I wish I'd never started colouring my hair, but I did, so now I'm trying to figure out how to go grey gracefully.
Backstory - my mother says she saw my first grey hair when I was 3. By the time I was 20, I was using henna to colour it, I had just enough grey, that the henna gave my auburn hair beautiful highlights. But by the time I was 25 there was enough grey that it was starting to look a little like Ronald McDonald....so started the semi then permament hair colouring.....I let it grow out once when I was in my early thirties and folks thought I was mid-fifties, apparently people just see the hair colour, not the face....anyway, fast forward 20 years, I'm mid-fifties and the top of my head is pretty much snow white. I'm still colouring, but I have fast growing hair so the skunk streak shows up around the 3 week mark and is really bad at 4 weeks. I'm over colouring my hair. Hubby thinks I should wait until I retire (2 years), of course my hair stylist thinks I should keep colouring.....
I'm interested in knowing how women have stopped colouring their hair. I see three options
1) stop full colouring, add in coloured streaks and gradually add fewer and fewer streaks until it's grown out grey/white
2) let it grow out and wear hats for 2 years
3) let it grow out and cut it really short (not really interested in really short hair)