The women who are turning grey into the new black (highlights, hairstyles)
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I do my own hair, too. I also use Garnier....I never die all my hair, choosing to let it fade a bit, and touching up the roots (using the Garnier) and dragging the color down a bit, and maybe a few strips of the new color, to blend it in. It looks very natural, I think.
I'm so glad I tried Garnier. My prior color I used for years was the very cheapo Clairol Balsam - it was great! I'd get compliments from others, my hair was shiny, the color was true. It did fade quickly, but then it was pretty cheap. After it was discontinued I tried several other brands & colors....all horrible. Then I tried Garnier Nutrisse...a winner!
I don't understand why people pay to have their nails done (except for young women who don't do anything physical w/their hands yet). It's so expensive and can be done at home. I do mine, but then my nails don't look great. I spend hours on computers and work in yard & do housework & scrub toilets, etc. But they look okay for a few days after I do them. I like a lightish pinky-champagne color on my nails, or a light true pink. Gel polish damages the nail, is my understanding, so I haven't tried that.
I used to work a lot of hours, so I didn't have time to go to the salon often or sit for manicures. I'd do my roots at 10 at night, if I had to. Before I worked a lot, I didn't have the extra money for luxuries like that.
We do our own house and yard work at our house, too. A professional manicure would be destroyed pretty quickly. When I do my own nails they are easy to touch up or just redo as needed. I'm actually surprised that the gel polish trend has lasted as long as it has, I just stick with the regular polish in a soft pinkish shade like you do.
Another thing I won't do is wear those butt scrunch leggings that seem so popular these days.
My mom had natural light blonde hair and fair skin with pink undertones. Her hair remained blonde into her seventies, then it became dull and started thinning. She needed a prescription for a medicated shampoo which turned her hair silvery white. It looked fantastic with her rosy complexion, like a halo around her head, and it had some shine. Her hairstylist loved it and gave her a fresh new style, she looked great.
I'm 68 and have almost no gray. It's a very dark brunette so I get highlights a few times a year just to add some brightness around my face. I take after my dad who didn't start to go gray until he was well into his 70s.
My hair is so weird. I've been going grey since the mid-80s (yikes!). First it was a stray grey hair here and there, which I dutifully pulled out with tweezers. LOL ... Gradually, the grey filled in around my temples so that I looked like the Bride of Frankenstein, and I started coloring my hair.
Fast forward to today, and I still have grey hair only around my face, about in a swath about two inches wide, and it's an awful, drab yellow-grey. There's no grey hair at all around the back of my head. So I continue using the semi-permanent hair color. I'd love to be done with it, but I don't want to look like a freak, either.
I'm 68 and have almost no gray. It's a very dark brunette so I get highlights a few times a year just to add some brightness around my face. I take after my dad who didn't start to go gray until he was well into his 70s.
SIL is 62 and she arrived at a dinner all dressed up, looking stunning. Also very late to go grey (purely genetic, her sister started going grey in her thirties as took after different parent) SIL also is thin and has great olive skin. Looks no more than fifty.
I was almost depressed afterwards, or at least envious! I am older than that but have very fair skin which has been attacked by the Aussie sun and grey hair which must have come from my father. I still colour it as I think if I go grey I will look even older.
I'm in my 60's and only now is the gray really starting to come in. I have to keep after it with color, deep conditioning, and frequent touch-ups.
But, I'm going to say what one of my favorite aunts used to say. As long as there is hair color, I will never be gray.
My mother-in-law used to brag about how everyone loved her gray hair.
Then, after some encouraging by her daugher to finally get a "make over" at the salon, she chose to cover her gray in a soft, flattering light caramal color with golden hilights. Instantly took 10 years off of her.
I've never seen a woman who covered her gray with a flattering color treatment and style who didn't look immediately younger and fresher. It's work and money, admittedly, but so is keeping fit as we get older.
My opinion only of course.
I love it! Plus 1 but I'd give more rep if I could.
Your daughter's choice of hair color sounds really pretty.
I will say what I was thinking, but did not want to say - "I've never seen a woman who covered her hair with a flattering color...who didn't look immediately younger and fresher".
The GOTG crowd says that they don't care about looking older.
I admit that I do. I don't want to look ONE SECOND older than I actually am. And I DO want to look younger. And I do look younger.
If anyone chooses to color their hair just forget about CLAIROL or any other drugstore brands. They are loaded with chemicals and will ultimately ruin your hair, and perhaps, your health. Unless you are flat broke, have your
I've gotten to many reps from posters who agree with my beliefs about hair color going grey. They seem to feel shy about speeking out because this grey thing is coming as a moral imperative, and a social statement. It's a personal choice, and we are not asking opinions.
It's a lot easier for blondes with fair skin to keep the blonde hair forever. It looks good on them and they can make it to their dying (no pun intended) day with blonde hair.
For brunettes with darker skin, it is a little more complicated, and the point at which something needs to be done is different for every person. I was very fortunate in that my hair started going grey all over, not in patches or streaks, so that I was able to bring it up gradually and finally when everything was grey, I just stepped off the ladder and swam naturally grey. I would love to still be a blonde as I was when in the transition stage, but......somehow it never looked right with my skin. Now I'm wondering what to do with my eyebrows because they are a mottled black and grey. I've gone to brown brow pencil but it's not quite right.
Many brunette friends tell me the same thing. I think you are right, brunette and aging are a completely different. Sometimes the NATURAL color that you are born with looks fantastic at 18 but not at 58. Our skin color changes, and ages. That's why I always recommend a consultation with a professional colorist.
As far as your eyebrows go, you may want to try ULTA. Where ever I have lived their brow specialist has been so talented. I agree about brow pencil. It's "not quite right".
Many brunette friends tell me the same thing. I think you are right, brunette and aging are a completely different. Sometimes the NATURAL color that you are born with looks fantastic at 18 but not at 58. Our skin color changes, and ages. That's why I always recommend a consultation with a professional colorist.
As far as your eyebrows go, you may want to try ULTA. Where ever I have lived their brow specialist has been so talented. I agree about brow pencil. It's "not quite right".
I went throught the eyebrow dilemma for a while. As a brunette going gray, I started coloring my hair a medium mahogony brown and am happy with it, but what to do about graying brows? Not only that they were getting gray and white hairs in them, but those hairs were coarse and unruly.
I tried brow pencils, powders, gels, and even special eyebrow dye. I wasn't happy with any of the results. Most were difficult to use or too harsh/unnatural looking.
Then I discovered eyebrow mascara and found the answer! The brand I use is NYC Professional Makeup Eyebrow Mascara. The color Chocolate works for me. It colors and tames my brows perfectly. Hope they never discontinue it. You can get it at Target, or order on Amazon.
I stopped coloring my hair maybe 10 years ago and I have had so many compliments on it. If I mention coloring it again, people tell me not to spoil the grey. It's shiny silver.
I have tried to go gray a few times, but really dislike how old it made me look. Not flattering at all. My sister has gone totally gray, and I think it aged her as well. Both of us have naturally auburn hair, so I think the cooler tones of gray/silver just don't work with our skin tone and coloring.
I'm probably about 90% gray in front a 50% in the back. Maybe once the back catches up with the front I'll try again. I like silver/white hair on others if they can carry it off.
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And I DO want to look younger. And I do look younger. 
