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14/09/2008 20:54

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Is it better for ladies with white hair to dye it or should they be proud of it?

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14/09/2008 21:13

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Don't know still trying to decide - as one who originated with gypsy black hair which very quickly went white from early 30's -I have done both - dyed and then went au naturalle - the hair has to suit the complexion and much as I loved being dark time marches on and I am now gloriously white although I now tint with champange blonde from time to time .

Kate

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14/09/2008 22:23

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I too am still trying to decide. In my childhood I was a white blond which went darker in my 20's and now in my late 40's has returned to white blond but darker blond at the back. Everyone seems to think I have gone to great lengths to colour it that way and that blending the colours in has been a huge success so I have decided for now it can't look that bad and have left it alone for the last 2 yrs. When I was highlighting it prior to this the colours would only stay in for about 3 weeks becasue my hair just won't hold the colour anymore so I reckon good or bad I will live with it the way it is for now

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15/09/2008 08:00

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It all depends on the colour of white, which sounds daft I know but is true. Many people who have black hair, go grey early but go that startling bright white colour and it looks sensational. And yes, definitely keep it, many would pay a fortune for a colour like that. However, the rest of us go a dull, grey colour which is just ageing and that definitely needs to be covered over. I have one or two grey hairs only but my natural colour is boring donkey brown mousey, which is extremely dull. So I have it highlighted once or twice a year which lifts it. However I don't want people to think I am colouring it because it is grey!

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15/09/2008 10:11

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If it is sparkling silver white, it is truly WOW! And anyone would be daft to dye that... unless of course it makes you look like 98 and a half when you are in reality only 48 and a quarter.....

But seriously, it depends so much on the individual. On some women silver white looks stunning, and on others it looks horrid, much like pepper and salt grey, which is soooooo aging!
Black, but also (dark) brown hair looks a bit stark on me.... stunning but stark. All light(er) colours age me terribly and make me look like a corpse with it. So, I stick to that which keeps on suiting me - bright autumnal red hair

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15/09/2008 10:22

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Beejay,

I started to get streaks of white hair when I was just eighteen, so I started dyeing my h air pretty soon after that.

When I was last at the hairdressers, she said she couldnt understand why the front part of my hair was quite grey, but the back wasnt as bad. Both my sisters had grey hair, and I have to be honest, I dont want to offend anyone, but I never liked it and swore I would never let the natural grey show.

However, I am 64 now, still dye my hair, but cant foresee dying it in say ten years time, its a personal dilemma with me, because I have always been really fussy about my hair.

I think if you have grey hair and are happy with it then that is great, its upto the individual, but I think you have to remember a good cut is adviseable, and good conditioning to prevent the colour looking dull, and also makeup has to be just the right shade.

I know this much, I would be a lot richer if I didnt dye my hair, but just cant bring myself not to have it coloured.

Plasmo x

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15/09/2008 10:25

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I think, however attractive white hair is, and on some people it is, it is ALWAYS ageing.
That's my definitive view!

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15/09/2008 10:34

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I agree that white hair can look absolutely stunning, especially if it's that kind of bight white hair that looks almost blonde. The women that I’ve particularly admired have all had bright blue eyes and a high colour complexion.

Personally I don’t tend to like white hair on women with brown eyes and a sallow complexion; I think that can be very draining and unflattering. Thick hair also helps. I don’t think thin wispy white hair is a good look on anyone.

I'd love to have that thick white hair that some women have, but it's never going to happen. So I'll stick with the blonde hightlights until my dying day!

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15/09/2008 10:38

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Kate and Jane,

Agree with both of your opinions, I always think that Judy Dench's grey hair really suits her dont you?

Plasmo x

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15/09/2008 10:40

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Yers, but she's Judy Dench and I'm Kate!

I read somewhere that after a certain age most women become invisible.......and it's never going to happen to us, is it???

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15/09/2008 10:42

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Kate,

Im sure you have your own style, and look just as good, and you couldnt have said a truer word, we will always have our say on everything on our forum.

Plasmo x

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15/09/2008 10:44

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Plasmo, yes, JD looks great! Also liked Helen Mirren when she went grey/white, but I think she's recently gone back to being a bit more blonde again but I'm not sure. There is also a famous fashion designer I'm trying to think of who looks fantastic with white hair, but her name escapes me.

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15/09/2008 10:45

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It's interesting you mention having your own style.I suppose I have in a way, but always envy those women who are certain what their style is, and wear things that absolutely define them in a way that i don't feel I have achieved.Do you know what i mean?

I love the look of long skirts with boots, and I like camisole tops with a fitted cardigan, and I love jackets.
What sort of clothes do you like?

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15/09/2008 10:47

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Mm...think the above may be better as a post.So will try it!

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15/09/2008 11:17

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Kate,

I love clothes, but because Im a bigger lady over a size 16, I have to think very carefully when choosing clothes.

Sometimes I get carried away, but generally, I think by now I know what suits me. I dont like anything fitted, to exascerbate my size, although the fashionistics tell us differently, I can never understand designers, who design dresses for example with no sleeves for larger ladies, where most of us just want to cover them up. They constantly make things in clingy fabrics, its ridiculous.

I go for a kind of hippy style, but not as obvious, I to, like long skirts with boots, and dont laugh, but I wear short cowboy boots with trousers. I like to be smart, and fashionable, but not the mutton dressed up as lamb kind.

Plasmo x

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15/09/2008 11:22

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When someone seems to think you are your husbands mother, then the choice of whether to colour or not to colour becomes an easy one!

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15/09/2008 11:41

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Plasmo,
We should shop together!
I am a size 18, sometimes push into a 20, but I always say, I have a waist, am not a snowball on legs!
I have never succumbed to the Erin Pizzey dresses ( you know the frocks with the tent shape!)

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15/09/2008 14:16

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Kate,

We might just be doing that shortly. Your descriptions do make me laugh.

I have never ever liked those tents either, but I dont like to wear anything that draws attention to my tummy. It must be great to have a personal dresser, especially when we go away, as I never know what to take most of the time.

Plasmo x

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15/09/2008 14:21

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Yes, will pm you later today when I know which days OH will be going back to work.

I have said, having just bought three jumpers, two jackets and a skirt, that I am NOT buying anything else this winter, but I will come and be your personal shopper!!

But I am 60 in December (ssh!) and I will need fab new outfit ( shall go to CC) for party!

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15/09/2008 14:23

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Kate,

Will look forward to that, I have always wanted my very own personal shopper, I will repay you with a huge cream cake and coffee.

Plasmo x

You are not dieting are you?

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15/09/2008 14:26

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Dieting?? Dieting?
Never learnt how! You know how people say they don't know why they are overweight? Well, I do!!

Cappuccino and a cake it is then.....and then I'll buy you the same to make it fair!
Ho hum, do you really think we should meet?

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15/09/2008 14:30

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Kate,

I think it will be great fun, and am really looking forward to meeting you.

Plasmo x

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15/09/2008 15:24

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Anybody out there had their colours Done ?
ie seasons spring summer autumn winter , they have strong views on who should colour and who shouldn't?

Upsadaisy

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15/09/2008 15:26

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Sorry should have been a new post i think sos

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15/09/2008 17:41

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Picture this: I have longish straight brown hair and in my 50's. My sister, 5 years older, refused to dye her grey short hair UNTIL a TV engineer asked if she was my mother! A colleague of mine with white hair was asked if she was my grandmother when she was only old enough to be my mother. She swiftly went blonde for a while and admitted that she was cut up less as she was driving now that people did not see the white hair. And no, I don't look particularly young for my age, it is just that the hair colour is probably the first thing that registers with people. It is ok to talk about the rich and famous (see Meryl Streep looking fabulous in The Devil Wears Prada) but they have so many other advantages along the way.

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15/09/2008 23:29

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Issi, your comments made me LOL!!

Let's face it, grey or white hair is not a good look on most women!!

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15/09/2008 23:40

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Just my opinion!

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16/09/2008 09:18

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Agreed!

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16/09/2008 09:37

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Jane, that designer you were talking about is called Betty Jackson, and I think she looks amazing, but she always has a really good cut and good conditioned hair, which she probably has done more than once a week.

Plasmo x

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16/09/2008 21:38

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Plasmo, that's the one!!

I think that she looks fantastic!! And she has lovely white hair!! I agree she always has a really good hair cut, and of course she has style which helps!

Here's a piccy of her. She's 58 and I think she looks fabulous!! Although I think she look better on TV than she does in her photograph. She even manages to wear black next to her face and look great!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...ner-838261.html

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11/10/2008 16:20

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hi im new to this site have grey sort of salt pepper colour havent dyed it for 3 years now can wear much nicer colours now pale pink and baby blue soft grey , most people say it looks nice even my hairdresser keep a good cut have two friends who say i should dye it but they are scared not to dye theirs i feel this is me im 53 like the leather bicker jackets that are good this winter but not sure what i should were with it like to look trendy but not mutton as lamb any ideas im size 14 [Email][/Email]

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12/10/2008 18:45

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Welcome Catnap, hope that you will come to love this site.... warning though.... it is very addictive!
You're young Catnap.... so why settle for grey? Unless of course you look wonderful with it, and adore being grey.... Some people look wonderfully stunning with silvery white hair! Others, like me, look horrid with grey or even light coloured hair. Going fast for 62 now, I stick to my fave hair colour - bright autumnal red! But then, autumn colours are my pallette and have been for as long as I can remember. For now I am deligthed with my thick ruby red mop, and may consider carrying on with this red mop for a while yet.... before I get another inclination.... another variation on red.... I swore I'd be going to my grave with red hair

Of course I do not look like I did back in my 40's anymore - I looked like in my early 30;s when I was in my 40's - but refuse point blank to give in to conformation..... Age is all in the mind. It is a state of attitude, of mentality.
It strikes me that you stopped dyeing your hair upon reaching 50. WHY!!!?????? And why shouldn't you wear a "biker's jacket"?? If it suits you, and you look good in it, whyever not???
There is still lots of time and years ahead to be old.... we are still young!!

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13/10/2008 07:54

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Agree with you completely Chatelaine. Mine's dark brown with copper streaks - at the moment! If I didn't dye it I'd look daft as the gray has grown in in patches over my ears - remember Yvonne de Carlo as Morticia?

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13/10/2008 08:44

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Here Here Chatalaine totally agree with you . Age is all in the mind....but not in my mind!! Im a very young 60 something!! cant remember not dying my hair....think grey would look awful on me.....although some of my friends look fab with grey hair....so its whatever suits you whatever your age. Im sure Catnap looks fabulous.
xx

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14/10/2008 09:49

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Hiya all....I have just been white/grey for a few months now and about to change it.....had an unsuspecting glance in the mirror and was not keen on what glanced back..!!!

Why is that I wonder when I first coloured it it did look stunning many comliments..mmmm....any way back to the dyes....
Chatlaine I love your colouring and Psyche....also like the salt and pepper to Catnap....
I may go a blondish of some sort or maybe a chestnut with golden highlites.....mmmmm..????

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15/10/2008 17:26

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The trouble is not many ladies are totally grey. The rest of us have grey areas, streaks, patches and that's where the problem is. I would also be alot richer if I didn't need to do my roots every 3-4 weeks. Until the lot goes grey I feel trapped in the endless tinting cycle.

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19/10/2008 23:09

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i have been grey since my mid 40's, i'm 51 now. i resisted colouring for years and eventually gave in when my husband left me for someone 20 years younger than me ! for the last 3 years i have coloured my completely grey hair (well my hairdresser has !) everyone says it makes me look much younger so i'm sticking with it !! i have an allover colour and highlights through the top, lighter in the summer, nearly blonde. i have to go every 4 weeks but i feel it's worth it plus i have an 8 year old daughter and don't want to be mistaken for her granny !

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05/11/2008 09:50

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I have started to let my coloured hair grow out as I find the cost of professional colouring too much and I want to cut my working hours ....easy maths. My hair is short and this makes it easier. My hairdresser thinks i'll cave in but there is a bit of me that wants to see how grey I am!
When you look around there are lots of grey haired women but some need a better hair cut to still look young and the way you dress makes a difference. Watch this space to see if I give in!
Mary

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05/11/2008 10:02

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I colour my hair at home and it looks fine.It's soooo costly at the hairdressers.
I believe the definitive answer to whether to have grey hair is that, even though it can look really lovely, it is ALWAYS ageing.

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07/11/2008 12:17

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My hair is really a vibrant red out of a bottle..... and I am mere months away from my 62nd. Wednesday I had an amazing compliment. An acquaintance who didn't know my age, stated that I couldn't be older than at most 50!!!

Go grey??? NEVER!!!!

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