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

That’s a question one woman decided was best answered by suddenly going completely to 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, wearing gray hair color rather than her natural highlighted blonde locks. 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 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 gray hair come up in every class of Finding the Right Hairstyle for You! that I teach. What’s the best way to cover my gray hair? Is highlighting an easier, less costly way to continue covering my gray hair? How do I quit hair coloring and go to my natural gray hair? Will letting my gray hair grow out make me look older? For some of my thoughts on these questions see my blog, Going natural with your gray hair I also highly recommend the book Going Gray, Looking Great! by Diana Lewis Jewell

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 gray hair with a new hairstyle makeover.

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Choosing Color From a Chart of Haircolors

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 shades of hair colors.

I am always a little reluctant to put any links up, because the colors on a computer screen can be very misleading. The same is true with the 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 color results on you. Your base hair color contributes to the end result you will get.

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

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

If you are still confused as to what shade to buy to get the result you want, call the 1-800 number they give you.

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 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 hair color charts that I should add to this list.

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