To dye or not to dye, that is the question - Just for men
I am posting this question on behalf of a friend.
Gray hair creeps up on you — sometimes literally.
A little grey can make men look distinguished and give them gravitas. Some ladies even seem to like grey haired men, look at George Clooney, Richard Gere and Philip Schofield aka The Silver Fox.
According to the teachings of Buddha “grey hairs are like angels sent by the god of death”.
So is it better to let nature run its course and go for the distinguished salt and pepper look or invest in Just for men/Back to Black?
Many years ago I worked for L'Oreal. Products like Grecian 2000 contain lead acetate and eventually with every day use it destroys the hair root and you will go bald, as the loss is gradual, people think it is natural but it is not.
There is no such thing as grey hair only transparent and pigmented. The grey look comes from some hair still retaining pigment and shining through the transparent hair.
Do not use Hair dye! You will retain your hair a lot longer, if you just wash and condition it.
Better having grey hair than a complete slap head anyway......
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I'm pretty convinced I'd look better grey than with my current very-dark brown. At 40, my beard's getting there first with some salt-and-pepper, but full-on grey doesn't run in my family AFAIK.
I had a flatmate who turned totally grey in her 20s - but never found out until she spent some time recovering from surgery and couldn't be bothered to keep up the façade.
If you're going to dye your hair don't use Just For Men, which seemingly only comes in colours you might polish your boots with. Use L'Oreal Excellence or something similar, and select from the huge pallette of gorgeous colours available. And don't forget to use the pre-colour serum and post-colour conditioner to counteract the effects of the peroxide.
I've been dying my hair since I was 16. Not because I was grey (although I probably now have more than a few grey hairs somewhere beneath my Natural Dark Blonde locks) but simply because... well... who wants to be stuck with the same colour hair all their life?
Once, in Guatemala in 1991, I was stopped in the street by an American woman who just wanted to tell me what a gorgeous colour my hair was. And it was.
Don't ever try to dye your eyebrows to match, though. Trust me on that one.
I was working in New York years ago, and I remeber this rather attaractive girl saying she loved grey hair on men, as all Americans dye theirs black and looked silly like Burt Reynolds. I pointed out he actually wore a wig, which she thought was even more stupid.
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