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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Hot Looking Gray Hair

What to do when you see that first gray hair. PANIC!! Do you pluck it out or just ignore it? OK! Now that one gray hair is coming in fast and furious. Do you dye, or highlight or just give up and let it happen to see what it will do for that youthful look you are trying to maintain. Since many people by the age of 50 or before have started to go grey. Most of the baby boomers in an effort to preserve a youthful look, most are choosing to dye.
There are a growing number of women who have colored their hair for years and who are exhausted by the tedium of coloring are now going brazenly and vividly gray. Might that brazen idea be right for you? I think gray or white hair tends to look best with pink,olive and dark complexions. If you are sallow or very pale, you will look  washed-out  and should consider highlights or low-lights. If you have that hair that looks mousy as the gray begins to appear it can be brightened and enriched by weaving in highlights and low-lights. These are three that I might consider using on brown hair a honey blonde or tortoiseshell, or mahogany for darker hair.
Another option you can use if you just starting to the first signs of gray is to use a semi-permanent  glaze. Both will stain a lot of the gray and when the color starts to fade, you won't have a line of demarcation. In other words no root line. You can also add a little gold or red to this and it will give some nice highlights to the hair. If you are uncertain between two colors always choose the lightest.
If your grey comes in snow white with yellow tones you can remedy this by using a violet based gloss, it coats the hair and gives great shine. When hair loses its pigmentation, so does the skin.
After you've finished coloring your gray hair, make sure you only use shampoos for color treated hair because more severe shampoos can strip out the color . If you don't like the results you get then wash your hair more often to remove the dye quicker. If your gray comes in wiry, it's because it's dry,  so use a weekly deep conditioner.

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