Going grey - new here

Superdrug own brand. I have been using it for decades and even my hairdresser said it worked so well on me that I really did not need a salon colour.

The art is always use a colour a shade or two lighter than your natural colour. Skin colour changes and this needs to be taken into account.

Welcome, why not Just let your grey come in Bumble so many people are embracing their grey hair now. I know it’s not for everyone but I honestly never regretted ditching the dye and just let it happen. Now I have long silver hair it’s shiny and healthy and no dyeing every six weeks.

As a redhead you should naturally turn blonde, silver and possibly white - all for free.

Welcome aboard, Bumble!
I was also a reddish ginger but, over a decade or so faded to a sort of pale honey-blonde which, in all honesty, I rather liked.
But around a year ago, I realised the blonde was getting paler and a bit dingey-grey. This was very depressing as my grandmother, who had the same colouring as me, went a very glamorous silvery white in her sixties.

Then someone told me about Superdrug's Colour Effects shampoo-in conditioner. I use the Strawberry Blonde about once every 10 days and I'm delighted with the result. The depth and intensity of the colour depends on how often you use it and how long you leave it on your hair. And, if you hate it, it'll fade in a couple of weeks.
Highly recommended!

Just embrace it.

I met up with four ex work colleagues the other day, we get together about twice a year.

All but one of us has embraced the grey, we vary from pure white to shades of grey.

Only one, a redhead, still colours her hair.

To be honest, it looks dry and ‘faded’.

If she let nature take its course, I think she might be pleasantly surprised.

Personally, I love my silvery white hair.

When I started to go grey, about 10 years ago,blonde highlights worked for me, then during lockdown when I could not keep them up I used Nice and Easy but it started to look orange in places, so I let nature take its course. Now it's a lovely silver, complete contrast to my natural brown/red shade. I love it, had to change my clothes colours as I can look washed out but would never dye it again. My friend dye their hair and it's done every four weeks but regrowth looks aging. The cut and condition is paramount. I have a chin length Bob now, I do let it grow some times to my shoulders but find when it does I am constantly putting it up anyway. This length I can do a small scrunched style or French pleat.

Thanks guys, will try some of the colour effects mentioned.
Not quite ready yet to embrace the grey, sorry.

Perhaps blonde balayage. My hair is silver, blonde foils are added.

My friend is 86 and stil dyes her hair , dark brown. Looks absolutely lovely ,

You’ve got lovely hair Norah.

I have my hair done at the hairdressers, darker underneath, with highlights, so I’m not much help. I’ve never been brave enough to dye it myself since I used henna in the late seventies.

I think thatvyou have to experiment.
I had very dark brown hair with blond streaks in the front.
I don't know how white /grey I am .
There's a halo.
When it appears people say that I look really ill -totally washed out .
I've tried dark brown dyes and looked like a witch.
Then paler browns without success.
Then a deep red by Nutrisse and that looks very pretty according to everyone .
It looks best put up and not loose.
I don't know how much longer I'll dye my hair .

Two of my friends are a bit younger than ne -one goes for her natural almost black colour . It looks a bit too dark. The cut on her very curly hair is perfect. The last time I saw her she was having the lighter colour darkened I didn't have the heart to tell her that her very dark hair is ageing . She extremely underweight and that doesn't help .
The other has blond hair with highlights .
The colour looks great,but it only looks nice when put up and not left loose .

It's trial and error.

Balayage is tricky DIY Norah as the OP requested no hairdresser, it’s also pretty expensive.

I met up with a friend I hadn't seen for years, she showed me a photo of her younger sister,whose hair was now almost white
and she looked lovely.

Norah

Perhaps blonde balayage. My hair is silver, blonde foils are added.

Norah, your hair looks lovely.

I am longing for my hair to go white. At the moment it is a sort of dull, beigey grey, I think it is called greige. My hair used to be naturally golden blonde, everyone thought it was dyed. Not any more.

My hair is naturally silvery blond mouse now (86), slightly wavy, and I would never dye or colour it. I’d rather look natural, not spend the money or the time and, like a pp, have it just on the shoulders so I can have it up or down. Can’t believe the time and expense some people regularly go to, but each to their own of course.

Believe it or not I still have [short, curly] dark hair at 77 [Similar pattern to Prue Leith]. Close inspection will see some grey at the temples and some grey hair dotted in the rest but 90%+ is still dark.

My Grandmother was the same and her hair only looked grey when in her 80's. My Mother and Aunt went completely white in their mid 70's.

I do expect to go white quite quickly when it does change though and it won't bother me. I know people who have tried the colouring shampoos with no real results - and dyed their hair but it looked un natural. Best leave it all to nature.

My friend had lovely red hair. She is now a blondish colour which looks very nice. She is 70. I used to use Superdrug semi permanent hair dye and it worked very well for a long time. As I got older I went to a professional hairdresser who now colours my hair and the colour is always lovely. I didn't realise blondes had more fun till I was in my 60's! Ha Ha.....wish I had known earlier!

At around 60, I used henna to restore my reddish gingery hair tone. However , I soon got tired of having to cover up roots etc.

Grey, silvery or white hair is something that comes to most of us. To start off with we probably all feel "Oh, dear, am I so old?"

However, if you, like me, soon give up on hair dye, try re-assessing your wardrobe. Not all colours that suited you as a red-head, will suit you now, but others will.

An aunt of mine, who had never worn pink, found it complemented her steel-grey hair, where it had not suited her dark brown hair, nor her earlier skin tone.

My natural colour is a dark red started to go grey which I didn’t want. Would never attempt to colour it myself hair is not so forgiving as you age. My natural colour has been toned to a lighter shade by my hairdresser who sorts the roots out every six weeks or so and she blends the colour in. Funny enough if I tried to have it dyed my natural colour it would not suit my aging skin.

I started to go grey in my late teens and fully grey in my early thirties I wear it in a pixie cut I get compliments about my hair colour.
I would embrace the grey .

My sister, 19 months younger, says she’ll kill me if I stop colouring my hair. I do use a hairdresser I trust

That’s just silly of her. Do what you like best. Your hair. I have known people say hair colouring is not good for you.

Go lighter using highlights, as a journey towards embracing your incoming white hair. I stopped dyeing my hair when I retired, fed up of the roots showing through increasingly quickly. Had two full heads of highlights, which were many shades lighter than my mahogany hair, then allowed nature to progress. It was painless. Within two years I had a full head of beautiful silver hair which I love every day.