When your hair starts to turn gray, will you dye it or let it be?

I hope mine comes in a few strands at a time and not all at once so I don't have a weird color line as it grows out.

I reckon I'll let it be (I have the Beatles in my head now :lol:). I've a long time to decide though.

I'm sure yours will look lovely, however it comes in. :flower:

I don't really qualify, as I've been "turning gray" for about 10 years, and nope - no dye for me. I love the silvery-blonde color I'm getting. It definitely showed up a few threads at a time. Now I have thousands. I have quite a few mid-to-dark blonde hairs still sprouting out of my scalp, too.

I won't cover my greys. I don't plan to color anymore, anyway. I saw a lady in a store today. She had beautiful brown hair with individual grey hairs through out. It was breath-taking. I want that!

I colored it for 25 years. Now I'm delighted with having let my natural color come out.

I have no idea what I will do! I think it depends on if it suits me or not. If it doesn't I'd dye it with natural dye.

I am going through this now. I colored first and couldnt stand the demarcation and fade and chemicals and damage. Now I have switched to henna and love the highlighted grays and that is helping me get use to seeing them there. Now I am going to transition to cassia because as I get grayer the hennaed gray hair will be oranger and thats not going to look right. So it is a gradual process for me. Right now its coming in in streaks with more at the temples.

I already do dye my hair and will continue too . I have grey bits coming through and have for a few years. :)

I'd love to have silver hair, so nope :)

I'm about 10% gray, but right now I'm into having indigo'd black hair. When I get to have 50% or more gray I might let it grow out.

I voted no, but I feel like I need to explain.

Part of my family is blessed with hair that goes an absolutely gorgeous true silver rather than grey or white. I lucked out and got those genes. They seem to come bundled with the genes that put off the whole turning-grey thing too (and a few genes that I could do without, but that's another topic). I have some, yes, but only a light sprinkling. I currently dye my hair with henna, not because the grey bothers me; I just love my henna-color. When I get enough silver in there to be mostly silver, I will cease dying it as I think it will look spectacular with my coloring. That being said, judging by various family members who also have the silver (yes, it's actually a trait that we comment on), I could be waiting awhile.

Certainly not. The faster I get to potentially silver hair, the better.

I hope mine comes in a few strands at a time and not all at once so I don't have a weird color line as it grows out.

The color line is just in a different direction! It is noticeable when in a tail; I call them my "racing stripes"!

I have no idea what I will do! I think it depends on if it suits me or not.

:agree: That's why I voted cheese.
It will depend on when they start coming, and how.
I'll decide what to do when the time comes, and I'll probably change my mind about it over the years and try different things. :)

I voted no but of course I reserve the right to change my opinion in 30 years. :lol: My parents went grey rather than white, so if that happens to me as well, I might consider coloring. In addition to that, I doubt that grey hair would suit my colortype, but we'll see.
At the moment, I love the silver hairs I'm getting here and there and I hope for a streak of silvery white hairs. They're so pretty as the sparkle in the light so that you don't notice the hair at all you just see the sparkle. That's nice and I want more of them!

I'm going to do the naughty thing and turn the length gray/white too. >.>


I'm quite aware my hair will be damaged after this, but I don't want to wait for the discoloration to fade or what have you. Plus, it'll still be less damaged than my hair is now. xD

Yes, I've colored it ever since my silvers started coming in years ago.

I'm undecided yet... depends on my age when it turns gray.
If it starts the next years, yes. If it is brown until 60, no.

Anything in between will be considered.

I dye my gray already. My gray isn't a pretty shade. If it were I might be more tempted to let it go natural. I have a lot sprouting right now. But, as soon as I get done with chemo I plan on taking care of those puppies!

Gray hairs would only be a better excuse for me to henna! :)

No dye for me thank you

I colored my hair once, long ago, and Never want to again, until I turn grey. I have always said , I love my natural color and I will not color my hair ever again until it turns grey. I guess I will see what I will actually do when the time comes.

I love silver hair so no, I won't be using dye when I start to gray.

-Firefly

Nope. I decided a long time ago that when my hair color decided it was going to say farewell I would accept it gracefully. :)

I have a few silver strands now that have refused the henna coloring, so I think next time I do my roots I'm gonna pick them out so as not to color them red. :D I voted cheese though, since I don't know yet. By the time I get more grey hairs, I'll be back to my natural dark/medium blond and silver will go nicely. But if it's not, I reserve the right to color it until it goes entirely silver/white.

I've always had a very light champagne blonde color to my hair, so, when I do go grey, it probably won't be as noticable on me as it looks so light, anyway.

No no no! I really, really want long, totally grey hair when I'm older. I don't think I'm actually going to get it; neither my mum, nor my nana are very grey. But I can dream.
I'd never colour my hair. For me it would contradict all my efforts to accept myself for what I am.

My family has salt and pepper type grey,but I still prefer the look of red hair. I think I'll be using henna until the day I die, but who knows... :)

I have never colored my hair. I used lemon juice in the sun when I was younger, but that is pretty much it. My SIL found my first gray hair a few months ago. I may decide to color it someday, but only if I found a natural colorant that I like. I know you can use coffee, walnut shells, clove buds, henna, etc. Not now for me.

I'll wait for a while and see if I like the look of it. If not, I'll dye it.

I voted no. My mum is nearly sixty and still has her natural colour. She is showing one or two silvers now though. She's never touched it with dye.

So yes, Im hoping I have inherited her colour genes, the alternative is...unthinkable.

I just love the way silver hair looks, especially the pewter-silver color that black or ashy dark brown hair types can turn into. I can't wait for mine to turn significantly grey, but if my mom is any indication it will be a long time. She's less than 50% grey and she's in her 60s. Also, I understand that I'll never get the shade of silver that I truly love, because of my natural hair color. However, it will be just one more color in the rainbow for my head of hairs, and I'm ok with that. :shrug:

I can certainly understand why many folks like the idea of dyeing, at least in the beginning. However, I wouldn't want to dye forever, and I never plan on cutting. So, to avoid having any visible line of demarcation while growing out, I plan to let it all happen naturally.

Nonononono
In fact, I'm going to stop dyeing my hair when I see a significant amount of grays/silvers coming in. It's a long long time away before I will ever see that happen, but I'm looking forward to it. Gray/silver/white hair is beautiful.

I voted nope. I'm not planning on dying my grays when ever I get them. However...if they are more white then "actual" gray, I may end up seeing if I can lighten my hair a natural way to fit with the silver locks. Then again...I may not.

I would however like my silvery grays to come in, in streaks rather then just the single hairs here and there. If I got them I want to see them, not have them hiding at the edge of my ears (that's were my mom's are - she has random little white fringe playing by her ears. Her side swept bangs easily cover the self-hidden gray hair).

I actually thought about that same thing when I decided to go gray. I didn't want the harsh line dividing the difference, So I discontinued coloring when I started seeing alot more and I am glad that I did. Otherwise I probably would have been married to my box of color. I would not be able to bear cutting to get rid of the color line. But of course not every one will feel the same way.

RZ~

I have a complicated answer. Depending on how fast i grey, i will dye my hair (herbal only aka henna and friends) when the grey is noticable at a young age as my mother greyed prematurly. I think i'm her age when she started greying and i only have about 5 grey hairs. I want virgin hair but i can see myself hunting down the grey patches and dyeing them, or my whole head. Trying to get the colour as closely matched to mine. Then i will continue to dye it until 40 and then let it go. I'm sure by then it wont be TOO grey to actually show up a lot. And the transistion should be easy. Firstly i want to get a head full of virgin hair! :)

I will not dye my hair. I am actually hoping for a gray streak *grin*

I'm not going to dye my hair either.

I'm sure I will have earned every single one of my grey hairs! :lol:

I'm not dying mine - found the first few gray strands back in the fall, don't know how soon the rest will come in - I'm actually kinda looking forward to it.

If my genetics follow my mother and her sisters, I should have some really cool stripes before all the color goes :D. They all went gray to silver to white, from the top/center of their heads on down, and all three of them started graying before 30. Of course, all three have super short hair(you have no idea how often I hear "get a haircut" when around them :P), and 2 still dye. I'm gonna be different and be proud of my long grays :)

eta: yes I'm 23 and already graying. I don't think it's that odd though; it hits everyone at different ages. A guy friend of mine was totally gray at 13, though last I saw him he was still dying to match the original color. My maternal grandfather, on the other hand, is 81 and the hair he has is still all naturally jet black :shrug:

I always thought I wouldn't, but I have. :( I'm kind of embarrassed, actually. lol I am under 30 and graying, and have been for the past 5 years. My father grayed early, so I guess it was only a matter of time.

I'm guessing "yes", but it will depend on when I turn grey. If I'm fortunate enough to not get grey before I'm in my fifties, like my dad, I might just let it be. If it happens before I'm 40 I'll probably dye it.

I am eagerly awaiting the day I see my first silver strands, and wouldn't think of ever dying them. I think silver/white hair is SO pretty!
love,
mom

I said no, BUT, it's more complex. I started getting gray hair when I was in my early 20s, like my dad. So, I highlighted, then dyed. I started looking like a freeway, white lines in the light brown. Then, it really clumped in my temples, when I pulled my hair back I was an homage to Elsa Lanchester as the Bride of Frankenstein.

Due to money constraints and the desire to have long hair, and realizing it'd take MORE dye with longer hair... I decided in December to just let it go, my last dye job was in August.

I also have permed ends from 5 years ago, so I will have to do some cutting/trimming, but the question will be how much and at what point(s)?

I don't plan on it. I intend to be an old woman with long gray hair one day, and I don't really feel like I'm going to want to go through the two-tone thing at that point. So I'm going to grow out the henna while I'm still young and the difference isn't obvious.

ETA: I suspect it'll start with a streak from my crown. That's what my mum got, and it's where I notice my few grays now.

*makes entertaining gestures*

Double post, move along folks, move along!

I voted 'no'.

In fact, I stopped dyeing when I started to get grey (really grey; I've had some grey hairs since I was 16 or so, but until a few years ago they never seemed to get much company), a couple of years ago.

Before that, I wanted my hair to be darker, so I dyed it a darker brown (it's been fuchia too, and purple...).

But then one day, I saw a woman somewhere; I thought she was bald and had a sort of fur collar, but then I got closer and realized she wasn't bald, just grey, and the 'fur collar' was the outgrown, dyed hair.

The greyer I get, the odder the difference will look between dyed and virgin hair; unless I dye every week or so.

Besides, it's really bad for my hair, the last couple of times I dyed I lost a LOT of hair and my scalp was itchy and bumpy and sort of pimply for weeks.
(yes, I could henna, but the demarcation line would still be a problem, and I the colour wouldn't suit me).
It's also made the hair much rougher, dryer and a lot more prone to splits and breakage.

I'm looking forward to having long, sparkly, first pewter then silver locks! :rockerdud

I look forward to having a full head of white hair one day but I am a very long way off from that! I like the color and strength I get with henna so my few white hairs get henna'd for now. Eventually, I will grow it out and go white but I am 33, not 73.

I voted 'no'.

In fact, I stopped dyeing when I started to get grey Me, too!

I experimented with dyes -- reddish shades for a few years -- then realized I was starting to get silvers, and stopped dying.

I love the look of these sparkly hairs against my natural very dark brown hair. I don't have many yet, but they are coming quicker every year.

(And if I follow my mom, I won't get white hair till my late 80s, so I'm planning to relax and enjoy the salt-and-pepper phase... and I'm way to lazy to dye to cover gray.)

I started turning grey in my early twenties and have been coloring it for over 18 years. No plans to stop either : )

The color line is just in a different direction! It is noticeable when in a tail; I call them my "racing stripes"!


Racing stripes--I love it :)

Well, If you've seen my profile photo bucket...you see what I look like with white/grey hair :)
I just cut it all off into a pixie so that I could get rid of the damage that I had done to it with the bleaching and box dyeing etc. SO, with that said, I hope to perservere and not dye it.
One of my hairstylists doesnt believe I would look good with it natural...though I know she says that so she can stay in business. Me, I'm tired of box dyeing it and if anything that I would do is to use the cassia that I have and hope for the best.
Deb

I plan on letting my hair continue it's graying and just see what I get. I've had gray coming in for a while.

Starting to look as though I get what my aunt did, what I called her "skunk stripe". My punishment for saying that I guess lol.

So instead of being called "the one with long hair", I'll be the one with the skunk stripe...rofl

Nope, no plans to cover any that may come in, which may be very soon, or much later. Something I found funny though, I found a white hair in my brush last month or so. I know it was mine, mom has VERY curly hair thats BSL when straight, and grandma has shoulder. It was MUCH longer than either of those. I haven't found anymore though, and I'm kinda disappointed.
(The reason I know I could go gray/white is because my aunt went grey at about 15/16, so seeing the hair was more funny than scary.)

I'm not sure, really. I probably won't dye it to COVER the grays, but I may take advantage of gray and later white hair to get pure "unnatural" colors, like pink and lavendar. I'd be ok with gray/white hair though.

I will let them be as they want to :)
As long as they don't fall out... ;)

I will not color my hair- I will embrace my grays and silvers as they come...and finally I will be considered to be as old as I am. I'm tired of looking "not my age."

when i go gray/white it will just mean that i will have bright copper highlights in my hennaed hair

I've been dying my hair since I was in junior high. I've been 'greying' since I was 22 (though it has gotten much worse lately). I think I'll most likely keep dying, but this gives me a great excuse to try henna. :)

I'm kind of looking forward to the grays coming in, so shiney!

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l143/Jorchet/Smilies/miedo.gif I can't even start thinking about it! I've never ever dyed my hair, never been interested in doing so. I used to go to the swimming pool in summer when I was little and loved my hair getting highlights, but never got them done by a stylist or hair dye.

When I think about my hair going gray I panic...I don't know if I'll be able to live with gray, but the question is...will I be able to dye my hair...and if so...what colour? http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l143/Jorchet/erm.png

I voted that I wouldn't. I'm getting a white streak in the front next to my right temple. I hope that means that I will be lucky an get a true white when it all comes in. The only thing that I think will be tough is the in between stage. It seems to "age" people and make them look almost "faded."

yes when it greys

heck no!

Long silver witchy hair is one of the main reasons I'm growing it. I've got a sprinkling on my left forehead, and as I hoped, they are SILVER.

I voted cheese, because I really don't know what I'll do when the time comes. My mother is greying attractively, with silver coming in at her temples. I like that look, but her hair is different from mine, a coarser texture and a chestnut color to my much lighter 'strawberry brown'. My father is fairing a bit less well, with white coming in all over. His color is closer to mine. They're both coming into their mid-fifties. My greys should be less obvious than my mother's, but if they're white like my dad's, I don't think that will look well against my pale skin. I'd like to say that I won't dye, but if it looks bad, I might consider it.

I've always liked goat cheese, but a nice chedder would probably suit my coloring better. Hmmm... :cheese:

Covering with cheese is tempting... kinky, but tempting. What color cheese??? Blue? yellow? A a bold orange Double Gloucester would be nice.

I like lixie's "Let it Be" and biggeorge's "racing stripes"!

Nope. I don't color my salt-and-pepper hair. But it's interesting to notice older women on TV -- Seems like 99% of them do color their hair, not to mention the little nips and tucks and facelifts. Whew -- It's hard to stay natural and keep a decent self-image! Having a husband that says he likes my hair the way it is and tells me I'm beautiful sure helps! :)

Jill (Graydog)

No way! I could never tolerate the upkeep.

Nope....it's happening now and although it is an adjustment, I going to stay natural.

I voted no.

I just turned 30 and I'm starting to get these cute little transparent / silver hairs along my natural part. Some are as much as 4" long.

I've been told that my hair looks like spun gold, and now that my grays are coming in silver I'm really curious what my hair will look like as they all come in.

I've had trouble with looking young for my age since I'm petite and blessed with good genes, so here's hoping the silver will help!

I dye my hair a burgundy/red becasue my natural color is too blah...I'm too dramatic for it :). I actually am already having greys come in, and will keep dying my hair but when it eventually turns all grey, I will let it be. I absolutely love beautiful silver/grey/white hair, I think it's beautiful.

Depending on how old I'm going to be when the gray sets it, I think I most likely will.

I voted cheese, because, although I want to have pure long silver hair, I'm not sure if I'll get more than salt-n-pepper (which I think is beautiful) and I reserve the right to change my mind at least once in the next 30 years or so. I've never dyed, so I can't imagine how much hassle it must be to keep up. It just sounds more like me to stay with virgin hair. Although I do love my dark brown color.

I voted yes since I have been coloring my hair for years now to cover the 'ole sparklers. :lol:

I already am

If by the time im 30, and I start seein some grays, i think I will definately dye my hair.

I might get highlights to blend the grey in more with the rest of my hair. Or I might use a semi-permanent dye until it's all a nice shade of grey. But, really, only time will tell. Maybe I'll love the way it comes in and just leave it at that.

i didn't vote because i don't know yet. that's missing in the poll.

I voted no, but the new hairs growing on the top of my crown are coming in grey, and they are very wiry and thicker than my other hair. I'm not sure what I'll do about that if it continues. I don't really want kinky hair.

My hair is about 25% grey. I'm not definetely ready to let my greys grow

I still have my blond hair with just a touch of gray at the temples despite being a senior citizen. I’ll just let nature take it course. Now for my wife that is a different story. I color her hair for her every four to six weeks. Neither one of us think she would look good with gray hair. I enjoy pampering her. :D

I love salt-and-pepper, gray, silver and white hair. I think it looks amazing. I am planning on never dying my hair.

Yes! Henna will show up better on grey hairs than black ones :)

If I get grey hair, I think I will dye my hair. But I'm hoping for the 'lucky gen'. I have the same hair as my father and in their family at the age of 85 they still don't have grey hair:eek:
So my grandfather had just 2 strands of grey and for the rest still had the brown/blond colour I have. My uncle is over 50 still doesn't have grey hair. My father got some grey of the treatment of cancer (not the chemo, but the other thing, but I don't now the word :o) But for the rest he still kept his natural colour. So now I'm hoping he has passed it on to me :)

I probably will dye my hair when it starts turning gray. I've never dyed my hair before, but I love my red hair too much.

I will cover my hair with cheese when it turns gray:D

No, really. I'm letting my sparkling silvers come in as they may. I find that look much more attractive than the skunk head look of silver roots on darker hair when it's past time to color.;)

I've seen so many gorgeous heads of silver hair her on LHC. I'm inspired.

I will cover my hair with cheese when it turns gray

:spitting:Now that was funny!

CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Truth, nope. I don't color now and will probably not color then. Then I would have to keep coloring or have the tell-tale line. I like being natural.

I already color my grays. I might eventually change my mind though. I am mainly really gray around the temples. If it was evened out more I don't think it would look so bad, but right now I think it looks horrible unless dyed.

I voted cheese because I dont know yet, it depends on if it compliments my skin tone I guess.Im hoping I dont go grey , Ive got a good chance my dad and his parents never went grey even my grandma at 83 had very few greys.

I have a few silvers at my temples now and am letting them be. I doubt I'll be dying them in the future. I love my natural colour and enjoy the highlights. To me silver is just another interesting feature.

No. I stopped with the henna because I saw a few first grey hairs. Everyday I have more :D My hair is in much worse condition without the henna, and now I am trying cassia. I hope this works because I really don't want to go back to the henna. I love the color and the condition it gives, but I want my grey hairs too :wacko:

Too late for me, by about 14 years. One day when I'm as grey as I wanna be, I will transition out the henna. That will be a tough road, I know it.

Meanwhile I have enough of a job to grow out the chemical dye. Henna is going to look awesome over my natural color with 10-15% grey, I can already tell. My grey comes in pretty much all over, not in patches, so it'll be a darker auburn with random fire engine color hairs all over it.

If I dye my hair when it turns grey, it'll just be a coincidence as I dye my hair periodically as it is... I wouldn't do it just to hide the greys, like my mom does.

I'll probably dye it when it grey!

i chose the third option because I dont know. It will depend if it looks good or not. like if its not ALL white/grey but different kinds of color and it doesnt look good together i might dye it a ash blonde color

my natural color is quite pale so i hope my hair will be snow white

I think I will dye it depends on how old I am when I get gray hair, and how I look with it, eventually I will not.

No way! I'm looking forward to the time. :)

From Golden to Silver. *grin*

I just did my first Cassia treatment this weekend, and I love it! I'll probably continue, and it'll probably tint the greys yellowish.

I already like to color my hair... and I kept it up when I got white hairs in my mid-teens (they're gone now), so I think I’ll keep dying as long as I’m not too lazy, or want a different color. :P

I will dye mine, but I use henna, so the only reason I'll dye my grays is that I'll get flaming whites! :D

If the henna doesnt come out uber-bright, though, I might grow it all out and have all grey. I'm not bothered about grey per se; I don't care about the colour and the 'old' stigma, I just want to see if the henna turns it bright red ;)

Ask me again fifteen years from now.

PS: I voted cheese! ;)

As of right now, I have no plans of dying my hair when it starts to gray. I don't dye it now.

The silvers are just sneaking in on me -- I plan to leave them be. I have never colored my hair before and I don't really want to start.

As far as I've observed, gray/white/silver hair always comes a few strands at a time. Nobody gets the cream-sicle effect except from coloring hair, then stopping.

I do color my hair now because of the 30-40% gray that is in it, and I'll likely continue, at least for awhile. I'm just not quite used to the gray yet, but it's coming, whether I'm used to it or not...

Putting cheese in it is definitely an option though... ;-)

Depends at what age, once I feel ready I will probably stop Henna and grow out the grey....

I never thought I would cover my grays, but I have just started covering them with henna and I love my hair again.

I might at some point, but I really like grey hair. I hope I get my dad's snowy white hair when I do go grey. I'm sure I wouldn't color it if it turned out as nice as his looks.

I have been and will probably continue...

Nope. I intend to allow nature to do her stuff. My mum didnt have any grey hairs until she was in her mid 50's and even now, at 63, she has very few. I hope I have inherited that gene.

I don't think I'd use commercial dyes, but I can see myself continuing to henna when I begin to gray.

I don't plan on it, but that may change if I end up grey at 25 or something like that.

I'll wear my gray hairs with pride! Hopefully it'll look good. :) My mother is almost 55, and she's almost completely gray and I have an aunt who started going gray in her early 20s.

I don't know. I have about a handful of transparent, silver hairs. I noticed my first one at 18 and recently, I've noticed two more.

I don't know how graying goes in my family. Everyone in my family on my mother's side is dyed, but my father, at 42, is about 5-10 percent gray. His parents are very white/grey at nearly 70.

Right now, the idea of going grey doesn't bother me, but in 20 years, it might. For now, I choose "cheese."

I never imagined that I would dye my grays in fact I started gettign pretty silvers in my early 20's and I loved them. I do henna though but for the thickening and strength as my hair was always breaking off at BSL and with Henna I feel I have hope of going longer. I actually love the copper color of my grays but I have thought of coating them with an oil when I henna so they don't get colored but I am a bit lazy. We'll see, for me its just about what I feel like doing at the time.

So for now I am voting cheese:cheese:

My haircolor is really similar to my dad's, only I have red in it as well. And my dad has waist length hair and he doesn't get gray hairs, he gets white hairs, so it blends in with all the shades of blonde and brown that he already has. Since my hair is basically identical to my dad's only I have some red in it that I know I got from his mother (my grandma), I'm hoping it will age like his is, as well. Then I might not have to worry about dyeing it, I can just let it slowly go white and then dye my eyebrows or something. I was a blonde until I was 19 anyway, so I have the coloring to pull it off, I think.

I have 5 or 10 greys. They all seem to be around the front of my head, easy to spot and pluck out! They don't appear to be multiplying fast. If they hold off becoming apparent for another ten or fifteen years I'll let them be, but if it becomes noticable soon I might have to bite the bullet. I stopped dying my hair when I first found greys and realised that I might only have a few years to enjoy my natural colour!

Good question... I don't know :rolleyes:
I have my first grays and thinking about dying my hair with henna...should i or not? thinking and thinking...i love my natural hair color, its shine and glow. don't want to lose it. it isn't as black as in my avantar, very very dark brown, looks often like black, but in the sun it has a reddish brown shine.

I found my first gray in my teens. At age 20, it started graying faster. (That's what having a kid will do to ya!) I started dyeing at age 22 and gave it up at 27. It bothered me so much to dye it, for a number of reasons.

I stopped dyeing cold turkey at that point, went through the painful growing out process and then cut it short and it looked cute and I was forever free of Miss Clairol!

I've never regretted giving up the dye, and I really truly do like my silver hair.

I'm not sure... If I had silver hair now that would be really neat, but if it was when I was older.... that would mean I was old, with grey, old hair and I don't want to be old.

Yes. Oh, make that H E L L yes.

I started getting greys when I was 25, but very, very slowly. Now that I'm 37 they are a tad more noticeable but not much. My husband thinks my greys are sexy (he's so sweet), but he loves the henna too. I started using henna not to color greys, but because I love the color of the henna. My greys are annoying, I have a big silver spider smack dab on top of my head, so currently the henna is nice in that it covers that. When I start to grow more greys I plan on quitting the henna and enjoying the silver.

So I didn't answer since my option really isn't there - I'll quit coloring when I go more grey :grin:

no, but if dyeing were good for hair and my hair wanted to be dyed so badly that i could bribe it to turn grey by promising to dye it and then backing out at the last minute, i might be tempted.

I love the look of grey hair (am I strange now?) so I would definitely not colour my hair then.

I would be happy with grey as I do not like my natural colour now.

I plan to stay natural...one long silver braid for me. The one gray hair I had has been hiding of late.

I honestly wasn't planning on dying my hair anymore, but then it started to grey in a really unappealing pattern. The people in my family tend to grey in front, so I had grey bangs and brown hair and I HATED IT. Now I have highlights, so the grey sort of blends in. I figure that it may damage my hair, but I'd have chopped it off by now if I didn't color it.

I voted cheese, because I won't know when my hair starts to really go gray. Since I henna now, I only ever see roots, and their color looks sort of distorted next to the henna red.

I don't intend to. Salt-n-pepper has ALWAYS been my favourite colour!

Then I again, I know people who said that and ended up colouring. Most women I know colour.

I'm just into low, low maintenance so I can't stand the thought of the upkeep, either.

The oldsters in my family tended to be quite dark-haired till their 80's, except for my great-grandma who had beautiful white hair.

Nope, I already have a streak forming and I like it.

When my hair turns while, I'm going to quit henna and go cassia. I might make a few indigo lowlights because I love the bluish/green it did on my son's light blond hair.

Depends, whatever makes me happy when I reach that stage will be what I end up doing. :)

Eh, truth be told. I have no idea. I won't probably even notice going grey, I already have some naturally nearly white hairs in here somewhere.. :shrug:

I have been dying my hair for 10 years because of greys so the answer is absolutely yes :)

Depends on when I go gray. if that happens two years from now, I'll dye it. Fifteen years? Probably not. I like the idea of long, silvery hair, but I am not ready for it just yet. We'll see!

I know I am only 18 but I have thought about it becauseAn my mother had very premature grayess- to the point of when she dropped me at school everyone used to think she was my grandmother! haha!!

And I know that I wont dye it- or henna. But I used herbs that put a bit of colour in hair?

Hm, my mother looks so much younger when she re-natures (do you know what I mean?) her hair. Thats probably what I'll do.

I have greys and I henna! I'm not ready!

I call them my bad-boyfriend hairs and I figure I have earned them. My mom pulled hers. All 50 (of mine) are still there and getting to be 7-8 inches long!

Time will tell if I feel the need to color them or pull them, lol

... but I don't worry about the allergy dark circles around my eyes, my wrinkles or my double chin, so why worry about the gray hairs? If they can't see through my physique to my personality, they should just go away.

I've been dying my hair for years. My first silvers started showing up when I was 19. Maybe someday I'll let it do its own thing but not yet!

Heck no! Fine, silver hair runs in my family and I'm looking forward to the contrast against my brown hair. :grin: That's the closest I'll ever come to blond naturally, anyway. :lol:

I'm already going gray and have no intention of coloring. My Nana had GORGEOUS silver hair, and my mom doesn't color either. I have great role models! :D I'll be an old lady with a long silver braid. :cheese:

All the women in my family color their hair. My sister does highlights, my mom does the full dye job and so does my Grandma. So I have no idea what my hair will look like. Right now I smile at my lone gray hair.

I kind of like the natural change in apperance as I grow older - and perhaps wiser ;) I've had white hairs coming since I was 25, but recently I've noticed that the colour of all my hair is duller nearer the scalp, so I guess that I'm slowly greying. I was hoping for the hair by hair going to white - but it seams that I'm getting the slowly rusting away-effect instead.

I've had a few (like 3) whites since I was 20. Around the age of 27, I went through a really rough year and at the end of it I noticed I had a few more. I'm almost 32 now and I still only have maybe 10, maybe fewer, and they don't really bother me too much.

I currently henna, so I never see my whites except for when my roots start to grow out. I don't know if I would dye just to cover the whites, but since my hair is dark I sort of like how henna stands out so well on the white hairs. So as I get more, I will probably keep henna'ing just to see my hair get redder and redder. :)

Henna is something I would consider, but as far as chemical dyes I am scared off.

I have no idea what I'm going to do when I start going grey. I love my henna red color, and I love grey hair, but I hate the look of undyed grey roots. It's going to be hard to decide when to stop hennaing and let my greys grow in.