Grey hair and make up

ladies with a gray hair are very atractive so go for it :-)

I can vouch for Ariadne's hair, it's lovely!

I'm still colouring my hair, but gradually going just a tiny bit lighter each time.

I have however recently changed my make up. Instead of black eyeliner and mascara, I've changed to dark brown. It just looks a bit "softer" somehow.

Good for you borstalgran I am with you in spirit!

I can't see me dyeing my greys, I'm too mean/scruffy. Anyway I'd look awful without them as my natural hair colour is now too harsh for my face.

My DH has been dyeing his hair for years and it is starting to look a bit Travolta. He's reluctant to go grey, so I am trying to persuade him to switch to semipermanent at least on the sides so that the colour fades naturally a la Clooney.

I don't know why so many women of a certain age have orange faces. Is it eyesight? At 40 we need twice the level of illumination as in at 20 and at 60 we need double again...

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I just found this thread at the same time as I heard that they are going to discuss this on woman;'s hour today. I personally am not averse to going grey (silver?) but my worry is HOW to do it. I dye my hair every month or so when the roots start showing and can't bear the thought of the gradual root creep heading slowly slowly down my head. If the stripes grew lengthwise it would be much better! Any tips?

I'm white/silver.
I love it! {I think}

If yu haven't got it already (and I do like Bobbi Brown lip/cheek pots) look at Liz Earle as well. Her colours are very delicate and I suppose quite English - great cream blusher and nice lippies too.

I realised recently that the brown shadow I've worn for years was making me look like the living dead, so I've cut eye make up back to mascara [albeit with not much in the way of lashes to put it on] eyeliner and eyebrow powder. Going to buy some Bobbi Brown blusher as recommended by the girl at Boots Opticians when I went for my eye test.

And there was me thinking you were a platinum blonde! Never mind, the effect is pretty glam!

Mine going grey with blondish tone as well. I stopped having it highlighted a year ago, after a little but persistent bit of itchy dermatitis. I count myself lucky that it has stayed thick and the texture has not changed. Have recently started wearing bright, sometimes red, lipstick, thrown all the neutral ones in the bin and making sure eyebrows are noticeable (dye, pencil, gel to keep them tamed). These measures counteract the faded look (well some days any way).

I know how I look with grey hair - post chemo showed me, and I could not wait to have it coloured. The front was almost white, but the sides and back were a harsh steel grey. I did dye it what I have since heard called "menopausal mahogany" but it didn't feel like me. So it is now ash blonde with lots of silver highlights, and I love it!

Gillybob lol, it was either that or moptop.!
But I was a cleaner years ago when the kids were small and the hours fitted in!

Helllooooooo Nonu I was on holiday for the first time in years between 14th and 28th June.. It was touch and go right until the bitter end as to whether I would end up going at all as other holidays I have booked in the past have ended up being cancelled at the last minute.

Where have you been then ? ?

Another one Nonu? you are kidding ! it is the very one that I have been bleating on about for about 2 years !

As I do !!

Another holiday GILLY ?

Still you deserve it ?

Oh so that's why you are called mrsmopp and here's me thinking you were a cleaner!

Having just returned from holiday my hair has the habit of bleaching itself in the sun, it looks almost blonde at the minute which does a good job of blending in with the grey!

I did go grey a few years ago but the grey was patchy in places and very uneven. Fifty shades of grey in fact. No comments please!!
So I went back to using Nice and Easy in a very light brown, and I feel better.

My biggest problem with my hair is finding a hairdresser who really knows about thick curly hair and how to shape it properly.... I think that needs a new thread.

My hair is white at the front and has kept some of its original colour at the back though that's going whiter. I gave up using eye make-up to which I was once devoted when I couldn't put it on either with or without glasses. I use Liz Earle moisturiser and foundation with a little cream blusher because I am naturally very pallid. When I use a lipstick it's a fairly neutral colour.

Yes, foundation is difficult when you have gone grey - easier when you are gunmetal and not an indeterminate shade of off-white like me! I found a new product last week: L'Oreal CC cream. It comes in different types, I tried the one "for dull skin" and it comes out of the tube purple but then blends in brilliantly with my own fair skin tone - no tidemarks, no blotches under the eyes, and it's supposed to be hydrating, too, with a SPF 12. I've been using it for a week now, and it has been foolproof. Now I have grey hair I need some added colour without looking too false, and this CC with a little Bobbi Brown blusher looks natural but gives me a healthy glow. I also use mascara, eyeshadow and sometimes eyeliner if I am feeling steady-handed, never to be seen without lippy!

I have my hair coloured regularly. I have rather unruly, coarse curly hair which is hard to tame! I can't be -ars- bothered to straighten it though it does look good when I have had it done at hairdessers! If I let it go to its natural grey I think it will look really awful curly. So I prefer to colour and be curly! My mum was a redhead and her hair just seemed to fade from copper to strawberry blonde, blonde and then white all subtley!

I use Liz Earle products for moisturising and light foundation.

I still use Hair colour at the moment, I would be such a faded brown and white mix, not very flattering. I think when you do go grey (or white) you have change the colours for makeup, and also clothes, to flatter your new hair.

I agree about less makeup. I don't like the feeling of foundation on my face, so I use fake tan (Clarins self tanning milk) in winter, just to give a bit of colour, and it looks natural. I put a bit more on my cheeks, so it looks like a natural glow, and only needs topping up now and then..

The thing about the mineral powder (which I didn't know and am very happy with the result, and I also don't like foundation and never wore it) is that it is not like foundation. It just kind of evens out skin tone and stuff. I'm a convert.

Indo think grey v colour is a matter of how you go grey. I have a friend who is going grey all over and her hair is elegantly iron grey, no need to worry about colour.

Unfortunately my family pattern is to go absolutely white haired round the face, like fur trim on a hood, while the rest stays the original colour, bar a little fading and goes grey very slowly. I do not find it an attractive look. So until the hair on my parting begins to show considerably more grey than it currently does, while the hair round my face is entirely white, it is going to be the application of a pack of Superdrug best to my hair every three months or so. It only takes half an hour. so hardly impinges much on my time