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My hair is super fine, so I started highlighting it in high school for thickness and body, and now I do it because that's what I'm used to, and to cover the gray. The natural color has gotten REALLY dark as I've gotten older!
 
I used to colour my hair but now I am embracing my grey ... or silver as I like to call it :D
 
I colored my hair red in high school. I don't have grey, so I don't currently color it. My hair was blonde, completely towhead as a kid, but had darkened to a brown. In the summer, if I spend time outside, it will self highlight which I love. Until about December when the top is brown and the bottom is blond-brown. Then it can look like a bad dye job grown out if I'm not careful.
 
i get mine colored. somewhat to color gray hairs by my temples and such, but mostly because it's fun to add a bit of depth to my otherwise VERY dark brown hair.
 
My Dad started going gray in high school and I got my first grays in my late 20s. I have been every color but blonde, I can't pull color that light off, off and on since high school. I would get bored and add highlights at the salon or just change the color completely. It's just hair, it'll grow back, right?! Right now I color it to avoid the grays, my natural color used to be reddish brown, and that's what I am now. It's not red. It's not brown. It's not red enough to be auburn. It's just reddish brown but I like it and I get a lot of compliments on it, so I must have picked the right shade!
 
Love my brown/auburn hair. But when I start to see grays, coloring it will be my new reality
 
I have mine colored every three weeks at the salon because I'm totally gray, and I'm way too young to actually go gray. ;)
 
I'd do manic panic (but then I'm an idiot and burned the @#&% out of my scalp with kool aid) washes out quick enough. I definitely wouldn't bother any of the salon brights.
 
I color mine. It's been all different shades- blonde, red with blonde, brown with blonde... right now it's dark brown with dark red highlights. I color it because it's fun to play.

My natural color- when I was a kid- was auburn. As I got older, it got to be more brown with auburn highlights, I suppose. I have like three gray hairs that I normally just pull out. :)

Oh and I get it done at every other haircut appt. so every 12 weeks.
 
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I never do it myself so if I have the money which is rare I do have it darkened and then some highlights added but that's not that often now with having 3 kids but on a good note I'm 40 and have no grey yay
 
I color mine too. I went natural for awhile but the grey was starting to get to me. I used color it a dark auburn red, but I've moved to a more strawberry blondish red ( a touch darker). I really love the lighter look in general. Lightest it's been since I was a kid.
 
I went to Sally Beauty and got some bright pink semi-permanent color for Ella along with a brush, and I do a highlight in her hair every once in awhile (when I remember to!). It's fun and only lasts a few weeks. Plus they have a ton of great colors. Both my boys have been asking me to pick up some blue for them.
 
My hair is naturally an ugly brown. I highlight the top and color the underneath a little darker than natural. I also have one red streak...my stylist calls it my wild streak. I won't mind going grey, I'm thinking they will be my natural highlights! I'm 48 and really don't have any to speak of yet, just a couple here and there showing up.
 
I've had to color mine for years. With my natural color this dark and the {ahem..} 90% gray says the hairstylist, coloring it is my reality. I feel too young to go totally gray. My stylist says she'll tell me when it's time to give up. My daughter will also help decide when. My 20 year old son has about 100 gray hairs already, you can see them glinting in the sunlight.
 
I don't dye my hair. It is 100% naturally teal.:giggle

My avatar is my current hair color. My hairdresser - who is my sister's friend and co-worker does it. I buy the stuff for her at Sally's and she bleaches my naturally medium brown hair (with way too much grey for my liking at 43 yo) and dyes it whatever color I want. From October it was a medium pink color. But around March 15th (beware the ides of March!!) she dyed it teal for my sister's wedding. With my sister's blessing, of course.

I love it colored all wacky. :beat
 
^^ That's the exact color I want to add a bit of to mine.. We have a Sally's here in town.. Do you mind sharing what product/color you get?
 
I used to color my hair to cover the grey but now I've decided that I'd rather spend that money on something else, like scrapping or charity.
 
I color mine, in fact just had it colored TODAY. :) I have it professionally done two or three times a year, too chicken to do it myself, and go just a bit darker than my natural color, it's easier to cover the gray when I go slightly darker vs. the same color or lighter. I then have a few highlights foiled into the top. :) :)
 
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^^ That's the exact color I want to add a bit of to mine.. We have a Sally's here in town.. Do you mind sharing what product/color you get?
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Hi Amber, She used Manic Panic. I'll find out the exact color for you. :)
It is still pretty brilliant, even after a month and and a half or whatever it has it been. I am getting roots, but she's going to touch it up. It hasn't faded hardly at all. It is SO worth it and the Manic Panic is the brightest color results I have gotten with bleached hair. And my hair is pretty dark -- she bleached it really blond.
It has stayed bright because I use shampoo and conditioners for color treated hair. My hairdresser said not to wash my hair more than once a week and other than that just wet it and use the conditioner.

There are just a couple of important things: (and some hair dressers won't use it because of these complaints but they aren't a big deal and totally manageable)
The first week or so I would wake up with what I call, "Smurf neck." My neck and shoulders would have a lt. turquoise color when I would wake up. It came off with face cream, like Noxema, or make up remover wipes quite easily. If I tried to use a washcloth and soap it just made my neck raw from scrubbing. But it does come off if you use something.
Also during this time it will transfer to the neck of any shirt or pillow cases that you might wear to sleep / sleep on. This is temporary. But I would wear stuff you don't care getting a little blue on the collar and definitely pillowcases that you aren't conserned about. I've had mixed results getting the blue out.
And the last thing is even now whenever I wash my hair the lather is blue. Blue gets all over the shower. But my hair rinces clear. The blue in the shower doesn't stain as long as you wash it off before it dries. The water runs clear when you just wet it. I think it's something about the shampoo that activates it.

Gee, aren't you glad you asked me?! LOL
 
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