Do highlights hide gray hair well?

r4tx

I am 39 yrs old and have 50% gray hair along my hair line only. I have medium brown hair to begin with, so every 3 weeks I color only the regrowth with Loreal professional Excellence cream. My gray hair has recently started looking white, due to my illnesses (melasma/thyroid disease) and gene pool I come from. I am wondering if just starting to highlight it will help and let it start growing out naturally. I have been dying my hair for 10 years and is expensive and getting stressfull. I look very young for my age, but my grays age me about 10 years. I have tried semi-permanent, demi permanent and Herbal Essence, they just made my roots look orange. Should I go for blond highlights or more of a caramel brown highlights? I wawnt something I dont have to do every 3 weeks!
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I do not use strore brand, I use Professional Loreal from Sally's

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highlights may be the way to go but i would never get them done UNLESS you do it professionally (and that is a bit expensive) you should go to a salon and get your hair dyed with a good dye not store brand ones and then go back as needed to put toner on your hair. it will hold better and the color will be stronger plus having soemone do your hair and make you look pretty is much more fun than stressing over it yourself

Is there any natural hair coloring (similar to henna) for dark blonde hair that will hide greys?

Verka

I would like to find a coloring for my dark blonde-light brown hair, that will cover my greys. I've got about 10% grey now and its becoming too obvious. I don't want to wreck my hair or make it feel like carpeting, when I used bleaches or dyes in the past thats how it felt. I think henna is often too red for my complexion but I liked how it made my hair feel. Does anyone know of a solution for me?

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Even though I deal with henna, I have seen some customers say cassia obovata brings out their golden rays and after repeated use covers up some of the grey but it doesn't do a great job still because it does not have much of any dye. If you want to have brown tones you can use henna along with indigo, and even henna with coffee to tone down the red tones so it won't be so bright.
Also use only 100% pure henna powder (Body Art Quality is best and safest).

Other option I have had a customer explain to me, was vegetable based dyes. I saw a woman who had reddish highlights (like a strawberry blond) using veggies based dyes.

Khadija

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Gray hairs popping out, help!?

Michele

I have had a few gray hairs here and there since I turned 40, they were never a problem, they hardly showed. Now I turned 44 and they are taking over my head. I have always used hair color, applied by a stylist, an all over color with highlights. I used to go about 12 weeks between appts, because I was dealing with roots, not grays. Now grays are popping out within 2 weeks of my last appt. I can't afford to spend $100 + every 2 weeks to cover these uglies! What can I do? I have tried box formulas before and the color always turns out bad on me, I am med/dark brunette with gold highlights. How long should my color last to cover these grays?

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This answer won't change the color of your hair but may slow the progression. Try using emu oil shampoo together with hair nutrition vitamins. Your hair is losing its "color" resulting in the gray tones. Emu oil shampoo penetrates the hair shaft and works well for slowing the progression of gray hair.

To completely hide the color, try a color enhancing shampoo. It will help subdue the color without expensive coloring treatments.

MY COUSiNS GRAY HAIR??

Q. My 13 year old cousin woke up one morning and came runnin in my room because she had one gray hair on her head..She is going through alot of stress with her grades,friends,and a boy she likes. Did it happen just because of stress??? And can I tell her that it will go away?? I also found out that her grandma got gray hair at 15 but her mom got gray hair at 30? So is it just Stress or Genes? And will it stop growing? Oh yea....she also told me that she takes hot showers and I heard it can stop blood from traveling to you hair??? HELP!!!!

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Hair becomes white or grey due to the lack of pigment melanin in the hair. Since hair consists of dead cells, once grey or white hair is formed it cannot be changed. Hairs seems to become grey overnight, if the pigmented hair falls off quickly. The age at which a person's hair becomes white depends on hereditary factors, but diet , lifestyle and stress can also cause premature graying . . Some of the home remedies for preventing formation of grey or white hair are:

1. Amla or Indian gooseberry is a popular home remedy. If fresh amla are available , a paste of amla can made and applied to the hair. Dry amla can be ground into a powder, mixed with water and massaged into the hair. Otherwise amla hair oil can applied to the hair. Dried amla is also available for eating

2. Take black tea (without milk or sugar) and massage it on the roots of the hair. Leave it on the hair for an hour and then wash it away. This will coat the hair strand, hide the grey colour.

3.Massage the scalp with coconut oil (with lemon) or almond oil. Vegetable and essential oil also contain nutrients for slowing the greying of hair.

4. Processed foods and junk foods contain many preservatives and should be avoided. Fish and other seafood contain iodine which is required for melanin production. Also eat nuts and other food which contain copper.

5.Some people have used a mixture of blackstrap molasses, brewer's yeast and wheat germ to prevent formation of grey hair. However, blackstrap molasses may not be available in all countries.

6.Curry leaves are boiled in coconut oil and the mixture can be applied to the hair to prevent formation of white hair. Ribbed gourd should be soaked in coconut oil for 3 to 4 days and the mixture should be boiled. The oil produced should be massaged into the scalp.

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Why do people feel like they have to hide their gray hair?

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If a woman wants to dye her hair to cover the grays, I see absolutely nothing wrong with it, but I don't think they should feel as if they have to. On the other hand, I don't like for men to dye their hair at all. Have you seen the "Just For Men" commercials where the man with gray hair couldn't get a woman, and after he colored it, women were all over him. I think it's ridiculous. If a person can't accept the real you, you don't need that person in your life.

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i agree, it is not neccessary 4 any one to cover up gray hair, gray hair is a symbol of wisdom. It is not that bad looking.

How can i cover or get rid of gray hair?

jess

I'm only 23 years old, and have about 8 gray hair, it runs in my moms family. If my hair is down, and parted right down the middle you can definitely see it, so I have to have it up halfway what can I do to get rid of this?

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Color it. You just might become a slave to your hair...just as I have become. I am 38 and I have a lot of gray hair right at the top of my head. I went to a salon to get it colored, cost about $65 only to have my gray hair pop up again in less than a week. So now I color my own hair at home. First I color my hair all over, then when the gray hair pop up I use Clairol Root touch up. I also use gray root touch up from Avon. (It's like mascara that you brush on your hair.) I also have to part my hair a certain way to hide them. It's a continuous cycle. I wouldn't pull the gray hair out though it's not recommended. I think the next hair that grows from there comes out frizzy.

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