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Yes I do, but stick to my natural colour as far as possible. Luckily my eyebrows are still dark brown, so I stick to that shade - don't want to end up looking like Alastair Darling, lol!!

Oh yes, SS - the 'badger brows' - I have those too!
I have considered the brow colouring you can get for men!! I've never plucked my eyebrows, just tidied them up so they're quite full (though nothing like Denis Healey!! LOL)

I had jet black when I was young, and saw my first white hair at 18. With each child, my skin colouring got paler and more white hairs appeared. By the time I was in my thirties I started colouring my hair, in various shades of mahogany and burgundy, not only to cover the grey - but because I could!! It's impossible to colour black hair unless you 'strip ' it first and that was too much trouble.
I did go back to grey a few years ago - just to see how grey I was - but it looked so dirty and drab I went back to dyeing it.
As for the time - an hour every 6 weeks - and my hair is always in much better condition after dyeing than before!

maggie

*jumps up and down*

Me Christine, I'm younger too...only 49!

I started colouring mine to hide the grey about 3 years ago, but used to occassionally use Harmony when I was younger. Last did it about 4 weeks ago when I used one of those multi tonal ones for the first time. Youngest did the highlights, but we used a dying cap instead of the brush and it turned out very well.
(I'm 48 and 51 weeks)

Glad you asked who colours their hair. If you had asked who DOESN'T colour their hair this thread would be on page 10 by and you would be thinking everyone is ignoring you LOL

I do Penny, Im 42 now and began at about 37. But I had quite a bit of grey before,Im very dark and its genetic.

Caz xxx

I'm *whispers* nearly 59 and have had my mousy blonde hair highlighted for years but when I lost it all to chemotherapy last year the damn stuff came back as grey as dust! And curly.

Hotfooted it to the hairdresser as soon as decently possible and had an ammonia-free colour put on it - gives the impression of blonde highlights. Have since had the curls cropped off, so I am sporting a short pixie style at the moment. Posh Spice copied me!

Grey....NO WAY!

Dee
x

Me - can't stop getting older but refuse to go grey !!!!
Love Mary xx

Couldn't be *rsed.Used to put a rinse on in my teens but I really couldn't be bothered with all that root touching up and stuff.

been dying mine for years. Now aged 40 and have to do roots every three weeks. Very dark hair so look like a scunk if roots aren't done.

i'm 39 and can see grey coming oh nooooo.

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

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!!!

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

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

whos been talking???

its all lies

i will sue anyone who says different

*flicks blonde hair and flonces off thread*

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

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,

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.)