My hair has been going white for a few years now. Frankly I don’t mind, but now I’m getting a white patch on the side of my head that looks kinda stupid.
I’ve been thinking about trying some hair coloring, but I can’t say I have ever seen hair coloring for a guy that looked good (or it could be that I only notice the bad ones).
So, what’s the opinion on this?
Sure, if you don’t overdo it. Just For Men is a good product, but the instructions tell you to leave it in much too long. Experiment, starting with 1 minute. It will at the very least mute the gray.
I don’t think they ever look good but then again, maybe I’m just noticing the bad ones. If you decide to go through with it then get it professionally done. The home products are effective but they have a steep and painful learning curve.
Not that I’ve ever seen.
Once you start you’re stuck for life. Unless you want to pull a Bob Barker and age 30 years in a month.
No, just go natural, side spot and all…you’re not really that vain are you?
Also, you said it’s going white. I have always distinguised between people that develop grey hair and white hair as they age. Too me they are not the same. People that go white, tend to go all white eventually, e.g. no pigment at all in their hair, where as grey is mottled in color.
I really don’t mind going white (and it does seem to be white without any pigment), but having one dominant spot looks silly.
Maybe I should do the whole thing white? Nah.
Think of it as your trademark.
What’s your hair color?
For men with dark black hair, coloring the grey is cheap and effective.
I have found A Touch Of Grey to be OK. While it is true that they may be looking for tips, I have had more than one hair cutter tell me that he or she could not tell.
Just for Men is, as someone already said, a good product at a fair price. I find their TV ads incredibly sleazy though, from a demeaning to women perspective. I used to color my hair when I was job-hunting, when my hair was in the mousy, grey-brown mode, and it helped. These days, appearance seems so important to people, even valued above all else (e.g. would anyone really give a rat’s behind about Lindsey Lohan and her nonsense if she wasn’t attractive?) You need to put your best face forward. Don’t leave it on too long as it will stain your scalp for a day or two. It shouldn’t look so incredibly unnatural, like say Ronald Reagans did. If the skunk mark bothers you, lose it. Having a professional treatment is a good idea, but if you spend a lot of money this way and it still looks bad, you may be pulling it all out anyway.
Even if it looks good/natural, it isn’t attractive, IMHO. Men dying their hair is right up there with them painting their nails, for me. It suggests vanity and prissiness.
Oh, please. I’ve been dying my hair since I was 14 years old and I’m hardly some shallow person.
OP, if you want to dye your hair, go get it professionally done the first time. Watch what they do, then when you get an at home kit, you can copy it. I will say: men do get a lot more leeway than women in life, in regard to graying hair. You get labeled as distinguished for that gray patch, but if you don’t like it, fix it.
Something tells me that a lot of posters in this thread don’t realize just how many men dye their hair. It isn’t as obvious as it is on women, so that may be why. Well that, and men get labeled as prissy for dying their hair. I suppose because I’m a consultant for a salon and am there several times a week, I see just how many men come through their doors. Hell, my hairdresser and I have talked about this a few times. My own dad dyes his hair, though you would never know by looking at him.
And of course everyone notices the bad dye jobs-- you wouldn’t notice if it is done right. That’s the point of gray cover up dye jobs.
Maybe I just notice the bad dye jobs, but, it NEVER looks good to me!
If you absolutely must, have it done by a professional.
On the flip side, I find women who don’t dye their hair to be very appealing. Ilove the natural look.
My former boss used to dye his hair and it looked absolutely perfect, but then again, the whole three years I worked for him, he had always been doing it, so I never knew him to look any other way.
I remember one day talking to him about his boss (the CEO) looked pretty old since he was completely gray and my boss confessed he was actually older than the CEO and that he’d have to let him hair stylist know her outrageous fees were worth every penny…
The new “A Touch of Gray” is pretty cool stuff. It works by oxidizing with the air instead of a separate developer, which is cool because it comes premixed in an airtight tube. When you put the stuff on your hair and the air hits it, then starts developing. What’s really neat about this is, instructions be damned, you *can *save the leftovers for another application later - IF you squeeze all the air out of the tube before recapping it. When you go to use it again, look at it - if it’s still clear, it’s been kept away from the air and will work on your hair.
It’s not meant for full gray coverage, it’s meant to dye only some of the hairs on your white spot. This works especially well for men, as it leaves you with your “distinguished” grays, but you can eliminate weird extra gray (or white) spots. It also reduces or eliminates the look of “roots” and that agonizing couple of months when you decide to stop coloring and let nature take its course while your hair grows out.
One tip, especially if you’re using a dark color: get some Vaseline (or other petroleum jelly) and carefully apply a thin sheet of it to your forehead, neck and behind your ears right at the hairline. This will prevent the dye from coming in contact with your skin and dyeing it!
So… How you doin?
Wow. Photo 1 is exactly what I have, same side even.
In case you don’t know, that’s actor and comedian John Henson, currently the host of a game show called Wipeout. When he was the host of Talk Soup, his nickname was “Skunk Boy,” which totally endeared him to me and was the first thing I thought of when I read your OP. The other picture is actor Charles Shaughnessy, another favorite of mine, who has used his white spot as a plot point and source of self-deprecating humor in a number of roles. As you can see from the recent picture, the rest of his head is finally starting to catch up.
As a fan, I say do as these guys did – embrace the spot and make it your trademark.
