I may have old joints I don't have to have old looking hair too.
If you are scared to color why don't youo try Natural Instincts?? It is a semi permanent color, washes out in 30 days. On grey it may not wash out completely...you might want to check on that.
Ps. My hair dresser found a bunch of grey hairs on my head the other day FIGHT those grays as long as you can!! Thats what I say. All the woman in my family gray very very early. I get mine covered every 6 weeks at my hairdressers and I will continue to as long as I can.
I hate gray---I know some woman can get away with being all gray and it actually looks good on them---unfortunately I am not one of them.
I wish though--I would save a ton of money!Yep, go for it. Anything that will make us feel beautiful for a period of time is totally worth it! I color and have no adverse effects!
Wash those grays right outa your head!!!!
I went from dying mine like a strawberry blonde to brown. I have dyed it brown before (natural color) but it never last for some reason. It's been a week and it's still brown.
Gonna take some getting use to.
You feel better physically if you look as good as you possibly can. I'm 62 and have colored my hair since my early 40's. I don't do it myself any longer but it doesn't matter who does it.....just do it. My hairdresser uses several colors on mine so it's looks naturally streaked but all the white is gone. I'm way beyond gray. I noticed there were some coloring products out that say they layer the color. Seems like those would look more natural than an all over basic color. Has anyone used them? I have to start coloring my own hair because we're going to start traveling for the next 6 months and I don't want to have to deal with bad coloring jobs while we're on the road. Have fun and post pics. Lindy I've been coloring mine since my cosmotology days in High School. I'm a natural blonde....but not nearly as blonde as I color it. I've been doing it myself all these years about every 6 weeks. I get sick of doing it sometimes.....but I don't think I'll be stopping anytime in the future.
I can see myself having it done in the salon as I get older and can't physically do it myself. At times it's difficult. It takes a lot of shoulder strength to do it yourself. I have gone through months when I've had to let it go longer than I'd like if I'm having shoulder or back problems.
I say go for it. I definately agree with Lindy. If you look better you'll feel better. I'm a firm believer in that motto. My Grandmother who was crippled with arthritis before her death got up every day and did all she could to look good. She always told me it was easier to smile with a little lipstick on. lol. I know what she meant. She was telling me to always put forth the effort to look good.....even if no one sees you but you.
Why not try highlighting? that's what I do. very easy upkeep. I have been coloring my hair for years. I use Loreal Excellence in a reddish brown color. I think it is probably white underneath. Anything we can do to make us feel good is a plus, so go for it. Let us know how it turns out.You know what? On all of those makeover shows on the Learning Channel they always color the person's hair. It makes such a difference. I think as women get older their hair color gets more drab and dull. This is a way to punch up the color and it then makes your face shine. I love getting my hair colored. I go every three to four weeks. I'm only 41 - I've been getting it dyed for about three years and it's susch a beautiful chocolate brown color. It's long so I can't really do it myself (the boxed stuff doesn't provide enough "stuff') but the hairstylist knows how to run it through my hair to provide some highlights and gradations in tone that make it look totally natural. People are shocked when I tell them it's dyed. I started dying mine when the older women who walked into my shop would say to my DD, "Are you spending the day with your grandma?"!!!!! I don't have a wrinkle on my face. I've made a few mistakes over the years, like the day I was taking DD to preschool and she said, "Mommy you look like Ariel". But now I need help and with the younger DD leaving home next fall for college I'm not sure what I'll do about coloring. I told her I would stop coloring it when she graduated from HS, I don't think I can. Anniemax, I use Loreal, lightest golden brown.
Why is it when men begin to grey they are regarded as "having a distinguished look?" BUT
When women begin to turn grey they are often referred to as "old bags?"
I used Natural Instincts for quite a number of years. Didn't find that it washed out in 30 days.
Anyway a few days ago I tried the new Nice & Easy with the comb so you can comb the color through your hair. It also has a blend of three different shades. Love It! Love It! Love It! Can't remember what they call it exactly because I've discarded the box.
Go ahead and color it. I'm a hairdresser and believe me women look and feel much better (outside as well as inside) when their hair is colored. Even a few highlights can do the trick.
LOL....I haven't seen my natural color since I was 16!! wow...20 yrs now. I wear mine in a nice vibrant red brown, it suits me and I love when it's just done. I color my hair with a temporary color, it washes out in 7 or more washings. What I like about it is that it does still show some grey hair so it looks totally natural...at least to me. I have been criticized for coloring my hair...* oh so used to criticism* but I do not care. It is my life.....mine, so I will do with my hair what I want to.
Now, let me tell you, of the men I know and have known, the grey always looks good. Salt and pepper my fav/////but then again I like the guys who go naturally bald as well..... so I guess it is just me.
Yep, I color my hair. Try the washout kind and see how you like it I guess. I just the roots when the permenant color grows with the hair.
Jode
Oh yeah, men always look great with greys. My husband has lots of them and I must say he looks pretty hot!o'k thanks for all the advice. i am going to color it. i use to color it but i thought i feel old i might as well look old too. the last time i put anything on it was august, but i am feeling older and older the grayer it gets and this really is something simple to make me look younger. i need all the help i can get ;-) what do you recommend for age spots i am covered in them from head to toe?It does increase your risk of bladder cancer. Coloring your hair combined with smoking, can greatly increase this risk. I also want to add that if we already have this disease and we know our bodies are inflammed and in some ways, toxic, why do we add these chemicals into our bodies (and yes, dye does absorb into the blood stream). I do not understand this logic. I have a hard time feeling sorry for people that do these kinds of things.
lorster2008-02-23 10:16:49Found an article on it, there are lots to support this if you google.
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USC Study Finds Use Of Permanent Hair Dyes Tied To Increased Risk Of Bladder Cancer
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2001) — LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2001 -— Women who regularly color their hair with permanent hair dyes—as well as hair stylists who work with such chemicals—are at greater risk for bladder cancer, according to a study from researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Even after adjusting for cigarette smoking (a known risk factor in bladder cancer), women who use permanent dyes at least once a month for one year or longer have twice the risk of bladder cancer as non-users, according to the study in a February issue of the International Journal of Cancer. Monthly or more frequent users of 15 or more years experience three times that risk.
The increase in bladder cancer risk was also observed in those who were exposed to hair dyes in their work; i.e., barbers and hairdressers.
The research team, part of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, conducted the epidemiological study with 1,514 bladder cancer patients in Los Angeles, comparing them to another 1,514 similar people who lived in the same neighborhoods. They interviewed participants about health, lifestyle habits and occupations.
"Our bladder cancer study is the first to examine personal hair-dye use by the three major categories of dyes – permanent, semi-permanent, and temporary dyes," says Manuela Gago-Dominguez, M.D., Ph.D., USC researcher in Preventive Medicine and lead author of the study.
Researchers said the association with increased cancer risk was found only with permanent dyes, not semi-permanent or temporary hair color, which rinses out and fades after a series of shampoos.
"Our study is the first to demonstrate a frequency- and duration-dependent association between personal use of permanent hair-dyes and bladder cancer risk. Our novel observations are provocative and carry enormous public health implications. One should bear in mind, however, that these findings require confirmation before such exposure can be regarded as causal factors in bladder cancer development," explains Mimi C. Yu, Ph.D., USC Professor of Preventive Medicine and one of the study authors.
Bladder cancer currently accounts for 6 percent of all new cancer cases in men and 2 percent of all new cancer cases in women. The American Cancer Society estimates that 53,200 Americans were diagnosed with the cancer and 12,200 Americans died from it in 2000.
Besides cigarette smoking, researchers say that exposure to arylamines—a family of chemicals—is a known risk factor for the disease.
Arylamines in hair dye have been found to cause cancer in experimental animals, according to previous studies, and small amounts of these substances are absorbed through the skin during normal use. The body later expels the chemicals through urine, passing through the bladder.
Around the world, millions of people use hair dyes. More than one in three women over age 18 and one in ten men over age 40 throughout Europe, North America and Japan use some type of hair coloring, the researchers report, and permanent dyes account for about three-quarters of the global use.
In the USC study, researchers not only looked at those who used dye on their own tresses, but also those who used it as part of their job. The team found that those in the study who had worked as hairdressers or barbers for 10 years or longer faced a risk of bladder cancer five times greater than the general population. Overall, those who had ever worked as a hairdresser or barber for at least one year experienced a 50 percent greater risk of such cancer.
About 2 million people work as hairdressers and barbers in North America and Europe alone, the researchers say.
The study was funded through a grant by the National Cancer Institute.
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