Going Natural With Your Gray Hair
Color Gray Hair
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Tired of Coloring Gray Hair?
This question has come up often enough in my classes to know it’s blog-worthy. Just picture yourself down the road a few more years or decades whatever the case may be. You’ve been coloring gray hair since you can’t remember and now you are tired of the hassle and expense of touching up gray roots every 4 to 6 weeks. How do you go about going “au natural?”
“Color Gray Hair”
Most of you know you shouldn’t just let your hair grow out – way to scary! If you see someone using this strategy, please help them out with what you learn here. (The easiest solution you can give them is to go on a mission to find a hair color specialist.) Some women have been left without answers to this question and therefore think they have no alternative but to look hideous in the growing hair out process, or they just keep coloring gray hair when they really don’t want to.
So, first of all if your hair stylist “hems and haws” think twice and engage a hair colorist. You want a hair colorist who is confident in the strategy they are going to use. If your hair stylist seems shaky, there is a good reason. They are not sure what to do with color gray hair! If a hair stylist takes you on with this attitude, they are surely getting experience at your expense. Follow your instincts carefully on this one. If it just does not feel right, be assertive.
These are my suggestions:
- If your hair has been permanently colored or bleached, a short haircut will be the quickest. Then you can use a semi-permanent hair color or hair color rinse in your natural shade to blend till your hair grows out. You can have a professional blend your new growth by “low-lighting”. Low-lighting is just the opposite of highlighting. Depositing streaks of hair color using a semi-permanent hair color to blend gray hair until the old hair color is cut out. Your gray hair will start to come in naturally but without a line of demarcation.
- The darker your hair color is, the trickier the process becomes. The process of low-lighting hair may take a bit longer. This is why going with a short haircut would be a good idea. It will make the process much smoother and quicker.
Next time you place an order at Amazon take a peak at “Going Gray, Looking Great! by Diana Lewis Jewell,” she’s the guru on the topic.
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May 27, 2005 By: Barb Quinn Leave your comments (7), Your input matters.
