Should You go Grey Naturally or Dye Your Hair as You Age? (Poll)

My opinion: It all kinda depends. Some women look better with their hair dyed, others look better gray.

now, this is absolutely true for the "two standard deviations from the mean" crowd. about 10-20% of people are absolutely gonna look better dying, and about 10-20% absolutely need to let it go gray.

for the rest of us, it's somewhere in the bell curve to varying degrees.

BIG FACTOR: the quality of the dye job. If you're gonna be fake, you gotta spend some cash and invest some time so that your fakeness looks at least plausibly natural to some extent. the minute that your dyed hair looks dyed and you can't make it look natural enough...that's when you outghta just go gray.

hair! i hear the word and the first thing i think of is george carlin and his view concerning hair. thus i bring to you georges poem dedicated to hair. ( a short beard poem is here as well)

I'm aware some stare at my hair. In fact, to be fair, Some really despair of my hair.

But I don't care,Cause they're not aware,Nor are they devonaire.In fact, they're just square.

They see hair down to there,Say, "Beware" and go off on a tear!I say, "No fair!"

A head that's bare is really nowhere.So be like a bear, be fair with your hair!

Show it you care.Wear it to there.Or to there.Or to there, if you dare!

My wife bought some hair at a fair, to use as a spare. Did I care?Au contraire!Spare hair is fair!

In fact, hair can be rare.Fred Astair got no hair,Nor does a chair,Nor nor a chocolate eclair,And where is the hair on a pear?

Nowhere, mon frere!
So now that I've shared this affair of the hair,I'm going to repair to my lair and use Nair, do you care?

(Beard Poem)

Here's my beard.Ain't it wierd?Don't be sceered,Just a beard.

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My grey is nicely silver. If it weren't...I might dye. I wanted a silver chignon but grew weary of the bulk of long hair. Now cut in a "Robin Roberts" short short do! (My sister, 7 years my senior, colors hers and then streaks purple across the front.)

Earned every grey, it's a sign of distinction.

I would say the same to women, don't hide your grey, embrace them and make the look work for you, better natural than dyed...

It cracks me up when I see a 50 year old guy with shoe polish black hair or beard.

Oh and if you're over 50 and you dont show your forehead, I'm gonna say it's a rug.

started graying at 27

my hair has been disappearing for a while now

i'm not vain so it really doesn't matter

but the pressures and expectations put on women, that just isn't right, to me they are all beautiful, there is nothing like an elegant woman that feels loved, the beauty shines out of her

Never dyed my hair (except for one show, and that was black hair spray for King and I) and I never plan to. Grey hides well in dirty blonde hair, plus with all the stress from my daughter's school (doesn't want to do homework, yadda yadda), there will be no hair left to go grey after I pull it all out!

Well, it depends on what color the gray is. I'd love to let my hair go gray, but my gray is really ugly, spotty. At least since I don't have dark hair, I can go much longer without coloring. But the really bizarre thing about my hair is, no matter how dark I color it (I've actually gone as dark as light brown), within two weeks it's light blond! Guess my blond roots run REALLY deep, LOL.

I'm just not ready for gray or white hair. It doesn't fit me-even at 57.

"Church lady" hair does fascinate me though.....and I can't stand the way some older women cut their hair off at the back of their neck, and sort of shave it upwards!!!!

I have seen a few attractive silver/white hairstyles. It's all about personal preference.

I am was a blond most of my life, as it darkened I started getting it weaved. I do it twice a year and it blends well enough to last. I don't like the dirty blond that comes in but at some point I will probably let it go au naturel. My mom let her hair grow in naturally after it fell out with chemo and it is the first time in my life I've seen her natural color (she was a blond), now a brunettish dirty blond. Very little grey, yea!. So it took her til age 80, I might last that long.

It's a race Ms Cyprah, I'm graying but it is falling out maintaining a lighter color and very thin, and some grey.

It really depends if you (the person) find the change to your liking - letting nature do its thing or you doing your thing, or both you and nature partnering together to make what ever thing you like.

It's up to the person.

Yes, there have been some eye-popping out moments where I just remember what Mother used to say, "If you don't have something good to say, don't say it at all".

I started going grey at age 18. One here and there. Finally it just got too hard pulling them all out, so I decided to "streak" my hair. Well what a freakin' pain! I only did that once. Since about age 30, I've been dying my hair.

I've seen some beautiful women with gorgeous grey hair and it works for them. I've seen others that look really washed out, so obviously they should consider dying. I think I wouldn't look good with totally grey hair, and yet, I noticed that I'm too old for that dark color. So, I've gone lighter shades of brown and it's working well for me.

Sticking with it as long as I can, and will adjust the color accordingly.

My favorite hair color is a silver white. I had a neighbor once in her seventies with the most beautiful silver white hair. It looked like snow and I just wanted to touch it.

I'm fifty, and if I have grey hair I don't know it. My hair is naturally blond and maybe the grey blends in with the blond. Who knows. If it does turn, I hope it's silver white like my neighbor.

I've been dyeing my hair since I was 17 so I can't say too much about coloring vs gray. BUT in the last 6 months I've had a handful of grays pop up in the front-right section of my forehead. I was going to leave them alone-ish and then accidentally dyed my hair burgundy for Christmas. (oops) Now I figure I'll leave them covered up until either a) I'm in my 30s or b) I have kids and can "blame" them for the grays. If I go with option B I'll have to swear my hairdresser to secrecy since she's the one who spotted the grays in the first place. :)

The interior decorater in me must speak. "It's best when the drapes match the carpet, the curtains match the rug, the .........", nevermind, you get the point. From grey, white, black and silvery, all over. : )

the hair dye interacts with my medications, and makes my hair fall out, so I am going gray naturally, and will stay that way. I'd rather have hair, even if gray, than no hair. :-)

My mother, who, at 81 is still a natural dark blond, hates my hair, because she think it makes HER look old. But I like it-- I think it looks 'distinguished'. :-)

(A) but I'm a guy and who cares what color my hair is.

I think there's a lot to factor in here. I started going grey [the silvery type grey] @ only 16!!! So, I think age has a lot to do with it... Then, there's the "I'm not ready to be grey" group... That's me now @ 33. I have some silvery roots now, but I don't think I'm totally ready to let it fly. I think I'll be a bit more accepting of my silver after 40.

I know some that look better with their silvery locks then their younger color.

My natural color is DARK brown [almost black] with lots of salt [for my age]. I'm glad it's the silvery [glistening] grey, but I'm so not ready to let it fly yet. I do however, love my hair otherwise. It's got body, but it's not curly. It's thick, but not unmanagable. I have a lot of hair, but not too much for my head. I can sport a short cut or a med-long cut and I get compliments. I can have my hair bright flaming red or a natural brown or black or dark dirty blond or all of them in streaks... Still get compliments.

All my life my hair was thick and to my waist, a chestnut brown. I was still young when a few greys came in, I touched it up a little, then a lot. I decided I didn't want to dye it anymore, but what to do? So I had my head buzzed to about two inches long all over. I will say that my husband had a fit! It took a long time to grow it long again, but I had fun spiking it with colors and all kinds of styles as it grew, with many cuttings along the way. Now it is shoulder length and almost all silver. I simply wanted to know what I looked like, what the Lord had wrought, so to speak. I am okay with it.