When you are talking with people about your hair, you might not know all the terms yet. If you are new, you might be a lost sheep about all the words out there
Balayage is one of the salon techniques that some women choose to make their transition to gray more seamless. This article explains balayage better than I ever could.
Multi-colored hair that occurs when you transition cold turkey and your hair becomes a nutty mix of dyed and natural shades.
Most of us use the term “calico” due to calico cats, but I saw a lady on a post who compared her hair to an Australian Wild Dog!
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.
Grombre is a term coined by Martha Truslow Smith (founder of the Grombre Instagram account) and it is used to describe hair with gray roots and darker ends. It’s a play on the word “ombré.”
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.
This is what happens when your gray hair grows out, and the dyed hair at the end is much darker than the natural gray hair at the top of your head. Bek’s lovely transition photos show you the progress of her reverse ombré.