yes, it can be odd, the reactions you get from people....when I first put the highlights in, I got positive reactions, since it basically lightened my hair colour from auburn to 'something'....people liked the lighter colour....but if I explained I was embracing my natural grey/white, most folks don't get it. They can not understand why I wouldn't keep colouring my hair, "just get it done every month"....or "can't you just colour it all grey".....now I'm just digging in my heels and folks can suck it if they don't like it. Hubby's only concern is how damaged my hair looked after the major bleaching 6 weeks ago, but my hair has somewhat recovered, although my bangs are more straight than curly now, but they'll grow out.....Even though the bleaching was very damaging to my hair, I find that the streaks really to soften the 'skunk' line.
I've been using Joico's purple shampoo and violet conditioner every other wash, it does change the colour a little, makes the white seem brighter, although I'm not seeing a great improvement in the brassy tones.....it must deposit a little colour, because next time I shampoo, the suds look a little grey/mauve to me.
The other thing I find funny, the 1/4 to 1/2" of white skunk line always seemed to appear so quickly, but now that I'm at 13+ weeks of root grow out, it doesn't seem to be growing out as fast......