Hey awesome ones, Heather here and I have got to tell you that one of the best
things I have ever done is grow out my naturally gray or you know silver hair.
And whoa was it ever a transition and a little bit of work but I'm going to
share that with you in just a few seconds.
So are you thinking of ditching the color and all those treks to the
hairdresser or you have you got that big skunk line going on and just thinking
how the heck am I going to transition from coloring my hair all the time to
going naturally gray and silver. Well those are the questions I had - so let's
start talking about the process. So if you take a look at this picture this was
me having this natural white silver streak in my hair and I know a lot of
women kind of get this natural thing kind of growing out. So I would kind of
put my hair back and kind of play around with looking at the silver and say yeah
you know works with my hair color I guess I'll go for it.
The other thing you can do is just take a trek maybe to a wig place and try on
some wigs with silver or gray and kind of get a feel on how you're looking. So I
made the decision I'm gonna do this but how and I looked up different ideas one
of them was chopped off all your hair hey if you know me that was going to
happen another one was they just let the Silver Streak come through and go for it.
No that wasn't...that wasn't something I was going to do either.
Another idea and a lot of the younger generation is doing this is just dye your
hair all silver and just sort of you know touch up the little places where
it's coming in. But that didn't appeal to me. It didn't sound like that was really
healthy for my scalp or my my hair so what would it...oh you could also wear a
wig I guess for several months as it's coming through but my idea was I've got to
go to my hairdressers. I'm not going to try this at home and my suggestion would
be that's probably one of the best ideas. You could do all the rest of them if you
want but let me talk a little bit about that and then I'll get into a few other
things. So here I am and about to get this shagginess...this all
treated and cut and everything else. I'm a few minutes early. It's always good
to be early and in a few minutes let's see what's happening. If you have really dark
like black hair or red hair and you've just got the little skunk coming through
here how it is a process. You're not even going to probably like it the first time
it happens because what they have to do is highlights and lowlights as well. So
you're gonna have the highlights and you're gonna have the low-lights. So let's
say you've got red hair you may have bleached white and you may have the red
but the bleached white because they have to put a toner on it might end up
looking a little bit yellow. So you might go this isn't what I want but eventually
as you go back to the colorist and you have it done more and more it starts to
fade out and right now I don't need a toner on my hair anymore. I'm seeing
my colorist maybe once every six months and the beautiful silver is really being
captured here but I'm still putting a little bit of blonde in here and
matchy-matchy. Now I'm not even finished transitioning
yet. I'm gonna talk a little bit about this dark hair that's coming in
underneath but we'll talk about that in a minute but really to get to a
comfortable place where I wasn't seeing the hairdresser at all except for maybe
under here was about two years and it wasn't one of those things where it's
like whoa you know two years of what's happening to your hair it was so gradual
that really nobody noticed it. So again I'm just going to show you a little...a
few snippets here on what happened when I went to the hairdresser's and remember
I already had like a bleached blonde kind of hair you might have dark hair
and with the process I was getting highlights and really bleached hair and
toner and for you they might have to do some bleaching but they also might have
to do what they call low lights not lowlifes...
it's and you know your hairdresser knows what that is all about so let's take a
look at me getting some of this process done here. My lovely and wonderful
colorist she really knows what she's doing and I would suggest that you find
one that really knows what they're doing and for me it was a matter of bleaching
you know as highlights and then she would actually put a little bit of
blonde color as My low lights and she did have to put a toner over top of
everything as well. So you know by the time I was finished I really still
looked a little bit blonde but it was okay because as we all know the toner
kind of washes out and you know it was after a while it would be my natural
color coming through my natural in my case silver coming through and then
less and less I would have to get for me the low lights which were a few blonde
streaks going in there. So I do have a more in depth video on this I'm going to
put the link up there for you where it kind of gets in depth with the whole
thing but let's move on to some other steps. So it's important to note that not
all of us have the same kind of perfect grow-in. Now mine was nowhere near perfect
but you might have to go a little longer you know. I was seeing the colorist maybe
every three months and you might have to see yours every two months or maybe it
takes you three years but I gotta tell you having my silver locks my hair is so
natural. So silky it even holds the curls better these days but I just absolutely
love it and my maintenance now is really about once a year well maybe once every
eight months and I particularly have not seen the hairdresser in about eight
months right now to show you what's going on here with the underside is my
home...my home? My hair! Where did that come from?
With my hair and as you...I'm just going to look in the mirror here because I want you to
see that there is the undergrowth of my hair now it's really really dark and
that will not enable me to put my hair up really in a ponytail or you know
having my hair up in a bun there was a time when that was really really popular
but right now it's just too too dark. So I'm going to see her probably after
this video because I really need it done. And she's going to put basically some
bleach under here and she's going to tone it and putting my hair up kind of
gives me headaches anyway so I don't do it that often but it's just going to be
that self-confidence that I'll have knowing that it's been done. So let's
just kind of hide that again. The other thing I had to adapt to is really
keeping the silkiness of my hair in check and I love these products this I
think you pronounce it Davines and it doesn't really lather. I don't think
there's a lot of sulfates and that sort of thing in this and the color that I
use for my hair is Nou Nou and it has chestnut milk in it but I was told not
to just use this. I also use the conditioner as well. I was also told that
every four washings I should use...I don't even know what this one is called...but oh
it's called Silver and what it is...I don't know if you can see this. I'm gonna
put a little bit on my hand here. Look at that it's purple and what it does is it
just kind of brings the sheen out in the silver and the gray hair. It's a fabulous
product and I'm not, I'm not being sponsored by these guys. I really believe
in this and about every fourth washing I'm using that and what I'm gonna do for
you is I'm going to put the links underneath into the description on some
of the products that I'm talking about here. Also some of the anti frizz
products that I use as well. Some of you've been...you know...you ask a lot in the
comments, hey what mascara are you wearing and hey
what kind of lipstick are you wearing. So I'm also going to put Heather's Makeup
now in the description and also in the blog for you. So yeah you can use some of
those enjoy. So another thing that I do to keep my hair silky now you might
think this is really really weird put in the comments if you do this as well cuz
I'd like to know. I only wash my hair now about once a week. What? Yep only about
once a week and I'm finding with my natural silky hair that it's it's it's
great. I mean yeah I've got to wash my hair but you know I don't need to do it
every day. I don't need to do it every other day. Let me know how you feel about
that but what I find is I really can maintain the silkiness of the hair now
and it's absolutely wonderful and also let me know in the comments if you've
done this too and you're growing out your hair because I really think it's a
thing now. I think you know being natural and especially if you're over 50 and
just saying oh the heck with it I'm tired of looking at my skunk line you
know we're gonna see the hairdresser's every six weeks how ridiculous is that.
And it's a lot of money too. We've got to make the jump for it make that leap in
and just go for it. I think I well I'm really sure that most of you are going
to find it one of the best things you've done and you saving money your hair is
looking better and healthier and you're being authentically you. So let me know
also in the comments how you feel about this you know are you ready for the
transition, did I kind of talk you into it? Now are you really kind of maybe
thinking about getting off the fence and again everybody who's done this let's
just sort of make this a bit of a forum in the comments where people can kind of
find out things and if you've got darker hair maybe just give us a few ideas and
if you've got more questions for me yeah just put them in the comments I try to
get to every single comment. Lots of nights I'm
staying up for three or four hours because I just love you my awesome ones.
And the other thing is that there's somebody waiting over here and he's got
the most incredible natural color hair and that's a little Hurricane and he's
here to remind me to talk about the future videos. So hey have you been over
to our new second channel called Awesome Over 50 Inspiration. I would really love
it if you could check it out. We actually specifically went to...I mean you might be
going, yeah right, but we specifically went to London and Paris and filmed our trip
there for you. We've been to Niagara Falls, we've got some great food tips and
Bill has a video on...he's amazing at making coffee and kind of making your
home into a bit of a coffee shop and we're also including lattes and
cappuccinos and oh my so many. So really take a look at that and enjoy it and I'm
going to be looking at my closet. I'm going to start digging out some clothes
from my closet and you've probably got very similar clothes and let's see if I
can get some things together for the upcoming season. So really excited about
sharing that with you. And of course the fashion and beauty is on this channel
Youtube.com/AwesomeOver50 and you know I wanted to do this video on
transitioning into my gray or silver hair. I'm on Instagram every single day
and I also do stories and that's just search Awesome Over 50 and I have had an
overwhelming response from people talking about transitioning from gray to
silver hair and and that's why I said jeez I gotta put this on YouTube as well
because a lot of people are thinking about it. I mean the younger generation
they're going out and they're getting their hair dyed to look like our natural
color. So you know it's it's important that we think about it. So yeah I would
just say that in closing get rid of that skunk line you know
keep your hair kinda natural and silky and keep it awesome.