Frisky Feline

what brand of hair dye covers gray hair the best?


If I go to the HAIR salon, and they will charge me for cut and color hair as the same price as color hair alone. I don't want to have my hair cut yet for other 4 to 6 weeks. SO I need color for my hair so BAD!

I need to know what brand of color hair will cover grey as much as possible.

THanks.

edit: thanks loveblue.

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LoveBlue

I personally wouldn't go to a saloon for a hair cut or color. No telling what I'd look like when I came out.

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Frisky Feline

I bet lots of foams from beer and some pretzels in your hair look so delicilousy!!

LoveBlue

Actually, it should be salon (one o) not saloon.

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Frisky Feline

I editted mine again. thanks.

Beach girl

Honestly, the salon colors generally are better, especially if you have a good colorist who knows how to blend in high-lights and/or low-lights. If you combine salon color with a drug-store brand, no telling how it will come out. It helps if you do a strand test, like it says on the box, but I know most of us are too impatient to bother.

There is a product you can buy at the drugstore that is like mascara for hair, to just touch up the roots. You buy the color that's the closest to what you want, and treat the roots only.

Or try this:

Hair Mascara -- How to Mask Your Gray Strands

Get the hair dye that most closely matches your color, mix it up and apply to roots only with a clean mascara wand (which you can buy at the drugstore).

OR: You can be really radical and grow that grey out!! Only works if you are more than 75% grey, IMHO, but once you do, you might love it that color.

LoveBlue

I guess I'm a radical because I'm letting my hair go natural...one gray strand at a time.

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Beach girl

I finally let my hair grow out grey a couple or three years ago. I love it! I get lots of compliments on the color. I still have some of my natural dark-espresso color hair underneath, so that give somes dimension and shading to the grey.

Sometimes I get a "no-color color" at the salon, which makes it nice and shiny for a couple months.

Frisky Feline

I only ask for which brand color hair that more likely cover the grey hair. Thats all. I ve been always going to the hair salon. But the problem is that i dont want to have my hair cut yet! they charge me the same price for hair cut and color hair as well as just color hair alone. Bother.

One told me that john freida foam may not cover the grey enough. I ask everyone to see which brand of color hair that can cover grey as much as possible. lol

Beach girl

Look for anything that says "permanent color." Not "semi-permanent" or "temporary" or "washes out in 12 shampoos" or anything like that.

There are a lot of good brands out there. I used to use a Revlon product and liked it.

Frisky Feline

i probably buy the revlon color silk. i will see about it. eh. my co worker loves it. Her hair looks good to me. i ll give it a try.

radioman

beach girl makes a good point. permanent is better. I tried a few myself... (don't ask just because I'm a guy. if you gotta ask - walk away ...NOW!) I find that if you wait too long and let hair grow out the color, you will have hard time covering gray with one application. I also found its better to stick with one brand/color if you already colored recently.
Right now- I am not vain about my graying hair so letting it all out now.

PowerON

It's not grey unless you did took a good look closer up if it's grey. For myself, I see it as white hair.

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Beach girl

Which can be a perfectly fine look!

My aunt went white quite young (when she was in her late 40's) and just let it be white. It was GORGEOUS - she went from nearly-black to absolutely stark white, and it was thick, and always beautifully styled.

I remember hoping I would go grey like that. Mine is almost more of a pale, pale ash-white than it is stark white, but I like it fine, as it turns out.

whatdidyousay!

I used hair henna once and my white hairs where pink! I was not going for this look! I think you need to talk a hair colorist as everyone hair is difference. It depend on your hair texture and what shape your hair is in.

jillio

Count me a radical, too. My son asked me over Thanksgiving why I didn't color my grey. Told him it was too much upkeep. Plus, I have earned this grey. Actually, though, mine is not going grey so much as it is getting white a streak at a time. My nephew has gorgeous salt and pepper grey, and has had since he was about 25. I wish I had his grey.

jillio

Anytime you try to color grey or white hair with a red dye or henna, it will turn pink or bright orange. Horrid! That is why mine is going natural. I don't want to have to change my hair color completely, and red dye on grey hair just turns out UGLY!

deafskeptic

turn pink? mmm I should try red dye...

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deafskeptic

I'm 45 and my hair is completely gray.

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Babyblue

I have earned a few strands of grey hairs. Not quite enough to color yet......

Frisky Feline

you are brave!! I am only 4 years behind you and i am still in denial of having grey hair.

Frisky Feline

My friend who have same age as I am. She has only one or two grey. wtf! I have more than pepper hair and heavy white streak in front. :hisssssing:

LoveBlue

My hair is dark brown with a sprinkling of gray highlights. I'm sure others see more gray than I do.

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I started going grey at 16. At that point I had one section in the front that was total silver/grey. A few years later, I had a bad, bad reaction to some hair color and went totally bald. When the hair grew back, it was thicker, and my same natural auburn color, but the grey is now evenly distributed all over. I have decided to leave it. Like Jillio, I have earned them. I know I have at lot more grey since coming back to Florida, but then again, I have totally earned those and more.

My mother started going grey in her 40's. Now, she has vitiligo and her hair is totally white (?) or basically has no pigment at all. It's baby fine and when you pull it all together for a pony tail, it's only as thick as a baby's thumb. You can see her scalp through it.

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whatdidyousay!

Yeah ,I found that out after I used henna! I use have dyes by a hair colorist but it getting to be a pain to keep up with roots . I do not color my hair anymore. I wish it would turn all white but I don't think it will , my momlived to be 93 yo and she did not have all white hair.

whatdidyousay!

I have a friend that started getting white hair in her 20's and she was all white by her 30's.

Beach girl

My mom was like that. She died at age 92, somewhat gray, but still had a lot of dark hair underneath. I am way more gray now, at age 61, than she was when she died.

Banjo

Not just that, hair dye products contain thousands and thousands of chemicals. So you have to think twice of what you are putting into your body by using these products. Not to mention that there have been studies linking them to non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

jillio

And they have also been linked to relapses of Lupus.

Grummer

red heads dont grey as bad, and yes some people have those great salt and pepper greys, I have SILVER not grey it actually quite good as i hav chestnut brown (nice kind of fine hair)...

Frisky,
if id you, look up on low or no ammonia coloring solutions, ask the saloon for low or NO ammonia, why? risks of cancer from these chemicals it gets into your bloodstream via your scalps and hair roots (seriously). I have read that a number of saloon worker stricken with cancers coming from such chemical based colouring agents.

Hair Dye Linked to Blood Cancer

Hair Dyes

Hair Dyes and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute

So... insist on using natural hair colourers...finding a reputable saloon which specialise or offer these safer alternative should be your priority too

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