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You are so lucky. The building I live in now has hard water. It is really hard on my hair. I put coconut oil on it before I wash it & for that day, but the next morning it looks like a punk haircut. I wet it down & that works...but oh how I miss my hair!
For most of my life, on the rare occasion that I went to the salon I would tell the stylist 'Just do anything as long as it is "wash and wear."
Then I was treated for cancer.Before chemo, my SIL told me about a place that would make a wig that looked exactly like the original hair. I thought about my sparse and stringy hair and said "Why would I possibly want to do that?" And I immediately ordered a variety of 'Jaclyn Smith" wigs, and had a "good hair day" every day I wore one.
When my hair grew back, it initially looked like brillo pads, except brillo pads look better than my hair did. Eventually it grew in curly without being so frizzy [ original hair was fine and thin and stick straight] It also came back mostly an ugly yellowish grey.
So, now I dye it a golden blond, style it, blow it dry, use a curling iron,use a flat iron, sometimes wear the snap-in hair extensions. it is less than 6 months ago that I finally learned how to tease my hair at the crown, and I love doing that because the top of my head is unbelievably flat.
I also started wearing smoky eyeliner, and really, I don't look bad in the mirror, unless of course I forget to take off my 'readers" first.
There's another thread right now about old-lady hair, so I thought I'd start one on this subject.
So far I'm maintaining, i.e., no grey. I'm lucky that I'm fair, so, like my mother I've just been going blonder and blonder as time goes on, and I have been helping it along. So I'm a blonde, and quite comfortable with it. Every time I mention to my hair stylist the subject of allowing my hair to go grey, she says I'm too young and that it would age me. I'm 64, I flatter myself that I look young for my age.
At what age do you think a woman should allow her hair to go "natural"? I feel that I'll know when the time is right--I don't want to look silly or unnatural.
I'm 63 and "blond". I've always had blond hair either bleached from the sun, or I've had it colored. I've usually had a darker shade of blond with light blond highlights. So, when I started getting white hair (mine is white, not gray) it looked a bit like the light blond highlights. I have enough white hair now, that I need to color it. I do it myself and use a L'oreal hair color a couple of times a year. I should probably color my hair a bit more often, but it's a two color process, so twice a year is the most I'm willing to do. I'm not ready to go natural and have white hair. Maybe when I'm 80, but I feel like I'm too young still.
I'm 63 and "blond". I've always had blond hair either bleached from the sun, or I've had it colored. I've usually had a darker shade of blond with light blond highlights. So, when I started getting white hair (mine is white, not gray) it looked a bit like the light blond highlights. I have enough white hair now, that I need to color it. I do it myself and use a L'oreal hair color a couple of times a year. I should probably color my hair a bit more often, but it's a two color process, so twice a year is the most I'm willing to do. I'm not ready to go natural and have white hair. Maybe when I'm 80, but I feel like I'm too young still.
I totally understand if you are under retirement age. I didn't start letting my hair go gray until I was on Social Security and I no longer worked.
I quit dying my hair in my 50's. I've always been a dishwater blond and my gray came in white so at first it just looked like I had my hair done with highlights.
Oh how I envied my oldest brother who was born with the platinum blond hair. When the 60's long hair came in style thanks to the Beatles, my brother quit using the "greasy kid stuff". His hair no longer looked yellow, but now looked white -- and he got teased that he used "Lady Clairol". lol
There's another thread right now about old-lady hair, so I thought I'd start one on this subject.
So far I'm maintaining, i.e., no grey. I'm lucky that I'm fair, so, like my mother I've just been going blonder and blonder as time goes on, and I have been helping it along. So I'm a blonde, and quite comfortable with it. Every time I mention to my hair stylist the subject of allowing my hair to go grey, she says I'm too young and that it would age me. I'm 64, I flatter myself that I look young for my age.
At what age do you think a woman should allow her hair to go "natural"? I feel that I'll know when the time is right--I don't want to look silly or unnatural.
That sounds about right to me. You will also know, I think, when you just don't feel like going through the process of keeping your hair blonde anymore, and going "natural" seems like a great option to you.
I'm sort of in that same boat, although for me it's a light reddish-brown, and I do it myself. The color is close to (as much as I can remember, LOL) to my natural color and matches my skin tone (light with freckles), so I don't think it sticks out as a color that is too dark for this old lady. I'm 68, but told I look much younger, no doubt the hair color and texture helps that.
Still, the roots when they grow in, are grey to white. My dad had a full head of white hair, I would be lucky to have inherited that, and I have thoughts of letting the color go so I'd have white hair too-probably need help from Lady Clairol in that regard, and maybe professionally so I wouldn't end up as the proverbial blue-haired old lady ( by trying to color it myself). That and I am wondering what one does to avoid looking like a skunk with those grey roots when I am trying to let the color grow out.
So for the time being I'm still coloring the hair.
Couldn't you color your hair to match the gray roots, so when it grows out it is all the same color?
You can't color gray over darker hair, so that's out. I honestly don't think I'm a good candidate for gray hair. Many women are, but probably not me. I think you have to really look good in gray, otherwise color.
@riverbird... I started growing out my gray when I was 50 with the help of my hairdresser at the time. My hair was dark brown, almost black, and I had been coloring it for years. She did blond highlights mostly around my face and it fooled the eye. I remember liking the effect. It was hard to decipher the gray with the highlights. When it grew out, it was about 40% gray. It's now about 50%. I love it. A few years ago I tried reverse highlights where they put more dark in. I missed my gray and never did it again.
@riverbird... I started growing out my gray when I was 50 with the help of my hairdresser at the time. My hair was dark brown, almost black, and I had been coloring it for years. She did blond highlights mostly around my face and it fooled the eye. I remember liking the effect. It was hard to decipher the gray with the highlights. When it grew out, it was about 40% gray. It's now about 50%. I love it. A few years ago I tried reverse highlights where they put more dark in. I missed my gray and never did it again.
Hmmn, great idea...
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