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A Guide for Silver-Haired Beauties

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Silver Sisters The online and real-life community of women who have chosen to embrace their gray hair.

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Silvers Interchangeable with “grays.”

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Reverse Ombré 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.

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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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Grombre 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.”

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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WHAT SHADE OF EYEBROW LOOKS BEST ON YOU?

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

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