Hi, Sarah, I stopped using hair dye about four or five years ago. I’d used it for a few years to cover up a grey line that appeared – I find that most people go grey in streaks, but mine started as a line all round the edge of the scalp (a perfectly healthy scalp, I should add) and from then on the hair started to lose its colour (I put it down to stress). Anyway, four-ish years ago I stopped, as I couldn’t be bothered any more. And to my surprise I haven’t yet gone grey (or silver)! True, my hair isn’t the corn blonde it was in my youth, but it’s still got colour. This is actually working against me as nobody believes I don’t dye it, hmm… Still, maybe it’s my healthy Primal diet and the fact that I now have no stress to speak of (got divorced 😉 ) but whatever, I’m not bothered now if and when my hair decides to go silver. So keep up the good work!

I have been colour free for two and a half years . Never ever regretted it! I love the rebellious feeling I get from having silver hair. I get a million comments on my hair too. Lots are from wistful ladies of my own age who tell me that if their grey was like mine they’d happily do it too. I always reply that I had no idea when I began my journey how it would turn out!! Not a clue but I always knew that if I didn’t like it the worst that would happen would be short dark hair. I and lots of other people I know have found the same confidence from being dye free. It’s a big leap yes, but one I shall forever be glad I took. I’ve made lots of new friends- including Sarah ? And I’ve gained so much in terms of confidence and time and money . I hope to inspire others to at least consider making the change .

I love your silver hair. People pay good money and ruin their hair to bleach and tone and turn their brown hair silver at the moment. I’m fortunate that I just found my first greys at 37 but hope I can age gracefully when I need to x

I ditched the dye and have never felt better about it! It’s interesting though how many comments I get about how much grey I have….”you should dye it” they say, “you’re still so young”! UGH!! Don’t these people understand grey is the new black? I see so many young girls (I work in a high school) who think the grey is the newest, hottest, color and are taking great steps to become grey (yep they’re dying their hair grey). Perhaps it’s time I told them about you Sarah! 🙂

I haven’t because I am not fully silver, but I have chunks in my hair, quite big for my age (29 years old), so I die my hair to hide it, but that’s mainly because I like changing my hair colour, it bores me when its one colour for too long. I try to not get influenced by what people say from now so when it’s my time to transition it will be easier.

This is wonderful. Thanks for posting this! To anyone on the fence I say, go silver, gals: it’s a great, freeing feeling! 🙂

I can totally see why people are ditching hair dye and embracing their naturally greying hair. The health implications of toxic dyes seem to be making many women put health before vanity now. My own natural hair color is reddish blonde and as I approach 60, it is getting lighter and looking more blonde than red. All through my childhood, I hated my hair because it was a very unusual colour not being ginger or blonde but a mix of both. It was commented on so often by total strangers and I also got bullied at school because it was different to most other kids’ hair. Only now do I fully appreciate my hair colour because it hasn’t gone grey yet. My mother is 87 and still has lots of natural colour in hers. The only issue is, people assume I color my hair and I have had people actually argue with me and call me a liar when I say I don’t color it!!!!!! As hair and skin are made of the same stuff, it always amazes me that we tolerate unwanted discussion/comment about a person’s hair while making the same discussion about skin color a crime.