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Thank gawd I stopped coloring the gray years ago or that would be me!!!!
MontanaMama
(23,242 posts)Dang it!
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I have dark hair, very dark, and some gray -- mainly in the front. I stopped covering the gray and I LOVE IT!!! Did this about 3 years ago at least.
Great smokey color is the result. IMO I think it softens my aging facial features. I am in my 70s. A friend of mine...two years younger...let her Lucile Ball red hair go gray and what a great change. Has hair that looks like Helen Mirren's -- same color and pageboy style.
Well, look at it this way: With self-isolation, who the hell is gonna see you anyhow????
MontanaMama
(23,242 posts)I dont even know how much gray have going on but this is the week I usually would have my hair cut and colored and I see it peeking through. I always said I would go gray once my kiddo was out of high school...dont know why I drew that line in the sand but whatever. Im an older mom...didnt have the child until I was 41...maybe its that all his friends moms are at least 15 years younger than I. Oh well...whats coming will come and we will meet it when it does.
spooky3
(34,303 posts)So how to look professional while my hair is a mess is a challenge. Have already stocked up on "root touch up" but I've never done it myself, so...
hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)regrowth.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Let me get another cup of coffee and wake up!
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)I have never colored my hair, so I'm becoming lighter blonde as the years go by.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)In the 1960s and 70s, living in California, it was a MUST to be blonde. So, I bleached my dark hair to a pale blonde.
You are right! Aging is making me the blonde I always wanted to be!!!
csziggy
(34,120 posts)She's been dying her hair since she was 16. No one remembers what her original hair color was - probably an ash brown like mine. I suspect she will consider hair color to be an essential supply and go out to buy some.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)since she was a teenager.
csziggy
(34,120 posts)I'm only a few years younger than her and I only have a few gray hairs mixed into the brown, Mom died at 97 and still had brown in her hair, so I think we both got some good hair color genes.
spooky3
(34,303 posts)with all the stockouts.
And who knows which color to buy???
csziggy
(34,120 posts)At over seventy, her bright blonde hair looks a little odd, though she still looks as if she's in her fifties. That's another thing Mom passed to us. In her mid-eighties, Mom looked twenty years younger than she was.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I had an appointment for a cut and coloring the week that the governor closed all non-essential businesses. My hair isnt that long but the top looks a lot like that. Ugh. Fortunately (in a weird way), there is no where to go.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I am picky about having my nails done. My shop is closed. All I can think about are those press on nails that come off at the worst moments possible.
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)Coventina
(26,874 posts)That would not be me.....
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)She looks lovely
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)At my age it's starting to look kind of phony to still have brown hair but I didn't want to go around in public with gray roots, eventually very obvious ones. But since nobody is going to see me for God knows how long, I might as well go for it. By next year or whenever, when I finally crawl out of my bunker, my hair will be long and gray - and if I can stick to my diet I will also be thin, or at least not fat. I will have undergone a metamorphosis; not so much a caterpillar turning into a butterfly but more of a caterpillar turning into a different kind of caterpillar.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Anyone with long gray hair IS beautiful.
BTW: I have long gray hair...just sayin'!
a kennedy
(29,467 posts)saying it as well. I love different shades of sterling.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)It's in fashion right now and I am guessing with the shut down, the fad is gonna last for quite a bit longer!
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)figured it was "meant to be" and never looked back.
dmr
(28,321 posts)I wish mine was like that. Truly, I do.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)I love her silver hair.