dying grey hairs without chemicals?

[gotacola]

I've had a few grey hairs for a while but having been getting more lately. I'm still young and am sick of heaps of different people embarrassing me by making a big deal about my grey hairs all the time. I guess its time to look into hair dye options although I hate having to fuss over my appearance and I hate the idea of applying chemicals to my

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[myskat]

it is tangential but this is what I face as well. i work in a very professional environment and I have long mixed grey and brown hair. I really like it for the most part, the contrast IMHO is often what others pay to get with hilights and streaks. That said it IS gray and when I look around corporate america I am the anomally. ( Wow that says so much about our society and how we do not acccepr ourselves) I end up dying some of it, but leaving a defiant streak in the front, letting it grow out and then doing the same at intervals ( the streak makes it WAY less noticeable when I decide not to dye for long periods, it looks more like natural progression. That said I hate fighting the demon that is social perception. It makes me furious to find my career beholden to someone's perception of my appearance.

Wow! I think I ranted a bit! Good luck to the OP with findng a narural source of color. I have tried henna, and I like Henna btw but it was too messy and time consuming for my current lifestyle. I use box color about every 5 months or so on average