Hair colouring as you age

[Trillian]

Arimeh's thread got me thinking about this. How many of us let our age affect how we colour our hair? When I was at school I used to dye my hair black, or burgundy/bright red and it always seemed to suit me, but a few months back I dyed my hair what I thought would be a nice dark brown colour, but it actually was a hell of a lot closer to black and it looked terrible! It was just far too dark for me and I didn't think it looked any good, not like it used to when I was younger. My hair is naturally a dark chocolatey brown and lately I just stick to colouring it the same colour as my hair just to hide the greys. I haven't had foils in years because they don't seem to suit me anymore either.

[*Twinkle*]

I'm naturally a dark blonde/light brown and no longer dye my hair a light/medium blonde as I just look washed out. I dye my hair a medium brown and it suits me.

[Arimeh]

Hahaha you're funny

Like I said in my thread, black seems to accentuate my wrinkles - and I have a few of those!!! And I wouldn't go blonde either, would look weird against my black eyebrows lol

My mum always dyed her hair dark brown/red which was close to her natural colour, but then she went blonde in her late 40's. Now she is approaching her mid 60's and is letting it go grey naturally.

I would do the same, but I have an obscene amount of grey hair for a 33 year old - it runs in my family. My Aunty was completely grey by the time she was 35.

[Trillian]

I'm lucky I dont' have wrinkles, but the dark colour made me look like I was sick.

[Arimeh]

I'm lucky I dont' have wrinkles, but the dark colour made me look like I was sick.

And what's wrong with the goth look? Hahaha (just kidding before anyone takes offense, I'm just joking that goths look sick with their dark hair and pale skin - I can poke fun cos I was a goth for a few good years!)

[MrsFabuloso]

I do varients of my natural colour which is a darkish mousy brown. I either do reddish brown, a copperish brown, or a shade or two lighter (dark blonde?) than my natural colour. I still get foils, but at the moment, they've all grown out and I just colour my hair at home. I realised just how many grays I had when I let it all grow out for a few months...eeek!! No I keep up with the dyes, lol!

[sloane]

i've almost done a full circle - i used to do the whole goth thing (snap arimeh's eden ) & had bright pink/red/purple hair or streaks. then i went ultra conservative in my mid-late 20's & just did subtle variations of my natural (boring) mid-brown hair. then i went blonde, then back to normal-ish colours. last time i got my hair coloured i felt the urge for something different so i got a chocolate brown with bright reddy-purple foils. i loved it & plan to get it done again.

i think my hair colour depends on how i'm feeling in general - since i've been a SAHM i've started to feel the need to be a bit 'different'

oh - not toooo many greys just yet (although def more since i had DS!) but i do prefer them to be coloured rather than there

[~Kim~]

Yep I have changed. Early-mid twenties I had either fully blonde or blonde streaks and lots of them. When i had the kids a block colour that didn't need redoing too often was my preferred choice (so near enough to my naturally mousy brown colour). Recently I redid the streaks and god I looked awful. Washed out and blah...
Now though I'm a bit more daring on the colour and since salons are prohibitively expensive here I've gotten quite good at doing my own...something I would never have dreamed of before.

[*Twinkle*]

just did subtle variations of my natural (boring) mid-brown hair.]

OMG when I was young I would have committed murder to be a mid-brown! I HATED being blonde and all that came with it. you know the 'witty' blonde jokes

[Astrid]

I am just avoiding it right now. Been 6 years since I last had my hair coloured, so I really would not know what colour to go for these days, plus I see some women my age and older who would just look better if they left their hair its natural colour.

I just tell people that I am cultivating my Goddess Stripes

[*Twinkle*]

Oh Astrid I would LOVE to not colour my hair! I HATE it. I would love to be all natural but my hair grows at a snails pace, so I just look multicoloured and weird :S

[Rivlas]

I used to get a full head of tips to keep the grey from showing to much but lately I have been getting only a half head done so the grey is showing and I will get less and less tips until they are no longer needed. I like tips better than foils as I don't like the block look and tips regrowth shows less and it is also cheaper.