I first discovered grey hair at age 14 in my grade 9 health class.
A classmate named Sue saw it and exclaimed, “You have a grey hair!”
I made her pull it out. I didn’t feel too much anything about finding it, as I recall.
My family and friends never, ever said a thing about my having grey hair. Never said, “it looks awful,” “it looks good,” “you should color it over”, or “why don’t you leave it?”
I have been colouring my hair religiously for 30 years, with a break around the age of 33-34 when my hair was super short. This period of not colouring didn’t last long!
When April 2018 rolled around, I kept rescheduling my appointment until I finally realized that I just didn’t want to do this anymore and canceled outright.
You could call it going cold turkey when I stopped. But my artificial colour is blonde and it’s actually transitioning quite nicely, not too stark and I get lots of compliments on how pretty the tones are.
Quitting Hair Dye Cold Turkey: Transitioning from Blonde to Gray Hair
I think once you’re fully grey/silver, use whatever products suit you. I believe the key is to get stuff that suits your own hair texture because once that looks amazing, so will your silvers.
If you don’t have a great cut for your hair, that’s when you will for sure look dowdy and old. It’s not the silver that does us in – it’s a dumpy haircut.