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Boomer 09-01-2020 06:13 AM

Has 2020 changed your attitude about your real hair color?
 
I am using this opportunity to let my roots grow out.

In my past life, I was in the hair chair every 4 or 5 weeks.

I can’t tell yet if it my hair is gray or silver or white. But it looks like whatever color it is, it is solid. I am rooting for silver.

Has anyone else found this new hobby?

charlieo1126@gmail.com 09-01-2020 07:25 AM

The 5 woman friends I know couldn’t wait to get back in the chair when things opened up, none were fans of the natural color. I guess they’ll be forever blonde

asianthree 09-01-2020 09:13 AM

No, both of us don’t use chemicals to alter appearance. One silver, other light brown/ blond highlights from sun. Gray doesn’t run in one family even in their 80s

Carla B 09-01-2020 09:21 AM

At about age fifty, I had to choose between color and getting perms to manage my cursed extremely fine hair, since I couldn't do both without a major case of frizz. I chose perms. So I never concerned myself with color and, in fact, have liked the gradual transition from mousy to off white. Now, due to Covid 19, it's been over a year since the last perm and my hair is almost long enough to part in the middle and pull back in a knot. At least that will get it out of my face. Until I feel safe submitting to a perm in a salon, my style will be that of the woman in the "American Gothic" painting.

Velvet 09-01-2020 10:32 AM

I’ve always used a gentle non ammonia highlight. Ordered a dozen from Amazon because when we went into lockdown they stop making it so there were shortages. Now I have a years supply. But I have considered going more grey - if I have to. I stopped going to salons decades ago, after they fried my hair with coloring a couple of times.

RedChariot 09-01-2020 10:41 AM

Took this opportunity to go to what is turning out to be silver/white. Almost all of the dyed color has been cut out. Shorter than I like on me but allowed this trying to get rid of the brown. I'm embracing my white hair and my advanced age.

Velvet 09-01-2020 10:48 AM

Many TV ladies are going to be fairer after this pandemic... :)

kathyspear 09-01-2020 11:08 AM

I have short layered hair that I get cut and colored every four weeks like clockwork. The shutdown happened the day before my March appointment. I wanted to cry. :) Three months later I got a quick cut (I was still a bit nervous about spending 1.5 hours in the salon for color, not sure how crowded it would be, etc.) and then a month later I did cut and color. By then I had about an inch and a half of white/silver in front and on top (back still lots of brown). That was enough for me. Never want to see more than 1/4" of non-red hair on my head! I don't do nails, massages, or spend a lot on clothes. My hair is my one splurge.

kathy

DeanFL 09-01-2020 11:27 AM

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Robyn1963 09-02-2020 05:52 AM

Gray is the New Blonde
 
Not sure why all the young girls are coloring their hair gray, it will get there soon enough.

I will not let my roots grow out I go between blonde and brown with a lot of highlights.

I buy the root touchup spray can it gives me an extra week or two before I have to go back to the salon.

Sunflower33 09-02-2020 06:23 AM

Mine are white and I love it. I started growing it out in April and I’m half way there. I love it and so do my friends. A good change

taruffi57 09-02-2020 06:24 AM

At around age 50, my wife could see the coloring damage to her hair. Stopped the coloring. Just turned 55 and it's soft, healthy, long, and silver. Fine with me.

La lamy 09-02-2020 07:01 AM

I'm the opposite. I never colored my hair because of chemicals, but I decided to change things up this summer and tried to get some blond out of my medium brown hair. Tried one box of blond and NOTHING happened. Tried another one a week later and left it in longer than they said and just got reddish. Oh well... My hair is adamant about staying natural!

Karen M 09-02-2020 07:18 AM

Has 2020 changed your attitude about your real hair color?
 
We bought an electric smoker. Thinking it takes time, and requries the meats to be tended to often in the day. Also, it is a nice hobby for both of us to enjoy.

chrissy2231 09-02-2020 07:32 AM

I have several friends who did it. No matter what, they look older than when color was used.

ellenwelsh 09-02-2020 07:34 AM

I let mine grow out. Went through transitions of blue (I thought it would be close to gray) then really light blonde with a couple shades of blonde and now it’s it’s own color. It became silver with dark around the edges.

merrymini 09-02-2020 07:39 AM

Did not wait for a pandemic. Let it grow out years ago. The best thing I ever did!

jgmroc67 09-02-2020 07:55 AM

After 25 years of coloring my brunette hair, I was so surprised to see it growing in white/silver...I love it & get a surprising amount of compliments. Love it that I don’t have to watch “that line” coming in and spend hours “in the chair“...a good thing that came out of Covid for me...

Yjacket74 09-02-2020 08:36 AM

Tried it 5 years ago when I retired and my hair was mousy gray on top (due to a gray streak) and sporadic gray throughout the rest of the head. not only did it look horrible but it made me look older. Have colored it ever since. I agree with others that gray hair ages you.

kendi 09-02-2020 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1826493)
I am using this opportunity to let my roots grow out.

In my past life, I was in the hair chair every 4 or 5 weeks.

I can’t tell yet if it my hair is gray or silver or white. But it looks like whatever color it is, it is solid. I am rooting for silver.

Has anyone else found this new hobby?

Stopped coloring my hair 5 years ago. Eased into the change with temporary color until the permanent color grew out. Never liked taking the time to get it done. Told my hair dresser It was like uncovering a work of art that had been painted over. I’d much rather embrace the changes that life brings than hide it. Too many have fallen for the lies of the beauty industry that one has to forever look young.

kendi 09-02-2020 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by chrissy2231 (Post 1827084)
I have several friends who did it. No matter what, they look older than when color was used.

Help me to understand please, what’s wrong with looking older?

tophcfa 09-02-2020 09:29 AM

No change for me, I have been a q-tip for several years now. However, my wife stopped having her hair colored and I think she looks great. It will be a few more months before her hair becomes 100% natural color and I can’t wait until our colors are a natural match again like they were Many Many years ago : )

asianthree 09-02-2020 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Yjacket74 (Post 1827128)
Tried it 5 years ago when I retired and my hair was mousy gray on top (due to a gray streak) and sporadic gray throughout the rest of the head. not only did it look horrible but it made me look older. Have colored it ever since. I agree with others that gray hair ages you.

So no positive support in your life, so sad. All of my sister-in-laws were grey in early twenties. Have also had a positive attitude, never felt gray aged them. Now in there 50s, still same gray, and beautiful

JoeinFL 09-02-2020 09:46 AM

New hobby?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1826493)
I am using this opportunity to let my roots grow out.

In my past life, I was in the hair chair every 4 or 5 weeks.

I can’t tell yet if it my hair is gray or silver or white. But it looks like whatever color it is, it is solid. I am rooting for silver.

Has anyone else found this new hobby?

Well, I’ve been shaving my head for years. So, no new hobby here.
But, I will root (no pun intended) for yours to be silver. :)

Bmillard11 09-02-2020 10:08 AM

I let mine grow out and I love it. Also, love not having roots touched up every 5 weeks. It’s so much nicer than having the little stripe that appears about the one month mark. I get lots of compliments too.

OhioBuckeye 09-02-2020 10:10 AM

Ohiobuckeye
 
HUH, I know you ladies might like this to comment on, but really!

ts12755 09-02-2020 10:13 AM

Eventually most women give up on life and cut their hair like a little boy and let it go gray and despise sex. . So I don't think it's 2020 you probably just got to that age.

Marita Koziar 09-02-2020 10:13 AM

When I was 65, I decided enough of the hair color. I used to go every 4 weeks for a cut & color. When I told my hair stylist I was going to let it grow out, he said “You’re not going to like it!” He was wrong, I love it! He later said “you were right, it looks beautiful! I feel fortunate to have Snow White hair. It is so easy, no more chemicals! Go fo it! You can always go back to coloring if you don’t like it.

Doro22 09-02-2020 11:02 AM

Well my roots started coming in, and the length started getting too long & stringy. I went back to doing my own roots, which was fine. But, alas what about my haircut?!? I went on u-tube & watched many videos which were a great help with lots of pro tips. So then I had hubby watch and we ordered professional scissors from Amazon. He has cut my hair 2x now and it looks pretty good. Oh...& he also does the hi-lites now. One neighbor said: “looks as good as when you were going to the salon.” Umm...don’t know if that’s good or bad. Lol.

geobet 09-02-2020 12:00 PM

Hair color
 
After retiring and living in The Villages for a year, I decided to stop coloring my hair, as I too was in the hair chair every 4-5 weeks. Thanks to the daily pool and Florida sun, the hair only looked good 2 of those weeks. My hairdresser added some frosting as my hair grew out so it was less noticeable. That was 15 yrs ago. One of the best decisions I made and no one said it made me look older. Go. For it!

GreySkies 09-02-2020 12:29 PM

Natural Redhead, for whatever reason, even in my mid-late 50's absolutely NO gray hairs have shown up.... anywhere...

Keysers 09-02-2020 01:24 PM

I always covered my grey with a semi- permanent color to keep it chocolate brown. I hated the stark difference as it grew it out so I had the excess color professionally removed after the salons opened back up. Now it is a honey blond because the dye still left some color but the line is not so stark. I love the change! Turns out I am going to be pretty white!

Juliebythesea 09-02-2020 02:31 PM

One of the most liberating things I have ever done! I let my hair go natural 12 years ago, it's not below my shoulders and a snowy white/silver/gray color.
During COVID I also broke the fake nail habit, over 40 years of wearing them.
Never felt better!

golfgirl1031 09-02-2020 03:05 PM

I'm doing the same! Last color was March 3. Am liking the color growing in - mostly silver, so I'm going to keep going to see what color it really turn out!

Boomer 09-02-2020 06:25 PM

In Nora Ephron’s book, I Feel Bad About My Neck And Other Thoughts On Being A Woman, there is a chapter titled “On Maintenance.” There are subtitles within the chapter. Half of those have to do with hair: “Hair” “Hair Dye” “Unwanted Hair.”

tanzicakes 09-02-2020 08:48 PM

I had started letting my natural color grow in before COVID appeared. I colored my hair for years but got tired of the upkeep. Been surprised that I wasn't as gray/white as I had anticipated. My 90 year old mom still has most of her natural brunette color so I must take after her. Am loving the freedom of natural hair.

Boomer 09-03-2020 08:53 AM

I In my past life, keeping up with my roots required a 3-step process — retouch at the roots — foils for highlights (highlights that looked like threads, not stripes) and adding clear for shine.

If I am understanding all that correctly, I think what happens is the bleach used for the highlights roughs up the cuticle of the hair but then the clear calms it down and restores shine.

I don’t know for sure if that’s how that process works. But I do know that a gifted hairstylist has to be part artist and part chemist.

It took a lot of work to not look like I had a dye-job.

A couple of years ago, I started having the highlights brought up lighter and lighter. That was when I started having my brows tinted with a little of the base color that was used for the root retouch. My eyebrows had been quietly turning white so my hairstylist talked me into letting her color them. I am glad she did.

I will continue with the brow-tinting, even if I let my hair go natural. One concern I have had about going natural is that I will look washed out. The brow tinting seems like it helps the eye area to be more defined — especially after I put on a little eyeliner and mascara. Who remembers putting on eyeliner and mascara? (sigh)

Boomer


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