I started to turn grey at age 39 when my health problems started. My natural color is brown with red highlights.

At first, I had it colored to match my natural color but the grey hair would start showing through. It stuck out so bad with my dark color. My hair stylist said it was because the grey was a different texture and didn't hold the color as well. I wanted to go lighter but she said it would turn brassy on my dark hair. I kept going to her for years until she moved her salon.

I got a new hair stylist 7 years ago. I am now blonde with brown highlights and have a new hair style that is so easy to take care of. I started out with just a few blonde highlights to hide the grey and got finally got the nerve to make the change. I love getting my hair done, it's one of my favorite things.

The guy who colors my hair for me had a lot of problems getting the color to work on my hair. Last time I got it colored, he used a different formulation and I guess, a stronger peroxide on my hair to get it the nice dark brown that I would normally have.

It worked, and my hair has stayed a darker color for a longer time. Usually it would start showing after just a month, but it's been almost two months and so far it's holding up pretty well.

I was ok with the brown until I hit 50, I really wanted to go lighter. When I see people that I haven't seen for a while and they see my blonde hair, they always say they like it better and I look younger. I don't know about looking younger.

I do like it better, I guess because it is such a huge change for me since I am so conservative. I'm heading towards 57 soon and am going to keep it light. It just looks better since I am so pale. The pic in my avatar has kind of a yellow tint to it for some reason so it doesn't show up as blonde as it is. The brick wall behind me is white and it turned out yellow. I'm trying to fix it but haven't found the right program yet.

When my hair is colored the dark brown, people think that I'm younger than I am. (I've had people think I was 19, or at least around 24yrs old)

When my hair goes back to gray, people can usually guess fairly close to my real age of 38. (be 39 in May )

When it gets to be way too expensive, or too big of a pain in the...then I'll probably quit coloring my hair for good and just allow it to start becoming the color of my dad's hair (pure white!)

I'll probably just end up getting my hair cut short (it's shoulder length right now) long before I stop coloring my hair.

I used to have really long hair (down to my butt) and I just loved having it long like that. It was about mid-back when I got the MS diagnosis, and it's been slowly becoming shorter in the past year and a half.

Last time I went to get my hair cut, I told him I was considering cutting it short. I was playing with my hair, mostly because he'd just colored it for me, and he thought I was showing him how much hair to cut off.



He chopped 4 inches off of my hair!!

I was only ticked off for a few minutes, and then decided that I was going to eventually cut it that short, so I told him it looked good and paid him.

So now my hair is the shortest that it's been since I was in 8th grade (same guy cut my hair to my mom's specifications and I've never forgiven my mom for telling him to chop my hair like that)

I package mine and sell it to the local factory that makes afghans. Grey is supposed to be very hot this spring!



But seriously, my hair used to be a medium-dark brown with reddish blonde highlights depending on the season.

Now it's a mousy, grey streaked brown so I get blonde highlights done every twelve weeks. They pull them through the cap, lighten them, and that's it! I don't have a lot of chemicals coming in contact with my scalp that way either.

Vanity, thy name is hair.

Moose has stuck with the high speed/low maintenance haircut with clippers for a while. No comb overs, no grays.

Except when I let the beard grow out...

Have you noticed none of our emotiocoms have hair? Huh? Huh?
Bald is just easier.

And super sexy, too!

Or... something.

Well Moose, it looks good on you.



I doubt it would work for me - my head is lumpy. Bad as my hair is, it covers the lumps.



I started going gray as a teen. And I was relieved because in my family, it either goes gray or it just goes. But I started coloring it at age 30 and I'm not ready to go natural yet. I'm about 50% gray now, and it's not pretty. When it's more white than brown, I think it'll look nice like my mom's. Then I'll let it go white.

Becky if you send me that pic I will throw it in PS and see what I can do.

<wink-wink> You know what they say about bald men!!