A Glossary Guide for Silver Sisters

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During the first few weeks of my gray hair transition, I obsessively read everything I could find online about the transition process. Invariably I’d end up scratching my head in confusion at the surprising amount of jargon I encountered.

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Brush Stroke Balayage is one of the salon techniques that some women choose to make their transition to gray more seamless. Basically, it’s like a hand-painting technique to make your grays blend in while you grow them out. Foils are not used. Learn more

Blorange That brassy orange/red/copper color that appears when dyed brunette hair fades.

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Calico Multi-colored hair that occurs when you transition cold turkey and your hair becomes a nutty mix of dyed and natural shades.

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Demarcation Line The line that appears between your gray hair and your dyed hair. It’s more apparent if your dyed hair is brunette since the contrast between your gray roots and your dark roots can be stark.

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Silvers Interchangeable with “grays.”

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Highlights & Lowlights Farah Hurdle, of Maida Salon in San Diego, specializes in this treatment, which she uses to blend gray hair with dyed hair to help ease the transition to fully gray hair.

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