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Lynne, I hope you can help me. I have been thinking about "going gray"--with lots of help from Mother Nature! I've been coloring & highlighting my hair for many hears--usually champagne blonde with lighter highlights (but I get a little bored, so I've been dang near every shade except platinum or dark brown or black).

Anyway, a few years ago they advertised a line of gray hair color. What's your opinion of that? I hate to just stop coloring--can't stand the root thing! And, I'm not sure it will look good--my mom has great natural gray, so I think it might??

Any advice would be appreciated.

I just want to add one question before Lynne answers this: your kidding, right??? <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I didn't see the line of gray hair coloring, but it is very difficult to take pigmented hair to light gray or white. By the time you get enough of the pigment 'bleached' out, the hair is damaged. However, it is possible if your natural hair is not too dark or too gold or red.

If you like the way your mom looks in it and you have similar coloring, you will probably look good. - But how will you feel when you look in the mirror, you see your mom?

My mother was a very attractive woman, but I was shocked when I saw a picture of myself with short hair (curled by the humidity) and thought it was my mom! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> LOL What's wrong with going grey? I've been looking at all the different models they've been using for (not just Dove) but A LOT of commercials for women of all ages, and there are some truly beautiful women out there with grey hair. They look so striking with all that silver around their face! It's about time women with silver got protrayed as beautiful, men with grey have been seen as "suave & deboniar" for years!
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Thanks, Lynne--I look just like her anyway! I may just switch to a color that doesn't cover gray as much first.

I started getting grey at 23. My dad started at 18. My hair color is brown. My grandfather had beautiful snowy white hair (he was a red head) and I always dreamed of having his white hair. I colored until I married my hubby and it is now 10 yrs later and it isn't progressing as fast as he would like it! He thinks Emmy Lou Harris is gorgeous (and she is!) and was asking me if I could color my hair to look like hers! I have a long way to go before all of mine is grey, but have a large streak of it in the front of my hair. I tell people my kids have put that grey in my hair and I have earned every bit of it LOL. I had my last child at 23 and he was a sickly thing...

I actually like the gray line of colors that are now available. One in particular looks beautiful. I may one day try it myself. A few years ago I started getting gray hair and that did not freaked me out at all, I have spent most of that time without coloring my hair.