It partly depends on the grey - my family runs to dishwater grey in dishwater ash-colored hair, which does nothing for anybody, or silver in black, which rocks. And white is a PITA because it only looks good if it's *really* white, and not cream or stained-looking, which is why white-haired ladies (and some men) rinse their hair blue. Ash shades of hair can often gray to dishwater shades, and natural blondes can start to look dingy when they grey. Darker shades may do better, and black just looks sexy, damn them (assuming the gray goes okay with your complexion - gray hair on some darker skins can make the skin tone look ashy and less healthy as well).
It also varies depending on where you grey; man in the olden days often got those awesome grey temples because hair that is shaved close is going to grey faster than that which hasn't (and these days, former mohawk wearers are learning this as well). But if you're just getting one in 500 random gray, then it can just look patchy and/or not so hot.
I feel that men AND women often look a bit awkward at the only-partly-grey stage, and it's worth considering color to even things out one way or another until one is more than 50% grey at least. That stage where there's enough grey to notice but not enough to look awesome is frustrating. But that's my opinion, and I am a hair dye junkie.
Also, temporary (thus gentler) dyes/rinses will do a weaker job on those gray hairs. Which means you don't do the whole head that way if most of it is gray, but if you're just getting a few, then it will tint them - thus, use a gentle dye the same color as non-grayed hair, turn the greys to highlights. I recommend this method to folks just starting to gray, as it's relatively low-maintenance and low-damage, but solves the dinginess problems.
But I have no idea if your grays are coming in spectacular or dingy, so you make the call. (I've seen plenty of chicks go "I'm gonna own my aging and rock my gray hairs - oh my GOD why is my hair coming in BEIGE EW HELP I wanted SILVER!)
Also, if you haven't hit this one already, I warn you now: gray eyelashes and eyebrows too. And pale silvery eyelashes are ten times harder to fish out of my damned eyes.
I'm hoping for a big scary band of dykes to stomp on Rand Paul's head, but I'm a crazy dreamer.
Few things bruise more than travel, at least unintentionally.
Some Euro churches (and even US) still chime every 15 or 30 minutes. More than that I cannot fathom; I ditched Catholicism before any of that stuff made sense.
As for ideas, I have tons, it's the execution that's more likely to be a problem. But I'm ADD and now I'm also tired, so it's amazing I execute anything that takes more than 15 minutes.
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Date: 2010-10-27 10:26 am (UTC)It also varies depending on where you grey; man in the olden days often got those awesome grey temples because hair that is shaved close is going to grey faster than that which hasn't (and these days, former mohawk wearers are learning this as well). But if you're just getting one in 500 random gray, then it can just look patchy and/or not so hot.
I feel that men AND women often look a bit awkward at the only-partly-grey stage, and it's worth considering color to even things out one way or another until one is more than 50% grey at least. That stage where there's enough grey to notice but not enough to look awesome is frustrating. But that's my opinion, and I am a hair dye junkie.
Also, temporary (thus gentler) dyes/rinses will do a weaker job on those gray hairs. Which means you don't do the whole head that way if most of it is gray, but if you're just getting a few, then it will tint them - thus, use a gentle dye the same color as non-grayed hair, turn the greys to highlights. I recommend this method to folks just starting to gray, as it's relatively low-maintenance and low-damage, but solves the dinginess problems.
But I have no idea if your grays are coming in spectacular or dingy, so you make the call. (I've seen plenty of chicks go "I'm gonna own my aging and rock my gray hairs - oh my GOD why is my hair coming in BEIGE EW HELP I wanted SILVER!)
Also, if you haven't hit this one already, I warn you now: gray eyelashes and eyebrows too. And pale silvery eyelashes are ten times harder to fish out of my damned eyes.
I'm hoping for a big scary band of dykes to stomp on Rand Paul's head, but I'm a crazy dreamer.
Few things bruise more than travel, at least unintentionally.
Some Euro churches (and even US) still chime every 15 or 30 minutes. More than that I cannot fathom; I ditched Catholicism before any of that stuff made sense.
As for ideas, I have tons, it's the execution that's more likely to be a problem. But I'm ADD and now I'm also tired, so it's amazing I execute anything that takes more than 15 minutes.