I’m 45 next week and I dyed my hair. To Hell with natural beauty!
Hi Cyn, it looks nice! And happy upcoming birthday!
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Why is this in the Pit?)
I’m thinking this thread is more about sharing than Pitting, so I’ll send it over to MPSIMS.
And the hair looks awesome, by the way. 
It looks wonderful, and happy birthday!
I’ll be 47 in December and I’ve been assisting Mother Nature for years!
I maintain it isn’t vanity, I don’t want my kids to think I’m actually a clueless old person.
Not that it works.
Like most of the women in my family, my dark brown hair started going grey in high school. I’ve been dying for decades now!
Looks good, Cyn.
Yummy!
Er, I mean… looks good!
That looks really great, Cyn! If it looks natural, you can count it as natural beauty. It’s all you!
I believe it was Lucille Ball who, when asked if she was a natural redhead, responded, “Yes, that’s what it said on the bottle.”
At 54 the only gray I have is in my beard; someone once asked if I ever thought of dyeing it, but I don’t really care if it makes me look older. Your hair looks great, Cyn, and very natural.
As I always say… better living through chemistry. Why go gray when you have Miss Clairol (or whatever) to keep you looking fabulous 
BTW, Happy Birthday!!
I like it!
It looks great and I love the style too.
I dye my hair to cover the grey but the color is about as close as I can get to my natural color.
I had to laugh at my BF last week. He was talking to his mother on the phone. They have not seen each other in many years. They must have been talking about getting older and he says “yeah I have some grey but there is still some brown in there”
I busted out laughing as all his hair is grey with white highlights. I could not resist yelling out that he was lying and there was not a brown hair on his head.
YOu don’t look 45. srsly
I’ve been helping mother nature for almost 30 years.
I’m 41 next month.
Looks gorgeous Cyn, as do you!
Makes me feel better coz I botched a dye job tonight. I intended red highlights to go with my demon costume. Instead, I got ‘visible from outerspace and doubles as a landing beacon’.
You can calm down the redness by washing your hair with some liquid dish soap. That can take the LOUDNESS out of the hair.
Personally, I’ve always wanted blue hair. Electric blue hair.
Happy birthday, Cyn.
I had been dyeing my hair(blonde) since I was sixteen and two years ago I decided to quit and grow my natural color back out. It felt good! I found I actually liked my natural color and was glad to be free of the monthly sturm and drang. I was free… free!
What do I start seeing a few months ago? Uh huh, grey hairs.
Why does Og hate me?
For the record I’m 47.
I had to use dish soap to clean the dye off my body because I forgot that my hair is now long enough to reach down past my shoulders and thusly cover me in red hair dye. I looked like I killed people.
Do it again on Halloween! Sorry, but I am laughing over here–I can picture the red streaks down your chest and arms and neck.
I hope the color settles down a bit.
I started dying my hair about 2 years ago(I’m now 46)-back to it’s original shade. I have some gray, all around my face. I stopped highlighting, and went back to my teenage color-dark blonde with red undertones. It’s nice, and it’s not too much maintenance (unlike the highlights). OP: your hair looks great!
I’m 33. I’ve always felt that I had no interest in dying my hair. In particular, I don’t want to keep up with the maintainance.
On the other hand, I have an annoying number of grey hairs up by my temple. Not enough to persuade me to try dying, but enough to make me reconsider for a while.
I don’t care if I’m grey at 40 (although I reserve the right to change my mind in 7 years), but this sprinkling of grey hairs is pissing me off more than I expected it to.
Both parents started greying by 30something. Little brother has either more grey hairs or more prominent grey hairs than I have. I think it’s half the fact that his hair is short (mine’s shoulder length) and half that his is so dark brown (mine’s medium brown).
I plan on colouring my hair any damned colour I please when I’m an old lady - everyone just assumes when old ladies have weird hair colours that their rinse got away on them.