From the research I've done natural redheads do not go gray, their hair just turns blonde and it's interesting that in the picture you showed of yourself your hair looked red and is now more blonde than gray.
You are correct! True red heads or auburns do go blonde not truly grey. Interestingly, this YTuber when she was younger had the same chestnut brown color that I had as a child and early teen. But it all depends upon your genetics. Her grey is muted and my grey roots growing in appears white like my father's. But still too early to tell exactly yet as more growth needs to occur to get a better picture.
My sister has light red hair and is now very blonde with some red while my hair is a much darker red and I have the odd white hair but still red. We are both in our 60s. My understanding is that with darker red hair the hair turns to brown then goes white. My grandmother was born a redhead but later in life her hair became dark brown with a some white hair around her temples. Her hair was still very dark when she died in her 70s.
You are spot on! I had light brown hair and now it is champagne. Love that term. I get compliments and recently went to a new hairdresser and she asked what color I use haha! It is freeing to not put chemicals on my head. Thanks for the video and for promoting gray acceptance!
I started to go gray in my early 20's. When I was in my mid 20's, my hairstylist told me I was 80% gray. I dyed my hair for the next 20 years. This was really interesting and fun to watch!
Well my hair has changed so much over the last 2 years! I was a natural mid-brown and expected it to grow out a light silver - but it didn't! Surprisingly, it grew out a much darker shade of grey than I had expected. I got quite frustrated at one point and almost gave up the process - but stuck with it. At around the end of the 2nd year, it started to lighten-up and I had a nice silver at the back but the front was still a bit darker, so I had a few highlights put in, to blend it. It now looks pretty good and the roots are now growing out a light shade of silver, so it will match! To others I would say hand in there, even if it doesn't look as good as you expected at first. It's a long process.....
I love your passion about this! I got white before 18, just like my dad (genetic defect) having overall dark undertones, eyes and brows. Recently I've gone platinum on brown strands that remained untouched by the defect so I'm fully white now (slightly after 30). People's reactions are usually bad because it's too dissonant for them (age and hair colour criteria). But I love it and I'm not going to change it :)
I had red hair and started colouring it when it faded in my 50s now 74 and in lockdown I let the colour grow out. My hair is now completely white and I love it. I should have stopped colouring it years ago.
Started to gray below the temples in my late 30's and colored it all through my 40's and mid 50's. Tired of coloring and seeing roots again three weeks had a hairdresser help me transition by adding blonde streaks. A few touch up of that and I grew it out completely. Never regretted it. I trim it myself. Still set in rollers and wear it girly looking mostly, occasionally blow dry. The whole front is silver like with a touch of pepper, but the back is still mostly my original dark brown.
I’m 41, now short and natural and my hair is salt and pepper (totally evenly distributed too!) on top but champagne grey (love that term!) on the sides. This figures because I was a mousy light brown/dark blonde before the grey came in. Two friends have independently described my hair colour now as mink, which I also like!
I stopped coloring mine 10 years ago when I was 58 and my grey came in as champagne streaks. My hair was light brown with red highlights and now it look like it's frosted, which is a term you don't hear anymore, but I'm sure a lot of older viewers will remember those frost and tip kits and pulling your hair through a cap with holes.
I have had the same results--my hair looks as if it is frosted, and the 'gray' growing in is a combo of silver and blonde tones. Although I'm only 4" into the process you wouldn't believe how many compliments I get on my "new" hair.
I'm in the salt and pepper shakers kind of group. I've been getting Gray since I was 12 . Lol I'm now 47 and just finished my parh of going gray no dye . Took 2 years and some . Loving the results .
My Grandma and 8 siblings were all redheads , she died at 96 with still red hair and her siblings too ! It paled got lighter but it definitely stayed red!
My aunts mother was the same, she died at 90 with a full head of red hair. My aunt was blonde and it never went gray. She dyed it gray because she really wanted the experience. I saw my first gray when I was 15 and my daughter when she was 9.
I m 36, salt and pepper. My pepper is mousy brown, 30 months no dye. Brown if you see it from the front, but grey reflexion when see it from the side. Great video, new sub.
My grey is coming in just like my mommas did... 😕 very mixed dark salt & pepper and she hated hers as much as I hate mine. Momma still had s&p hair when she passed away at 87yrs of age! It's not a look I can embrace I'm afraid... i'm not sure i'll ever be ready for it to be honest. Thankfully I have a wonderful hairdresser (therapist/counsellor more like!) that listens to my tales of woe and still works magic on my nasty& evil salt &pepper roots! 😂
I think I'll go stark white seeing as I have like 7 or 8 white hairs on my head. I'm a redhead. :) Honestly can't wait... because then I wont have to bleach my hair and I can do crazy pastel hair dye colors! Haha!
I love my salt and pepper hair. When I put my hair in a ponytail, I have a white streak in both sides of my head. It reminds me of the movie Frankenstein with Gene Wilder where he creates the female and she has the white streaks. Since my hair is changing, I now notice a lot of women who have beautiful hair and are going with the flow instead of coloring it.
I am 65 years old and was born with a light strawberry blond colored hair which as I got older it transitioned to a variegated platinum blond with darker streaks which went to a darker blond in my late teens at which time I began to use color to lighten it up. Tired of coloring I let my roots grow out for 3 months to allow me and my stylist determine what my natural color is. Well, it turns out I am a whitey. My stylist heavily highlighted my colored medium ash blonde hair which lifted all my color and she added some toner and the end result is a pretty close match to my white all over roots. Having short layered hair probably helped the blending of the two colors making the slight difference not so obvious. I love my nearly white hair and so does my husband. Funny, as a teen I always wanted that Nordic white blond hair and at 65 I have it without having to use a bottle.
My dad has a similar color to me. His hair was blonde as a child and got slightly light brown in adulthood. I have dark blonde hair with lots of gold in it. My dad’s hair in his 60’s has turned into the most gorgeous hair color I’ve ever seen: a super super light white and gold blonde mix. I really hope my hair looks like that someday.
Thank you for the video and for the daily inspiration. White, S&P, champagne, battleship What about silver? My old hair is black but coming in silver. Go figure..The battleship pic looked black but I get what you mean. Also on your school picture your hair looked red. :)
My family grays young and from what has grown out I think I have the beautiful white that my grandma had. I'll find out next week when I finally get to the salon after 3 months, as we all know salons were closed due to the virus shutdown.
I'm started transitioning and embracing my greys when I was 38. It genetics, my family turns grey early in life. Naturally black hair, turned to salt and pepper and I'm still there. I would prefer all grey or white. My issue is hair texture and how it has changed. Have curly hair but these greys and white hairs dont have a curl pattern they are just not curly not straight it's like wire or frizzy 🙄 I dont know what to do
My hair is starting to gray. The color is some silver. Natural color is dark brown. My dad had silver like a shiny silver coin, mixed with white, hair when he got older. So maybe mine will be a mixture of silver and white. Silver is a different hue than white. The battleship gray you showed looked like it could have some silver too.
That's crazy. I'm half Native with black hair and in high school I did have a small white streak and rest is white. That's kinda cool. I might wanna dye my hair battleship gray. Thank you!
I'm 42 and I am 80% natural gray.... I'm growing it out... I still have color on the bottom portion of my hair... How can I remove the color? I ABSOLUTELY love the gray, mine is WHITE/PLATINUM!! Also, ur very very beautiful!!
I’m three months in and looking forward to seeing the results. Still waiting for the hairdressers to open with the lockdown as this will cut off a lot of colour on the ends.
Your 6th grade photo looks red on my end. Maybe it's just the strange color pixels on the computer. My hair was very very blonde until I was about 40, and then started going ugly mousy blonde. It looked like dirty dishwater. Not pretty, so I started using a color to match my original blonde. Been coloring ( with a demi color) ever since, but I really want to try letting my color grow out. I'm hoping that the gray will be improved. Have you ever tried using purple shampoo on your hair? I wondered if that might improve the gray a bit.
Sounds like I defied all of your probabilities. Started going grey at 16, totally grey by the time I was 30. Started with bland mousey brown hair, and I have white grey hair.
I have natural black hair. I got my first white at 9. My white hair strands are pure white. Going to grow my hair out and see if I’m salt and pepper. I’m thinking I will be that. I’m 30 and hair a sprinkling of grey hair throughout my hair and especially around my ears.
Your hair in that photo appeared on camera as a strawberry blonde shade. I liked the way you presented those four categories/stages of gray transition & it does make perfect sense as to me as an observer. I am over 65 have a medium brown co!or hair & already notice a salt & pepper trend emerging but honestly I'm not a fan so I will continue to color my gray until I'm completely exhausted of the upkeep! Thanks so much 💟💜💟
Born with very black hair. At 19 I got a white streak in front. In my late 40's /early 50's I started coloring my hair. Stopped coloring 4 yrs ago, and loving my gray/silver. I'm salt n pepper (mostly pepper) and still have some black hair underneath. Interestingly, my silver streaks have turned an ash blonde. Really strange.
I was born with snow white hair. At age 7/8 it started turning brunette. At age 30 greys started appearing. At about 50 my roots looked like salt and pepper, now at 59, almost 60, my roots are silvery/white. I am gearing up to ditch dying my hair and covering my greys every 6 weeks, and just let it all go whatever color it wants. This will a journey since my hair is long, curly and thick.
You aged very well, look like you did as a teenager, same face, very recognizable. And your color is gorgeous, it looks highlighted. I didn't think this could happen, but 10 years ago in my early 50's, I had all natural hair and my whole head was pure white. My hair was long and thick and people would stop me in the street and ask me who my colorist is (as in my profile photo). I started taking lots of good quality vitamins and 10 years later my hair turned brown again in spots. I'm growing it in natural again and it appears to be more salt and pepper. Again, this is quite surprising, I didn't think it was possible. If I didn't see it happen on my own head, I'd be skeptical.
Hi.. i had a color change a few months ago.. and i have a lot of white in my hair.. i am taking supplements to help my health plus my hair.. since i had vitamin d deficiency and iron deficiency. Do you think my color will change in anyway one day..(soon..lol)
I have redish brown hair, was long but I'd wear it up, I see it coming in all white at the sides, I hope it looks like yours one day. My mums and Nana went all snowy white.
your girlfriend from high school may have had Poliosis, also called poliosis circumscripta, is the decrease or absence of melanin (or colour) in head hair, eyebrows, eyelashes or any other hairy area. It is popularly known as white forelock when it affects hair directly above the forehead.
I am 72 and finally have grown my gray out. About one more hair trim left. The champage gray is a good description, lighter at the top and sides. Using a light blonde fanciful rinse.
I'm 43, I started graying when I was in 7th grade. I have naturally dark brown hair but the last couple of years I had dyed it purple. Back in February, I had decided to get the red tones out of my hair and become all-natural. I tried everything to lighten it without bleaching it, but I ended up bleaching it anyways. I haven't put anything in my hair since then. I am really trying to grow it out. I am thinking of dying it a silver-gray color but I am on the fence. I had damaged my hair since I bleached it. I had hair past my shoulders, then I decided to chop it off now it reaches to the back of my neck in a short layered bob. The bleach had also ruined the texture of my hair. I am naturally curly hair and it straightened it. I am slowly getting the curls back again and my hair feels like hair once again. But I would love to have some advice if I should dye it silver or just leave it as is and just let it grow out. Thank you. I love your channel by the way.
Any update? I can tell you what I did--I planned a transition from my dark (dyed) hair to the new gray, and each 4-6 weeks, when I did a root touch-up, I went 1 or 2 shades lighter in color. I did not re-touch the damaged ends, only the new growth. When I finally decided to stop touching up altogether, the transition line wasn't so dramatic. It took longer to arrive at that point, but it has been an easier transition.
@@kallen8279 Yes, I have not dyed it at all for over a year now and I am growing it out and I love being silver and my hair is very healthy now. Thank you for asking :)
What if you were born with white hair(I wish I had a picture, It was white white) and it turned to a dirty blonde, and now it's more dirty than blonde...would I still have champagne gray? I'm also already getting silver hairs. Like shiny silver, every gray I've found it has been super shiny silver.
My hair is dark strawberry blind and curly. My grays are coming in individually and not all at once on the crown like I've seen happen with some people. Both sides of my family have a lot of salt and pepper so that's likely what will happen in my case.
My grandmother's hair was a dark chocolatey brown when she was young. When it started turning grey it went a really pale colorless silver, like starlight, very shimmery, almost completely white. I hope mine does that, and sooner rather than later... its so pretty. My partner's hair turned silver when he was in his twenties. He looks so handsome.
My Dad had brown hair and went white. I started going grey at 18 and and had almost black hair although i dye it when the grey comes through it is champagne
That one streak of white (or blonde) hair is called a Mallen Streak. I knew someone also with that who considered it her birthmark. It's also called poliosis ( a condition, that isn't really a "condition") I think that it looks so cool.
I had no idea! I was born with a streak of white in the crown/back of my head. My oldest son has the same thing, size of a quarter. I always thought it was genetic! Interesting to know what it's called. I'll have to look this up. Thank you for sharing!!
I am medium to dark blonde. My top is salt and less pepper ..my back is salt and less pepper but then my sides are white near my ears.. I'm so confused what it will look like down the track. It happened all of a sudden 4 months ago.. good have been the anemia i had
My hair was about your color then and it's your color now so I would also call it champagne grey. But I have green eyes and what looks like green as opposed to blue veins so I wear make-up shades for warm skin tones and I am wearing glasses that are a sort of beige/gold, very thin, titanium rim. I have never dyed my hair and I watched it come in from the very first warm grey strand that showed up.
I'm past my 15 month grow out journey! My hair is white with my original color as well... I have a question does anyone else have issues with styling tools and the heat turning their hair a yellowish brown color and yes I do use thermal protection and very good quality products!
@@progqueen5952 ... Yes I know I've use it... That had nothing to do with my problem! The curling iron changes my hair color even tho I'm using everything right to protect my hair!
Seona Smith hi what you are describing is oxidisation. use a clarifying shampoo before the purple shampoo and keep heat medium or hair can go yellow brown or even pink
@@suearnold9672 ...I do use a clarifying shampoo! I've also changed out all my products, new purple shampoo and styling products and haven't used heated styling tools! But when I do I will lower the heat setting even lower! Thank you.... My hair is looking better now, I also did a Wella toner T-18 and 20 volume developer for about 15 minutes, it made a huge difference!
Not sure on the grey cast. If all roads lead to white hair then it would just be a very subtle salt and pepper? Because all hair strands aren't going to turn a dark grey? I've been going grey very slowly since I was 16, I'm now 30 and I'm salt and pepper for sure. As I had very dark brown hair, almost black as a child and am getting white stripes and salt and pepper sections coming in strongly.
Hello Xana, I think gray hair is an illusion in most cases , it is the white hair coming along side your natural color . Most consider that to be gray. However I have seen young ladies with actual gray hair where the strand it gray. Could this be your type? I would have to see a photo more closely.
I'm 30 have medium brown hair. I've found 5 white hairs. My mom has dark brown hair with salt and pepper hair. Dad was blonde when younger. Really hoping I get white hair lol
You are right on about the brown hair I am becoming salt/pepper with an awful lot of pepper in comparison to salt. I think it is best though because of my skin tone I would look washed out if I had your hair color although it may come down to that in later years.
My natural hair is level 3, no warmth in it..it looks like darkest grey. I noticed my first greys when I was 21. Now its salt and pepper but my greys are not white ..its more like ur shade ..i dont know how to call it.. blondish grey
The picture of you in 6th grade looks like red hair on here. I had dark brown hair, almost black and my grays now are white. My dad had the same color and he went completely white too. So even though it is hard with the white stripe, I am glad it will be white!
Grey hair in all its variations is so gorgeous! As far as my family’s history with grey hair, my paternal grandmother had dark brown, almost black hair in her youth. By age 45, her hair had turned pure snowy white. Beautiful! My maternal grandmother stayed mostly dark brown and had just a few silvers when she passed. My mom had medium brown hair that has turned salt and pepper (mostly salt). My dad, like his mom, had very dark hair that has turned snowy white. I am a natural dark blonde/light brown. My greys are growing in mostly in streaks (in my bangs and at my temples) which are surprisingly WHITE. Even the stray grey hairs elsewhere on my head contrast noticeably from their neighboring hairs. I immediately stopped getting highlights when I realized I had started to grey. I decided to embrace my natural color and while I always thought my transition would be a little more subtle, I am loving my natural sparkles. 😂
My hair darkened so much; it was platinum when I was born. By the time I was 20 it was dark ash blonde. By 40 it was mousy brown that I don't like. I used to color it a golden brown which is very close to the same color but just a nicer tone. Now in my mid-50s it is mousy brown with gray (whitish) streaks. I have not colored it in a long time. I actually like the gray; I dislike the mousy brown parts. I look at the brown and want to color it again but I don't wanna cover up my gray. Wish I could hurry it up and make it mostly/all gray.
I was born with light blonde hair (level 10N) but it got darker in my teens (darn puberty lol) to a dark ash blonde (6A) and have been coloring my hair since I graduated high school. So I decided to let my hair grow out to see what color it is, and at 49 it's still a dark blonde with white hairs sparsely throughout the crown and sides, making it appear alittle lighter blonde (like a 7N). My dad died at 72 and still had blonde hair mixed with white hair (salt and sand, instead of salt and pepper colored). Same when his brother passed away at 67; my grandmother (their mom) was actually all white when she passed away on her 74th bday. The other side of my family all had champagne grey hair, not white. I'm hoping I continue to take after my dad's side because I'd love to have white hair as I age, it is sooo pretty 😍
I have a white streak ... because I was hit in the head as a kid, no kidding. This happens more than you'd think. My hairdresser told me there was a small scar under the white streak.
I don't want to say your theory is wrong, but as you say it is what it is. However, i have what I call "glow in the dark gray", but really it's white, but so bright it looks platinum. I'm Hispanic by the way. I wanted to mention my dad had blue gray, literally, and he never toned his hair or used blue shampoo. He washed his hair with bar soap. His hair glowed blue. I was hoping my hair would turn out like his, but it did not. I love my gray though. People always ask me if I've bleached it, but it's natural.
Yes, redhead here. I am going pure white in my fifties. I really hate it. My skin is so fair that I look completely washed out...unfortunately, natural, is not always the most attractive despite what some people say. Yours looks beautiful though..
I’m white hair now with pale white neutral skin color. I use cool tones in makeup and it’s marvelous! I glow. Elf is my favorite cosmetic. I wear pearl earrings, blk and white clothing and camel. I look classy. The one thing I’m thinking about changing is the back 1/3 of my hair is a light but mousey color and I was thinking of a light red but don’t want to cast a red on my white part. Yes you can create some drama! No black pencils on the eyes though. Try grey or taupe, blonde or a ash brown . You would be surprised. Hey Marylyn did it. Hah. Time to re-invent!
How would you explain mine, then? Natural brunette. Dyed my hair to strawberry blonde for over 20 years. In the sun it got much lighter, so I started dying it to that color, which was a very very light blonde color. Like 10N, if people know what color that is. In the sun it got even lighter, not exactly white white, but close. At the start of the pandemic I let it grow out. Now it's still not white white like you see in pictures, but close, with strands of black, but not salt 'n' pepper looking. Not very noticeable. Very ight yellowing in some places, not all over. My roots are the same color as the rest of the hair. In fact, the transition was so subtle that no one could tell I stopped dyeing it. The only way you could tell is by the strands of black hair that you could only see if I ran my fingers through my hair, since there were so few of them. So it didn't turn out ANY shade of grey, just extremely light blonde, but not quite white. Actually, my natural now grown-out color is very close to the color I was dyeing it, which surprised me. Because now it looks rather dull to me, I'm looking for something to, not brighten it - it's bright enough! - but to add some shine. Would you know of any products that do that? Purple shampoos don't work. PS - the picture you show of yourself in 6th grade saying you consider your hair dark blonde, it definitely looks a medium red color. Not bright like a carrot but definitely NOT any shade of blonde - at least on my monitor.
I don't understand "battleship" gray. It sounds like your talking about dying your hair gray. If you go gray in your 20s, it's the same as any other age, maybe less salt and more pepper at the beginning. Also wondering how much the variation of white or champagne is impacted by heat and the products people use that cause yellowing.
Wild crazy mind of its own. Partially straight partially curly. I have natural curly hair. It's driving me crazy. I quit dying my hair in 2008. Oh my goodness, it has a mind of its own. As if it's electrical. I catch people staring over my head. I wear hats a lot. But I enjoy the gray. I just can't wait until my whole head is gray.
From the research I've done natural redheads do not go gray, their hair just turns blonde and it's interesting that in the picture you showed of yourself your hair looked red and is now more blonde than gray.
You are correct! True red heads or auburns do go blonde not truly grey. Interestingly, this YTuber when she was younger had the same chestnut brown color that I had as a child and early teen. But it all depends upon your genetics. Her grey is muted and my grey roots growing in appears white like my father's. But still too early to tell exactly yet as more growth needs to occur to get a better picture.
My hair is dark auburn. Mine started getting pure white hairs. Dunno what that's about lol
@@anastasialiberate3568 It means you're a magical unicorn. Own it! 😊
What if you your hair is a brown with lots of red in it. I was born strawberry 🍓 😋 red. I a, in my 7th month of going natural gray.
My sister has light red hair and is now very blonde with some red while my hair is a much darker red and I have the odd white hair but still red. We are both in our 60s. My understanding is that with darker red hair the hair turns to brown then goes white. My grandmother was born a redhead but later in life her hair became dark brown with a some white hair around her temples. Her hair was still very dark when she died in her 70s.
You are spot on! I had light brown hair and now it is champagne. Love that term. I get compliments and recently went to a new hairdresser and she asked what color I use haha! It is freeing to not put chemicals on my head. Thanks for the video and for promoting gray acceptance!
I started to go gray in my early 20's. When I was in my mid 20's, my hairstylist told me I was 80% gray. I dyed my hair for the next 20 years. This was really interesting and fun to watch!
Great color tutorial. Given the color of my natural hair color, I'm happy to hear my gray transformation will most likely be white. Thx for sharing.
Well my hair has changed so much over the last 2 years! I was a natural mid-brown and expected it to grow out a light silver - but it didn't! Surprisingly, it grew out a much darker shade of grey than I had expected. I got quite frustrated at one point and almost gave up the process - but stuck with it. At around the end of the 2nd year, it started to lighten-up and I had a nice silver at the back but the front was still a bit darker, so I had a few highlights put in, to blend it. It now looks pretty good and the roots are now growing out a light shade of silver, so it will match! To others I would say hand in there, even if it doesn't look as good as you expected at first. It's a long process.....
'hang in there....!'
Great video and can't wait to see what "color" my gray will be!
I love your passion about this! I got white before 18, just like my dad (genetic defect) having overall dark undertones, eyes and brows. Recently I've gone platinum on brown strands that remained untouched by the defect so I'm fully white now (slightly after 30). People's reactions are usually bad because it's too dissonant for them (age and hair colour criteria). But I love it and I'm not going to change it :)
Love ur hair! Beautiful!
That picture of her she shown us , her hair was RED , NOT blond or whatever she said ….
Ginger
Yes, definitely.
I had red hair and started colouring it when it faded in my 50s now 74 and in lockdown I let the colour grow out. My hair is now completely white and I love it. I should have stopped colouring it years ago.
Glynis, that is fantastic!
It is not as bad as we think its going to be sometimes.
Started to gray below the temples in my late 30's and colored it all through my 40's and mid 50's. Tired of coloring and seeing roots again three weeks had a hairdresser help me transition by adding blonde streaks. A few touch up of that and I grew it out completely. Never regretted it. I trim it myself. Still set in rollers and wear it girly looking mostly, occasionally blow dry. The whole front is silver like with a touch of pepper, but the back is still mostly my original dark brown.
I’m 41, now short and natural and my hair is salt and pepper (totally evenly distributed too!) on top but champagne grey (love that term!) on the sides. This figures because I was a mousy light brown/dark blonde before the grey came in. Two friends have independently described my hair colour now as mink, which I also like!
I’m jus starting and I will have salt and pepper grey, I love your channel just subscribed ❤️
I stopped coloring mine 10 years ago when I was 58 and my grey came in as champagne streaks. My hair was light brown with red highlights and now it look like it's frosted, which is a term you don't hear anymore, but I'm sure a lot of older viewers will remember those frost and tip kits and pulling your hair through a cap with holes.
Oh how I remember from the 70s
I have had the same results--my hair looks as if it is frosted, and the 'gray' growing in is a combo of silver and blonde tones. Although I'm only 4" into the process you wouldn't believe how many compliments I get on my "new" hair.
I'm in the salt and pepper shakers kind of group. I've been getting Gray since I was 12 . Lol I'm now 47 and just finished my parh of going gray no dye . Took 2 years and some . Loving the results .
Mine is dark brown and a glistening platinum. 30 inches long and I am LOVIN IT!
Mine is long too but I never thought to measure it!
My Grandma and 8 siblings were all redheads , she died at 96 with still red hair and her siblings too ! It paled got lighter but it definitely stayed red!
My aunts mother was the same, she died at 90 with a full head of red hair. My aunt was blonde and it never went gray. She dyed it gray because she really wanted the experience. I saw my first gray when I was 15 and my daughter when she was 9.
I m 36, salt and pepper. My pepper is mousy brown, 30 months no dye. Brown if you see it from the front, but grey reflexion when see it from the side. Great video, new sub.
My grey is coming in just like my mommas did... 😕 very mixed dark salt & pepper and she hated hers as much as I hate mine. Momma still had s&p hair when she passed away at 87yrs of age! It's not a look I can embrace I'm afraid... i'm not sure i'll ever be ready for it to be honest. Thankfully I have a wonderful hairdresser (therapist/counsellor more like!) that listens to my tales of woe and still works magic on my nasty& evil salt &pepper roots! 😂
Your natural color is GORGEOUS!!
I'm taking the plunge and I love what I see...I cannot wait for a short bob eventually..
I’m about 4 months in and it’s coming in sparkling silver, love it 💕
Mine two
Same I always had dark brown hair.
I am 4 months it started silver now in my fifth month I see some strike of brown and I am 61
Also, your hair is pretty and your hair when younger has red tint. It's pretty also. Thanks for your advice for shampoo
Would LOVE a video on the shampoo... Thanks... 🥰
I think I'll go stark white seeing as I have like 7 or 8 white hairs on my head. I'm a redhead. :) Honestly can't wait... because then I wont have to bleach my hair and I can do crazy pastel hair dye colors! Haha!
I love my salt and pepper hair. When I put my hair in a ponytail, I have a white streak in both sides of my head. It reminds me of the movie Frankenstein with Gene Wilder where he creates the female and she has the white streaks. Since my hair is changing, I now notice a lot of women who have beautiful hair and are going with the flow instead of coloring it.
Really helpful!
I am 65 years old and was born with a light strawberry blond colored hair which as I got older it transitioned to a variegated platinum blond with darker streaks which went to a darker blond in my late teens at which time I began to use color to lighten it up. Tired of coloring I let my roots grow out for 3 months to allow me and my stylist determine what my natural color is. Well, it turns out I am a whitey. My stylist heavily highlighted my colored medium ash blonde hair which lifted all my color and she added some toner and the end result is a pretty close match to my white all over roots. Having short layered hair probably helped the blending of the two colors making the slight difference not so obvious. I love my nearly white hair and so does my husband. Funny, as a teen I always wanted that Nordic white blond hair and at 65 I have it without having to use a bottle.
My dad has a similar color to me. His hair was blonde as a child and got slightly light brown in adulthood. I have dark blonde hair with lots of gold in it. My dad’s hair in his 60’s has turned into the most gorgeous hair color I’ve ever seen: a super super light white and gold blonde mix. I really hope my hair looks like that someday.
Started grey at 18 and now 47 with all white. My hair was brown with red .
Your hair looks good and your skin is really nice.
Thank you for the video and for the daily inspiration. White, S&P, champagne, battleship What about silver? My old hair is black but coming in silver. Go figure..The battleship pic looked black but I get what you mean. Also on your school picture your hair looked red. :)
cora nation I thought her hair looked red too. And my hair is coming in silver too from being brunette. I really love the color and texture of it.
Her hair is red , foxy in the picture ! I don’t want to go grey , no 🙈😱
My family grays young and from what has grown out I think I have the beautiful white that my grandma had. I'll find out next week when I finally get to the salon after 3 months, as we all know salons were closed due to the virus shutdown.
I'm started transitioning and embracing my greys when I was 38. It genetics, my family turns grey early in life. Naturally black hair, turned to salt and pepper and I'm still there. I would prefer all grey or white. My issue is hair texture and how it has changed. Have curly hair but these greys and white hairs dont have a curl pattern they are just not curly not straight it's like wire or frizzy 🙄 I dont know what to do
My hair is starting to gray. The color is some silver. Natural color is dark brown. My dad had silver like a shiny silver coin, mixed with white, hair when he got older. So maybe mine will be a mixture of silver and white. Silver is a different hue than white. The battleship gray you showed looked like it could have some silver too.
That's crazy. I'm half Native with black hair and in high school I did have a small white streak and rest is white. That's kinda cool. I might wanna dye my hair battleship gray. Thank you!
Looks like Champagne Grey for me!! My mother’s hair is Champagne- I love Champagne, so I’m so happy about this!🥂
I'm 42 and I am 80% natural gray.... I'm growing it out... I still have color on the bottom portion of my hair... How can I remove the color?
I ABSOLUTELY love the gray, mine is WHITE/PLATINUM!!
Also, ur very very beautiful!!
mine is growing out silver, very pretty color i love it, the best thing i ever did for my hair when i stopped coloring. It.
Awesome!
Did your hair got healty and thick again because you dont colar it anymour??
I’m three months in and looking forward to seeing the results. Still waiting for the hairdressers to open with the lockdown as this will cut off a lot of colour on the ends.
Your 6th grade photo looks red on my end. Maybe it's just the strange color pixels on the computer. My hair was very very blonde until I was about 40, and then started going ugly mousy blonde. It looked like dirty dishwater. Not pretty, so I started using a color to match my original blonde. Been coloring ( with a demi color) ever since, but I really want to try letting my color grow out. I'm hoping that the gray will be improved. Have you ever tried using purple shampoo on your hair? I wondered if that might improve the gray a bit.
Sounds like I defied all of your probabilities. Started going grey at 16, totally grey by the time I was 30. Started with bland mousey brown hair, and I have white grey hair.
I have natural black hair. I got my first white at 9. My white hair strands are pure white. Going to grow my hair out and see if I’m salt and pepper. I’m thinking I will be that. I’m 30 and hair a sprinkling of grey hair throughout my hair and especially around my ears.
Your hair in that photo appeared on camera as a strawberry blonde shade. I liked the way you presented those four categories/stages of gray transition & it does make perfect sense as to me as an observer. I am over 65 have a medium brown co!or hair & already notice a salt & pepper trend emerging but honestly I'm not a fan so I will continue to color my gray until I'm completely exhausted of the upkeep! Thanks so much 💟💜💟
Born with very black hair. At 19 I got a white streak in front. In my late 40's /early 50's I started coloring my hair. Stopped coloring 4 yrs ago, and loving my gray/silver. I'm salt n pepper (mostly pepper) and still have some black hair underneath. Interestingly, my silver streaks have turned an ash blonde. Really strange.
I was born with snow white hair. At age 7/8 it started turning brunette. At age 30 greys started appearing. At about 50 my roots looked like salt and pepper, now at 59, almost 60, my roots are silvery/white. I am gearing up to ditch dying my hair and covering my greys every 6 weeks, and just let it all go whatever color it wants. This will a journey since my hair is long, curly and thick.
Loved this. I was a light-medium brown hair gal in my youth and have white hair. I call it platinum 😊
You aged very well, look like you did as a teenager, same face, very recognizable. And your color is gorgeous, it looks highlighted. I didn't think this could happen, but 10 years ago in my early 50's, I had all natural hair and my whole head was pure white. My hair was long and thick and people would stop me in the street and ask me who my colorist is (as in my profile photo). I started taking lots of good quality vitamins and 10 years later my hair turned brown again in spots. I'm growing it in natural again and it appears to be more salt and pepper. Again, this is quite surprising, I didn't think it was possible. If I didn't see it happen on my own head, I'd be skeptical.
Hi.. i had a color change a few months ago.. and i have a lot of white in my hair.. i am taking supplements to help my health plus my hair.. since i had vitamin d deficiency and iron deficiency. Do you think my color will change in anyway one day..(soon..lol)
I have redish brown hair, was long but I'd wear it up, I see it coming in all white at the sides, I hope it looks like yours one day. My mums and Nana went all snowy white.
your girlfriend from high school may have had Poliosis, also called poliosis circumscripta, is the decrease or absence of melanin (or colour) in head hair, eyebrows, eyelashes or any other hairy area. It is popularly known as white forelock when it affects hair directly above the forehead.
Perfect name "champagne gray" for your lovely haircolour!
Salt and pepper here: darkblonde as child, ashy-brown as grown up. First white hair at 29.
I am 72 and finally have grown my gray out. About one more hair trim left. The champage gray is a good description, lighter at the top and sides. Using a light blonde fanciful rinse.
I'm 43, I started graying when I was in 7th grade. I have naturally dark brown hair but the last couple of years I had dyed it purple. Back in February, I had decided to get the red tones out of my hair and become all-natural. I tried everything to lighten it without bleaching it, but I ended up bleaching it anyways. I haven't put anything in my hair since then. I am really trying to grow it out. I am thinking of dying it a silver-gray color but I am on the fence. I had damaged my hair since I bleached it. I had hair past my shoulders, then I decided to chop it off now it reaches to the back of my neck in a short layered bob. The bleach had also ruined the texture of my hair. I am naturally curly hair and it straightened it. I am slowly getting the curls back again and my hair feels like hair once again. But I would love to have some advice if I should dye it silver or just leave it as is and just let it grow out. Thank you. I love your channel by the way.
Any update? I can tell you what I did--I planned a transition from my dark (dyed) hair to the new gray, and each 4-6 weeks, when I did a root touch-up, I went 1 or 2 shades lighter in color. I did not re-touch the damaged ends, only the new growth. When I finally decided to stop touching up altogether, the transition line wasn't so dramatic. It took longer to arrive at that point, but it has been an easier transition.
@@kallen8279 Yes, I have not dyed it at all for over a year now and I am growing it out and I love being silver and my hair is very healthy now. Thank you for asking :)
I was light blonde as a child, turning darker as I aged. My problem now is that I'm always fighting yellow in my hair.
Your 6th grade picture appears red on my screen. Louisa
You look delightful.
What if you were born with white hair(I wish I had a picture, It was white white) and it turned to a dirty blonde, and now it's more dirty than blonde...would I still have champagne gray? I'm also already getting silver hairs. Like shiny silver, every gray I've found it has been super shiny silver.
My hair was always ash blond and now it’s completely white.
My hair is dark strawberry blind and curly. My grays are coming in individually and not all at once on the crown like I've seen happen with some people. Both sides of my family have a lot of salt and pepper so that's likely what will happen in my case.
My mom is in her seventies and mostly white/salt & pepper in the front, but the back and bottom layers are still mostly black. It looks really cool.
My grandmother's hair was a dark chocolatey brown when she was young. When it started turning grey it went a really pale colorless silver, like starlight, very shimmery, almost completely white. I hope mine does that, and sooner rather than later... its so pretty. My partner's hair turned silver when he was in his twenties. He looks so handsome.
My Dad had brown hair and went white. I started going grey at 18 and and had almost black hair although i dye it when the grey comes through it is champagne
That one streak of white (or blonde) hair is called a Mallen Streak.
I knew someone also with that who considered it her birthmark. It's also called poliosis ( a condition, that isn't really a "condition")
I think that it looks so cool.
I had no idea! I was born with a streak of white in the crown/back of my head. My oldest son has the same thing, size of a quarter. I always thought it was genetic! Interesting to know what it's called. I'll have to look this up. Thank you for sharing!!
I am medium to dark blonde. My top is salt and less pepper ..my back is salt and less pepper but then my sides are white near my ears.. I'm so confused what it will look like down the track. It happened all of a sudden 4 months ago.. good have been the anemia i had
Interesting. I have dark brown chestnut hair and my grays are coming in white.
my hair is growing in white for some weird reason
I had what I call soft black hair. It has turned white. I started going gray by the time I was 16.
Mine was very black and my grey is coming out stark white.
That is the best in my opinion. I want white, but it is an ugly mousy gray. Just ugly.
@@terrifiorelli9819 Nothing is perfect. Mine is white but it doesn't grow uniform. It grows in patches
My hair was about your color then and it's your color now so I would also call it champagne grey. But I have green eyes and what looks like green as opposed to blue veins so I wear make-up shades for warm skin tones and I am wearing glasses that are a sort of beige/gold, very thin, titanium rim. I have never dyed my hair and I watched it come in from the very first warm grey strand that showed up.
I'm past my 15 month grow out journey!
My hair is white with my original color as well... I have a question does anyone else have issues with styling tools and the heat turning their hair a yellowish brown color and yes I do use thermal protection and very good quality products!
Seona Lee , purple shampoo. Thats the key.
@@progqueen5952 ... Yes I know I've use it... That had nothing to do with my problem! The curling iron changes my hair color even tho I'm using everything right to protect my hair!
Seona Smith hi what you are describing is oxidisation. use a clarifying shampoo before the purple shampoo and keep heat medium or hair can go yellow brown or even pink
@@suearnold9672 ...I do use a clarifying shampoo! I've also changed out all my products, new purple shampoo and styling products and haven't used heated styling tools! But when I do I will lower the heat setting even lower! Thank you....
My hair is looking better now, I also did a Wella toner T-18 and 20 volume developer for about 15 minutes, it made a huge difference!
Not sure on the grey cast. If all roads lead to white hair then it would just be a very subtle salt and pepper? Because all hair strands aren't going to turn a dark grey?
I've been going grey very slowly since I was 16, I'm now 30 and I'm salt and pepper for sure. As I had very dark brown hair, almost black as a child and am getting white stripes and salt and pepper sections coming in strongly.
Hello Xana,
I think gray hair is an illusion in most cases , it is the white hair coming along side your natural color . Most consider that to be gray. However I have seen young ladies with actual gray hair where the strand it gray. Could this be your type? I would have to see a photo more closely.
That looks red/ginger to me
You look great! How old are you?
I'm 30 have medium brown hair. I've found 5 white hairs. My mom has dark brown hair with salt and pepper hair. Dad was blonde when younger. Really hoping I get white hair lol
My first gray hair strand was found when i was fifteen. I was completely horrified.
Your hair looked red
You are right on about the brown hair I am becoming salt/pepper with an awful lot of pepper in comparison to salt. I think it is best though because of my skin tone I would look washed out if I had your hair color although it may come down to that in later years.
My natural hair is level 3, no warmth in it..it looks like darkest grey. I noticed my first greys when I was 21. Now its salt and pepper but my greys are not white ..its more like ur shade ..i dont know how to call it.. blondish grey
I'm 57 and I'm salt and pepper. Thanks for sharing.😊
My hair is gray in the back of my head and streaks all over the front
Went grey in my early 20’s my hair colour was dark brown not a hint of red My hair is white.
The picture of you in 6th grade looks like red hair on here. I had dark brown hair, almost black and my grays now are white. My dad had the same color and he went completely white too. So even though it is hard with the white stripe, I am glad it will be white!
I’m 53 and auburn red hair and I’ve found quite a few white not gray but white. My dad had auburn red hair and he turned Snow White hair
My natural hair is medium brown and now at 46 I'm getting gray hair....but it's platinum. I am at a lost what to do.
Give it a go..
Grey hair in all its variations is so gorgeous! As far as my family’s history with grey hair, my paternal grandmother had dark brown, almost black hair in her youth. By age 45, her hair had turned pure snowy white. Beautiful! My maternal grandmother stayed mostly dark brown and had just a few silvers when she passed. My mom had medium brown hair that has turned salt and pepper (mostly salt). My dad, like his mom, had very dark hair that has turned snowy white. I am a natural dark blonde/light brown. My greys are growing in mostly in streaks (in my bangs and at my temples) which are surprisingly WHITE. Even the stray grey hairs elsewhere on my head contrast noticeably from their neighboring hairs. I immediately stopped getting highlights when I realized I had started to grey. I decided to embrace my natural color and while I always thought my transition would be a little more subtle, I am loving my natural sparkles. 😂
My hair darkened so much; it was platinum when I was born. By the time I was 20 it was dark ash blonde. By 40 it was mousy brown that I don't like. I used to color it a golden brown which is very close to the same color but just a nicer tone. Now in my mid-50s it is mousy brown with gray (whitish) streaks. I have not colored it in a long time. I actually like the gray; I dislike the mousy brown parts. I look at the brown and want to color it again but I don't wanna cover up my gray. Wish I could hurry it up and make it mostly/all gray.
I was born with light blonde hair (level 10N) but it got darker in my teens (darn puberty lol) to a dark ash blonde (6A) and have been coloring my hair since I graduated high school. So I decided to let my hair grow out to see what color it is, and at 49 it's still a dark blonde with white hairs sparsely throughout the crown and sides, making it appear alittle lighter blonde (like a 7N). My dad died at 72 and still had blonde hair mixed with white hair (salt and sand, instead of salt and pepper colored). Same when his brother passed away at 67; my grandmother (their mom) was actually all white when she passed away on her 74th bday. The other side of my family all had champagne grey hair, not white. I'm hoping I continue to take after my dad's side because I'd love to have white hair as I age, it is sooo pretty 😍
I have a white streak ... because I was hit in the head as a kid, no kidding. This happens more than you'd think. My hairdresser told me there was a small scar under the white streak.
I might have your Champaign gray.
I don't want to say your theory is wrong, but as you say it is what it is. However, i have what I call "glow in the dark gray", but really it's white, but so bright it looks platinum. I'm Hispanic by the way. I wanted to mention my dad had blue gray, literally, and he never toned his hair or used blue shampoo. He washed his hair with bar soap. His hair glowed blue. I was hoping my hair would turn out like his, but it did not. I love my gray though. People always ask me if I've bleached it, but it's natural.
I think Champaign gray is the prettiest on it’s own, but everyone can look best with whatever variation suits them.
Wow! You still look so much like your sixth grade picture!!
I'm 47 .natural red auburn hair. It's just started getting bright white hairs. So guess I'm turning into snowman ⛄
Me too!
Mine was very black. Now it's growing salt and pepper. 😍
Hi Mimi
From your photo I bet it will look fab on you!
Yes, redhead here. I am going pure white in my fifties. I really hate it. My skin is so fair that I look completely washed out...unfortunately, natural, is not always the most attractive despite what some people say. Yours looks beautiful though..
I’m white hair now with pale white neutral skin color. I use cool tones in makeup and it’s marvelous! I glow. Elf is my favorite cosmetic. I wear pearl earrings, blk and white clothing and camel. I look classy. The one thing I’m thinking about changing is the back 1/3 of my hair is a light but mousey color and I was thinking of a light red but don’t want to cast a red on my white part. Yes you can create some drama! No black pencils on the eyes though. Try grey or taupe, blonde or a ash brown . You would be surprised. Hey Marylyn did it. Hah. Time to re-invent!
Idk. But know now I’m not old enough to find out. Lol
How would you explain mine, then? Natural brunette. Dyed my hair to strawberry blonde for over 20 years. In the sun it got much lighter, so I started dying it to that color, which was a very very light blonde color. Like 10N, if people know what color that is.
In the sun it got even lighter, not exactly white white, but close. At the start of the pandemic I let it grow out. Now it's still not white white like you see in pictures, but close, with strands of black, but not salt 'n' pepper looking. Not very noticeable. Very ight yellowing in some places, not all over. My roots are the same color as the rest of the hair. In fact, the transition was so subtle that no one could tell I stopped dyeing it. The only way you could tell is by the strands of black hair that you could only see if I ran my fingers through my hair, since there were so few of them.
So it didn't turn out ANY shade of grey, just extremely light blonde, but not quite white. Actually, my natural now grown-out color is very close to the color I was dyeing it, which surprised me.
Because now it looks rather dull to me, I'm looking for something to, not brighten it - it's bright enough! - but to add some shine. Would you know of any products that do that? Purple shampoos don't work.
PS - the picture you show of yourself in 6th grade saying you consider your hair dark blonde, it definitely looks a medium red color. Not bright like a carrot but definitely NOT any shade of blonde - at least on my monitor.
I don't understand "battleship" gray. It sounds like your talking about dying your hair gray. If you go gray in your 20s, it's the same as any other age, maybe less salt and more pepper at the beginning.
Also wondering how much the variation of white or champagne is impacted by heat and the products people use that cause yellowing.
Im58 had jet black hair it started to get bits f grey in my 30 s by 50 pure white
Wild crazy mind of its own. Partially straight partially curly. I have natural curly hair. It's driving me crazy. I quit dying my hair in 2008. Oh my goodness, it has a mind of its own. As if it's electrical. I catch people staring over my head. I wear hats a lot. But I enjoy the gray. I just can't wait until my whole head is gray.
Thank u for this vid. I found my first Grey at...18.