new thread
Anyone here try to treat gray hair? I know Jeffery was quite successful. What did you use Jeffery? I remember after seeing your before and after pics that it looked great!
I need to also treat my facial hair and was wondering how often that treatments needs to be applied.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Hi Chris,
I have some gray in both my hair and beard, and rather like it that way. My hair is medium brown, and the fairly small amount of gray adds natural highlights that I rather like. My beard is dark, and my moustache is somewhat lighter, the gray adds interesting colour, in my opinion. Since I have such a variety of colours everywhere, I choose to leave the gray as it is.
I know that those whose hair and beard are all more or less the same colour may prefer that everything may be more uniform. I believe Jeffrey said at one time that he actually had more gray in his hair at one time, he mentioned in a earlier post that he takes zinc, and his hair now has much more red in it and less or nearly no gray in it (I believe he gave zinc the credit for restoring the original colour, I am pretty sure he did not use dye). Jeffrey may have more insights if he is not on the road at this time. I believe he did say he used a small amount of hair dye (shhhh, I did't tell, lol!) to dye his beard a dark colour, I think he freshens this up every couple of weeks, this obviously depends on how fast your beard hair grows.
Hope this helps, all the best,
David
Hey Dave,
Graying doesnt bother me much, but I thought I would just see what it would take to get rid of it. I think it is distinguishing in itself. I think Jeff did color his beard if I can remember correctly.
Later, Chris
I color both my hair and my beard. in fact, I just colored my hair yesterday with Herbatint Natural Hair Colour; in fact I'm getting ready to post a pic. It came out really good.
On my beard, I use Just For Men. I use it every 2 weeks or so because I keep my beard short.
DO NOT!!! use Grecian Formula. Unless they've improved it in the past it's really damaging and unnatural-looking.
I didn't want to use any dye's maybe something more natural.. :)
Thanks for the heads up on Grecian Formula, I will do some research on it, I have heard in the past that it has problems, not sure what they were though. Is the Herbatint Natural Hair Colour a dye? I was doing some reasearch on Just for men and found a $8.00 coupon, it's worth a stamp.
Thanks, Chris--a rebate is always good!!
Check out Herbatint's website. They also have a semi-permanent color called Vegitint which is supposed to work if you only have a little bit of gray.
If you want to try regular drug-store brands, in my experience Garnier and L'Oreal do the best job of covering gray; Revlon and Clairol don't cut it for me.
I have plenty of grey hair. I treat absolutley none of it.
They way I look at it is i've earned every single one
of those grey hairs and intend to keep them and enjoy them
at waist lenght. If soemone doesn't like it they can lump it.
I like to tell people I got those grey hairs fromt them
telling me to get a hair cut.
I recommend having it professionally done. I have mine touched up every 6 weeks. There is a world of difference between store bought haircolor and professional color.
Mine began going grey right at the time I began growing it. So I've colored it the entire time it's been growing long (it's now waist length).
Coloring can actually help the texture of greying hair. Plus it can help thicken it.
Good luck!