Gray Hair Color

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at 7:57 pm  
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Gray Hair Color

Since many people by the age of 50 have started to go gray, most are choosing to use a hair color in an effort to preserve a youthful look. But a growing number of women—courageous, rebellious, or just exhausted by the tedium of coloring—are going brazenly, vividly gray. Gray Hair

We found a handful who had decided to let their gray (or silver or white or salt-and-pepper) come in naturally. A lot of times the natural gray is not always the desired gray color you want. Using a gray hair color can add a fresh and natural look to your dull and dry hair.

What Gray Hair Color Is Right For You

Gray or white hair tends to look best with pink, olive, and dark complexions. If you are very pale, you’ll probably look washed-out and should consider highlights or low-lights. Brown hair that looks mousy as the gray comes in can be brightened and enriched by adding in highlights and low-lights.

Another good option if you’re just starting to go gray is to use a semi permanent glaze. This will stain a lot of the gray, and when the color starts to fade, you won’t have a root line. If your gray comes in wiry, it’s because it’s dry, so use a weekly deep condition to moisturize and calm it down. To counteract any yellow tones, get a violet-based gloss at the salon every six to eight weeks; it coats the hair and gives it shine.

You will be amazed at the many different gray hair color and tones of gray that is available. See what is closest to your natural changing hair. Some women gray in spots and not in an even pattern. By using a gray hair color you can turn gray with a more even, natural look.

Going gray does not have to be a dreaded thing. Chose a gray hair color that compliments your skin tone and love the hair you are in. Gray is a beautiful color that can add a youthful and fresh look to your face. Women who try to color their hair too dark at an older age enhances their age. It is better to use a gray hair color and gradually grow old, gracefully.

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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at 1:01 pm  
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A few nice Gray Hair Color images I found:

sky day 215
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Image by maureen_sill
remember, self
you are capable of being a good person
you are capable of being a good person
you are also capable of being a person who is not always good
so watch it, self

a lot of my favorite people seem to spend a lot of time feeling as if they are very stupid
i have been told that i look like a cartoon character
sometimes i think that when i look at someone’s neck it means almost the same thing to me as if i were trusted to see them naked
as if it were as personal a thing to me

an inner monologue that is twenty three pages long
made it’s way into my journal two days ago and since then i have worked 20 hours
i am glad that i was able to get it out before i numbed my braincells for seven dollars an hour

on a bike ride today i felt that satisfying burn in my legs, when you pedal fast
when i was racing to the field to try to get there before the sun had actually set
route 83, you are the only place i can really be alone
the couple of times i went without a camera
are oddly the most memorable

i have been thinking a lot about what kate said on the phone about
how things and circumstances are forever changed because of the fact of the existence of the camera, forever changing what happened, forever changing what actually happened
i think about her standing next to the berlin wall in a beautiful city with a lot of people standing around, everyone posing for a picture
i imagine japanese tourists holding maps, tiny pink digital cameras
their bodies probably in coats, their little arms probably holding their backpacks or purses
i imagined her standing there with others
probably not knowing whether or not they should smile
because of what the berlin wall used to mean, obviously
and it didn’t make sense to her
and she is right, it doesn’t make much sense
and then i think about the pictures my parents took of me when i was a baby
before i knew what a picture was and before i knew what it meant to want to try to take pictures of something because you loved it, you loved it in an obnoxious or a whispering way, either way it was something you felt
was worth documenting or attributing to your image, if you’re the sort

or wanting to take pictures of something because you wanted to understand it
i want to understand things more than i want anything else
which explains my fascination with the "cruelty of abstraction"
and the fact that it is impossible to understand anything
and then
i looked at pictures of myself as a baby, sitting in the dirt, my hands in the dirt
naked in the dirt
that photo was brown, and whatever color my skin is, and bright orange, my hair against the dirt
and the blue sky
my legs are buried in the dirt
and then i looked at the photograph which i have taped next to my bed of my dead grandfather at dachau concentration camp, he is holding a folder with some papers in it, i assume
it is one of six photos i have ever seen of him
and i know photos are fake and they are not real and they don’t help me understand things as much as i’d like to think that they do but then when i look at the picture of him standing in front of the gates to that place where his friends and two members of his family were murdered (according to my grandmother, who is perhaps not always as much of a reliable resource as i would hope, but for the sake of something, i will try to believe her) and so
i look at that picture and i don’t know
because of it i know what his face looked like and i know a little about what was important to him or how he decided to cope with things that were probably hard for him
because of the fact that he actually went to this place
where people he cared about were murdered
and i feel like i could maybe try to understand why he did that
and why he went alone
and why he took a camera
and i will never know if i am like him or not
but when i look at that picture i feel like i might be like him
i never met him and i never will meet him because of what he did to himself
but looking at that photo makes me miss him

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#50 Europe’s Gravestone Carved in Plastic
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Image by Arty Smokes (deaf mute)
Another quick mobile snapshot taken within 100 yards of my house. I saw these hula-hoops hanging up outside a hardware store and immediately thought "halo".
I have a God complex, ob.

Processing: uppped the colour sat; radial blur on the background which was then cropped so you can’t see most of it; bit of colour dodging to make the eyes more prominent.
(Original available on request).

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    Sunday, January 16th, 2011 at 2:58 am  
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    Question by Ross: How do I color my hair gray?
    For Halloween, I plan to dye my hair gray to be a character in his late 50s or 60s. I’ve thought about doing both long term and short term, and both are appealing. However, I have very dark brown hair, which means I’d need to bleach it, correct? The problem is, I don’t have much money to go to a salon. What are some cost effective alternatives? What can I do in terms of long term gray coloring, or short term? What are the prices I’d look for doing either? Do I need to bleach for gray coloring that is short term? If I attempted something like this on my own, is there a good way to go about it – a guide or something I should read?

    Bottom line – The cheapest (and best looking) method is most important, because Halloween is what I’m most concerned with. I would think that long-term is more expensive to create the same color I want, since they make coloring that just coats hair for short term, right?
    One extra thing I should mention is that I do need to style the hair for this costume.
    Ok, apparently, for the day of Halloween, that spray stuff suggested by some of you sounds like a good way to go for just the day. What about full dying? What kind of price would I be looking at, and is there a way to do it on my own, or what would the difference of cost be in going to a salon vs. my using internet guides and help from knowledgable people?

    Best answer:

    Answer by dgb79jmb
    Put baby powder in your hair.

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