What makes you colour your hair?

I just thought of this yesterday because one girl came from Portugal in my neighborhood yesterday and she was tall and thin like a model. with her face you can't male out that she is on her 40s at all. she had nicely cut short hair. it was cut short like a boy but girly style. So her hair was a mixture of gray and black. It was evenly distributed so I thought she had dyed her hair that way because she looked very young. Later I came to know that she had her like that only. It was natural. the neighbor girls asked why she does not dye her hair, she said her husband likes it that way. so yeah some people like their hair gray. I myself in my late 20s and have no gray hair. I don't know if am going to dye when time comes. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

Uhmn.. let me check my hair okay, no white or gray hair...so I don't need to color or I don't need any hair color right now

That is not a very big problem to make your hair black again,forever.Here is what you have to do.Fry a handful of freshly sliced garlic in your pan with just a small amount of cooking oil.When the garlic are golden brown put off the stove and let it cooled off.Pick out from the pan the garlic pieces and try to ground it with stone mortar and shovel.Please do not not remove the sap extracted of pounding the garlic, instead use the oil from the pan to help collect the sap from the stone mortar.Put the mixture in a clean bottle--use this oil extract into your scalp every night when you are going to bed.It could help restore the blackness of your hair or whatever was the original color of your hair was before it got gray. You have to be patient enough to get what you like with your hair because it is not a hair dye ,yet it could really do magic to restore back your hair color,yet you have to wait for some time to make it happen. Even if it is realized for a longer time,at least you do not need to dye your hair again and again because the effect is really natural.I wish you could attain what you have been asking for.

Hi Deepak, Long time ago, there was a certain age in which our hair would start turning grey and that was marked as beginning of aging and it did not make people sad because it happened at right age and people did not feel embarrassed to go around with what they had on their heads. But now the things have changed. Today we are not eating the healthy food that our ancestors ate. Also we don't like to get sticky massages by putting lot of oil in the hair like they did. On the contrary we like to use soaps and shampoos that are full of harmful chemicals to wash our hair. To add to that, we new generation people have so much stress and tension that our hair have started to turn grey at very young age. I have seen people having grey hair in the age of 25. And once you stared dyeing your hair then there is no end to it because every next time you find some more grey hair added up....what I mean to say is that greying of hair now is not matter of age, but matter of stress and environmental effects. Our jet age is very clever. If they have problems, they also have solutions. and the result you can see the flourishing industries that manufacture products to make us look young again. Coloring hair today is common need of society and I think almost everyone is doing this as soon as they find first few grey hair popping out...:)) Me and my hubby we both color our hair once in a month. We usually use light brown color because since ours is black Indian hair, light brown comes out light black which looks natural. If we will use black color, then it comes out extra dark and does not look natural. So now tell me what color you are using

I started colouring my hair in my late 20's, not because there grey hair showing, but just wanna be in fashion. My grey hair appeared just about over 3 years ago. The first I saw it, I realized that I was really getting old. It kinda bothers me seeing it even if they are not that plenty, but still I color my hair with either chestnut brown color or mahogany or red brown color.

Hi, I only thought of looking different and didn’t think of getting old as my first grey appeared when I’s just 15. But never bothered to color my hair till my second child was born. By that time I needed good conditioning and henna was then treated as a good coloring/ conditioning supplement. I can’t use the black color as I get itching on my head so I go for brown and I like the color of it too. I am not scared of either the grey as these days I don’t color frequently (its once in 20-22 days) and let the grey be there for a while because I am proud to be in the 40s. Now why I color – is because it gives me a feel good thing for me to sit with about 40 colleagues in one floor. On a lighter side, if I didn’t color my hair, my mgnt may say- you look too old to work – thank u.

I don't like dying my hair because I don't like chemical stuff. However, as time goes by, I have more white hair than before. I start to think about dying my hair but I haven't made a decision yet. Once you dye your hair, perhaps you have to keep on it. Otherwise the growing white hair will seem to be much more obvious. This is the only one reason for me to dye my hair.

One of my cousin in his teen now have premature graying and when my mother bought him a black hair dye he said he like his hair that way , his nickname is "patch a gray" haha. He is the one in our family that have premature graying but only the same hair gray they come out of the scalp gray in that spot the rest is always black . My mother has no gray hair yet my grand mother and grand father would both dye their hair lol but not so regularly maybe twice a year .

I am gonna scream If I see another brown hair in my head .. I have one or two brown hair since I was young. It appears usually when I get stress or depress facing the problems in life But now since I 'realized' that I am not that old to have those grey hairs ( still feels like 17 even I am 30+ now..) I am gonna take vegetables and vitamins to avoid it appears again. Never think to color it cause I know that it only makes my hair damage

Yes, I color my hair, 3x in 10 years, from black into red/ burgundy color. I guess when I got grey hair I would also like to dye it with deep brown color... not to look younger, but to stay the same look... Can you really look younger by dyeing your hairs?

We dont want our grey hair to be exposed in public lest they should think we have gotten older though we are stil young. Some people color hair to boost up their fashions or youthness.

I don't colour my hair at all, although I live in a country where a grey head is hardly ever seen. What is seen though is a lot of women going bald. This is due to colouring with dark colours because of the chemicals they contain. the safest method is bleach, I've been told, but I don't even do that. I think those of us who go grey are making a statement about our lives. We are not ashamed of growing older. Generally speaking men do not colour their hair, unless they are celebrities. Why do you think this is the case? Are women more vain, or are men just not interested in ladies after a certain age so we try to look younger to please them?

My GREY hairs.

Oh~ I still don't have grey hairs but i color my hair because it looks good and i don't like black hair. i have a super dark brown hair that looks like black :)

Hi dpk My crowning glory is still in its original color but that does not mean that I don't have gray hair. Yes I do have them but they seem to be hiding under the top layers of black hair. They say that coloring the hair black will encourage the growth of gray hair. I've dyed my hair other colors but not black. I like to highlight my hair in light brown color just to be in vogue but may need to dye it more often if the gray hairs start conquering my head.

I've actually never been one of the people that has constantly been dying my hair in the past. However, I did color my hair a month ago because my husband and I had been in a fight and I came out of that wanting some kind of a change in myself. The easiest thing to change about yourself is your hair so I got my hacked off and then I went to the grocery store and chose a new color for myself. That was something that I did four weeks ago now. I really like the color so I plan to keep it and I'll be touching up my color again in two weeks.

Hi dpk! Gray hair seems to run early on my dad's side . . . but not so early on my mom's side. My sister and I got both genes - we had some grays early on, but we're both not full headed gray yet like some of our cousins. We both have this strange small patch of gray that runs from the top of our head, so we literally have the markings of a skunk - ha ha! I will say initially I used to pull out the grays when they first started appearing in my 20's (and that's a no-no, they say, right?). But after a while, I didn't really care. I think long ago I read about the chemicals used in hair dye, so that was a big turn off for me - so I never bothered to die my hair regularly (though on a rare occasion, I'd do something fun like making it a hint of red or burgundy - but not specifically to cover any grays). These days I just leave it alone entirely . . . I'm not afraid to see grays because that's what it is - it's natural at least. How about you, dpk?

I color my hair so as not to look too old amongst my office mates, who are way younger than me. It gives me confidence that i do look younger than my age , because i still was able to maintain my a bit trimmed body, so it has to be that my grey hair should be colored too. I usually color my hair, with the help of a maid, when it comes to the back. That way, i don't spend so much in hair coloring.

I have been coloring my hair for years now. It increases my confidence to see my hair the same color it looked when I was younger. I happen to suffer from premature hair whites and the only way was to color it back to its old shade with no white hair appearing. It is not really scary to have white hair since it isn't a communicable disease but when I was working in a office and I had to meet people, I had to look presentable. It is not only for the sake of vanity but won't people be amazed at talking to a granny with a full head of white hair in the office? Once the hair has been so used to hair color, not having it looks awful with the roots of a different color than the rest of the hair.

yes, many feel shy to show their grey hair, but not all ,i should agree that. My grand parents are 80 plus they still have black hair,but my parents and their siblings already have few grey hairs, this is due to lack of proper nutrition and also pollution. The people who color their hair, do so,because ,they want to look young, and some feel grey hair doesn't suit them ,so they color their hair.