Grey Hair - Growing Old Gracefully?

Question

I'm after peoples opinions. I am 46 and have had dark brown hair all my life. I still have a fabulously thick head of hair, however I am rapidly going grey (particularly at the front.

I am wondering whether to continue to dye my hair to remove the grey or to just let it come through and grow old gracefully. What do you think?

Answer 1

Natural's Best But If You Don't Want It looking Grey Dye It =)

Answer 2

For me the answer was easy, dye, dye, dye.  I'm very fair skinned and a brunette.  When my hair started graying it really washed all the color out of my face, even when I was wearing make up.  However, I did talk with my stylist about what do do when the day came I no longer wanted to dye my hair.  She told me about reverse dying.  Instead of dying your hair darker, you slowly lift color (I guess kind of like doing a frost or highlighting).  At any rate, the result is that you do it gradually so that you don't go from having dark hair, to a gawd-awful bi-color (gray roots, dark ends) do to a shocking nasty gray.  Instead you gradually move into the gray until you are at a point when it has come on so naturally that you don't need to color any more.  Just something to consider.

Answer 3

I would keep dyeing it and maybe consider letting the grey come through in 15 or so years. Honestly all the women I know around your age that don't dye their greys look at least 10 years older than they are!