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I guess I’m ahead of the game on this one: I started going grey at age eighteen and I kid you not. The greys started out as a few rogue strands in the front of my face and have gradually evolved into a nice smattering all over my head. Where the initial “rogue strands” appeared, I now have a full-blown grey streaka’la Stacy London of What Not To Wear.
I suppose that’s good news for me, as far as the implementation of new trends. According to recent quips from Alex Brownsell, high-end hair stylist in the UK, grey hair is now in vogue. She states that many individuals who sought the uber-blonde look over the past few years or so have taken it a step further and are now requesting that hairdressers country-wide are taking it a step further in processing — gorgeous grey.
Neil Moody of Bumble and Bumble (my all-time favorite hair product line) states that while men have always been viewed as “distinguished” in their greyness, it’s shown women in a less positive light and pegs them to be growing old. Pixie Geldof is pictured at the left – with her gorgeous complexion and rocker makeup, I see no signs of premature aging there.
What do you guys think? Too cutting-edge for you or would you try to rock the granny look? I, for one, completely dig that women are embracing the grey and not only just that — but vying for it.
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I’m all for women with grey hair to rock their locks, why not? It’s a sign of age and maturity and if you can pull it off it’s absolutely ah-mazing, but from a certain age. My mum is 52 but looks much younger and grey hair wouldn’t suit her. I would never dye my hair grey, and I think most young people wouldn’t pull it off – too hard! However, each to their own :) I’m thinking of dying my head deep ginger :D :D
Mireee, you would look great with dark red hair! It looks as though you have the skin to pull it off!
I, too, started going grey pretty early. I’m 25 now, but I started seeing silver (literally, bright, shining silver) at about 22-23. I am not a hair-dyer, haven’t done that in about 4 or 5 years, but I may have to pretty soon! Don’t know how long I can sport that silver skunk stripe down the side of my head!!! :)
Also, I applaud anyone who can go grey confidently and proudly! Good for them! Aging gracefully has unfortunately seemed to be put on the backburner these days, so more power to those who can and will do it!!!
Thanks!! :) I dyed my hair ginger last year and I was well happy with it, I might do it again for Christmas :D
I think you should! Best of luck, hope it looks great! :)
Ginger? As in bright orange or dark red? I dyed my hair red once and it came out almost PINK. Self coloring is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get!
I just dyed my own hair for the first time in about 10 years. I was scared to death until my hair dried. Luckily it looks awesome.
It was home colouring and I think it looked just fine :) maybe I’d like to go a bit fairer though! http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs009.snc1/2880_85201886262_601256262_2215349_6885948_n.jpg
I’m with you, Whit. I started going grey very, very early (around 11, though I was born with a silver streak). Rather than dye my hair repeatedly (causing damage, costing money, and being a major pain in the ass) I’ve opted to just grey naturally.
The silver strands don’t both me in the least, and they certainly don’t prevent people from assuming I’m younger than I am. I think they add a nice bit of sparkle to my natural colour.
Hmmm…I’ve been having my hair colored since my 20’s. At that time it wasn’t to cover the grey, it was because my natural color became quite mousy. I have no idea how much grey I have, but I suspect quite a bit. I’ve been telling my hairdresser that I want to go au natural for some time now. I’m quite interested in how much grey I have. She is dead against it. Probably because she would loose business?
Definitely because she’d lose business. Also, you can buy the “at-home” coloring kits that work just as well, at less than a quarter of the price… I would check it out and just see what your hair is like now. If it’s still mousy (which isn’t terrible–I’m sure you could rock it!), and you don’t like it, try adding some low-lights. You could keep your base color but just jazz it up a bit!
I’m all for aging naturally but I think dying your hair grey is a bit ridiculous. I think it’s because most women naturally go grey as they age so dying your hair grey is pretending you’re part of another demographic. It’s kinda like white people wearing blackface make up, obviously not as serious but that same sort of pretending to be someone you’re not thing.
I also don’t like old women dying their hair. I don’t mind it when you’ve got a smattering of grey and you’re just dyeing back to your natural color but when you have women who are clearly old enough to be grey and they’re still dyeing their hair I think it looks ridiculous.
Comparing it to blackface? Really? Going by your previous logic, it would be a lot less offensive than THAT. More like a middle aged woman wearing low rise jeans or a Twilight t-shirt than returning to Jim Crow era race relations, really.
Ewww… Now I’m picturing the middle age woman wearing low cut jeans and a Team Edward shirt…
And unfortunately, it happens much too often for that to be a throwaway joke. D :
It seems to me that (at least for younger people who don’t have grey yet or look old enough to have grey) it’s not trying to look older so much as dyeing the hair a fun color, like purple or blue.
Exactly. I dyed my hair black with gray streaks once. The preceding hair color was vermillion red, and the following one was tie-dyed purple. It was just a punk thing. I always wanted to go full gray, but getting my hair blonde enough for it to work without it falling out proved too difficult.
No offense Sarah, but a bottle of hair dye is your friend. Grey=old. Don’t like it on anyone, not even men.
Just my opinion!
The grayer I get,the more I appreciate accordion music.
And prune Juice? lol…
I don’t know Peggy, but for whatever reason grey on men is can be quite hmmm…..
I might try it.
I was a blond in the 80’s and I liked it a lot. How different could grey look?
I’ll post before and after pictures hahaha!
Haha let’s do it together along with my brown to ginger transition!! Zelda Lily should totally do a post about us dyeing our hair – “get to know your fellow commenters” or “bringing together people in different continents” or something like that, just as a fun treat over the holidays lol
Deal!
I want Sasha to go red. With her blue eyes it would look so pretty.
Let’s get Sasha to do a video too! haha
It just looks kinda ashy and colorless. Not like natural gray hair at all. Silver would look awesome, but this is just too ashy.
I think unnatural colours are just silly looking. She just looks like she’s wearing a wig in this photo.
But then, I’m a very natural-only person, and I know others enjoy random strange colours for fun.
I’ve never dyed my hair, and see no reason too. If I start going grey when I’m forty or something, I think I’d be fine to just let it go naturally.
If I start going grey before I’m thirty, I am a little more uncertain. My mother did, so it’s a reasonable possibility. I’m not sure I’d want to have something so aging while still young.
I think the girl in the photo is young enough that it’s obviously weird. she looks what, fourteen? I think for people over 25 or something fake-grey hair might start to be as aging as real-grey hair.
Eh. I wouldn’t do it under any circumstances, but the model looks super cute, and it’s a sure sight better than fake platinum blonde. Or worse, fake blonde with random patches of black in the back. *shudder*
I turned 40 this year and have had silver streaks (naturally) since I went through puberty. Also, my left eyebrow and eyelashes are white. I’ve been trying to find someone to do my hair silver for over a year now–not the whole thing, but enough to make the natural silver look more deliberate.
Hair color is like make-up. It should be for fun.
See, I don’t find makeup fun either. But for those who do, I think the comparison exists.
i too started greying at around 18…except, no big chunks for me. i have random, PURE WHITE hairs that tend to stick up straight. if they bug me i pluck them. also when i get my orange streaks re-done every few months (i’m a natural brunette, i do bleached highlights and then henna to color) i have my friend try and get as many whites as she can within the streaks! i’m just not ready to embrace it…i’m only 22! my older brother, who’s almost 26, is rocking the greying sides of his head though. makes him look “distinguished” while it makes me look weird.
my mom keeps threatening to let hers go (she’ll be 60 in february) but i ask her not to…to me she’s not old but if she lets it go she’ll look it! plus, i *hate* the skunk look, it seems so sloppy to me. i suppose someday she’ll get totally fed up with dying and let it go and i’ll accept it (sadly).
My nan refuses to be full-on grey/white, so she has multi-coloured streaks put in her hair. My favourite are the pink ones.
My nan rocks it out at 74.
More related to the article, I had a teacher that had been grey since her teens and she looked fabulous with it. She had it cut in a short, punky kind of style and it totally worked on her. Not sure if that’s to do with the colour or her personality though – I think it’s like any hair colour; some people can handle it and some can’t.
I’ve been going grey since I was 21. I plucked them at first, but I’ve given up on that. If it weren’t for the pain of growing it out afterward, I might try this. Heck, I might look good sporting the grey look.
Wow, there are a lot of premature grays here. I didn’t realize it was so common.
I’m a natural brunette, and I don’t *think* I’ll be going gray anytime soon (my mom didn’t start going gray until she was nearly fifty; her mom was around the same age as well). Will I let it go naturally when I do? I don’t know. Maybe it will depend on how I look overall–wehther I have wrinkles or anything like that. I think it’s too early to make a call on that issue!
I saw a girl at the DMV one day who was MAYBE 20, wearing a micro-mini, stilettos and long grey hair (obviously dyed). I thought it looked absolutely horrible. I am so surprised to see this article about it being trendy. I thought it was a one-off where someone was just trying way too hard to be cutting edge and FAILED.
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Sweet! I stopped dying my hair last year. I’m 30 and working on my gray streak.
Love the look of the all-gray hair on younger women, although I don’t think I’d go so far as to dye mine gray. I think it really looks better on shorter haircuts and I’m not ready to cut my hair that short!