In searching the internet for photos of glamour girls with anything from a sprinkling of gray to the whole nine yards - there are four results. They are Emmy Lou Harris, Meryl Streep, Nichelle Nichols, and Dame Helen Mirren.
We don't have sexy, gray-haired women running around because they're all dying their hair.
How are we supposed to view graying or gray-haired women as sexy if the only visual we have is 90 year old Aunt Martha? The media could be blamed for this, but, women who touch grays up every week only let them know you don't really want to see any sexy gray-haired women. Not in the mirror and not in the media.
As we age, we want to retain our youth. A lot of us have used eye-cream since our early 20's - we're all about retaining our looks as long as possible.
Health and Beauty Facts About Gray Hair
Gray hair represents the loss of pigmentation. It's wiry because it's sheathed in more cuticle than most hair. How good you look with gray hair is determined by its texture vis-à-vis the rest of your hair; plus how it goes with the tone of your skin and eyes.
Graying hair is the start of a natural lightening process to which you should adapt the colors of your clothes and makeup.
Here are some beauty instructions for your gray hair:
1. Leave-in conditioners and moisturizers will soften coarseness.
2. Consider having a professional add "low lights" streaking of your original color to give shading to gray areas.
3. Observe the pattern of graying. Some heads gray all over, some acquire streaks, some gray grows in to frame the face. Have your stylist shape and celebrate it.
4. If you color your hair, pick a tone one or two shades lighter than your original color. 5. Going too light or too dark will make you look older.
6. To test the look, try a semi-permanent solution that lasts 6-12 shampoos before going for lasting color.
There are health and beauty things you can do to naturally boost your grays:
1. Give yourself a regular scalp massage. This will keep your circulation healthy and supply your roots with the nourishment they need.
2. Use a shampoo and conditioner specially formulated to keep your grays in line. Vitamins and supplements will keep them from getting too wiry, dry, and haggard. These can also help keep your hair from going bronze.
3. Increase your protein intake. Not a lot, just enough to feed your hair. It's not a miracle cure, but it helps.
Makeup Tips for Gray Hair
Gray hair can change the way you look. If you've decided to go gray, or you already have gray hair, you need to look at what you're doing with makeup. And, if you don't wear makeup, now may be a good time to start.
Gray hair will definitely make your complexion look more pale and could give you a washed-out look. You need more colorful makeup to boost your skin tones and define your features. Here's six simple makeup tips for a great new look with your gray hair.
1. Don't just stick with the same old makeup base - check-out your current color in the daylight with a mirror and move up a shade if it's too pale.
2. Brown Eyes - use a gray or brown palette of eyeshadows.
3. Blue Eyes - use a trio palette of gray, slate, and navy.
4. Blush is a must - Use rose tones and pastels. Cream or cream-powder is best to avoid a powdery look.
5. For lips - use rose, red, apricot, or peach but NOT brown shades. Brown looks too muddy and dull with your gray hair.
6. Give definition to your brows - keep them shaped and add a boost of subtle color with a brow shaper or brow pencil. If you're using a pencil, apply it against the direction of the hair growth for a more natural look. Then gently smooth back I place with brow brush or your finger.
In summary, try these new tips at home and experiment until you find the look that works. With the right makeup, you and your gray hair will look fabulous!
Sam has just noticed a strand of gray hair at his temple and is a bit worried. Is it the time to declare his innings or he still has the power and the will to go for more? Gray hair has been an interrogatory issue for quite long. These days’ people have their own choice when it comes to graying of hair. They can leave it as such and celebrate the natural look or dye them to conceal their graying and sport their ever young looks. To prevent gray hair is also one of the options which people are trying out but gray hair treatment is yet to deliver confirmed results. Health, heredity and environmental factors are considered to be the factors involved in contributing to the graying of your hair but the main cause is attributed to aging. It starts when our body stops producing melanin pigment which is responsible for giving color to the hair. Each strand of your hair grows out of a follicle that has cells filled with melanin, called melanocytes. Melanocytes pass melanin to adjoining cells called keratinocytes, which produce keratin - the chief component of hair. When keratinocytes undergo their scheduled death, they retain melanin. The pigment visible in hair and in the skin lies in these dead keratinocyte bodies. With loss of keratinocytes, the pigment of hair is gone. Also, with a period of time the amount of melanin in the keratinocytes decreases. Gray hair is simply hair without melanin.
The declining presence of melanin also supposed to be contributing to lack of moisture in gray or white hair. As a result, hair becomes lighter in color and its texture gets dryer and coarser. In actual, hair never turns gray. It is the pigment melanin which is absent in them which gives them the look. Every day, hairs fall out and are replaced by new ones. At any given time, about 85% to 90% of hairs are actively growing, while the rest are in a resting state. A strand grows for two to four years and then enters into a resting state for about two to four months. After the resting phase, it falls out and is replaced by a new hair. On an average, most people lose about 50 to 100 strands of head hair daily.
There is currently no scientific way to detect as to when a particular cell or group of cells will stop producing melanin. In the initiation stages of graying, the melanocytes are still present but inactive. Later on, they decrease in number. This natural process of graying can begin as early as our teens. In most people, however, graying first becomes noticeable in their late 30s. Some researchers have shown that gender plays a role in graying. The average male starts to gray around age 30, while women typically began to notice lighter strands around age 35. Genetics are also a contributing factor. In some families, many members develop white hair in their 20s. So is the way you live your life – you are likely to get a gray head much faster if you are prone to get tense. In fact, a tense lifestyle is known to cause hair loss and even baldness in extreme cases.
However, biological fact of life varies greatly from person to person, which lead dermatologists and geneticists to conclude that age is not the most accurate indicator of when gray hair will appear.
Today there are numerous products in the market which promise to prevent gray hair. If you are not comfortable with your shade of gray, opt for dying of hair or bear your natural look that defines your maturity and wisdom. However, try natural treatments before you turn to chemicals.
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