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Old Sep 10, 2012, 05:34 PM
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I do and want to stop!!!! I am an addict!! I'm not even kidding, if I see about a cm and a half I will do my roots.

It's a very pale blonde, and my natural colour has become a light ash blonde. But when I try to grow it out I cannot handle it. I can't afford to throw a few hundred bucks at colour correction either. I was a hair dresser so I can do it myself, but there is not enough pigment to hold on to anything in the chemically treated part of my hair, so the added colour will last a week or so and is gone. Tried using filler, nope nothing works.

The other day I was seriously considering chopping it all off and starting over. But I dunno if I can do it. I just want my natural colour back. I have been dying it since I was 12 and am 33 now, Have not seen the natural colour since.

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Old Sep 10, 2012, 05:34 PM
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my hair has pink tips right now
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Old Sep 10, 2012, 08:04 PM
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I'm 44, grey and growing old disgracefully. How about you? Do you dye your hair? Does it make a difference to how you feel?
I stopped dying my hair around age 50 and its a nice silver now... I think it depends on how you feel inside . I am actually getting a little bored with it and might put in low lights . I just got tired of always having to touch up the roots and after a while the greay just woudn't absorb dye very well. I didn't want to end up looking like other older (59) people where its obvious the hair is dyed....
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Old Sep 11, 2012, 02:18 PM
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I just get very bored with the same thing for a long time. It has nothing to do with wanting to hide grey. Heck, I even wanted to go grey at one point, long before it was natural. I just get so easily bored when life is too repetitive.
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Old Sep 11, 2012, 03:09 PM
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I'd LOVE to be free of thinking about it. But the grey just washes me out, and the artist in me cannot handle that at all.

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Old Sep 12, 2012, 08:42 PM
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I dye my hair! it helps a lot! I love when my hair looks good it makes me more self confident!
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Old Sep 12, 2012, 11:04 PM
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i dye my hair my natural color to hide the grey but it fades and the sun lightens it. I look forward to it all turning grey so I can quit, Such a mess!!
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Old Sep 13, 2012, 12:44 AM
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Yes, I dye my hair because grey is nota good color for me. I get kind of a buzz on when I dye my hair because it looks more like ME. Will probably do it until I'm 100. It's a cheap high!!
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Old Sep 14, 2012, 11:11 AM
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I do not dye my hair since I do not have to look at it.
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Old Sep 15, 2012, 12:33 AM
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I love my naturally dark brown colour but since my hair is thinning. the ddark tones show the thinning more easily. Lighter tones are more flattering as it thins.
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Old Sep 15, 2012, 12:35 AM
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I'm 44, grey and growing old disgracefully. How about you? Do you dye your hair? Does it make a difference to how you feel?
Wait. Horses get grey hair?

Mind. Blown.

(Sorry. I can't help myself. )

I dye my hair. I dye it often. I couldn't even really describe my natural hair colour since it is so multi-tonal. At the moment it is more red, because I dyed it last week. Or was it this week. I forgot.
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Old Sep 15, 2012, 12:04 PM
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Wait. Horses get grey hair?
Yes, real horses as they get older, get grey hair just like older dogs that have darker hair get grey. My horse, Mister, when he was in his late 20's, his face started getting grey. My friend's older golden retriever is also getting a more grey look to his face. Can't see any grey on my eskies since they are pure white with black eyes.
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Old Sep 15, 2012, 12:12 PM
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My pet rock has no gray hair.
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Old Sep 16, 2012, 03:17 AM
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My grey hair is terribly displeasing---aesthetically. Perhaps, if it came in all white and full, it would be different. But it is unacceptable the way it is. Yucky.
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Old Sep 16, 2012, 03:21 AM
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I used to be a hairstylist, so Ive had my hair every color. I used to have long blonde hair, I got really sick of the hassle. I cut it off and dyed it darker. I really love it. Everybody at work comments on how much it really suits me. I do enjoy the feeling when having my hair done.
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Old Sep 18, 2012, 03:24 AM
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I am 59 and I didn't color my prematurely gray hair for a long time, then I colored it for about 5 years. A pain to keep up with and I didn't like putting those chemicals on my head, or down the sewer system. So I stopped and am now au naturel. I am fortunate that I have a lot of white in my hair, particularly the top and front, which is about all I pay attention to anyway.

I looked younger when I colored my hair, but I feel freer not coloring it
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Old Sep 18, 2012, 03:34 AM
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I dye my hair, I only dyed it on Sunday, I have just changed it from dark red to dark brown, If I see one grey hair then on goes the dye
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Old Sep 18, 2012, 03:47 AM
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I've dyed my hair on and off for 15 years (in my 20s). My natural hair used to be kind of a dirty blonde--in the summers I'd get a lot of natural blonde highlights. As I got older that occurred less. Now my hair is the most boring mousey brown you've ever seen. Some ppl say it looks good on me. But I have a dynamic personality and that color simply doesn't match. My hair's been burgundy (my fav when my hair's long), black, purpleish, blue, platinum blonde (w/ and w/o pink highlights), bright red, dark brown...... My favorites are bright burgundy, black, and platinum---oddly I can pull off all of them pretty well. I think it's my skin color; in the winter it's very pale, in the summer it can get quite dark if I'm outdoors a lot (European as well as Indian genes I guess). Right now my hair is black, and pixie-cut. My hair is very thick and has a lot of body, so it's a big pain the butt when it's long (even though everyone's begging me to grow it out).

I've always dyed it myself, aside from the platinum (cause that is some involved *****). I do want it that color again, when I've lost some of this weight.

Having said all that, I like to think that when my hair starts greying it will be really beautiful, like Jamie Lee Curtis'. I've seen older women with stark white hair and thought, "Thank you for not dying that! It is gorgeous." But as ppl have said it's not for everyone. Gotta wait and see.
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Old Sep 18, 2012, 03:51 AM
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I'm 36 and only have about 5 white hairs or should say had (if hubby sees them he says hey look at this PLUCK!! you had a white hair ) Since I was 10 I've dyed my hair off and on. It is totally a mood thing. It has been blue with pink streaks to black with a rainbow braid to just plain blue black. I think white/silver/gray is sexy. I hate that my hubby dyes his to hide the gray. Keep trying to talk him into going natural but no luck. When mine finally goes I don't think I will dye it anymore but it all depends on the mood
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