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Sax
13:40 / 26.05.04
So. I've hit that age where men either start going bald or start going grey. My bounteous thatch remains, but is erring towards the more mature look.

Not in a Philip Schofield kind of way, more a small explosion of grey hairs above the left temple. Kind of like a proto-"Mallen streak", for all you Catherine Cookson readers.

Question is, should I let nature take its course or invest in some Grecian 2000, Just For Men, or any other hair dye product which sounds like a top-shelf magazine?

Barbelith, my hair is in your hands.
 
 
bitchiekittie
13:44 / 26.05.04
there is nothing much hotter than grey hairs atop a nice face, whether it be a fairly young looking face or a more weathered one. SALT AND PEPPER being the hottest variety of all.

I have a lovely silvery strand of my own. only the one, mind - I had three but two abandoned ship. I mourn.
 
 
bitchiekittie
13:52 / 26.05.04
and last time I dyed my hair (when I had more than one single strand) I actually wrapped my silver in foil to protect it from the dye. I LOVE grey hair.
 
 
Bed Head
14:02 / 26.05.04
Oh, I’ve got a load of grey hairs coming thorough at the temples. Love it. I’d prefer a proper streak, in the style of James Whistler/Dickie Davies/Madonna in those Pepsi ads, but I’ll settle for the Christopher Chance look.

Back when in the days when I was young, I came up with a plan to paint my hair grey - not blonde, but proper old man grey - and then to try and pass myself off as much older than I actually was, thinking that it’s altogether more impressive to present as a spectacularly young-looking fiftysomething than it is to simply be a haggard-looking twentysomething. As a kind of comment on society, or something. I thought something like that would make for wizard fun larks when I was young. Pah.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:10 / 26.05.04
I think you need to dye your hair so that more of it is grey: either two grey streaks down the side, like Reed Richards, or one grey streak starting at your temple like the priest guy from Ultraviolet.
 
 
bitchiekittie
14:12 / 26.05.04
that reminds me!

I tried to get two dyed streaks of white back when my hair was down to my bum, but the girl screwed it up and not only did my hair get brittle and break, but it was more yellow-gold than white. SHE PROMISED ME WHITE!
 
 
Cat Chant
15:01 / 26.05.04
Grey hair = way sexy. Congratulations, Sax!

A propos of Fly, does anyone actually know where you can get grey hair dye? There was a girl in the sixth form when I started secondary school with long, (naturally/prematurely) grey hair and I thought it was stunning and wanted to fake the same effect, but oddly Boots don't stock products for going grey, only for hiding it. I might be a bit old for it to look surprisingly premature now, though... Alas.
 
 
Saveloy
15:13 / 26.05.04
Sax, these people are talking rubbish, they just want you to make a fool of yourself. The only dignified solution is to shave all your hair off and paint your scalp with household gloss. Or Hammerite. A deep black or pillar-box red would suit you, I reckon. Avoid the glittery stuff, it's showy and the novelty wears off very quickly.
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
15:15 / 26.05.04
Sax, what they said: grey hair is hottt.

Deva, I'm sure that you can get grey/silver hair dye but you'd probably have to apply it over blonde or bleached hair. Think I've seen it in Boots - it has pictures of glamourous older laydees on the packets and names like "Midnight Silver", "Platinum Glory" etc.
 
 
Triplets
16:23 / 26.05.04
How the hell old are you people?
 
 
rizla mission
16:26 / 26.05.04
Yes, basically what others have said: don't for gods sake do anything drastic to try and hide the greyness: everyone will laugh at you and it just ends up looking 1000% worse than if you just let it happen in a dignified manner.

Surely you know this.. it's like "don't go to a cheap tanning place and make yourself orange" or "don't wear latex shorts and long white socks". Or something.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
17:16 / 26.05.04
When I was sixteen they sold silver hair dye in my local pharmacy but I haven't seen any since then.
 
 
Ganesh
17:18 / 26.05.04
Yep, I recommend you dye the right temple grey and wait for those father-figure seekers to come a-flockin'...
 
 
Ex
17:22 / 26.05.04
Streaks are divine. Just don't let it go yellow, Sax. If you smoke, lift your streak gently away from the smoke with a chip fork, or wrap it in a serviette or something.

Deva: New Directions, the unreliable toxic pots of teen rebellion, do 'Silver'. Reccomended over bleach. It has 'no specific duration' (i.e. it'll look good for one wash and shit for fifty).
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:53 / 26.05.04
I'm getting those Reed Richards wings, pretty far ahead of schedule, I think. It's starting to pepper up on top, though, which I'm not crazy aboot.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
18:55 / 26.05.04
Rizla: "don't wear latex shorts and long white socks"

That's crazy! That's the hottest look going in the Manhattan clubs. Hotter than trucker hats and short neckties, even.
 
 
Mazarine
20:15 / 26.05.04
How the hell old are you people?

We vary. You're never to young to be a jaded hipster/hepster.

Sax, again, with the rest of the group, gray/silver/white hair is agonizingly fine. I've been trying to make my hair go gray for years with worrying and stress, and the occasional surprise, but all I've managed is a single white eyebrow hair and a headache.

As for gray dye, I phoned one of the companies that makes the elderly lady hair dye and asked if it could be applied to bleached hair to achieve a nice silver, and they said it was a bad plan, and that it would "discolor the hair" whatever the hell that means.

Maybe one could get something like manic panic's virgin snow and mix in a wee drop of black. (At your own risk.)
 
 
Ex
20:19 / 26.05.04
I'd guess that yer average black is achieved by an intense saturation of another colour, and if you mix it in with the white it'll go a pallid, murky shade of burgundy, navy blue, brown, or whatever the black is when it isn't black.

But I'm a pessimist. And only guessing.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
20:32 / 26.05.04
I had navy blue hair in high school. It was schweet!
 
 
Perfect Tommy
21:28 / 26.05.04
"I've hit that age where men either start going bald..."

Wow, happy 24th birthday!

(I was shaving my head in my early 20s, and when I let my hair grow in again, it was gone. I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye...)
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
08:30 / 27.05.04
You could be like Bill (Miss Wilson) who, in The Chalet School in Exile, has such a traumatic time escaping from Nazis through some tunnels in the Tyrolean mountains, that her previously chestnut hair turns white overnight. (Miss Wilson is hott.)

I admit that there might be problems engineering a situation in which you have to escape from Nazis through Tyrolean mountains, but let's not be too picky...
 
 
Ex
10:28 / 27.05.04
Hmm. Nazi Peril or Herbal Essences; it's a toss-up.
I read somewhere that this can really truly happen (to an extent); if you have salt and pepper hair, then in times of stress, the pepper is the first to drop out. Leaving you suddenly salty.

And of course, your hair can go quite gold with grief. It doesn't count if you slaughter your nearest and dearest to achieve the effect, though. I hear.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
10:31 / 27.05.04
Will convenience store clerks do the job or do I have to senselessly slaughter higher life forms.
 
 
Sax
11:29 / 27.05.04
Grey it is, then. Growing old in a distinguished but disgraceful manner. I do admit, it adds a kind of roguish (no X-pun intended) flavour, though it's less salt-and-
pepper than oh-shit-the-lid's-come-off-the-salt-shaker-and-
it's-gone-all-over-my-hair-salad.
 
 
wembley can change in 28 days
14:58 / 27.05.04
yay for grey! Grey hair says "Real man! Real man who knows a thing or two about the world! Real man who has learned to cook and do the dishes!" (Sometimes illusory, but still sexy.)

Ganesh thus:
"Yep, I recommend you dye the right temple grey and wait for those father-figure seekers to come a-flockin'..."

As a twentysomething who happens to be dating someone older than my dad, and who has not only a cool dad (whom I wouldn't date, mind) and a cool stepdad (ditto), I take issue!
 
 
Cat Chant
15:33 / 27.05.04
But is the person you're dating grey-haired, wembley? My gf (two years younger than my mother [phew! ]) is silver-and-steel, whereas my mother, despite frequent imprecations and self-delusion, has only a very few grey hairs, and you can only see them when you look very close (as she frequently gets us to do).

Kit-Kat: do you think leafletting against the BNP in Yorkshire might work, in the absence of any Tyrolean mountains here?
 
 
Sax
16:01 / 27.05.04
Hey, I'm getting hate-mail from the BNP at the moment. Perhaps that's what's done it.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:19 / 27.05.04
Perhaps Yorkshire in the snow would be traumatic enough?
 
 
Ex
16:44 / 27.05.04
Will convenience store clerks do the job or do I have to senselessly slaughter higher life forms.

No and no! You can't achieve Pre-raphaelite clouds of golden starry stuff by killing people! You have to be grieving.
Actually, I think Wilde was taking the piss and you have to be suddenly widowed when you didn't like your husband much anyway. It's a hard one to pull off.

And it doesn't involve slaughtering clerks! Tish pish.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
08:40 / 28.05.04
Hey, I'm getting hate-mail from the BNP at the moment. Perhaps that's what's done

Greying and BNP-irritant.

Xxxtra hot.

right decision, I'm looking forward to grey hugely....
 
  
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