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How Diana Went From Dye to Gray

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Gray hair absolutely runs in my family at a young age. Both my parents went gray in their early twenties.

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Yeah. I’m fairly conservative, so I never really covered it with fun colors. I also worked in banking and had some other jobs where that wasn’t allowed.

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I did have highlights, I guess, in college and I’ve played around with that, but it was really just red highlights. I started dyeing the roots with permanent dye at 30.

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I was getting a very strong burning sensation when I would dye the roots of my hair.

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It just really got to a point where I was dyeing it every three to four weeks…I had thought about it, personally, for about two years before I finally said, “This is it. I need to do this for me.”

I happened upon a video by Suzan Barnes on YouTube, and she didn’t call the technique a name, so I’ve named it myself: the Dye Strip Technique.

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It ended up actually looking like peekaboo highlights, to be honest with you. The Dye Strip Method gave my hair so much dimension.

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That journey with a hairstylist can be very, very difficult. It can feel like a relationship breaking up with somebody and not returning text messages or calls.

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