when to give up on hair coloring?

Unfortunately I have terrible genetics, and I feel bad for my kids! My mom started going very grey when she was in her late 20's. She colored for awhile, but doesn't bother anymore, and she's in her 50's. My father was apparently going bald in his 20's. My husband also started going bald in his 20's and at the age of 26 decided to shave his head because he was embarassed by his ridiculous receeding hairline. But bald suits him. I have to color every couple of weeks because my grays are extreme and stubborn and already are showing through even though I just colored not long ago. Apparently I need better dye because the stuff I use is generally cheap and doesn't even cover them all.. plus I'm too impatient to leave it on for too long! I'll continue to color until I feel like being gray haired or until I'm too lazy to do it anymore. Like I said, I feel bad for my kids. So much gray and baldness in their family. My poor boys are going to be bald in their 20's like their dad.. it almost makes me want to cry. But I guess that's better than my daughter going bald in her 20's.. that would be awful!

I don't understand why anyone would want to stop dying their hair if they are grey at such a young age. I could see if it was someone older who just didn't want to bother anymore with their hair. I want to try and stay younger looking for as long as I can. There are so many affordable hair colors out there now that you can do it yourself and get good results.

Well I got the bad hair genes from the women in my family. I found my first gray hair at age 13 and by 21 was coloring my hair regularly. I turned 44 yrs old yesterday and still am coloring my hair and don't see me stopping anytime in the near future. I don't feel that I'm old enough to have a full head of gray hair. My youngest child is only 8 yrs old so I think that until she has left home before I will think about stopping. I would hate for people to tease her about her mom being old, lol. Some people look perfectly fine letting their hair go all gray and some don't, I'm pretty sure I would not look fine with a full head of gray hair.

I am 33 years old and I have a few gray hairs, but nothing major. I have dyed my hair 3 times this year, but not to cover the gray. First I dyed it black with blue chunks, then I dyed it burgundy. I recently dyed it back to brown, but slightly lighter than my actual hair color. I don't know how much gray I have right now, but I figure when it really does start coming in I will color it for awhile. I guess until I feel I am old enough to have gray.

Friend my 90% hair is white but I not use hair color but use black mehndi because I know color is not good for our hair and falling hair problem may arise..I not like to change color of my hair.

Hi, If one is active in social, business or corporate circles where appearances do matter and count for self esteem, one would be better advised to keep things looking good, whatever the pains of doing so. Hair graying at very young age is quite discomforting and you would expect any one doing their best to hide them to look young & natural. I tried detesting the suggestion to color my gray hair close to 50 but my loving wife feels its good to color them for a tidy look. I yield, though I grumble. But I do less frequently than she would want me to.

I had given up coloring my hair about five years ago, because Clairol discontinued the auburn color I liked and my roots always showed a lot. I just had it cut extremely short, twice, to get rid of it all. However. . . my husband seems to think that makes me look older than him, and I am eight years younger, so he was wanting me to color again. In January, and then in February I used colors that were similar to my own ash brown color, hoping that it would not grow out so much. Then I started swimming a lot in the spring and it made my hair feel nasty. Someone on here mentioned Henna, and I remembered my sister using it over fifty years ago. I ordered some, had to get it online and started researching how to mix it and use it as it is an herb. I have been using henna since July. The color gets deeper and richer all the time. It is cheaper than hair dye, but you have to leave it in a long time. The MyLot member who talked about it says it is actually like putting a varnish on your hair. My hair is shinier, less oily, and is very nice, except for the ends that are still bad from the chemical dye early this year. I am fifty eight. The dark brown parts of my hair still look dark brown. The streaks that used to be a yellowish gray (they turned fuschia with chemical dye) are now red getting darker into auburn, and I touch up the roots about every four or five weeks. My daughter is thirty two, with long straight dark brown hair and lots of silver threads and she will never color her hair and that is okay as well. I probably would not even use the henna if it were not for my husband.

My mother used to color her hair on a regular basis. But the downside of it was that she was allergic to the ammonia found in most hair dyes so the coloring would just last for like a week, then her hair would go back to pure white. She stopped coloring her hair just last year after finding the whole process just too tedious for her old age. I guess there really is no set age as to when you should stop. It's more of how comfortable you are with having gray hair. I have an aunt who is in her fifties but doesn't color her hair. She just leaves it as is, pure grey and doesn't mind if people say that she looks old.

I never really have colored to hide the grey... I have lightened my hair to a light blonde over a dark blonde (nearly brown) and now I'd like to go violet... but that's just me...

I fully stopped the color changes about 14 years ago..basically because of the money...OWCH! There is not a decent "coloring kit" here under about $15.00, and then there is the expense of the color extenders, and special conditioners...and for me, the down time! Just couldn't seem to find the time to keep it looking good...and there is nothing worse than a bad color job! Cut it short, a couple of times, to remove all damaged hair...and voila, what you see is what you get!

I was a dark ugly brown up until 10 years ago...and I started doing the highlight streak weave thing that makes my have just kind of dark blondish looking hair...makes me look about 10 years younger! I now look 40 instead of 50! And makes me feel better too! I do this every 3-4 months, but color washes out sooner I would think so it might be more of a hassle to do it more often. I would say if you feel good with the grey...why change it? I just wish I had done mine with the weave many years ago. So sometimes, it is the other way around...don't color for a long time, then color...guess it is all in how it makes you feel.

I remember when I saw my first gray hairs when I turned 40 I did go to the point of dying my hair several times. I then got cancer (probably not related to that in any way) when I was 43 and after I lost my hair to chemo I decided that I wasn't going to color my hair again. I did color my hair several years later, but it wasn't necessarily to get rid of gray but to just be different. The last time I colored my hair (last fall) it had more to do with the fact that I wanted to kill lice and we didn't know how to ask about that kind of shampoo in China. It did the trick so I was happy with the result. I lost my hair again last spring to chemo and when it came back again in the fall it was more gray than brown. Oh well...I'm not going to worry about it. Chances are I will be losing my hair again soon because the doctor said he wanted to start me on chemo again. I think I will just let nature take its course.

I have not had to dye mine yet for gray covering purposes. But if they become to noticeable I would definitely would do so. As I put in Beanies box, I think that when one is at a younger age we are sort of more conscious of it and dye it. After a certain age I suppose I would not mind not dying it any longer. I am not sure at what age that would be and or how I would feel about it. Maybe I will be one of those that does it a lot when I am older as I don't think I would be comfortable with mine being fully silver. But I am sure that day will eventually come. As the last thing I want to look is older with a fake looking color. Unless I can somehow cater the grays with some type of shade.

Those are very nice questions , first my age is not the appropiate to have hair grey but if i had it i definitely would dye my hair cause if i don't like the way it is now i can't even imagine having it at three colors at the same time good luck

I am lucky. I am 47, and most people would never guess it because I have little gray. My husband is in his 50s and has little. But I think ours is in the genes. I know that I am a blonde so my gray does not show as much as if I had other color of hair and they are there. As for dying it, I guess it is up to each individual person and their thoughts. I guess it would depend also on what type of upkeep you want as to whether people want to dye their hair or not as well.

I think that this is a totally personal choice.I would not stop coloring my hair,but somebody else might.I do not like the way I look with grey hair.So I keep coloring it.I did not like my original color either so I changed it. With all these products of quality(not meaning expensive) why not please yourself?