Dallas hair colorist for transitioning to gray (dye, cut, color)

[karenw729]

I want to stop coloring my brown hair to hide the gray. I want to grow out the gray but make the transition less ugly by putting in gray highlights. I know this can be done, I've seen lots of pictures on the internet, but my hair colorist is resistant to doing what I want. Last visit with him he agreed to do it but then all he did was bleach out some strands and then tone to bring them back up some from the white. The highlights look blondish, not gray. Does anyone here know of a hair colorist/stylist in the DFW area who can do this competently?

[KathrynAragon]

You'll have better luck posting this in the Dallas forum I think.

That being said, transitioning from dyed to gray is painful. I did this last year and now I LOVE my natural hair but the process itself was challenging.

It helps to have short hair!

I just had ash blonde highlights put in as my gray, which is like a salt and pepper, grew out. As my current dye faded, that helped as well. Even so, it was about 8 months of just gritting my teeth.

[hothulamaui]

getting grey highlights is almost impossible. it is difficult to maintain. if your hair doesn't completely bleach out you will always end up with a slight blonde highlight and not grey. if it was easy to do gray artificially, no one would have to grow out their hair, they would just color it.

the best you can do is get all over highlights even if they are blonde and let it grow. cut it as short as you are comfortable with. if you have to re do your highlights every 4 months or so a little less so your root line isn't so noticeable. sooner or later you just have to let it go, live with it till it's all grown out.