To Dye Or Not To Dye ....

[Baldric]

.... that is the question. Mrs B. was standing behind me today while I was sat in kitchen having
breakfast. Her comment was, "You're starting to go grey have you considered dying it?"
The answer was "No I blooming well haven't"
I'm in my 60's, have a full-head of darkish hair, with a bit of Grey in it apparently, I have a full beard that has been grey for a number of years, look like a Badger according to Tash, thanks Tash.
I regard hair changing colour changing and even thinning as a perfectly normal age related occurence and am certainly not vain enough to want to change things, it happens.
Opinions welcome.

[Old_Geezer]

If you are ok about colour changing as you age, try red and blue stripes.

[jourdain2]

Well, longish answer coming. I was chestnut-brown-haired with green-hazel eyes and a streak of red hair from the back crown (the eye colour remains). My Mum and sister were/are blue-eyed blondes. I gave birth to 2 blue-eyed blonde girls. When out with them and sister, people assumed they were hers - so I began having my hair streaked blonde! I got used to it and stuck by it until I was 68. Then my hairdresser said "You are getting silver in your hair, did you have any red?" I assented and she advised me to grow the colour out - it seems that reddish hair gives you a rather nice silver in old age. Took a while --- but it's true! It doesn't cost me anything either. :0)

[diddlydo]

I'm still ginger at 70 (with a few grey bits if you look closely) - hairdresses ask me if I dye my hair! They're surprised when I say never, ever. Long may that be the case.

[Togo]

That should have read "your old shop".

With Baldrics permission. Mind you the video is a bit "hairy" anyway.

https://youtu.be/R4vpQnqIYYY

[Togo]

If that is not working try this Tills.

https://youtu.be/R4vpQnqIYYY

[Togo]

Better still this. Sorry about the previous botch.

[Togo]

I'm a bit like you then Jourdaine. Just no hair but a red head.

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Togo. That really took me back. A lovely snapshot of my childhood haunt. x

[Tilly2]

The first link worked for me. A lovely fifteen minutes of reminiscences.

[pastafreak]

I was a dark auburn. I'm now, at 72, a "blonde"...with some darker bits remaining at the back. I dyed it for a couple of years, but it just became a hassle...and the idea of going grey never really bothered me. My daughter has grey hairs at 34...and has dyed her hair for years. The grey means she'll not stop colouring her hair.

[Togo]

Did you notice Askeys fish and game shop, opposite the town hall? My Grandad used to call there every Saturday morning after visiting the library with me in tow. Think they were part of the illegal betting set up that he was runner for(with the butcher in Middleport).

[Cloverjo]

I won’t stop dyeing my hair. Everything else has gone wrong with my my appearance, I don’t want to be grey as well.

[pixie374]

Mine was a really dark red, as are both my daughters and has got lighter and lighter. My mum's did the same.

[andy-hughes]

The question of dyeing or not speaks to every aspect of personal appearance - it's what makes you feel good about yourself that matters.

Lots of bald men agonise over their hair loss and resort to weird and wonderful comb-overs to disguise what everyone else can see, and doesn't actually care about anyway - but it's about what you see in the mirror that matters.

[Baldric]

AH, agreed, I guess I'm lucky, I don't have a vain bone in my body.
Always neat and tidy, no. 3 all over every 8 - 10 days, it's ok.

[THECORBYLOON]

I often watch BBC Parliament and one of the SNP MPs, Tommy Shepherd had hair that was BLACK. Seen him earlier this week, he's gone grey and grown a beard.

He looks loads better than he used to and looking at his twitter, other folk agree

[Ken4155]

My 3 daughters used to threaten me with Grecian 2000 each birthday/Christmas. I told them they would be wasting their money as i would never use it. I now have a full head of almost white hair and a full sock drawer:-)

[spathiphyllum]

Do what you want Baldric you made it to 60 i’m sure that means ur decisions aren’t too bad

[Baldric]

Why thank you spath, (68 last July)

[Ryzen]

Which shade will Boris go for on the 31st ...if he carries out his "do or dye "promise?