Monday's Question of the Day - February 1, 2016

Happy February!  Is it too early to count down to Spring!?  

What is your natural hair color?  Do you dye your hair?

I'm naturally a darker golden brown.  In the sun you can see a nice reddish cast to my hair; but it always looks dark in pictures.  I don't think the color photographs well.  I am getting some sparkly strands mixed in here too; but I'm not ready to start dying my hair to hide those.  That sounds too much like work for me.  I'm just not into hair maintenance like that.  

I don't dye my hair but I should. I must look much older than my 65 years. Whenever I went to visit my mother at the nursing home everyone thought my mother was my sister and my neighbor thought my sister was my daughter.

My natural color is a dark ash brown with auburn highlights.

Yes, I color my hair - ususally a dark ash brown, but the auburn always comes through; especially in the direct sun. 

(and yes, I did pay quite a high price for those little silver highlights at my temples!)

My natural colour is dark brown (with the odd grey strand coming through). I go through phases of dying it - the last colour was red, and I'm debating going purple soon. I've never gone for a natural shade with hair dye, and I don't think I'd bother if it was just to hide the grey - it doesn't bother me at all. I just have a low boredom threshold at times :lol3:

As far as I can remember my natural colour is mid-brown but I very rarely see that. I've had it all kinds of colours in the past. Red, purple, pink, orange, turquoise and dark blue.

At the moment it's a dark red colour with stripes of pink and orange.

My hair is brown with the red undertones. I also have quite a few gray hairs mixed in mostly in the back. But the gray doesn't bother me. My mom found my first gray hair when I was eight. I will be 39 in April. 

My natural color is dishwater blonde. Right now, it needs work, as it's dishwater and bleach blonde with a tinge of blue at the tips. I will eventually get a bleach kit and hit the tips with After Midnight Blue.

Norachan said:

 
As far as I can remember my natural colour is mid-brown but I very rarely see that. I've had it all kinds of colours in the past. Red, purple, pink, orange, turquoise and dark blue.

At the moment it's a dark red colour with stripes of pink and orange.

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Oh wow, I bet that is pretty!! (One time, my niece colored her hair a burgundy shade, and OMGosh, it was just gorgeous!

My natural color is a mousy brown with white growing in at the roots. It hasn't been that color since I was 17 years old; I've been auburn all my life and I love my red hair. With my coloring, the red goes well and I've always had a lot of compliments about my hair.

A couple years ago, my stylist talked me into going quite a bit lighter, because of the white roots. The idea was to get it so light, that the white wouldn't be so obvious and, eventually, I could just let it grow out. You know, I hated being blondish. I just hated it. I think I lasted about a year and then I told her I couldn't do it anymore. When I went back to being a redhead, so many people told me that they didn't like the blonde hair anymore than I did, that it made me look older and washed out.

I'm 61 and I'll continue to color my hair until I don't want to do it anymore. But for right now, I'm good with coloring. I don't do it myself (I used to and made a terrible mess every time) and I consider it money well spent. I go in every 4-5 weeks.

Medium brown with some silver, as I like to call my gray hairs.

Mine is dyed red, more on the purple/maroon side rather than orange. Except I haven't done my hair since before Lucky died. I'm seriously overdue.

And my natural color is a lovely blend of light brown and dark grey.

My natural hair color is brown but with a lot of red in it. I color my hair dark brown. I started getting gray when I was 12 years old.

My hair is. . .dark :lol3:. Some people say it's black but I dont think so. It's a very dark brown with a reddish tint in the light. I've never ever dyed it. Not even a little .

I was born a really pretty blonde; darkened as I got older.. always kept it blonde, until about 11 years ago. I decided to go red. It took a while, but now I have a great strawberry blonde straight short hair. Looks really nice. I get a lot of compliments on it. With all the highlights, it looks as if it is natural.

If not colored, it is a mousey dark blonde with grey....and lots of grey. Really washes out my coloring. I have pale skin.

Hair is my one luxury..

You could say, my hair color matches Artie!

My natural color is light brown and yes, I color it. Light brown. It's been many other colors over the years. Many shades of auburn included. My grandma was 94 when she passed and she colored hers until the very end. I will follow her example. Unfortunately, many decades ago, society (men) decided that gray hair makes men look distinguished and makes women look old. 

If you ask me, they were just looking for an excuse to not have to dye theirs. All men do not look good with gray hair despite what they like to tell themselves. 

My other grandma used to dye her hair white. When hers grew in, it was the stray dark hair mixed with the white and not the other way around. When we were kids, we always said it looked like a big cotton ball.    She always had really great skin and her complexion made her look younger than her years so her hair didn't make her look "old". 

I'm naturally golden blonde - was even somewhat tow headed when younger.   It's become more of a dark blonde over the years but not brunette.

I've been doing highlights since I'm in my 20's.  Started with that kind that had you pull hairs through a cap with holes in it - with like a knitting needle lol.  Did them myself with various over the counter products too.

Since my late 30's or so I've only had them done via foils, professionally.  I don't have much gray yet (or so my hair dresser tells me) so I can get away with doing it only 3-4 times a year if I do a full head. It's pricey where I am so until I see really bad roots I wait.

Right now it is totally natural...that is to say. mouse-butt brown with a tinge of red to it.  Not quite auburn, but not not auburn either.  Strands of silver running all through it.  I'd love to color it, but I don't want to color over the silver.  I like the silver.  It's the mouse-butt brown that I find a little boring.  For years a kept it a very dark red.  May do that again one day soon.

Mamanyt1953 said:

 
Right now it is totally natural...that is to say. mouse-butt brown with a tinge of red to it.  Not quite auburn, but not not auburn either.  Strands of silver running all through it.  I'd love to color it, but I don't want to color over the silver.  I like the silver.  It's the mouse-butt brown that I find a little boring.  For years a kept it a very dark red.  May do that again one day soon.

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This describes me to a T! 

I am a man who has thinning hair, and what I do have left is a brunette-grayish mix. As a boy I had reddish-brown hair. Those days are clearly over. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

Dennis47 said:

 
I am a man who has thinning hair, and what I do have left is a brunette-grayish mix. As a boy I had reddish-brown hair. Those days are clearly over. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

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Haven't you ever heard that bald men are virile?  Time to shave it all off! 

Margd said:

 
Haven't you ever heard that bald men are virile?  Time to shave it all off! 

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Heard a LOT of things over the years. Nah, gonna keep it. It's not like Leonardo DiCaprio or George Clooney have anything to worry about. I'm not that impressive anyway...