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If you walked out of your house tomorrow wearing your normal clothes and your normal makeup but changed to color gray hair, would you be treated differently by others?

That’s a question one woman decided was best answered by suddenly color gray hair as an experiment. MacKenzie Brown, of More.com wrote the article Try it On!

She describes in four short stories, her experiences when taking on some everyday scenarios, with color gray hair rather than her natural highlighted blonde hair. She made me laugh describing the reaction of construction workers, men at a bar, the sports club scene and a high end shopping experience, when she wore a color gray hair wig. It’s fun reading. My only problem with it, is that she is only 29 years old. I would like to read a similar type experiment done by a 50 something woman. (I guess there are those, like a cousin of mine, who turn prematurely gray haired however.)

I would venture to say questions about color gray hair come up in every class of Finding the Right Hairstyle for You! that I teach. What’s the best way to color gray hair? Is highlighting an easier, less costly way to continue covering my color gray hair? How do I quit hair coloring and go to my natural color gray hair? Will letting my color gray hair grow out make me look older? For some of my thoughts on these questions see my blog, Going natural with your color gray hair I also highly recommend the book Going Gray, Looking Great!: The Modern Woman’s Guide to Unfading Glory

If you’ve lived long enough on this planet you will have similar questions one day. You can try on a wig and take it for a spin, or you could try on some virtual color gray hair with a new hairstyle makeover.

Got a question, war story or comment about this topic? Click on the "Leave Your Comments" link at the very bottom of this article. Some of my best ideas for future articles come from reading reader comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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Chart of Hair Colors

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Choosing Color From a Chart of Hair Colors

“Chart of Hair Colors”

Chart of hair colors is something that I see crop up in my search logs and I get emails from visitors to my hair color page who are looking for a Website where they can view a chart of shades of hair colors.

I am always a little reluctant to put any links up, because the chart of hair colors on a computer screen can be very misleading. The same is true with the hair color on the front of the box you buy at your local retailer. It isn’t “what you see is what you get” for the hair color results on you. Your base hair color contributes to the end result you will get.

Write down this formula : YOUR STARTING HAIR COLOR+THE NEW HAIR COLOR=FINISHED HAIR COLOR

There should be a chart of hair colors on the box which gives you pictures to determine your natural hair color and then the hair color you need choose in order to get the hair color pictured on the front of the box.

If you are still confused as to what hair color shade to buy to get the result you want, call the 1-800 number listed on the box.

Here are a couple:

Clairol - 800-223-5800
Revlon- 800-473-8566
L’Oreal- 800-631-7358

Now that I’ve got the warnings out of the way here are a couple of links you can go to to view some hair color charts.

Clairol’s Shade Aid
http://revlon.com/

Below are two charts of hair colors for wigs:

• Adolfo Chart of Hair Colors
• Revlon Chart of Colors

Leave a comment if you know of a hair color chart that I should add to this list.