I am a young 54 with silver/blk and I am loving it! Decide about 8 months ago to quick damaging my hair with chemicals such the dyes and tints who knew that I would get some many compliments on my hair from men and women and I am truly blessed to have taken my Mother traits of having young looking skin too!!!!!!!!!!Loving Life who cares what anyone THINKS!!!!!!

I started to gray at age 17 and it was noticeable. When I was in college people would ask if I colored it and I would look at them and think "who would go to the hair salon, pay money and ask for my hair for that gray color!" My youngest daughter had "silver hair" in junior high and I would color it because it bothered her. I finally gave up the "bottle." I did flip flop over the years on colors for my hair and now that I have stopped because of swimming and the heat my hair always felt healthy and natural without the artificial color. I felt I would look better, gray hair in my twenties than haven't a "funny" color when I was sixty. Women that color their hair blonde when they are sixties or so look unnatural and ages their face. The wrinkle skin gives the color away.

when my son was young he remembers me getting my hair frosted and a few yrs ago when i was hiding the gray he asked me, why did i spend money to get it frosted and now spend money to hide the gray, am i crazy or just a female who can't make up my mind but it just seemed dumb to him and i realized how foolish it was and it's been gray ever since

My hair started turning grey @ age 14 - hated it then - love it now. Yes.. I did color it back then. But as the years passed by I realized that I wasn't hiding a thing. New growth showed up about every three to four weeks. Expensive to keep up.
Now at age 65 I'm ready to have some color added.
Probably have a dark & light blonde color added - just for highlights. I'm fair skinned and my white to silver hair makes me feel faded. Good thing about adding only two colors - you don't experience a line while it grows back.

As a fab 50 year old, I'm proud of my grey and white hair. I'm no longer a slave to the beauty salon. I save a $120 a month by taking advantage of my new natural color.

I'm 40 right now. The first white hair poked out of my scalp when I was 13. My great grandfather went totally white when he was 17 (nobody knows the cause, and it was too long ago for anyone to have bothered figuring it out, I guess). So I was excited about going grey, and longed for my Grandpapa's white hair at a young age. Never happened, but loving my salt-and-pepper look now. Complete strangers stop me in the streets to compliment me and ask what expensive salon I get my highlights and streaks done at, or to ask if they should let theirs grow out (those who have it can spot when it's real, it seems). For myself, I go with the 1940s structured looks (long, medium, and short) because my waves, facial structure, sense of style, and hourglass figure all work with it.

I have coloured my hair, but only with the desire to play with it. I have never striven to hide my grey. Maybe it helps that I still have a youthful face and trim (though not skinny) figure (I chalk that up to fortunate genetics, a happy attitude, long-time vegetarianism, a healthy & well-balanced diet, being fit and active, and avoiding baking in the sun ~ it wouldn't do my pale skin any good anyway).

Still, if you want to get out there with your grey, and/or save money, and/or improve the quality of your hair (all those colours wreak havoc!), I have three simple hints:

1) Take good care of your hair (minimal heating implements - I use them maybe 5 times a year- , including hairdryers; keep washed and well conditioned; don't yank, stretch, over-brush, tease, or otherwise abuse it). Heat = damage. Plain and simple.

2) Work with what you have (sort-of an extension of #1). Just go with what your hair wants to do. Get the haircut that goes with what your hair wants to do, not what you wish your hair did. You will look better. Guaranteed. Don't over-style. Wavy? Let it wave, just control the frizz (channel your mid-century film goddess). Tight curls? Go wild and carefree, just get the right cut that suits that style and the amount of time you have to spend on your hair (pour over black hairstyle magazines and you will eventually find something that suits you, whatever your ethnicity ~ guaranteed). Stick-straight? Lucky you. Millions of women ruin their hair and waste too much money to get your look, so ROCK IT!!! You can go anything from punk to ultra-conservative with ram-rod straight hair.

2) Ensure your nutrition and fitness are seen to. This includes mental and emotional fitness, contentment, and a good mind-body connection. All a bit to airy-fairy, touchy-feely for you? Sorry. It is true. Live with it, and you are guaranteed to be more content.

3) Whatever your hair style or length, keep it styled. You don't have to go overboard in casual moments, but don't let it run riot even then. Or, in other words, if you don't want to look like an old hag, then remember your sense of style. Frizziness, a multitude of loose tendrils on a loose hairstyle, or straight-and-parted-down-the-center are fine if you like the Earth-mother look. For the rest of us, if you don't want to be accused of looking like an old hag, brush and contain your hair a bit before you walk out the door, like anyone else with a bit of self-respect and more than 28 years on this planet (and remember, strong central parts look good on VERY FEW people, not even Madonna, so you are probably not one of them either). Like long waves? Go Veronica Lake, not Andie MacDowell in her 20s. Short waves? You can still sport a smart look without looking like The Queen, Betty White, or Maggie Thatcher (though I do love their looks). Think Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Russell, a young Elizabeth Taylor, or even Cyd Charisse circa 1040s through 1960s for varying looks to suit whatever your style. Straight? Part it on the side, not in the middle, if you don't want to look like an aging hippie that really believes she still looks like she did in the '60s/'70s (oh, and get it out of our face. Please). Tight curls? Don't let it stick out of your head as far as the eye can see, in an overblown afro (unless you're prepared for, and thrive on, the sort of attention that engenders). There are too many cute styles these days for ultra-curly hair for you to allow yourself out of the door looking like you stuck your finger into an electrical outlet.

So those are my three basic rules, from someone who's lived with grey hair considerably longer (proportionally speaking, not necessarily year-wise) than many, but not quite as long as some. :)

I am loving my gray. Love the lack of chemicals which are unnatural. It took along time for my husband to convince me that I would look great. I am so glad our superstars in the media have lead the way. But yes there is always the downer who has to say something like "Why don't you dye you hair? You would look much younger!" Well phooey to them. Must be jealousy, right?

It always amazes me how my very overweight friends and overly made up friends think that they look younger then I do at the proper weight for my height and with less make up because I have grey hair! I love my grey hair and I wish they made more products for it.

Um 36 is not old so this article is kinda dumb, acting like Kate Moss is this old and wise person at just 36. I could understand if she was 46 then we can see now a profound shift, and how the heck you got Grey hair at 36 aren't you suppose to get that at like in your 50ish?

I don't think women should intentionally dye there hair grey, its a daft idea

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