Oh if I had enough hair length to bother I would do a bright purple in a heartbeat.
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Also known as the fifty-first shade.
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I had some gray in my mustache as soon as I was old enough to grow one, and my hair started showing signs of thinning out in my late thirties, but the gray didnāt really start to come in until I was over 50. Iām not going to bother with dyeā¦ just seems more trouble than itās worth.
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Cool! An act of liberation both from patriarchy and consumerism!
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Iāve got 5 white hairs in my left eyebrow. I refuse to pluck them because I feel like theyāre badges of honour for making it this far.
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Iāve always been a fan of salt & pepper hair, and people with naturally silver hair also look great 
if people feel better about themselves dying it more power to them but I would be too lazy to care
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True fact: the blue rinse used by (mostly) women with white hair is used to brighten the white (cf. bluing) so that it doesnāt look brassy/yellowed/dingy. It can range from unnoticeable (your hair looks so crisp and snowy!) to full-on lavender or blue.
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I read that as badgers of honour.
Congratulations to you (and the many others) for letting your face be your face. Our world needs more character and less homogeneous bland.
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grizzle1
ADJECTIVE
often in combination (of hair or fur) having dark and white hairs mixed.
Particularly whiskers.
@GRIZZLY
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I got my first gray hairs at 19 and colored my hair until I was 34, when I was pregnant. Let my natural color grow out, until one day, walking down the street with my then five year old, a stupid woman asked my son if he was having a nice walk with his granny. I foolishly and impulsively bought a box of hair color and dyed for another three or four years.
Now I have shoulder length white/gray hair and my biggest struggle is keeping my hair from turning yellow - special shampoos tend to dry out my hair so I can only use them sparingly, plus the water here is mega hard (we live in a rented apartment so I donāt know what kind of water softeners are an option for us). That being said, I love my natural hair color and wonāt add anything but temporary dyes from now on.
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Now, I realise that guys have it easier, that grey is acceptable, but I still sometimes think that dyeing your hair is in the same league as a combover. Not all coloured hair, and I am aware that it is my own bias, but that is the equivalent I always think of.
Me, I am going for the Mirror Universe Captain Picard look. Or sometimes the Retired Captain Picard on his vineyard look, depending on if I am full beard or just the van dyke. Letting my pate be bare, but I will be damned if I get rid of my whiskers.
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I wish my hair would go grey. Itās dark brown and I want to dye it crazy colours but I would have to bleach it first.
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Like a lot of Finns, Iāve got a sort-of dirty mid-blond hair, but my beardās darker. Now, thereās not a trace of gray in my hair (my dad didnāt get his first gray hairs until he was well in his sixties), but my beard is graying rapidly, especially on the cheeks and the sides of my chin. Itās gotten to the point where Iām actually starting to consider dyeing itā¦
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Power to you sister!
And to the guys out there who color their graying hairā¦it does not make you look younger. It just advertises your insecurity.
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Itās not a bathtub full of ājust for men,ā itās good genes.
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āOmbreā is āshadowā in French (probably from āumbraā in Latin), and āombrĆ©ā (something like āshadedā) is used in art to describe a gradation of color/shade.
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You can color your hair a shade of bright blue, green, or purple without bleach. That is what I am planning to do.
Right now I have a few grey hairs that I am not dying. I am an anime fan and am used to what used to be called crazy colors.
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Thatās been my dilemma. I donāt have greys coming in, theyāre white - perfect for Manic Panic! Sadly, theyāre coming in slow, and clash with my natural red-brown color. So, Iām experimenting with semi- and demi-permanent color until my roots are majority white. Then, Iām stripping all the color out so I can do a rotating rainbow of very unnatural colors. I figure this will happen close to my scheduled retirement time. Havenāt decided what Iāll do after retirement, but it wonāt be anything stodgy.
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Iāve got a salt and pepper beard (or, well, whatever the brown equivalent of pepper would be). The gray and white donāt show up so much on top of my head, though whenever I get a haircut itās quite apparent in the piles on the floor. Iāve never had any interest in coloring it.
My wife colors in a few different shades (one at a time, as strike her fancy), and has for many yearsāitās more about the overall effect than covering any gray.
The note about men being supportive and women being uncomfortable is an interesting one, and I certainly have no problem with grayāthe trend a little while back of younger women actively coloring their hair gray was one I found quite striking, and Iāve always liked the look of natural gray and white.
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Depends on the hair. Not everyone has northern European genes, you know.
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