Ever change your hair color on a whim?

18 years ago

I am over 75% gray on the top. For the last couple of months I have been experimenting with the palest blonde color to blend it in, just on the top third or so. Funny thing DH never even noticed until he saw me buy some hair color while we running errands last weekend.

Now I am thinking of going to a darker Medium Ash Blonde. Not so yellow blonde. My fraternal twin sister is a yellow blonde, has been for over 20 years. She wasn't born blonde, but felt blondes had more fun! I was light brown/dark blonde for years till it darkened in my teens.

I will be seeing her in a week. I admit it goes back to when we were kids. I would do anything just to be opposite of her. Our mom use to dress us alike even though we didn't look that much alike and she was a foot taller then me.

So what were the reasons you choose to color your hair and why did you pick the color you did?

Clare

(I am the one on the left with the short hair. I always envied my sister's beautiful long hair. I never could get mine to grow.)

{{!gwi}}

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hale_bopp
18 years ago
Yes! I've highlighted my hair blue, and another time, pink, just for fun, LOL! I change my hair often, mostly ash browns/blondes/carmels/mahogany undertones. I just got mine cut (6 inches shorter which makes it shoulder-length now) yesterday and got it highlighted. Sometimes I do chunky highlights, sometimes blended- it just depends. :) It grows soooooo fast, it makes it fun to change up.

Have fun experimenting!

Blessings,
Haley
hale_bopp
18 years ago
ADORABLE pic, BTW!!! :)
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bigack
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I'm gray when I'm not blondish brown, need color right now. For a while I was reddish, I liked it, but DH didn't.
ronm80
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Both of you are so cute! I have my hair colored every month, light brown with blond streaks. I don't feel like me with any other color and I have tried many.
sea_shell
18 years ago
Haven't colored my hair for 40 years!!!!

Kept it medium shade of blond for the first 28 years, then let it grown in, it was med. brown. When I started to go gray I left it alone, my hair grows very fast, just couldn't see trying to keep the gray roots away. It's now a neat mixture of shades of brown, silver gray and a yellow gray which looks blond. My daughter use to tease me that many woman payed a lot to get my finely highlighted hair. Right now it's way to long and dull looking.

Sue
trishaw
18 years ago
Hey Aptos-

My family lives in Aptos. Right on Trout Gulch Road. I am almost willing to bet that you know them. You have kids about the same age.

Anyway- yes is my answer to your question. My mother was a redhead and when I started to go grey in my early 20's I decided to go red too. I change shades every so often just to give a new look or a lift. I even go to the brown shades once in a while. I say go for it and have fun!

Trish
kayjones
18 years ago
Almost every time I color it (about every 6 weeks) - I like to keep people on their toes!
linn_z
18 years ago
I used to color it a lot in my late teens and twenties, but haven't for decades. It's naturally honey blond with some grey. When I get more grey I'll dye it again. I'm 61 so that should be quite soon!
anettemartinrn
18 years ago
never. been the same color all my 40+ years.

anette
grammahony
18 years ago
Yes, every 6 weeks or so, I have it done. And every other time I have it done, I have it highlighted too. I have an appointment this coming Tuesday at 11:30.
Leslie
Mystical Manns
18 years ago
I'm thinking of it! LOL!

I haven't colored my hair in maybe 15 years????? And I'm thinking about it, just for something different.
des_arc_ya_ya
18 years ago
Used to color mine at lot during high school. When my boyfriend (now my ex) would come to pick me up he'd smell the hair dye and say, "Come on out! What color is it now!?" LOL

Have had highlights a few times in the last few years and used to get it "streaked". Photos of me from the 70's made me look as old as I do now! LOL

Nothing now but some salt sprinkled in among the dark brown. May get some highlights for summer.
Linda Wayman
18 years ago
I took cosmetology in high school. We colored each others hair a lot in those classes.
My hair was pitch black, but I started turning gray when I was 17, the same year I married the first time. Coincidence?? I think not!!! :)
When I was 20 I said I would quit coloring my hair and let the gray come through when I was 30.
When I was 30 I decided to wait til I was 40.
When I was 40 I decided to wait til I was 50.
I did let my hair grow out for a short while. Some friends said they liked it, some said they didn't. I didn't like it.
I usually color it a medium gold color now with some streaks.
Hmmm...I'm 60 now; maybe when I'm 70.

Linda
golfergrrl
18 years ago
I've dyed my hair blond for years. I use different brands and shades. A while ago it looked like too many different shades of blond, so I went medium brown for a few months. Now I'm back to blond again. It's cropped pretty short, so it's easy to color.
I'd like to try black....on a whim one of these days.
jannie
18 years ago
I started lightening my brown hair in my teens. I used a product called "Sun In" that you spray on your hair, go out in the sun, and it looked "naturally" blonde. Later I used Nice and Easy. In my 30's I went to a salon and had my shoulder length hair double-processed to platinum blonde. The semi-monthly roots touchups were painful, my scalp burned. I then let my natural brown hair grow back. I get highlights now two or three times a year, I think it helps blend in the grays!
cheryl_ok
18 years ago
I haven't colored mine in about 15 years, prior to that I did a couple times but never cared for it! However, one time I dressed for halloween as a clown and I put red food color in my hair, alot of red food coloring! I had red hair for a couple days, orange hair for a week, awful!!, finally had to go to a salon to get it dyed back to my natural blonde color. It was a nightmare!
wildchild
18 years ago
My natural color as an adult was med to dark brown. For many years after going gray I dyed it a light brown. A few years back I decided to grow it long again. Now I play with color a lot more. I started with peek-a-boo highlights, went on to more pronounced highlights and went more reddish in the fall. Now I am a lot more stripey. I have brown hair with a bit a red to it as a base color and highlights that are caramel,Irish Creme and Cafe Latte. I'm a walking Starbucks. LOL

I love the change of color since I plan to have long straight hair for the rest of my life. I will never go back to short and styled. Too much trouble.
joyfulguy
18 years ago
A slight bit of salt mixed in with my pepper ...

... not of my doing!

(But not much of either on top - not much grass growing on a busy street).

ole joyful
liz
18 years ago
OMG...after staring at that picture of the two of you for what seemed hours...I had to go back and reread what you even posted about...It's amazing how you could have shared the same womb for 9 months and have totally different hair styles, and hair features...I woulda thought your hair would have been exactly alike!

I've changed my hair on a whim to many times to count...it's about a 50 50 thing...my haircutter told me if I was gonna color to do it before my surgery as anestheia or however you spell it..messes with the color application...so I hurried and covered my roots two days before the surgery...well geesh it came out this god awful color and so I'm having to live with it for the next few months and just thankful I'm not going anywhere or seeing many peeps....it said medium ash blonde on the bottle and it's this red/henna thing...looks awful...I hate it and will be glad to color over it! I'm trying to find something to color the grey...lighten the dark color a bit and just haven't gotten there yet...I probably should just suck it up and pay the big bucks for a stylist to do it...but my cheap genes wont let me...so I'll just keep experimenting!!

Good luck finding the color you love!!

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