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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[thedorkygirl]

I take a supplement called PABA which makes the skin in my head produce pigment to combat the grays that started showing up when I was 23. A year later, I still take it, though I don't see any grays. My grandmother took it for 20 years, and didn't get any grays till 15 years after she stopped taking it.

Now she IS Cherokee, so that might have something to do with it. She's almost 70, and has just streaks now. Though I've bought her a bottle of PABA, she already takes a lot of pills - the reason why I think she started graying is her illness - and she is too meh to take them. :)

[sturmkit]

i love Lush's henna. i used caca rouge and caca maroon. i had great results with it, except for the last time i used it - well over a year and a half ago - when the color didn't seem to hold very well. that is the only time it did that. if and when i went back to coloring my hair with henna, that's who i would go to.
as for quality, i havent used anything else, so i'm not an accurate person for comparisons. but i love most of their stuff so that's how i got in to it.
but every hairdresser who saw my hair when it was hennaed was amazed at the color and condition of my hair. every single one of them was stunned when i told them it was henna. no one believed it. i think i even made a few converts.

[hairlessgerbil]

I have tried the rosemary/sage tea thing and to be perfectly honest, I didn't use it for that long because I had issues remembering to put it in each morning, but it did work surprisingly well. I'm getting ready to start doing it again because I'm just not ready to start getting messy with henna/dye etc.

[rainy_blog]

I did the sage/rosemary thing a few years ago and it worked fabulously. I don't have the recipe anymore though, because I tossed it out when I realised that I don't give a fuck what other people think of my hair or what colour it is.

I plan on being an old lady with long white hair and rocking it!

[rainy_blog]

Found a link with lots of great info:

http://www.greenecoservices.com/homemade-hair-dyes/

[atalanta0jess]

Word.

[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

[termofart]

I'm getting permanent grey coverage with Lush rouge.

I've used the brun on other folks and also gotten permanent grey coverage.

Can't figure out why some folks don't get a permanent take, though.

I use one block do to my whole head and then maybe a third of one to keep up with the roots once in a while.

[zenturbo]

Some of it depends on the hair type. I have seen some grey hair asborb colour like a sponge and others that have to be 'pre-softened' so the pigment can penetrate the shaft.

I've used the Lush henna and use about 2/3 of a block. I add sandalwood, lavendar oil, and red wine instead of water. I also let it sit for about a day before use and I wear a heating cap for 4 hours, then let it cool down for two. It comes out looking great and it smells wonderful.