Qadupae
April 28th, 2010, 09:05 PM
I just want to state right away that I am not actually graying right now, but today I was in the store buying hair dye to try and get as close to my natural hair color and realized something that should have been obvious before probably: there are no gray hair dyes.
This seemed odd to me because what if you have been dying your hair for years and know that your roots are almost 100% gray? What if you want to let that gray grow in now, but don't want to sacrifice your previously colored length? To me, it sounded like a great idea to have a range of gray colors to be able to dye your hair to in order to make the transition to your natural hair color easier, but I didn't see anything remotely close to gray there. I guess I only really noticed this because my hair is a natural ash brown and none of their boxed "ash" browns had any real ash color to them, no gray or mousiness.
Looked online even and the only brand I've found so far is called Lolane and they only have a silver gray. So are there any previous chemical heads turned gray natural? What was your transition to gray like? Anyone know of any actual gray hair dyes?
I find this topic also kind of inspirational for my mother because she's been dying her hair for years and is probably about 75-80% gray now and couldn't live with the transition stage of going natural. She might, however, like the idea of doing a gray dye, although I'm not sure if she would like the color stripping required to get all the medium brown dyes out of her hair :rolleyes:
Mods, if this topic is in the wrong section, please change it for me. I just couldn't figure out where it belonged to exactly ^_^
This seemed odd to me because what if you have been dying your hair for years and know that your roots are almost 100% gray? What if you want to let that gray grow in now, but don't want to sacrifice your previously colored length? To me, it sounded like a great idea to have a range of gray colors to be able to dye your hair to in order to make the transition to your natural hair color easier, but I didn't see anything remotely close to gray there. I guess I only really noticed this because my hair is a natural ash brown and none of their boxed "ash" browns had any real ash color to them, no gray or mousiness.
Looked online even and the only brand I've found so far is called Lolane and they only have a silver gray. So are there any previous chemical heads turned gray natural? What was your transition to gray like? Anyone know of any actual gray hair dyes?
I find this topic also kind of inspirational for my mother because she's been dying her hair for years and is probably about 75-80% gray now and couldn't live with the transition stage of going natural. She might, however, like the idea of doing a gray dye, although I'm not sure if she would like the color stripping required to get all the medium brown dyes out of her hair :rolleyes:
Mods, if this topic is in the wrong section, please change it for me. I just couldn't figure out where it belonged to exactly ^_^