son started letting his hair grow at about the same time and ended up with naturally curly hair longer than mine! ;-)
#174
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Dewittville, NY
Posts: 603
I colored my hair for many years (Too many, too costly). Then in 2006-7 I said "that is it". I went and had my hair cut short, frosted so that the grays blended while it grew out. I love the freedom. I am 73yo and enjoy my years, wrinkles, grays, cuz let me tell ya, the so called golden age is not what its cracked up to be. Soooooooo the more freedom (and money) I have to enjoy whatever, I go for it. Remember the burning of the bra in the 60's? Onward to the next step.
#175
Been covering my gray since I was 25 years old. DH says I can stop when I'm sixty, only 7 more years to go. What is it with men & a woman's hair? I've asked my hairdresser how she'd "fix" it without looking like I have a stripe down the top of my head and she only said they have ways to blend the gray in until it's complete. I have a 9 year old daughter and even without the gray have been asked if I'm her grandmother - oh well! You never know these days.
#176
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 39
I started going grey in my 30's...now 56 and salt and pepper...I have long hair and never dyed it...decided I didn't want the chemicals....my husband is 72 and his hair is still black, everyone thinks he dyes his hair! My MIL dyed her hair and had the beige hair til she died at 95 and was mortified that I didn't dye my hair....I think the beige color is to match their scalp since many old ladies have thin hair and it blends in to their scalp so it doesn't show so bad....I 've gotten many compliments about my hair...I use coconut oil on it also...just a dab worked thru and makes it nice and shiny....
#178
I started going gray at 16 (which was when I started dating my husband..should that have told me something). Now at 57 it is a silver/gray. I colored it at home for years. The last time (about 5 years ago) it turned several colors..purple..then orange and then pink.. I went to the hairdresser and she tried to fix it.. colored it 3 times to get it brown and then it two weeks it turned ash blonde which was the color it was supposed to be in the first place. Never again. Going to work with pink hair was the laugh of the office for quite some time. I guess I have earned each and every gray strand one of them, 40 years of marriage and 3 grown sons.
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