When the grey hairs start coming, most people try to curb it with hair dye. It’s not easy realizing you’re getting old. But grey hair can still look good, and more and more people are growing wise to this. So check out these women who decided that grey might actually be their color.
Took her over 20 years, but she realized she looked better with it.
After finding grey hairs as early as her 20’s, this lady spent the next 20 years covering it up with dye. She tired of the ordeal eventually and decided to let the greys come, for maybe they’d look good on her. She was right, and it even landed her a gig as a stock photo model!
“My hair color choice does not define my youth”
She spoke the truth when she said that, and she has the results to back up her words. Not only does the grey compliment her curls super well, but her skin does too.
When the hair matches the season.
Marina here chose a great time to show off her white hair, just as the winter season dropped. The way her locks match the white snow is killer, and goes to show that white hair matches a lot of things.
Black + white streaks = stunning
When only some of your hair is starting to turn grey, that’s when people bust out the dye. But this lady decided that the white streaks compliment her hair color well – with one commenter even likening her to Storm from X-Men!
It’s not store-bought color, it’s just her hair.
Lhin from Thailand struggled to come to terms with having grey hair for a while. Then one day, she finally embraced it despite some unwanted comments from neighbors. She’s gotten more positive ones since then, though. With some even asking where she got her hair done!
The grey has been with her almost all her life.
She’s been greying since she was 13. No doubt a little embarrassing to have if you were still in school. As a grown-up, though, she proves it looks great. This photo’s got grace and beauty written all over it.
Bullied as a teen, but glowing now as a mom.
Beth began her grey journey at 14, when silver and white hairs began to appear in junior high age. After putting up with the ridicule and strange looks in her teens, she embraced the look, became a mom at 29, and now looks stunning with the full head of white hair.
Matching!
Stephanie and her mom here prove that grey and youthful can still go together. Take a look at how gorgeous her mom looks with the grey streaks?
Grey looks good on roots too!
So far, this list has been filled with grey hairs in full or just the streaks. Greyness can be limited to just the roots too, and it looks just as cool in this woman’s case.
Beautiful hair, and beautiful words from the person who owns it.
This is Mia, and she makes no secret of her grey hair anymore. Her words to live by are “Think of all that living you get to do when you stop masking your true self.”
Grey for 2 years and never looking back.
Not only does the grey hair look good, her smile and eyes are radiant as ever too. Proves that grey streaks can look gorgeous even on a young lady.
Classy lady!
Beth also lived a life of shame and insecurity about her early greying hairs, but made the better choice when she decided to wear them with pride. Now she’s a classy, gorgeous, grey-haired lass.
Grey goes with a lot of colors.
User @psilly on Instagram is rocking her own greying hairs too, and she dyed the ends of it purple and blue. I never knew how sick that looked till now.
Silver hair with a valid statement to make.
Jemima and her husband both sport a head of grey, but only her husband got a more positive response from people. He was called a “grey fox” by people, while grey-haired ladies like Jemima are simply seen as “old”, so she wears her greys with pride now too in hopes of changing that.
Growing older is a blessing, not a curse.
“And since it’s a privilege to grow older, we should wear our silver as a crown of honor.” Maria here decided to drop a little wake-up message for folks here, and she’s absolutely right.
Killer shades to match a killer hair color
Short hair with some grey and a pair of fashionable sunglasses? That’s all you need to make your hair pop.
The wise woman look.
“Wise woman look” come from her own words, after Rachel here stopped fighting the grey and just accepted them at 47.
Stunning them with silver.
Take one look at this stunning lady and tell me that the grey hairs make her any less gorgeous. No, right? It’s time to let go of the stigma not just against grey-haired women, but women aging too. Ain’t nothing wrong with aging!
4 years later and she’s proud of her grey hairs.
Learning to love your grey hair can take a while. Accepting a ne look isn’t an overnight thing, but it does feel liberating when you finally do it.
She was greying as early as 11.
It’s not easy getting grey hairs when you’re still in 3rd grade. This lady from Guatemala decided to rock them, and she shows how good they look on her at 30.
A proud silver sister.
The day you stop dying it to hide it is the day you’re free. Andrea here made that decision 10 years ago, and look how happy she is now!
With eyes like that, your hair might not be the first thing people notice.
With eyes like that, it’s not hard to make grey hair look good. 45-year-old Leslie here has some sick silver streaks, and some stunning eyes too.
Rogue, is that you?
Selisha here is in her 20’s and already has some silver streaks showing through. After 8 years of hiding it with dye, she decided it’d be pretty cool to naturally look like Rogue from X-Men. And she wasn’t wrong.
Laughing in the face of cancer, and at ageism.
Tinuke C. here has quite the story to tell, having beaten cancer in addition to developing her own silver roots in her hair. And you know what? She’s happy as can be. She beat cancer, after all. She’s not after anyone’s approval anymore.
Look at that genuine happiness on her face.
It’s amazing how much happier you are when you stop caring about beauty standards and ageist comments. And even with that said, this woman here has quite the beautiful smile and charming face too!
Silver with a smile.
It took 2.5 years for this woman, but she did warm up to her white locks eventually. She looks so radiant now too, especially with that smile!
It’s in the genes.
Liz here came from a family that already had a history of early greying hair. As she approached forty, she decided a pixie cut might compliment her grey hair. She was right!
People think she got her hair-colored!
With a head of grey hair in her mid-30s, people often ask her where she got her hair colored. If only they knew that she’s one of many ladies rocking early greys!
Silver star at 33.
Bets also has a history of early greying hair in her family, which led to some interesting conversations with her grandmother. After needing to convince her that no, she isn’t dying her hair, this is just what it looks like, she now proudly dons the platinum/silver streaks wherever she goes.
Greys so nice that even her hairdresser said she should show them.
Carline her wasn’t a proud silver sister for a while, even getting dreadlocks to hide her greys. But after an eye-opening compliment from a hair-dresser, she decided grey wasn’t so bad after all.
Another one for the club.
30-year-old Mercedes here is from Mexico, and she’s got silver streaks alongside her typical black hair. It’s a great look for her, and makes her seem so approachable and wise.
Silver has its quirks.
Thanks to this lady’s testimony, we’ve learned one other thing about having white hairs: They’re a lot harder to find when they start falling from your head.
Thank goodness X-Men ladies made grey hair look cool.
A couple of the women on this list have already brought up Rogue and Storm as their inspiration for rocking the grey hairs. This woman here joins the club, even going by “Ororo Monroe” on her Instagram (Storm’s real name).
Another one rocking the grey curls.
Eve here isn’t just a silver sister, she’s also a curlyhead. She makes them work together superbly, and that scarf seals the look even more.
A little grey never hurt anyone.
Eve here has dyed her hair for over 20 years. At 47, she decided not to hid her real self anymore and proudly displayed her silver strands for everyone to see – and she feels nothing but freedom and happiness now.
Greys tell a story!
Growing older isn’t anything to be ashamed of. It means you’ve seen and experienced a lot, and the greys in your hair are there to show for it.
Stunning with silver at 44.
Renee is another of the dozens of women who took a while to accept her greys, and now she looks great in them while also having the brightest of smiles!
Life’s a lot simpler when you don’t care about what folks think too much.
Everything can boil down to how much you care what people think about you, and some people make the right choice to not care at all.
Another survivor rocking the silver.
Kaija here also beat cancer, and decided that grey hairs were the least of her worries when she had so much to be thankful for. Let’s be honest, she’s gorgeous with or without the greys!
Grey is the way.
To close things up, let’s end it on a note from this lady here. There’s a recurring theme here: that the stigma against grey-haired women should end. Ageism and sexism are to blame for this, and these ladies all did a fantastic job showcasing why things need to change.
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