How to Grow Out and Embrace Your Gray Hairs Successfully

It’s 2020, and now more than ever women are embracing their gray strands of hair and letting them grow out. Which is so beautiful! And if you’re someone who struggles a lot with gray hair and has been thinking about growing it out, now is a better time than ever. But if you are feeling resistant due to confidence reasons, I will be your hype girl. I’ll give you a bunch of tips on how to rock it and feel great about it! Also FYI I may only be twenty years old, but I literally wanted to dye my hair gray for the longest time. If that doesn’t make you totally want to pull off the gray hair look, I don’t know what else will. Also why should men be the only ones referred to as silver foxes? Women are stunning with silver hair too!

1. STOP dying your hair- I mean obviously you should stop dying your hair in order to let the gray come through. But did you know that hair dye has been linked to cancer?! Yeah, I know it’s crazy, but it’s true. According to Everyday Health “Permanent dyes contain a cocktail of chemicals (the darker the hair dye, the higher the concentration that may cause cancer)”. Plus hair dye can cause your scalp to have lots of itchiness, sores, redness, and burning while applying the dye or afterwards. Which obviously is not good for your scalp! If you color your hair a lot you can use a color remover, such as Color Oops from Target to get the color out of your hair and to start fresh.

2. Transitioning to Gray Hair with Lowlights- Okay I am not saying you should dye your hair even more. But sometimes, even if you take out the color in your hair with the product we mentioned above, the process of your gray hair growing back out will not be even. Lowlights will help soften the transition to gray hair. They are low maintenance, and the trick is to add lowlights that would pair well with your natural hair color.

3. You can also try Balayage- This is another way to help your hair transition easily. Ask your hairstylist which color would look best with your natural hair so that you can make the transition to gray hair look more even and natural.

4. Transitioning from Blonde to Gray- If you’re blonde and you decide to grow out your naturally gray hair color, you’re pretty much in luck, as you don’t have to make any special effort to achieve this look. Just embrace your hair growing gray and soften the demarcation line between gray roots and the dyed blonde hair lengths.

5. Transitioning Colored Hair to Gray- The darker the color of the dye, the more difficult it will be to transition to natural gray. Talk to your stylist about a temporary solution on how to get to gray from dyed hair. However, if you want to keep your strands healthy, just get the regrowth lines softened and wait till your hair grows out and becomes fully gray.

6. Coconut Oil- The thing is with all the years of dying and bleaching your hair, it’s had quite some damage done. And regardless of if the damage is still visible or not, it’s always good to try out overnight natural hair treatments to help replenish your hair. Especially with the recent decision to go all natural. Coconut oil is a great hair treatment that you can leave in your hair for several hours, or even all night. But make sure to put a cap over your hair or a towel over your pillow if you do decide to sleep in it. Just heat up 1-2 tbsp of coconut oil for about 30 seconds in the microwave. Once it’s melted take the coconut oil and rub it all over your hair and roots. It will look greasy but it’s just the coconut oil seeping into your hair. Leave it in for several hours or overnight and there you go! You are on your way to completely healthy and natural hair!

Finally, you can always just say f*ck it and grow your gray hair out no matter what it will look like. Just remember, you look beautiful! And you do not have to spend money at a hair salon just to embrace the grays, in fact, retire from the hair salon sis. It’s time.

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Here’s a list of celebs who are embracing their gray strands, especially since quarantine started. I feel like one of the best ways to feel more confident when embracing a new look is to look at people who have already done it and are big in the public eye. If they can embrace it, you can too!

Will Smith

Kelly Ripa

Jack Black

Tracee Ellis Ross

Jessica Biel

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Gwyneth Paltrow

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Christie Brinkley

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Paulina Poriskova

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