Who is letting their hair go to seed?

Same! I'm letting my gray come and wrinkles shine. But then again, I haven't worn make up daily since 2000.

I know that it makes me look older and I decided not to care. The bloom is off the rose, but so the fuck what? I totally get it if people want to adjust their looks in any way they feel. No judgement and everyone walks their own path.

But for me? I'm not buying into old being wrong. I'm 54 for fuck's sake. As the lady says:

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I love my hair now that it's long and silver. Dyeing damages my hair so much, it is much softer now!

I started coloring my hair at 15 and stopped at 43. I missed 2 color apts and had serious roots, so I asked my stylist to cut it all off into a pixie/fauxhawk combo to see my long-hidden natural color. Turns out it was mostly grey. And it turns out I love it! My grey is more platinum than white or silver, and it looks fantastic at any length. It’s been 8 years with zero regrets.

You guys still have hair?

Nope. I’m 54 and look at least 10 years older if I don’t dye it. I’ll keep dying it until the color is at odds with the number and depths of the wrinkles. For now, the color and face work

I stopped dyeing mine during the early days of the pandemic. Once those roots grew out I decided to commit.

Ginger so I'm just seeing whites appear, my beard is going and it's already in my sideburns.

Oh well, no one cares anyway.

F-it

My hair is white. I stopped coloring it during the pandemic. I’ve been asked if it was natural a lot, and stopped on the street by a man that told me my hair was glistening. The only upkeep is going to the salon a couple times a year for toner to remove yellowing and a trim

I am but this inbetween period is so hard.

I grew mine out during the pandemic and will never go back

2019 was the last time I colored. I love seeing the white hairs in the sun. I can’t wait to be a white witch.

I’m a guy, but I shaved my head for years to hide the grey (I have a full head of hair). Finally decided to embrace it and I love it now. I haven’t shaved my head (or cut my hair) since Dec 2022 and have no plans to do either any time soon. At the 2 year mark I’ll go get a trim, but that’s it. I’m just going to let it grow until I’m tired of long hair.

I’m not the cool salt and pepper grey either. I’m Santa Clause level white. My hair pigment left the chat a long time ago.

I am. I stopped colouring a year ago and love my gray grow out. My hair falls mid back and I am embracing some cool silver patterns

I also noticed since I stopped colouring it grows much faster

I quit dyeing my hair when I turned 40. I haven’t regretted it. The skunk stripe appearing less than a week after a touch up finally broke me.

Couldn’t care less about having grey hair and I use purple shampoo and conditioner to make it pop. Have been complimented on it too, someone was even a bit jealous

I'm 53 and I quit dyeing it 4yrs ago. It is liberating as hell. Almost as good as burning a bra. 😎

I haven't dyed my hair at all. Except for red food coloring for an Halloween party.

Been having white hairs for 27 years now and I couldn't care less about it.

Cool. Keep it up and do what you want to do :) My wife was at a similar point a few years ago. Personally, I love my wife's natural hair color. She has a streak of gray that most people would pay good money for.

My ex called my grays tinsel. I stopped dyeing my hair 4 or 5 years ago. If folks don't like my tinsel, they can go look at something else.

I went pink and I enjoy it too much to stop

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I stopped having mine colored during Covid. It's currently shoulder-length ashy brown with silver streaks throughout. Once I figured out how to work with the texture, I loved it. I think it looks sort of otherworldly

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Emmylou Harris rocking the grey look for years now.

I've never colored away my grays. I have baby fine hair and try to minimize what I do to it out of fear of damaging it too much.

My mother was completely grey at 30, and being an artist bohemian type (silent Gen) had stopped dying it when I was a child. It was stunning, and I always loved it. My brown hair now has silver streaks in it, and yes, it sparkles. 🌸

I've never colored my hair, so the gray coming in is kind of exciting.

I’ll turn grey naturally as it comes. Once it’s all done (I’m a late greyer so prob mid 60’s), I’m going that whole multicolor pastel route just because I can. I’m excited about it.

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Honestly the women that let their hair go natural color gray or silver I find them more attractive and self confident. I started getting gray hair on my chest when my youngest daughter was born. I was in my late 20's. My hair is now gray on my head but I shave my head and my goat-t is snow white. I love it.

I still have a lot of brown in my hair, but there's some grey too. I have not yet felt the need to dye it.

I’m a 53 year old guy. Luckily, my dad and I are the only ones in our family who still have a full head of hair. I’m graying at the temples, and I’m going to let it do its thing, whatever that is.

In November of 2019, I had my colorist take my colored (dark auburn) hair to its natural silver/S&P. It took SO LONG in the chair and she did an amazing job. I was one of the few people who didn’t have the dye-line growing out during the pandemic (I did have some breakage thanks to the shutdowns, but I lived). Over four years later, I still love not having to mess with constantly covering the greys.

Still have fairly long mostly brown hair with silver at temples. I’m not dyeing it. I did just get a trim tho. Hehe

54, no gray, no dye… once the gray starts I’m not doing a thing.

I’m letting my hair go gray-I call it my tinsel. My hair dresser (who is a friend) hates it-lol. My husband loves it, my kids are neutral. I have long hair and get sad when a long gray one falls out.

What hair?🤣

Not sure if you’re mainly addressing the ladies here but 47yo guy, been going grey since early 30’s. Salt and pepper now - a little more salt than pepper lol. While helping my wife dye her hair, we were horsing around and she said hey I have some extra paste, you’ve been wanting to try dying for a while, what do you think? I said yeah! Let’s do it! So I hate it. lol. It’s a little lighter than my original color but my friends have told me it looks good on me. Problem is i have the typical male pattern balding, and I have just a little patch on the top of my head. So to me it looks like the older dudes in their 70s dying their hair lol.

I guess to answer your question, I don’t have much of a choice. I found myself missing the grey hair, at least because it looks natural especially with me balding. Looks great on my wife though. I do miss my black hair from my 20’s…let’s amend that - I miss my HAIR haha

I quit dyeing years ago because the greys seemed to be coming in pretty fast and I liked the color. Almost 10 years later and I still have the same amount of greys. Fortunately, my vision is so bad now that I still look pretty young to me!!

I had a full head of white hair by 28. I colored for years. At about 40, a decade ago, I stopped that nonsense. I am lucky enough to have nice silvery white hair, though. I love it & agree with you that it's empowering. I see a lot of our generation (in my area) not coloring & I love to see it!

I’m 52. I have dark brown hair, and there’s a little gray here and there. I haven’t had it colored in almost 8 months because I’ve been lazy about it. Plus, I’m trying to let it grow. There’s not a lot to color/cover but having dark hair, it really stands out. I’ve just been using that root spray stuff (yeah, I admit it) spritzed on, but that’s only for special occasions, so not often. I’ve got hair like my paternal grandmother, so I’m really praying it gets that bright white like hers did. ☺️. But I guess I need to let it go for that to happen. But I’m not ready for that! I don’t have wrinkles yet! 😖

I used to really not care. I have very kinky curly frizzy hair and for many, many years I kept it braided. The braids just grew longer and longer. My hair has a lot of white peppered in with red and brown. One day I got sick of it and cut about 14 inches off. It's a lot lighter now. I gave myself a butterfly cut and then on my last birthday my daughter bought me my first Brad Mondo hair dye. A vivid purple. It's really cool because it covers the white with almost neon purple but the red and brown are more of a gem color. It's really cool and I love it. I'll probably stay purple for the rest of my life. Or blue. maybe teal!

Me too and it’s pissing my mum off so much.  She’s been so mean about it (“it looks awful”, “you look so bad”) because if I look old, she must be old.  Of course this is making me dig my heels in even more and I’m refusing to even consider dyeing it.

Yeah, I no longer aspire to pretend that I'm a sapling.
I have embraced my under gnarled and weathered oak.
I'm not old, I am vintage.

I let it be silver for several years until my wife remarked how good it would take colour and now it’s purple.

I stopped coloring my hair around 5-6 years ago; I lucked into a nice white "streak" in front, and now the rest is starting to catch up (I'm hoping for a beautiful Emmylou Harris type thing going on, but who knows). Overall it's been a positive experience, and I love not having to constantly keep up with root touchups, etc. My MIL made an indirect snarky comment once, but I don't have any fucks to give about that.

I think I'm truly entering my "swamp witch" era, and it's so liberating, actually! I do the basics for skincare (cleanse, moisturize, sunscreen) and have given up on these dumb multi-step routines that don't really seem to do anything besides drain my wallet. I realized at some point that a bit of eyeliner is ok, but that the quest for non-smudging mascara is a losing battle, and it doesn't really matter if I wear eyeshadow and mascara anyway because I wear glasses and nobody can see it.

I also seem to be edging towards being a minimalist in other arenas, too -- I now own like three purses total, and any shoes that aren't comfortable on my gnarly swamp witch feet have got to go. And if people don't want to look at my ugly toes in my fred-flintstone style Birkenstocks, they can kiss my hag ass.

I don’t color my hair and I’m loving the grays that are coming in! I call them my sparklies.

Nothing looks good on me. Grey doesnt work with my skintone. Brown hair dye grows out too quickly and it looks too dark or gets lightened/highlighted incorrectly.

Me right now because it grows really fast

Well, I haven't dyed mine in probably four-five months and have been putting it off. I'm undecided between embracing the natural fawn-with-silver shimmer (it's kind of pretty!) or just covering the gray again and having that shave off a few years. Or I could say fuck it and go short, just cut off all of the old dyed parts, but I look awful with short hair.

I buzz my hair. It's thinned out so much it looks silly if I try to grow it out. But, I have a full beard. And it's totally gray. And IDGAF. I might shave a few years off my looks if I shaved the beard, but nope. Beard stays. Embrace the gray. It's beautiful, and we've fucking earned it.

I quit at 50. I have some gray, not a bunch. I'm working on it!

I stop colouring my hair red about 5 years ago and a big part was the upkeep. I was so lazy about it. I also didn’t want to stop and then find out I had gone completely grey and silver.

I didn’t realize how grey it had gotten until about two years ago when someone at work saw a picture of me when I was younger. They then said “oh your hair used to be brown”. They had also never seen the red hair. I was not ready for that reply.

When I have enough grey, I’ll star letting it grow. in and get some streaky light highlights to blend its evolution. At 53, I’m still mostly brunette.

I don't have a whole lot of hair left, but the little bit I do have - I am just letting things go naturally.

I love my gray! I let mine grow out about two years ago now and I think it looks great.

I started going grey as a teenager so I want to but one kid doesn’t want me to. But I want to go white so I can make it rose gold or light pink on white.

I am full on silver and I love it. I feel beautiful and also so happy to be free of the cycle of expensive and inconvenient hair dye

I am looking forward to it. Mine is too much "pepper" for the moment. I have transitioned form permanent blue and purple combos to semi-permanent purples. IDK when I will stop and let it go- but I want to just go natural silver/grey. But only once enough of it is "salt"

I let my hair gray when it started, but instead I got a Bonnie Raitt white streak, and I love it! I have other gray hair, but it’s underneath and you can’t really see it unless I wear my hair up.

I have no desire to let my grey/white take over. The texture of my hair would be awful and I don’t like the see through pink scalp look. I can’t do much about the wrinkles on my face, but I can control the color of my hair

Don’t dye and cut it myself (if I cut it at all). I feel like going grey is the ultimate punk rock thing for a woman to do. Fuck the man and his plan!

The people on both sides of my family go grey late so I only have a few here and there. I get some highlights and lowlights once or twice a year to camouflage them . Honestly I wish I’d started that a long time ago . The caramel and chocolate streaks dress up my natural mouse brown and are a huge improvement.

I am 50 and wish I could accept them but I absolutely despise my gray hairs. I will likely color my hair until I die. Right now getting heavy blonde highlights on my light brown hair helps conceal them.

I've never dyed my hair. It always seemed like a bother and an unnecessary expense. But I believe that everyone should do what works for them.

I don't consider it that I have let my hair go to seed. My grey looks great and I get compliments on the color and style. There are people who are surprised when they hear my age because they think I look younger than I am.

I think it's probably a big shock to the system for people to see the real color quickly rather than gradually over time. That's probably why people often think they look old with grey hair.

I am 47 and have super silver almost white hair. I stopped trying to dye it around when I turned 40 and it's one of my favorite things about myself. It's super pretty

Good heavens, no. I have a career where youth is prized. While I don't do all I can to look younger, certainly hair color is one easy way to look a little less old.

I have blonde hair. Well blonde mixed with a lot of colors. There is a little red, a little brown and a lot of blonde.

I discovered recently that starting from my temple my hair is going white.

I love it.

I can't wait till it spreads. White hair is so pretty.

I was a platinum blonde at birth. So just going back to my natural hair. Lol

My wife has let her silver hair grow in, and it’s mostly one lock in front. She’s been told it’s a desirable look, and I definitely agree! Me, I’ve been shaving my head since the 90’s, but the goatee is long and gray.

Nope im fighting it every step of the way 😅

I was 39 the last time I dyed my hair, and am now 45. Covid was a great excuse to grow out the color. Took ages, as I had a jawline bob, but once it was long enough to give me a style I somewhat liked, I chopped off all that dead color and have been greyish since.

I still have lots of my natural brown, but tons of silver and titanium throughout. I get compliments from everyone from every age demographic.

Being a stylist-in-training (went to trade school at 44!), and learning all about color formulas and techniques, sometimes I think about dyeing my hair again. But I just can’t do it. I worked so hard to embrace the grey!

My hair is naturally a darker brown and I decided I’m not dyeing it until it goes completely grey/white since I have very limited time left with my natural color. It’s full of grey streaks and the hair by my ears is 100% grey/white now. And if I do dye it after it’s all grey, it’s going to be a fun color like blue or purple like I used to do in high school.

I call them my hair glitters, I love them! It grew out during lockdown and I haven’t looked back.

I am with you. I remember seeing all of the things that our elders did to cover up grey or balding hair. Comb overs, toupee, over the counter hair coloring, and that bald spot spray can just made older people look more ridiculous. I don't think it made anybody look younger. And I always associate older women with their hair that had been permed way too many times that I thought their hair looked really fake.

I think all of those things made me appreciate being able to age gracefully and to accept that you are getting older.

Ultimate swamp witch...

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I couldn't read it all so sorry if I'm duplicating. You need no validation from me I'm sure. However, you deserve all the validation. My beautiful wife is going Grey. I told her for years she didn't have to color. She wasn't ready until she was ready.

And let me tell you Grey natural and in your 50's hot af. With makeup.....without makeup. It's the way you hold yourselves with that F around and find out but still maintain an I don't give a F attitude.

I love you all my beautiful sisters

I’m accelerating it by dying my hair silver. 😁. My wife doesn’t like that idea

I actually started 10 years ago because I started going grey early. I am almost completely grey now, and I am so happy with it. My hair looks healthy, and I can wear younger styles.

Tried Sun-In when it came out (before it was advised not to use on dark hair). Yeah, it resulted in orange hair. I vowed never to change my hair color until I was completely silver. Once silver, then I was going with hot pink or purple.

Here I am over 50 with 6 silver hairs (so few I can count them) with my dark hair.

Up until a few weeks ago, I had long hair that I used a purple color depositing shampoo on. The hair of my youth was nearly black, so when it went mostly gray to all gray, I wanted to have fun by adding color. I did this for four years. But the summers where I live get hot, and having long hair kinda sucks in the heat, so I shaved my head down to the skin. But since I still have almost a full bottle of that shampoo, I may, on occasion, use it on my beard.

It won't last but I'm still mostly brunette at 57. I get a few subtle foil highlights and lowlights every 4-6 months.

Oh I would love to stop coloring my hair, but my grey is not ready to be unveiled. I have nice silvery grey, but not enough to make it look good.

I'm 46 people, think I'm still in my mid 30s. I'll keep dying my hair till it don't work for my face anymore

I dye my hair but how can I transition without just letting it go? Can you work with a colorist to help with this?

When I have enough grey, I’ll star letting it grow in and get some streaky light highlights to blend its evolution. At 53, I’m still mostly brunette.

What hair? :)

Me

I’ve never colored my hair but at 51 the gray (white) is getting harder to ignore. It’s creepin. Right now it’s a sprinkling that looks like highlights (I have red hair) but I’ll have to decide soon whether to let it take over or not.

I'm 52, but I've been gray since my early 30s. Last year, I shaved my head and decided to stop colouring. Then I got into a relationship with a man 13 years my junior, and he told me that I look younger with dyed hair. Since I am very tired of cougar jokes, I went back to dyeing. Eventually, I'll go back to the gray, but until then, it is Bondbar for me.

During covid I stopped dying mine, I have gorgeous white hair. But, people think I'm older than I am. :-( I'm not 50 yet, but my hair looks 60+

I am letting mine! My grey is growing in stripes right along my temples and then I have one stripe coming out at the top front, just off-center. My grandma's hair went from dirty blonde, to brunette, to black as she got older and her grey all came in really cool stripes. Think Patrick Dempsey with his stripes of white hair through his dark hair. The salt and pepper effect on her hair was so pretty. Since my own hair has been getting progressively darker the older I get, I am *hoping* I get the same stripes of white hair she had, and so far it's looking like it might!

I decided to give up my monthly root jobs during the pandemic. I’m so happy I did too. I don’t think my thinning hair could deal with coloring anymore

I literally just bought 3 boxes of my favorite hair dye to see me through the year (my hair grows like kudzu) I fleetingly thought of letting it go gray, but I can't quite pull the trigger just yet.

I am going back and forth with dyeing or leaving it gray. I lost it all to chemo last year. When I shaved my hair it was brown with some gray stripes. Now it is all gray with brown in there! My boyfriend said I look older than I am. Other people tell me it's a pretty color. I just don't know what to do. Plus it's growing out and I have chemo curls. I really look like a grandma!

I only have a few, but they're a perfect shade of silver. I love them and I want more!!

I'm strongly considerig it but haven't yet. I think grey hair can look very chic but I'm not quite ready to go there. I think some time into my 60's.

I want to stop but I have butt length dyed copper hair, I would like to not have to have the line of grey I just want it all grey and to not lose length.

So far, yep. Haven’t dyed my hair since I was a teen, not interested in the extra maintenance. At this point I have very little (a few strands) though, so it’s still easy to say. In a few years I may change my mind, but probably not. I’m too damn lazy to do it myself and too cheap to go in every few weeks to get it touched up.

I love grey and silver hair on people (and young folk pay a bomb to get this look).

I'm a few months off 55 and don't have many greys at all. I love redheads, so still dye my naturally auburn hair a redder, more coppery red hue (it looks natural, not that block red). I don't dye to cover greys, I dye it as I love this colour

Never colored my hair to begin with.

I gave up colouring my hair about 5 years ago and haven’t looked back. The silver is growing in in streaks and looks really great among the dark brown. Am looking forward to being all silver though like my grandma was. - she looked amazing!

When my hair grew back after chemotherapy a couple years ago, it was totally gray and the paleness of it against my already super pale skin washed me out. So I do dye it, but I have it done in chunky purple highlights. That darkens it up enough so I don't look like a days-old corpse, but also doesn't make me look like mutton in a lamb suit.

I stopped coloring over 18 years ago. I have long gray hair. I get far more compliments on it now. It’s healthy. It’s who I am.

My hair isn’t turning silver fast enough. I stopped dying 2 yrs ago and it’s gone from golden to dirty dishwater ash. 

I turned completely gray after my wife died 4 years ago. White, actually. I am shocked when I look at the selfies I take with my cat, wondering "who is this old guy??" I'm still 22 years old inside.

I’ve been on that train for a decade now. I only have about 20 grey hairs. It kinda pisses me off because my dad and his family all went grey/silver prematurely. I’m still waiting.

Saw my first gray hair at age 28. I was mostly gray by 45. Made me look so old. I color my hair at home (and at my convenience) and now I Iook my age. My grandmother was fully white-haired at age 30. Was very striking in photos.

I stopped dyeing my hair in the Autumn of 2019. Maybe I am just used to it, but it seems to have stopped going gray! I was looking forward to all gray/silver hair and it is stuck at this mousy brown/gray place I am not sure I like.

But I am lazy and will not be going back to coloring it, so I guess I have to deal with it!

At 49 I just have flecks of grey appearing here and there and am doing what i've done m whole life, ignoring my hair completely

Not necessarily to seed, but my wife and I acknowledge that we spend more on grooming our dog than we do on our own hair.

Same! I think it looks really nice in person but then when I see it in pics it looks terrible and ages me. It’s a mind-fuck. lol

Shaving your head is a hairstyle.

I’m going to embrace it as it comes in and just continue to highlight it every few months.

My date with the clippers is coming soon. Buzzzzzzzzzzzz. Tired of spending time and money to maintain hair that has clearly given up on too many fronts.

I don't have enough silver yet. Also. I work in finance and do not want to look older. I'm lucky that my family's genetics mean I'm easily mistaken for early 40s. My resume only has the last 8 years on it. I do light botox and I do look forward to retiring and leaving the dye behind.

I've had too many friends look terrible dying over their gray hair, but honestly I get mine cut in a fade to hide my gray temples.

I haven't gone full gray yet, but they are coming in. As a man though, it doesn't matter that much since most people seem to think that men with gray hairs mixed in are "distinguished".

I've asked my stylist about dying my hair to cover up the grays, but she refuses to do it. She says I don't need it, and she jokingly threatened to shave all my hair off if I dye it myself.

Me! Saving thousands a year. Love it and not giving AF.

I kinda gave up after the first time I shaved my head (solidarity with my mom, during chemo). I don't feel like paying the money to dye my hair anymore. I work from home so it's not like anybody's going to see it. Plus, the pain in the ass of cleaning the shower after washing my hair for the first time. And I'm not reallly going grey, I'm just losing my hair. All other things being equal, there's other stuff I'm more concerned with these days.

I took the opportunity to bleach out my old, too dark brown myself during the covid lockdown & toned it to gray. I keep it toned to a really pretty violet-ish silver with purple shampoo. I've never gotten as many compliments on my hair color in my life & it's soooooooo much easier than dyeing. It's pretty unique, too. Highly recommend!

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I am 52 and my hair turned early. I fought it by dying it dark brown (my natural color) for years and I think it looked great for about 2 weeks and then I'd get that skunk stripe at my part each time it grew out. Every 6 weeks I was back to the salon to get it done - or did it at home and it was time-consuming and messy. So I opted to transition it out with the help of my hair stylist. It took about 2 years, but I am all white & gray now and I wouldn't change a thing. The only person who ever said anything was my mother - she said it made me look a lot older. Frankly, I've been married 25 years, am at least 35 lbs heaver than I want to be and I just ask who am I trying to impress at this point? I like it and that's all that matters.

I told my wife she'd never be married at a fat old bald guy.
I go to the gym a lot now.

Hi, ignorant bald guy here. Is there a "Touch of Gray" thing for women? I've seen the advertisement for guys countless times. Obviously older people than us (I'm 53) walking around with jet black (or whatever) hair just doesn't look right, & is noticeable. This has actually been a happy hour discussion.

M(50) here. So probably not your target demographic, but I've been mostly gray (even white) for awhile now.

Now that I'm looking for new employment, I've been seriously considering dying my (very short) hair back to something close to my original brown. I'm pretty sure ageism has cost me a few jobs.

I am. I (58f) quit dying my medium-long dark brunette hair when I turned 50. Almost all my grey is still at my temples, and it's actually bright white. My skunk stripes stand out beautifully, and I think they look kinda badass 😎

I use a temporary hair colour that is very close to my natural shade. I do this every few months or so. If I had more grey coming in, I'd be more likely to embrace a grey/white look, but with the rest of my long hair not at all grey, I'm a ways off from having to decide. I like the temporary wash-out colour for this reason.

I’m 50 now and stopped dyeing my hair at age 43. I love my gray hair and find it incredibly liberating. I feel like it looks natural with my coloring and all that so I’m stoked. Will never go back.

We were walking to a UNC football game when my husband said,

"I love the way your gray sparkles when you straighten your hair"

I said back, "Thank you I've always loved yours."

Been 'Picard bald' since 33.

Yeah I stopped dying my hair in my 30s. Just letting it be natural and frankly it adds nice contrast to my darker hair color.

I had my kids late in life and they are only 12 and 10. I’m still coloring my hair mostly to avoid being mistaken for their grandmother. 👵

I shaved my head basically (very undercut pixie) 5 years ago and bleached it white blonde. I was fighting the aftermath of some very serious trauma and about a year after that the depression and anxiety hit - to the point it was difficult to leave my home. I just hid, and my hair was the least of my concerns - I just let it grow out and covered my head in various jars and toques. Fast forward to last year when I finally came back to life (after a lot of therapy & meds) and my formerly natural light brown hair had grown back in jet black with little highlights of silver and was thicker than ever and halfway down my back. I had the blonde at the bottom fixed and now I’m just rocking long, thick, gorgeous, black hair that’s now almost to my waist. I feel like I was blessed with this hair and wear it like a badge of strength that I made it out the other side of that.

I had a girl try to talk me into dying my grayish hair once, so I did, electric blue, and I wore it that color for over a year. Now I've gone back natural and have a beard to my chest that is all gray, I have earned every single one and I'm proud to have them, it's a pleasure denied so many!!!

As a guy, I had a crew cut or a conservative taper cut for the first 53 years of my life. I’ve been letting it grow out for the last couple years now and people say I have wild Einstein hair and ask when am I going to cut it back or at least comb it. I tell ‘em I think it’s more like Mark Twain hair and maybe I’ll only keep it like this until just a bit past the point where I’ve outgrown its appeal. Plus, I’m thinking of writing a book or two, and probably several songs, and likely several paintings, so I wouldn’t want to slow down the creative process by worrying about something as trivial as my melon.

Have never dyed and never will.

Silver is the new gold!

Well, I've lost half of mine. 56(f)

54m here. I find it SEXY A.F. that women my age don't dye their hair. The way I see it as you embrace your age and wisdom. I feel kinda embarrassed for the women whose face and wrinkles show their age, but their dyed hair doesn't.

I shaved mine all off last fall and while I have definitely experienced ageism, being mis-gendered and mis-labeled in my sexuality, I wouldn’t change it for the world. If not now, when? I didn’t like seeing many people older than me still trying (and failing) to look youthful. I still have a young face - Thanks Neutrogena foundation! - and the contrast with my silver hair, I think, looks badass. I am growing it longer and like others have said, it’s growing like a weed. I love not bleaching it and damaging it anymore for the sake of meeting other people’s definitions and standards of beauty. It’s independent and empowering and not for the sheeple. It’s a moment and you need to be ready to stand in it resolute. When you can - it’s positively delightful.

About 3 years ago, instead of redoing foils I asked for a colour correction to help me transition to grey. I had three of those to make it less hard - it was expensive but I knew I’d cave in if I let it grow out with a hard line. Right now it’s a darker steel grey on top with white grey at the sides and a few stubborn streaks of brown at the nape of my neck (which look ridiculous).

6 years grey, it looks healthier and I get way more compliments now about my hair than before.

I've had salt and pepper hair. Since I was 18. Now it's more gray and nicer. Just get a nice purple shampoo to avoid that ugly yellowish hair and you're good to go

What about the eyebrows?

I've caught a few white nostril hairs and my chin hairs are finally getting white. I saw Ben Affleck and George Clooney let grey come in, I thought why not? I'm a male with long black hair it's interesting seeing myself get old.

I hope I get Pauly Walnuts hair!

So. I am on my 5th time trying to do it. I got pretty far this time - it’s been over a year.

Ya’ll - I just can’t.

It hit me a couple of weeks ago. I’m just not ready. I’m 50. And it’s not “I’m not ready to age” it’s “I’m not ready for this to be the last thing I do with my hair till death” lol. My hair is my “thing” to some extent. It’s big and long and thick and curly - think SJP. And letting it go to seed has really hurt my self esteem. I thought I could rock it and feel cool and I just feel depressed LOL.

I admire women who can do it. I want to be like you. I tried.

There's a woman who works at the cemetery where some of my family is buried who has a mane of curly gray hair. It's very attractive.