Keira Lennox - To gray or not to gray: that is the question.
To gray or not to gray: that is the question.
I’ve been coloring my brown hair since I could drive myself to the drugstore. When I decided to grow out my ombre highlights last year — still a work in progress — I thought I’d give my hair a rest from the chemicals and go au naturale for while.
It turns out, I like my natural color… and now my head is being slowly colonized by grays.
When women start to gray, we find ourselves at a fork in the road: one path leads to years in our colorist’s chair waging a war against our roots, and the other embraces it. There’s even an #embracethegray hashtag, which I discovered while scouring Pinterest and Instagram for fierce ladies who let their silver shine; see: Sarah Harris.
To blend everything in, I want to add some hand-painted balayage highlights to the crown and around my face. They’re more subtle and grow-out friendly than foils, and will hopefully camouflage the gray without the need for regular root touchups.
Best case scenario, I end up with some awesome natural highlights like this gorgeous model from Cisthene.
Love your gray – think of the Universe as your Colorist!
@crystalannrod on instagram pulls off the silver hair look!
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I’m dark blonde and my hair goes quite light in the sun. I always used to have some highlights put in during the winter to lighten things up, but, now mother nature does it for me with what I like to call the ‘platinum blonde’ streaks. I have rather a baby-face, so, I welcome the greys an in fact do an on purpose side part to show them off during job interviews… can’t wait to see how you play with yours!
I love that you are embracing your grey roots. I’m currently in the process of dying my hair grey. Your beautiful just the way you are.
Im in the same exact position!!! Embrace it!
I loved the gray hair color.
Grey is beautiful! It’s like a prize for unlocking a life achievement! If you can learn to accept yourself, it’s much easier (and cheaper) than waging that war at the salon.
Go grey! I love silver hair, I think it’s so beautiful!
At 24 I think I have something like 4 grey hairs already! I come from a family of women who all dye their hair into their 80s and 90s so I’m not sure I’ll ever let it go all the way, but ironically it’s really “in” for 20 something year olds to dye their hair silver.
I discovered my first gray hair when I was 20 and thought it was hilarious. As they have begun to multiply over the years I started to find it less and less funny. I had convinced myself to embrace the gray and actually dye a gray streak, a-la Stacey London (So Fabulous!). My hair stylist wouldn’t let me do it though and now I am left trying to figure out my next move… Good luck!
I think if you work anything with confidence then it’s never wrong.
oh Id say leave it!! be unique…Ive been colouring mine for years now and feel like im a slave to my roots! its a nightmare actually as Im always colouring once a month, pricey salon prices and time wasting too haha…Ive got a Gray Pinterest inspiration board https://www.pinterest.com/percivalroad/gray/ for when I try to go natural…one day!
Love this! Women are told to change so many things about themselves… it’s refreshing to see women embrace their natural and true beauty! Good on you for embracing the gray!
I love that you have the courage to take that leap. Embrace your inner silver goddess!
I know a couple of women who dye, and they look pretty, but me and my mom go ‘au naturale’ (although I don’t have to deal with grays yet) and we love it.
Beauty is ageless. Gray is beautiful.