HI, I ENJOYED VIEWING THE LOVELY GRAY-HAIRED WOMEN.HOWEVER,I GRADUALLY WENT FROM BRUNETTE TO BLONDE AND LOVE THE LOOK. I FEEL YOUNGER… SO IT WORKS FOR ME.

Another redhead here that started going gray on the top and sides at 22 but the back darkened to a medium brownish color. My husband said it looked like a skunk, and he was right. If it would go silver gray all over I’d be happy with that, but didn’t isn’t so I tried going blond to better disguise the gray until it did all turn. But it was taking too long and I got tired of it so I colored it light auburn and still do. If I see that the roots in the back are starting to change I’ll go back to blond and let it grow out.

Have been going gray for years. This is me. I like me. I like my age.

My mom never dyed her hair and I have never dyed mine…both of us went gray in our 40’s. It’s me. I like it and am comfortable with it…and I am not a fusser whem it comes to hair. A few minutes of blow dry and that’s it. I am often the youngest person in a room and the only one with gray hair…and some look great and some look ridiculous…to each their own (and I presume they all think they look great.) By the way, my 59 year old husband has just a tinge at the temples.

Lately I can’t pick up a magzine or turn on the TV without some article or show about gray hair. Most saying dye it, cover those grays. Why not celebrate whatever choice we make? The first thing you notice about me is my white hair. Not gray but sparkling platinum silver silky hair & I love it. Granted, I’m lucky. My hair started to turn when I was 13 and not sprinkled here & there but all in one spot. By the time I graduated High School (in 1969!) I had a silver streak on each side of the part in my very dark brown hair. I wonder if I had started “graying” in my 30’s or 40’s how I’d feel about it. Would I have thought of it as ageing and want to dye it? I don’t know. I only know I never thought of it as getting old just as an identifier, part of who I am. Throughout my 20’s the streak widened considerably. In my 30’s & early 40”s it was a particularly dramatic contrast between the black & white. Now in my 50’s it’s mostly all silver. All the men I’ve met don’t seem to have a problem with it. If it was, those men would pass me by. The men I’ve known have all said they thought it was beautiful and part of me. Men in the street, stores and bars or wherever, will look at me nod and say “nice hair” or use it as an opener to speak to me. Sadly, in my own experience it seems that my hair was more of an issue with other women. They have not been at all afraid to let me know how they feel either. In my 20’s & 30”s mostly older women I didn’t know would speak to me on the street or in elevators—-only when we were alone—-and tell me I really should dye my hair before stalking off or hurriedly putting distance between us. I actually had a woman tell me I make everyone look bad by not dyeing my hair. That’s ridiculous! Sometime in my late 30’s & 40’s it started happening. Occasionally I would run across a woman who would say “nice hair, wish I didn’t have to dye mine.” I also started hearing more from younger women who would say “your hair is beautiful! I hope mine will look like that!” My friends laugh because I am invariable approached in the ladies room of whatever club I’m in with that statement. It’s all been very interesting. I am not the only one, I run across other women with beautiful natural hair and we smile at each other or offer our own compliments. I don’t see what the big deal is. Are we all so vain that we have to have some false idealized image of an 18 year old with long hair and perky breasts as our ideal throughout our lives?? What is wrong with our own image of ourselves, whatever it may be? Whether I dye it or not it’s my choice and its beautiful.

Since my hair was just “light brown” and very fine all my life I always said when I get old I’m going to let my hair grow and wear it in a bun in the back.When I was looking for a new job in my 50s I lost each interview to a younger woman with “more experience”. So I went back to frosted blonde and got right back to work. when I retired I stopped coloring it, and now at 76(next month) love my white hair for which I receive many compliments, and am working on the chignon in the back. Fun to be just me - finally.

I played with gray…after seeing Jamie Lee Curtis I decided to let my very short hair go “natural”. Picking my ten year old up from school one day…one of his friends yelled “Hey! Your Granny is here!” That was the end of gray. Went right back to the red I love…and I mean RED…how red? When I’m outside I’m often stalked by hummingbirds…

I’m in my mid 50s and my hair is platinum gray. While at the beauty salon the other day, the stylist working next to me complimented me on my hair color. My husband of 35 years is perfectly fine with my decision to remain au natural. Why women go through so much effort and expense makes me scratch my head, while men keep their money in their wallets and enjoy additional free time. Why women choose to have hair dey routinely absorbed into their bodies is another matter I question. Best wishes for a delightful Independence Day weekend everyone.

My mother stopped trying to match her red hair when she was fifty. The colors were archaic and her grey hair was much prettier. By the time she was sixty she was platinum white and it was drop dead gorgeous. Her nickname was “the white tornado.” But like all stunning hair color, her’s does not appear naturally very often. A salon owner on my street lightens her grey hair to white, but it does not come close to the shimmer my mother’s had. Alas, I went from light auburn to mud and didn’t have any grey till I hit sixty. I highlight it three shades of blonde and only need to do it every three months. I’ll never have my mother’s white cloud, sadly.

If you’re talking white or silver haired like Meryl in Prada you’d better check the photos you published. Most of them are just blonds. Perhaps not YELLOW blonds but definitely not white or silver. The piece is very good. Pitty the examples…