Oh, what's with this "yellow" nonsense?

[Fire Walk With Me]

I found my first grey hair when I was 18. It didn't bother me because Rutger Hauer looks so cool in Blade Runner...and of course, I am now mostly grey.

What no one told me is that when you let grey hair grow long, when you get to a certain age, it begins to yellow out. WTF? Now I -like- my grey and am fighting to keep it! Change is constant, indeed.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. There's a reason why blue rinses exist. I noticed, though, that the yellow came first on my

mom as her reddish chestnut hair went grey, then the nice silvery color came after that.

[pink-o]

2. I've been waiting for that beautiful silver gray hair for years now!

I first saw gray at 25; 30 years later it's still at the transition stage. WTF?? I would love to let my hair go au natural, but it really looks like crap unless I dye it. Well, it took me awhile to get thru perimenopause, I guess I just hang on to things a little too long!!!

[hippywife]

3. Hubband's isn't yellow.

He's 56 and has silver hair down to his waist. No yellow.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. My hair (still down to my shoulders +)...

.
...turned this pretty ugly shade of yellow for quite a while --
it looked like I was using earwax as product -- but it's turning
a pretty cool silver/white now.
.

[tango-tee]

5. There is a shampoo made with cornflower essence

to counteract the yellowing, and it won't leave your hair looking purple, like some of the rinses do.

I noticed the first grey hair in my mid-fifties; there are a few more here and there now, and I think it looks pretty since I have really dark brown hair. I don't think I'll ever have a head full of that beautiful silver hair, since when Grandma died she still had black hair, and Mom, now age 80, only has a few grey strands amid the black.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Ah, thank you, I'll check that out!

:hi:

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. So that's what that stupid Coldplay song is about?

Although ironically enough, it's their least stupid song, because it's about the only thing they did that wasn't a third rate U2 ripoff.