Time for a hair thread

Maybe get a haircut?
I looked in the mirror last night and decided I looked like one of those loonies in Monty Python.
I'm starting to look like Cousin It from the Addams Family.

Edit: for those who don't know what Cousin It looks like...
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I probably won't get around to getting mine done for another week or so. It's too cold out to leave the house for anything but groceries (and work).
I asked my son to do the back when when he was here ✂️ unfortunately I can’t find the enthusiasm to do the front 😂
Also I think I have decided to go grey but I’m not 100% on that.

What’s everyone else’s opinion on going grey? I’m 52 if that has any bearing 🤷‍♀️
The questions aimed more and women than men who can go grey and get treated with more respect where as women have a very different experience.
 
Haircuts - I just got mine cut after three months, and it was well down past my collar and flirting with my nipple area.

I gave her the go-ahead to “do with me what you will” - which sadly resulted only in a haircut, but she did cut off a good 4-5 inches and layered it in the back, and had the sides framing my face like a mini-Jennifer Aniston.

Then I showered and now it’s all gone. :laugh:
 
I asked my son to do the back when when he was here ✂️ unfortunately I can’t find the enthusiasm to do the front 😂
Also I think I have decided to go grey but I’m not 100% on that.

What’s everyone else’s opinion on going grey? I’m 52 if that has any bearing 🤷‍♀️
The questions aimed more and women than men who can go grey and get treated with more respect where as women have a very different experience.
My sister was 66 when she decided to go gray and it looks nice on her. She had more grays than I do at my age (she got it from my dad's side). My pedicurist decided to go gray as well. The way she did it was to have some brown highlights added in on the top layers as the gray grew so it looked more natural. She is completely gray now. I think whatever makes you more comfortable. I will say that I think that gray on me would make me look much older. I am just not ready for it. It really has nothing to do with others perception of me, but I wouldn't be completely gray, it would just be a few silvery streaks for now.

I am still coloring my hair. I have naturally dark blonde hair (I had very light blonde hair as a child) and I go medium blonde now...it lightens considerably when I spend a lot of time in the sun so it gives me natural highlights. I think going a shade lighter if you decide to dye your hair is the way to go. Also, I color at home (not forking out $150 to go have it done somewhere). I use a good quality haircolor product and it looks natural.

I wish US spelling was grey instead of gray. It looks right to me, but over here I would have gotten a negative score on my perfect spelling tests, LOL!
 
I asked my son to do the back when when he was here ✂️ unfortunately I can’t find the enthusiasm to do the front 😂
Also I think I have decided to go grey but I’m not 100% on that.

What’s everyone else’s opinion on going grey? I’m 52 if that has any bearing 🤷‍♀️
The questions aimed more and women than men who can go grey and get treated with more respect where as women have a very different experience.
It happens! Get this...
 
Going grey - I’ll answer for my wife.

As I’ve detailed before, MrsT has hair like the thickest hedge that’s ever hedged. For years, even when we first met, she was getting it touched up, enhancing her natural brown-to-auburn coloring, and she continued to do so right up until just a few years ago.

She frankly got tired of paying $300 a pop to have her hair colored (like I said, it’s thick, so it would take twice the product and three times the time to get it done), and as “Granny hair” was having a moment (meaning, women who weren’t grey having their hair dyed that color), and on the advice of her stylist…she went all natural.

Now, her hair is (no pun intended) fifty shades of grey…and white…and silver…and platinum…it’s like a rainbow in greys, and it looks fantastic, especially when she pulls it back and reveals all the variations underneath. Imagine all the variations of the sun’s rays, from intense orange, bright gold, and pale yellow, then imagine that as a black-and-white image…then multiply the complexity by a thousand. That’s what her hair looks like.

It immediately became her most recognizable feature, and I can attest that in the first 30 years of marriage, no one really made much fuss over her hair, unless the subject specifically came up (because it’s always been thick and healthy), but now, every single tine she goes out, at least one stranger will approach her and say something, like, “Excuse me, but is that your natural hair color? How do you get those streaks? My god, it’s stunning!” - it happened twice yesterday.

Funny thing is…she’s still self-conscious about it, because she’s from that generation that thinks of women with grey hair as old and wrinkled and ugly. She does, though, when she’s meeting clients for the first time say, “You’ll know it’s me when you see a woman with hair that looks like a dandelion about to go to seed.”
 
What’s everyone else’s opinion on going grey? I’m 52 if that has any bearing 🤷‍♀️
The questions aimed more and women than men who can go grey and get treated with more respect where as women have a very different experience.
Same age, but no idea. I've gone from auburn to dark brown. No sign of black or grey yet.
 
My sister was 66 when she decided to go gray and it looks nice on her. She had more grays than I do at my age (she got it from my dad's side). My pedicurist decided to go gray as well. The way she did it was to have some brown highlights added in on the top layers as the gray grew so it looked more natural. She is completely gray now. I think whatever makes you more comfortable. I will say that I think that gray on me would make me look much older. I am just not ready for it. It really has nothing to do with others perception of me, but I wouldn't be completely gray, it would just be a few silvery streaks for now.

I am still coloring my hair. I have naturally dark blonde hair (I had very light blonde hair as a child) and I go medium blonde now...it lightens considerably when I spend a lot of time in the sun so it gives me natural highlights. I think going a shade lighter if you decide to dye your hair is the way to go. Also, I color at home (not forking out $150 to go have it done somewhere). I use a good quality haircolor product and it looks natural.

I wish US spelling was grey instead of gray. It looks right to me, but over here I would have gotten a negative score on my perfect spelling tests, LOL!
It will defo make me look a lot older but I’m not sure I’m bothered. However my hair has always been a reliable feature I’ve enjoyed. It’s always been very dark brown to black and incredibly shiny, the top layer has a red sheen in the sun.
People frequently ask how I make it so shiny and quite a few complete strangers have tried (and in some cases succeeded) to touch it!

Thing is giving up having shiny hair for grey isn’t something I fancy but it’s soon going to get to a point where it’s not just my parting that needs a bit of help. I’ll soon be doing a full head of hair and then facing having to grow it out when they’ll be a more obvious tide line.
I dunno. There’s certainly an undefined age where hair as dark as mine starts to look odd on an older face.
I’m not at that point yet but I’m not sure I want to go there or to try to dye my hair a lighter colour which would be very hard when most of it’s naturally black.
 
It will defo make me look a lot older but I’m not sure I’m bothered. However my hair has always been a reliable feature I’ve enjoyed. It’s always been very dark brown to black and incredibly shiny, the top layer has a red sheen in the sun.
People frequently ask how I make it so shiny and quite a few complete strangers have tried (and in some cases succeeded) to touch it!

Thing is giving up having shiny hair for grey isn’t something I fancy but it’s soon going to get to a point where it’s not just my parting that needs a bit of help. I’ll soon be doing a full head of hair and then facing having to grow it out when they’ll be a more obvious tide line.
I dunno. There’s certainly an undefined age where hair as dark as mine starts to look odd on an older face.
I’m not at that point yet but I’m not sure I want to go there or to try to dye my hair a lighter colour which would be very hard when most of it’s naturally black.
Right, I have very few wrinkles and I think gray hair would look odd on me (I've been avid about moisturizing and taking vitamins for a very long time...and thank god I moved away from Florida years ago).

My oldest daughter has dark hair like her father, but she started getting grays in her late 20s like her grandpa did (hubby has only a few stray grays like his mother did). DD started coloring it at around 30. She goes from varying shades of dark brown to an eggplant color at times. Her hair is thick and shiny as well. I have seen young women dyeing their hair gray and it's quite interesting, it's a shade of gray that is obviously not natural but looks nice somehow.
 
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