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

Transition to Grey-7 Month Hair Update

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.

Weekly Hair Update (23 weeks without coloring my hair)

Good Morning~! My new normal is getting up at 4:45 a.m. for some reason (I think the reason is named Dexter-my miniature dachshund-who has started getting me up at that hour)

I did a quick video update today as well which I will post at the bottom of this blog. 

No major changes, still only salt and pepper looking at the top and when i pull the sides back. 

The link to the video update is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMidRNzdAC0

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:

Hair Chalk

I tried the hair chalk tonight. I am sure that I did not spend enough time or do it the proper way because I have the attention span of a three year old.  I did get the chalk wet and rubbed it on my hair and then straightened my hair to "set" the color. I can tell some places but it's not what I thought it would be like. I may try more later.
Here are a few other pictures taken with my cell phone (above two were taken with webcam)

15 Weeks Dye Free (Hair Update)

Hello! This marks the 15 week mark of no hair color.   Vic made the comment this week that my hair is more interesting now.

I did order the silver hair chalk this week , it should be here mid August. I thought with that I could draw streaks all the way thru so it doesn't show up as just silver roots. We shall see, and i will share. I'd like to share the wig pictures but it's just too awful lol ...

Taken yesterday, work bathroom really shows the silver coming in! 

Roots

I could go on and on with the titles of movies and plays that could work for this  hair blog..Hair, Roots, 50 Shades of Grey, ha! 

Weekly hair update. I was wrong last week when I said that it was week 10 without hair color..today is actually week 10.  I did a side by side to show the difference in the roots so far. I wear my  hair pulled back in a head band or up with a hair clip a lot of the time so for me it's not super noticeable -but then again I'm a person that doesn't look at or notice the back of my hair either so maybe everyone else is noticing and just not mentioning my grey roots. 

Vic and I went to church last Sunday. The church has a big screen up front that shows the words to the songs and at one point a video take from the back of the church pointed at the congregation, I was shocked when I noticed myself up on the big screen and how long my hair is from the back! 

More pictures from the last week: