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Someone ,somewhere is making a whole lot of profit from our hair !!

Me i do - we inherited grey genes - my dad was nearly white when he was 37!!
i've been doing mine about 14 years religiously - in fact did it today!!!
carol xx

Wow - didn't think this thread would be so long!

im only 22 and get a lil grey here and there (alot of my family go grey at a young age) so i dye my hair.

ive had my hair alsorts of colours
streaks at different times,
pink
post box red
blue
purple
green,
blonde
i have only ever dyed my hair black or medium brown.

when im older i will not dye my hair, but while im young i will, i love having my hair fun colours. x

I think that I have coloured my hair just about every colour known to have come out of a bottle or a packet. I have decided to go `au natural` now and even my hairdresser comments on my `silver hair` and how nice it looks.
I am all for people helping nature but have decided enough for me now and as long as the cut is a good one I am happy.

Love and Peace
Marianne.x

I started late teens, as my hair had darkened, and I preferred the reddish blonde it used to be. Kept it up till about 10 years ago, when i decided, the silver is part of who I am and as Deb said I have earned every one of the grey hairs. I have also been told it softens my face, suits my skin tone. I'm happy being me. If someone else doesn't like it (like my ex who told me he had married a redhead and that's what he wanted me to be - the red had come out of a bottle). I suppose part of going grey was accepting myself, but another part was getting back at him for his derogatory comments. he should talk, he has a bald pate LOL.
I say colour your hair if you like to,it's your body, your rights. For me it's about accepting of change & being happy as you are.
mary

I actually think Grey Hair can look lovely on some people,I know a lady who has the most beautiful grey bob and her hair is in excellent condition.
I just think its down to choice:-))

I don't remember my mother being anything but grey (white) she went grey early she woul;d have been 100 in November my hair is just as grey now underneath it is still very dark. my sister dyes her hair and i really wonder how grey her hair is. I do think about having it dyed but I worry about having it done really would not know what colour to go.


Margaret x

I am proud to have "Arctic Blonde" hair...aka grey :))
I'm told that it softens my face, and isn't as harsh as the blonde streaks and highlights I used to have.

My hairdresser refuses to dye my hair. He said that he would gladly take my money, but, I would have to get it dyed every three weeks because I'm solid white/silver around my face.

Beside that, as I pointed out to my kids, I earned every single one.

Deb

OKAY WHAT COLOUR I HAVE HAD

AT ONE TINME
8 SHADES RED
8 BLONDE TO COPPER

ALL STREAKED THROUGH

SINCE XMAS I ALTERNATE
BKACKCOSMIC WITH BLUE
"""".......................WITH PURPLE



ITS FUN

Alice,

I have depression and am begining to feel a liitle better in myself ... I have started to colour my hair to give myself a bit more self esteem and a bit of a boost. I had spent over two years not caring how I looked (part of the depression).

Viv
xxx

Good point, Alice. (Says me, aged 23!) You just got me thinking of Andie McDowell on the L'Oreal advert - she claims the hair dye covers her grey hair, but it's amazing how we never see the "before" shots.

And they say people are living longer so there are more older people. (My mum has been grey - sort of - since she was somewhere between 37 and 40. She jokingly says it was my sister's babyhood that did it! But my mum's late brother had the same colouring of hair as she does - some bits are whitish grey, others mid-grey and yet at the very back of her head some hair is still black. She calls it the "salt and pepper" colouring.)

started dying hair at about 19 when streaks where in fashion used to sit with plastic bag on head whilst mum used a crochet hook to pull hair through, grandad told me i looked like a badger


dyed it orange when 24 by mistake, went to hairdressers and had it cut off and dyed blonde, big mistake looked like a ghost.


on and off over the years have coloured it and now do it to cover the grey.

tried all types of shampoo and conditioner and spent a fortune tried redken and other salon products but the best i've tried is aussie my hairdressers always comments on how soft my hair is and then tries to flog me the salon stuff but i stick to aussie,

I am A GREY'S R US did colour mine in my teens and twenties with Rimel 1/9p a bottle so you can guess how old i am Valxxx

whos been talking???

its all lies

i will sue anyone who says different

*flicks blonde hair and flonces off thread*

Started to colour my hair (streaks) at 15 when I left school and became an apprentice hairdresser.

At 16 I found a few grey hairs but didn't worry about them. From 15 to about 39 I was every colour and style imaginable. I had a natural white streak at the front (like the Mallen Streak) and I began to get fed up with colouring my hair.

About six months ago I started to colour my hair again as at 51 with 70% grey/white hair I was looking very haggard. I use Ash Blonde non-permanent and use a shampoo and conditioner especially for blonde hair to help preserve the colour.
I only redo it when I cut my hair (every 6-8 weeks) as I wear my hair very short.

If anyone needs any advice I was a hairdresser for several years.
Viv

I don't colour my hair now; in my twenties and thirties, I had highlights and lowlights.

Too many to pull them out now, so I dye it! Been all colours over the years, but quite dark now, Trouble is after three weeks I have a silver line down the parting

i clour mine too

started going grey in my twentys, i blame my mum, she went grey early too.

used to have it done at hairdressers but got too expensive so i do it myself with OH help ( to see if i've missed any bits )

sshh i'm nearly 51 but keep it to yourselves!!!

x

I first Coloured my hair at 14 with Henna:-)) Im Now 48.
Now I use a chemical dye,I so wish I could use Henna again but I dont fancy being Orange:-))lol