If I’m like my dad, (and so far seem to be), I won’t go gray until into my 60s. I have dark blonde hair that still looks the same as it did when I was a teen (don’t hate 
it’s the only pretty thing I’ve got left, the rest of me, well… if the cryptkeeper was fat, that’d be me!). I’m not sure if I’ll color or not. If you’re a blonde, how do you color properly?
I’m 55 and the last couple of inches of my dyed hair hit the salon floor today. My hair is entirely my natural color for the first time since I was about 24 – a medium chestnut brown with maybe 5-10% gray – and it doesn’t look nearly as bad as I feared. If I ever do anything to it again, it will be henna, but right now I feel liberated from the whole relentless hair color routine.
Oh, and Happy Birthday, Scubaqueen! 
Last month I decided to get my eyebrows dyed, since they were fairly grey. It’s a vegetable dye that is supposed to last about 4 weeks, so if I decide to maintain that look (it’s not expensive), I’ll need to get it done more often than the 2-3 times per year I get my hair colored. It sounds goofy, but it doesn’t take long and the results are worth it.
Late 30s. I either do home color or highlights/lowlights. And I’m not covering the grey to be vain (I have a pretty grey), I’m covering the grey until my kids get out of high school because I don’t want them to have evidence for “you don’t understand, you were never YOUNG!!!”
I’m 55, have some grey but not too much, never dyed it and never will. Why bother?
OK, I’m sold. Henna it is. It would be gentler on my hair than chemicals too.
I promise, I don’t work for www.hennaforhair.com, but they’re totally worth paying the outrageous shipping prices for. The stuff is all tested for purity and consistency, and it’s so finely ground it goes in and rinses out really easily. I’ve used henna from other sources, and it was like smearing mudpies and sticks in my hair! I have found their estimates for how much henna you need to be high for me personally - they say 200grams for collar length hair and 300 for shoulder length, but my thick, wavy hair is a bit below my shoulders, and I have a whole coneful in my freezer because 200grams was more than I needed. (It’s cool though, it will last up to a year in the freezer, and I’ll need it before then to touch up my roots.)
Henna does have some downsides. Its a messy self application. The color is often brassy. And I can’t get it to adhere to my grey at all. But DO give it a shot.
Nothing ages the appearance of a woman like grey hair. I used to roll my eyes at the vanity of some women with all the time and money spent to look their best, but as I get older I’m appreciating my wife and female contemporary friends and aquaintances who colour their hair. Otherwise they would remind me that I’m getting old.
I offered to start using grecian formula to look younger for my wife, but she likes me the way I am. Go figure.
My original hair color was kind of a chestnutty-auburn with natural sun streaks. I started going grey when I was about 25 - a Lily Munster streak.
I then started with L’Oreal and colored my hair various shades of blonde till I was about 45 - 5 years ago. I got tired of the hassle and made a deal with myself that if the natural color was platinum or silver or white, I’d keep it.
I got lucky - it’s platinum and I love it. It actually looks blonde, and people ask what hair color I’m using. I get compliments all the time on it, and my hair has never been healthier.
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I’m in my mid-30s and have only noticed one or two grey hairs but I’m not planning to dye except for fun unless it goes horribly patchy grey like my mom’s did until it was all grey and suddenly looked much better. Even then, part of me thinks, “Ha! I won’t!” and part of me wonders who the other part thinks it’s kidding. Even if I end up dyeing I’ll quit like my mom has once it’s gone all over and let it go long like a lot of women do up here; there are a lot of not-so-ex hippies up here and I think really long grey hair looks great.
I had one great-grandmother with snow white hair and the rest of us hope we’ll achieve that eventually. Nobody has yet, including my maternal grandma who is her daughter. She’s 90 and I think will remain annoyed about that for the rest of her life.
I know somebody with some salt-and-pepper grey plus awesome grey streaks at both her temples. That? Would be awesome.
Please stop; there is nothing cooler than silver temples. You can emphasize them to give you authority by pulling your hair back, or let them peak out subtly. I used to love my silver temples.
Is this a deposit only color? If so, where do you get it? I can’t find it anymore.
Except hair dyed back to the color she had in her teens. Lighter hair color is kinder to an older skin.