Classic length, 100% gray hair...I'd guess 3a/bMii...it's really made my day :D

Saw one of those. It was beautiful. Made me even more desperate than usual for waist/classic length hair.

<sigh> My grandmother had classic length hair into her 70's but her daughters cut it off just before she died. :(

jeez!! that sounds depressing, what the heck! sorry, was just thinking of her and missing her.

I hope I can have hair as lovely as my grandmother's

It sounds gorgeous! I love silver hair.

I have always admired older women with long hair! I hope that I am strong enough to resist the temptation to dye it or cut it when mine starts to grey. Of course now my husband is all into the super long hair thing (I wanted it waist length, he wants me to see how long I can get it) he probably will be there to chide me if i try to cut it off.

I'm getting more and more grey hairs and I'm not that old yet!!

I'm trying my hardest to resist dying it. The grey I have is a beautiful color, really silvery. I just have to get over the fact that only old people are "allowed" to have grey hair.

Well, this story puts heart in me. :smile: My hair is becoming seriously silver on top, and I'm getting more and more pressure from other people to dye it. Yet, I kind of like it.... I'd like to be a not-so-old lady with loooong silver tresses. It's the transition from richly coloured hair to grey that's troublesome.

Teazel, I hope you can resist the pressure to colour, because I have only rarely seen such a lovely colour as your silver "cap" on top. It's gorgeous! Shiny and shimmering and almost irridescent. Do keep growing it naturally, won't you? It's lovely!

Awww, thank you so much for that, Desidera. You just shored up my resistance no end. :flowers:

My grandmother had classic length hair into her 70's but her daughters cut it off just before she died. :(


I told my DH that if anything happened to me, like a bad accident where I end up in the hospital or something (God forbid) DONT LET THEM CUT MY HAIR!!! He told me that he will be the defender of my tresses if anything like that occurs.

I told my DH that if anything happened to me, like a bad accident where I end up in the hospital or something (God forbid) DONT LET THEM CUT MY HAIR!!!
I've got this written on my Donor Card in my wallet. :)

Ladies, ladies, ah-hem, let the lovely silver come on in and love and cherish each and every strand. After all, YOU earned them. I feel very blessed and lucky to have so much silver, I wouldn't change a thing! In my early 30's it started and I found it very exciting. Another new chapter in life. It is so unusual to be young and have the majority of your hair silver. At any age, I think it's kinda "angelic", like it's your earthly HALO. :cloud9:

Teazil! I've been reading at LHC a relatively short while but frequently, and this is the FIRST time I've seen you. I too am going grey very much at the top, and all around the outside. You're the only person I know IRL or online who has long, long hair and grey too. Maybe I've read your name before but didn't see your picture? I'm happy to 'meet' you. To see someone with long hair (mine is only to middle of my back) and in the process of turning grey, is hard to come by. I'm mostly alone in my journey because most women freak out about getting silvers. My best support is at the Loom and here, and though I don't need it (I haven't colored for over ten years and I stand on principle) it's nice, it's a comfort, to know like-minded women do exist.

In my 20s I used henna occasionally (which I loved), then at 29 I began getting enough grey to feel self-conscious and I tried that hair color for men. Sheesh, it make my hair so dark at the top that I may as well have carried a neon sign saying "I color my hair to hide the grey." In my early 30s, I went through a highlighting phase where I did heavy highlights to mask the grey. It worked well but I didn't like the upkeep or long roots. Then I advanced to the full-on salon or bottled hair color. I liked auburn. I just hated the cost and the haircoloring process - the smell, the investment of time, the dye on my skin, the shade that's always a little different than the previous month.

So I've been natch for well over 10 years.

I got a hair compliment last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These are few and very far between for me, but I got one last night. And, the gal, who was in her 30s, said my grey gave me grace. Can you believe that! I just have to hold on to that compliment for as long as I can cause who knows when I'll get another one.

By the way, the avatar/picture of your grandmother is absolutely beautiful.

If you view my hair blog you will find if you scroll down, one pic that really shows my silver. You will see how similar I am to you (I'm thinking I'm similar to you anyway).

I hope you will see this post otherwise I just wasted about 1/2 an hour on writing about myself!!!!








Well, this story puts heart in me. :smile: My hair is becoming seriously silver on top, and I'm getting more and more pressure from other people to dye it. Yet, I kind of like it.... I'd like to be a not-so-old lady with loooong silver tresses. It's the transition from richly coloured hair to grey that's troublesome.

Teazil, that's the hairstyle(your're grandmother in your avatar)
that I want to be able to do. My hair is still too short, to
make the poof in front.
As far as older ladies with long hair, I think long, gray hair
is Stunning!! I wash brainwashed into thinking older ladies
shouldn't have long hair in my younger days, but now I think
they should! I think I've posted this somewhere before but
there was a visitor at my church who had classic length
gray hair in a long braid,She was relativley young, maybe 55,
but I thought it looked great!

Teazel...Your hair is stunning, to say the least! Please don't even consider coloring it. I am also a member of the Glitter Girl/Guy club and have a lot of white hair around the crown and back. There are a few strands around my face, but mostly in the back. Silverlady is absolutely right in what she said. We all should wear our hair with pride! :smile:

My hair is about 5% gray now and I use henna/amla/indigo but when the gray gets to where this doesn't work I will let it come on. Silver hair is beautiful long and there is so much you can do with it.

Meg

Wow, so many admirers of silver here! I wonder if the title of the thread could be changed to better reflect its content, so that other people who have an interest in this topic can find it. :twocents:

Silverlady, your hair is an inspiration. I hope mine might look as good as yours one day.

Liliana, I haven't been here much lately - not to post, anyway. I'm afraid my online time has been devoted to a fandom I'm involved in. I'm very happy to meet you, too! Our hair does seem to be very similar in the distribution of colour vs. grey. I found my first grey hair in my teens, as far as I remember. Premature greying runs through the maternal side of my family, with my grandmother going grey 'overnight' and my mother's sister hitting the dye bottle in her early twenties. Lucky me, I'm the only one to have exhibited this trait in my generation :undecided:

Thank you for your comment on my great-grandmother's picture. :flower:

Babyfine, my sisters and I tried many times to copy that hairstyle, to no avail. I just can't get that 'poofy' look! Now, I do wonder if Great-grandmother Hazel is using some sort of padding in there.... :ponder:

Thank you so much, harpgal! :blushing:

Teazel your pictures are beautiful. What an inspiration!