Fifty Shades of (Artificial) Grey: Grey Hair Color

Grey Hair Color

If you have spent anytime on Pinterest or Instagram in the past year, I’m sure you have see the grey/silver hair trend that is going around. Some people find it funny that people are paying to get grey hair when if you wait long enough, you’ll inevitably get it. Other people find it absolutely stunning. No matter where you fall on that spectrum, people are definitely asking for grey hair color.

Getting Grey Hair Color – The Process

Grey Hair Color
Grey Hair Color

Unfortunately it is not as easy as simply squeezing grey out of a color tube and putting it on someones head. In order to achieve a true silver/grey hair color you have to get the hair to be essentially white blonde first. Either through highlights or bleaching the hair out, the hair has to be lifted as light as possible. After you have achieved that, your stylist then will have to apply a gloss over top of it to give it that “grey” hue.

I think the hardest part about artificial grey hair is that once you have lifted the hair light enough, it becomes porous and the “grey” doesn’t want to stay in the hair well. This is the same struggle that all fashion colors have. In order to keep that grey/silver hue, you have to be very diligent with your at home hair care. Even then, it sometimes will still just fade quick due to the nature of the color.

Blending Grey Hair with Artificial Grey Hair Color

I’ve had a few clients come in and ask me questions about growing out their grey hair. They want to know if we can just dye their hair grey so that it is easier to grow out. In this case, I suggest doing highlights of really light white, silvery blonde, and lowlights of a dark greyish tone. This over all will blend together to create a cool toned base that sometimes makes the growing out process easier. However at the end of the day, it is impossible to identically replicate someone’s natural grey hair. It helps to blend it, but you still have to go through the long process of growing it out.

If any of this peaks your interest, you should call the salon today! I know the girls on our team would LOVE to help you achieve your grey hair color dreams.

Until Next Time,

Josie 🙂

 

Fifty Shades of Grey: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Grey Hair

Grey Hair

Grey hair is something that everyone and every salon eventually has to deal with. And this is no different at Ashka Salon Spa. Some people remember finding their first grey hair at the yong age of 16. Other people are in their early 40s and barely have any at all. There really doesn’t seem to be a pattern to when you get grey or even how much. It isn’t dependent on specific thing as far as I can tell. Because it seemed to be such a mystery to me, I thought it would be fun to do some research on it. Here are 5 fun facts that you may not have known about grey hair.

Grey Hair

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Grey Hair

  1. Your ethnicity makes a difference in how quickly you go grey.
    Caucasians tend to go grey first. Scientists aren’t exactly sure why, but then Asians and finally African Americans.
  2. The 50-50-50 rule
    “Fifty percent of the population has about 50% gray hair at age 50,” says Dr. Anthony Oro, professor of dermatology at Stanford University. Normal aging is the primary cause of grey hair
  3. Diet is key To colored locks
    It has been proven than a diet filled with all of your vital vitamins and nutrients leads to stronger, healthier hair. It has also been found that having a healthy diet actually helps keep the grey hair at bay longer.
  4. Stress never helps
    While stress hasn’t been proven to be directly linked to grey hair growth, it has been seen they it cause you to lose hair faster. The more quickly you lose hair, the more of a chance you have that it could grow back grey.
  5. Pluck the greys away
    There is a myth going around that if you pluck a grey hair, 2 will come back. However this is completely inaccurate. A Hair follicle is only able to grow one hair strand. No matter how many times you pluck a stubborn grey, it will only grow back as one. However, I still don’t recommend plucking them for your scalps sake.

I hope you found my research as interesting as I did!

Until Next Time,

Josie 🙂