Nine Month Update!

I have now been on this hair journey for nine months. The last time I had color or high lights added to my locks was April 2015. I have saved hundreds of dollars and many hours sitting in the chair having chemicals put on my hair.

Last month was the first time I felt a little in a funk and considered calling and setting up an appointment for some highlights. It has passed and and I'm back on track. I told my friend/hair dresser that I want to make it to the one year mark and then we can talk again about going forward. I do love seeing the silver and am enjoying natural highlights.

I will start with photos from today and then show the progress since day one. I have gotten my hair cut two or three times now-each time a little shorter. I loved my long hair and will probably go back to it but I must say this short  style is so easy for me and I like the sassy feel of it.
I know that from the front you can not even tell sometimes that I have grey hair at all, I can , but when I post pictures to my friends that know I'm doing this they comment that it doesn't look grey. I guess that is a good thing although I'm excited for it to be all grey. If I hate it I can go back and add color but I don't think I will.



Today:

And...some from the past. Here is the last time I had color added...April 2015

Before the hair appointment

April 2015 after hair appointment (last time I had color put on my hair)

added for fun..my beautiful niece Annabelle


June 2015

July 2015

August 2015

September 2015

October 2015

November 2015

December 2015

37 weeks dye free, hair update!

I have not done an update on my hair since November , it's now been 37 weeks since I have colored my hair in my journey into going grey naturally.
I am 48 years old and decided almost 9 months ago that I would like to stop coloring my hair and let nature take over with the silver highlights. I am enjoying the journey. I have gotten my hair cut  twice since I started this and have another appointment this month. I   am keeping it about the same length now but go in for a trim and to keep my bangs under control. This is a very easy style for me, I just wash it and let it go. When I'm ready to  go out I use the straightening iron on it and I'm good to go. I'm not one to spend much time on  hair or make up..I think it takes me about 10 minutes to get out the door in the morning after I get dressed.

Anyway..here are todays photos.

29 Week Hair Update

Week 29 update on my no dye/no highlights

28 Weeks Dye Free , Hair Update!

The last time I had highlights and color put on my hair was April 22 2015 , this is my 28th week of going grey naturally. It's not as fast as I thougth it would be and I still have a lot of dark hair especially on bottom/back. I'm enjoying the natural high lights of silver peeking through.

Here are my weekly pictures.

27 Week Transition to Gray Hair

Here I am almost 7 months in with no hair dye, no high lights and one hair cut. In different lighting I see more gray than others...It will come. In the mean time I'm enjoying the glitter of the silver when it catches my eye :)

Hair Update! 26 weeks no hair color

Going into the 7th month of no hair dye/no highlights. Looking at my hair part all wonky again..one of these days I'll learn how to part my hair I guess...lol

Weekly Hair Update (week 22)

Pictures from this week:

I don't see the grey when I look in the mirror but when watching back some of my videos I'll notice the silver up on the top when I turn my head just right.   

I'm still loving this shorter cut. It's very easy to style . I wash it at night in the shower and just have to take a straight iron to it the next morning to have this look. No muss and fuss which fits me perfectly.  At this point I have not searched out special shampoo or hair products. I have been changing up my routine but mainly because I am doing some reviews for companies that sell on Amazon and I get the products free or deeply discounted for my reviews.  

Weekly Hair Update-My transition to grey hair

Week 21.

I have not noticed a huge change in the last few weeks. I am liking this shorter hair cut. It's so easy !
I made another appointment for November I think but don't plan on going any shorter..just keeping everything shaped up.

5 MONTHS IN Transition to Grey Hair

Hello!  This marks my five month mark in no hair color (dyes/high lights) I did finally get a hair cut last week -my first in five months other than my bangs being trimmed once last May.  I really like it and it's so much cooler and lighter in this hot hot summer we've been having in Florida.

I also uploaded a video on youtube about it. Not sure I'll do the hair updates on youtube since I'm on a weekly schedule here ..let me know what you prefer.

19 weeks dye free hair update

For those of you that have not been here before, I am letting my hair grey naturally and stopping all hair color (high lights and dyes) It's been 19 weeks since I last had my hair colored and almost as long since a cut (I did have bangs trimmed up in May 2015) Last week I finally made an appointment to get it trimmed up but no color much to my long time friend and hair dressers distress . My hair appointment got changed to tomorrow so  it's still the same length as last week. I've been going back and forth with myself on how much I'm going to get cut off tomorrow so it will be as much of a surprise for me as it is for you.

Todays pictures...

I wear it up often because it's so hot and humid here and I enjoy the breeze on my neck. 

18 Week Dye Free Hair update

Welcome to my journey as I leave behind hair dye and go grey naturally.   It's been 18 weeks since my last hair coloring process.(that sounds an awful lot like an AA intro)  My last hair cut was mid to late May 2015 when I had my bangs trimmed.  So four months on getting it cut-when I used to go every 5-7 weeks for color/cut.

I did break down and make an appointment to get my hair trimmed for this Friday. I had planned on just getting a few inches cut off. My thinking was to keep it healthy and trim off any dead ends , and to get rid of some of the color that is left. When I opened my facebook today there was one of those prompts for seeing what I was doing Aug. 26 in years past. It just so happens that last Aug. 26 I  had my hair done. I really liked the picture/cut of my hair so I think I'll use that as a guide when i go in Friday to how much I want cut off. I'm pretty surprised at how long my hair has grown in a year. One would think it would be harder to manage longer but for me it's much easier. I toss it in a pony or pull it back in clips and no more bad hair days..:)

Last August 26..

And today:

17 week hair update

Well it's now 17 weeks with no hair color/dye/highlights. I'm definitely seeing more gray lately.
Here are the pictures.

Weekly Hair Update-Going Natural

Well I am going on 16 weeks of not coloring my hair. It's a pretty slow process to see the results that I want to see.   I did try the grey/silver hair chalk the other night and have not washed my hair yet so  there may still be some of that in today but I could not really tell much of a difference at all.