It's now been nearly 3 months since I last had my hair done (I posted above saying I'd chopped to a bob and had loads of lowlights). At first it was awful. I felt like people were looking at me thinking 'can't she afford to get her hair coloured, that grey is really obvious!' but now, it has come through so much it looks kind of streaked and much more natural.

As I used to have it coloured every 3 weeks, I can't say I haven't been tempted to run to my hairdresser crying, but I'm glad I've persevered.

My 70 year old Mum has blonde highlights put in her grey hair. She had naturally brown hair previously. She has a jaw length bob and it looks really nice. The highlights blend with the grey. She has it done around once a month to blend the roots. To the person who says she doesn't think she can spend that sort of money on herself why not? I've been getting grey roots but have coloured my hair dark brown and have grown it past my shoulders. I previously tried a hair dye remover and it left my hair a funny reddish colour that looked horrible especially as the first two inches of my hair were a different colour. Never again. I think if I decide to go grey I'll save up for a colourist to blend in the grey with highlights like my Mum. I can't afford once a month though at the moment so I'll continue using a £5 block colour in my former natural colour brown and use lots of conditioning and shine products. I colour it as soon as the roots come through with temporary colour then when it's grown out a bit use permanent colour to keep it as healthy as possible.

The great thing about having the highlights to blend the grey is that you can leave colouring sessions much longer than you can when you do a darker block colour. I was doing my colour every 3-4 weeks with a home colour, but with the blonde highlights masking the grey better, I only have to have my colour every 6-8 weeks, and even then that's only because my hair grows really quickly.

I usually go to one of those walk in hairdressers, but I have taken advantage of an offer from a hairdresser from me, 4 treatments (2 cut & blowdry, 1 highlights sesh and a mani/pedi) for £40 for in the new year so am going to use this to my greying advantage


This is good, I wont mind forking out for a good hairdresser every 2 months, I might balk at 4 weeks though.

Still not coloured my hair yet, its getting visible now!

Out of interest, is there a way of telling whether someone will go 'salt and pepper' or whether they will have white hair?

I was born with bright ginger hair and then it went very light blonde as a child then got darker and darker as I got older. Its now a sort of caramel with reddy shiny bits.

I have a lot of grey around my temples, which to my untrained eye look white. I also think these are the hairs that used to be quite red when I lifted up my hair at the front.

I would hate to have that dark grey hair colour and would like to go (if Ive got to go anything) a nice Helen Mirren white.

My plan of attack for when there is more grey is to dye my hair a lighter blonde as I always think that dark roots look ok but white roots look like theres bald patches. I dont think Im at the state to need this yet though. My greys only show when theres a gust of wind as I wear my hair down at the sides of my face.