The truth about going from brunette, to grey!
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2022
- Welcome back to my channel. I made this video because I have seen a lot of questions on social media about going from brunette to blonde.
In order for me to get to my natural grey, I went blonde after I got the colour stripped out. This process in NOT for the faint hearted, and being menopausal as well, it was such a shock!
The reason I did it, was because I was getting fed up dyeing my hair every 4 weeks, my hair was in bad condition because of it, and getting the dye off my hairline, and my ears. OMG.
Do your research and do your homework when it comes to finding a colourist who can look after you. I am really glad I grew my hair out, but if I could go back, would I get the colour stripped out? NO!
A cautionary tale.
I just went for it and cut all my hair off about 20 months ago. My hair is now shoulder length and probably 30% grey. I love it. No more box dye or expensive salon visits every six weeks. No skunk line to grow out either. In my opinion it's the easiest way to do it.
Amen to that! X
Loved your take on how gray is described: granny gray for women versus silver fox for men. You have a bright personality and your hair now matches you perfectly.
Love your story, it’s definitely my story as well. It’s been almost six months since my last dye. I’m going gray & I love my decision. ❤🎉
In Glasgow, to show support, we say Oan Yersel! Brilliant. x
Hi Elizabeth, thanks for telling us your hair story as I’m embarking on my grey journey too. Your hair looks absolutely fantastic!
Oh thank you! So kind. It's worth the looking like a gonk bit, to get to the end of it. I love not having to dye my hair any more, and it suits my skin tone.
Thank you for making this video! Your hair looks fabulous🙏🧡
I just feel so much better not having to colour it. The upkeep was getting too much, and as you can see, it's not patchy!
Love it!!! You look amazing 🌹
Wow! What an amazing story and what a great storyteller you are! I almost peed my pants laughing at the “I looked like I should be on top of a pencil” comment. I’ve just started my grey journey, and I refuse to bleach it bc I don’t want to damage my hair. I’m just doing the down ‘n dirty grow-out from very dark brown. So … hats. Lots and lots of hats. ;)
Your color & cut look great on you. I stopped coloring mine abt 8 yrs ago. I started in Dec, to hide the skunk streak w/hats. Got trims every 6 wks. In Spring, I had my stylist put in temp (fades away, no roots) lowlights, to help blend the gray. After a year, all the color had grown out, & it was well worth the wait. I get lots of complements on my "silver" hair. No regrets. ❤ from the USA (NH).
I love your hair!!! My natural gray is the same color and I'm currently trying to get it highlighted to get it started so I can grow it out without the skunk line! LOL! Love your hair!!! I'm 52 and perimenopausal and I'm so tired of coloring my hair myself.
It's so bloody liberating isn't it? Also, don't know about you, but turning 50 meant losing a filter too! Menopause is no easy ride at all but I'm out the other side and feel more confident than I ever have! X
Great story and you look fabulous! I was in the same boat going every 4 weeks and doing home touch ups. I was diagnosed with breast cancer and began that journey of loosing my hair and happy to have hair again and silver now. I’m keeping the pixie cut and love it!
I've also been fighting cancer where chemo took my hair. It's now a really short pixi, very grey. And I love everything about it!
Cheers!
You look fantastic! I highlighted my own fake brown hair when I decided to go natural and it was a bit yellow too but I knew that it is very hard and nearly impossible to get any colored hair to look grey.
Great story! You are a natural story teller like most Scots.
Your hair is beautiful and it's true you look more youthful and very vibrant.
I love your hair. Im growing mine out too.
Beautiful hair. I’m getting to the point of considering this. Right now I have “racing stripes”😂
Cool! Go for it. Here to help. x
Agree on the hrt comments! Stop anti depressants. Love your hair
Very kind of you to message. Yes, I should have had HRT when I was 42 or so, instead of being given anti depressants.
I love your hair, it’s so perfect with your skin tone. It seems to all change at the same time doesn’t it? During Covid was my decision time to let it just go grey. Lots of people were cutting and colouring at home and wow was it obvious lol so I figured we’ll, if it’s going to look crazy for a while this is a great the time oh my I had blue hair at one point trying to fix the brass mess I’d made trying to get it to a very light blond, so I tried to trim it and finally just buzzed it off GONE !! Then I wore a toque, I’m Canadian (knitted hat) I love my white grey hair because my skin tone changed right along with it l( post meno-pause) When the sunshine hits it now and I occasionally catch a glimpse of myself in the Jeep rear view mirror, it’s all flowing silver, white and a wee bit of charcoal brown. It’s healthy, thick and carefree! I love it. If your thinking of embracing some freedom and you’re naturally going grey, go for it girls it’s fabulous !! ❤
🤣Thank you, so great to hear ........I'm 5 months in
I'm a dark brunette and due to menopause it's thinning. So, I have decided to let my Grey come forth in all its glory. Lol
I'm going to just let it come in and my last dye on my hair was 6 weeks ago . I'm letting my hair get healthy again. I'm already starting to show Grey on temples and center part. I'm going to have to deal with the skunk line but I'll live. Lol. I'm really curious to see how much grey I do have and what my grey will look like. My mom had very white shiny hair and my dad always had salt and pepper , more pepper than salt up until he passed in his 90s. So time will tell what I'm dealt.
I have white hair but my eyebrows are still brown, which was the color of my hair before I started dyeing it. I’ve only had white hair for a couple of weeks and I can’t get use to it. I started wearing wigs, after cutting off all the dye, into a buzz cut.
Thank you for sharing!! You did it so well. My question: what is HRT?
Thank you Elizabeth.
First attempt at a comment w a question: where will I find your answer?
Not Elizabeth here, but just wanted to let you HRT is "hormone replacement therapy". ❤
Your hair is beautiful and you look young with your gray lovely hair..however over 70 when your hair is old lady gray,,,,it does age you, in my humble opinion...each time I try to grow my hair out and perhaps just use a pretty gray tint..my children and my grandchildren want me to dye my hair again..
I wear a contour under so I get a contrast to my white hair against my skin
Morning Elizabeth ...did you ever do a color analysis, when you were younger? What was your season /type then? I'm a Autumn / Type3 ... I'm battling with my colours now ...did you battle with it too?
....after being grey now? I'm grey now from 2020
I really battled with it before I stopped dying my hair. When I went grey it was pretty straight forward. Jewel colours suit me best, as does grey, but light blue makes me look washed out. If you can find someone who specialises in doing your colours, I'd recommend it, as it will save you HOURS or time and heap of money by not buying stuff that doesn't suit you, or spark joy. x
Lady’s try the white hair company lovely shampoos products great bundles good prices for white grey silver hair
I want to but hubby doesn’t want me to go gray. Actually my hair is white.
Where did you buy your blouse? I love it
Howdy! It's a favourite. I got lucky in H&M about 2 years ago. It's a hit or miss shopping there. I'm pretty sure if you put 'denim shirt with ruffle detail' into a search engine, you'll strike it lucky!
I'm struggling with this 😵💫. I don't feel great with my hair graying, especially around my face. I feel faded.yet how many people are brunette at 65? Right,who am I kidding. I'm struggling .
Oh Ellen I'm sorry to read this. Find a really good stylist to help you out with the change if you are struggling. A great cut is what I find keeps my hair (and me!) looking fresh, also I have done other videos about getting your eyebrows tinted too, as well as skincare. Let me know how I can help. x
Thank you for your suggestions; I will seek out a stylist as I am new to the area. I'm feeling frumpy with the gray around my face and part. I'll let you know how it goes,thanks again 💖
The extra steps, $, and damage isn't worth the grey transition. Enjoy the journey of watching the new colors come in. I naturally transitioned 4 years ago with long hair, and as a brunette. The process was like paying for bayologe, only for free.
I literally looked like a skunk so the stylist I was seeing then suggested the bleach. Oooft! It was tough but thankfully that was about 5 years ago now and It's all natural now.
@Elizabeth Bandeen the "skunk" type of thinking that's been programmed into women is half of the problem. If more women could just embrace the process, and enjoy each inch of our new hair, our new selves, we would stop damaging our hair, scalp, environment in the name of what 'society' THINKS about us, we wouldn't keep feeding into those pressures..sure, my dark brown, damaged hair had the 'skunk' line, but it also helped me be more confident to show the world that it didn't matter.
Just my opinion.
Woops the white hot hair company I mean it’s fab
Being fully grey white is not a problem ,,,,its a cool colour and fashionable these days....its when u just have random grey white hairs all over ur head and ur not fully white or not fully brown or wateva colour u r. Its just scattered all over ur hair looking like sht.....and dying ur hair is reli damaging so wat do u do?
It's a challenge isn't it? I remember being salt and pepper in my early 30s and a friend told me it really aged me. The upkeep just got too much and the brown dye all over my ears and neck afterwards. Thanks for commenting!
I love my grey but I sure as heck would not start dyeing that young God no lol
I am fed up of dying my hair too and at 58 I think it's time. If men with grey hair can be considered silver fox, then women with silver hair should be considered silver vixens.
Amen to that. Don't know where you live but in Scotland it's cool to be older now. Grey hair is here to stay. X
@@elizabethbandeen7869 Hello from Pontefract West Yorkshire. I used to be told by mum that she was colouring her hair so that she felt better in herself. This was the 60s and 70s though. But I understand what she meant bless her. Today we have younger women having their hair dyed grey because they think it looks good lol. I had my hair cut today but, I have a way to go before all the dye is out x
My natural hair color is ash blonde, but I've been coloring it medium brown at roots and golden blonde at the ends for years. I've even colored it red at times. So it's a golden color, not ash anymore, but ash comes in at roots. Currently, I'm several months into allowing my gray to come in. I'm hiding it under hats, but I am so tired of coloring it. I think it takes about 2 years for full grow out. I don't know if I have that kind of patience. I might have my stylist pull the gray thru to help quicken the process, but am worried about the gold base and what it will look like or how to care for it. 🫣
As I said int the video I did get a toner put in, and I looked like a member of an 80s punk band for a while! If you look at recent videos I have made, I tried to grow my hair long in the last year but recently I have gone short again! Just keep getting regular trims, and working with your stylist to find the hairdo of your dreams. I am definitely a shortie. x
I watched your story about going from dark to white and the Mallen stripe me to say as you grew it out got a Lovely pure white colour with a salt pepper at the back so few weeks ago I decided to ….. go copper 🤷♀️🫤😬 oh my god no im growing it out had my first cut today so the white is now showing 👏 so hope by March it be white again
I got fed up dying my hair because I couldn’t find a box dye that I liked, so at the age of 69 I started my grey journey, the only negative comments came from my daughter who said it made me look old, which of course I knew it would but six years later it’s steel grey not as light as I would have liked it but I’ve had a lot of compliments from complete strangers ( I think grey is fashionable at the moment)a little bit of purple shampoo now and again helps.
You go girl! Yes you'll always get a bit of push back, but if it's good enought for Jamie Lee Curtis... I must admit I still get my eyebrows tinted and waxed just to give me a bit of feature. x