[Closed] So...anyone colour his hair?

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this is me ^

My best mate did. Swore blind he hadn't. Kept on denying it. It was so bleeding obvious we all laughed. Muchly.

Embrace the Silver Fox look, DD. It's one of the joys of being a chap. Grey looks good!

(I'm going rather "blonde" at the moment. Ahem)

Hair, I remember that.

Don't go the Paul McCartney route, go grey with pride, it's waaay more distinguished.

It always looks naff and so obvious especially when I point and laugh. Don't forget your fake tan and Botox.

Hair, I remember that.

*hugs balding brother*

go grey with pride

I don't mind being a bit grey...just not totes grey.

Don't forget your fake tan and Botox.

As I said, youthful looks mean I don't need either of those. Although, I understand starting colouring my hair might be the thin end of a wedge.

wear a hat

Grey hair doesn't make you look old, btw.

Grey hair on a wrinkly old man looks old, of course.

I've known young lads with grey hair, they just look like young lads. I also worked with a mid 20s guy totally bald old man style, with a little around the back. He looked and acted like a bald mid 20s man.

I love watching a public mid life crisis.

Pics when you get it done please.

Pics when you get it done please.

Would that be in the poses you usually ask me for? 🙂

I've been feeling self-conscious about looking like an "old" dad

what makes people look old is them grimly trying to cling on to their youth.

Its you're irish roots (pun) that are showing - I've got friends there who started going grey when they were 18

and as for the question "So...anyone colour his hair?" whats the point of anyone wearing a disguise and then telling you they are wearing a disguise? The problem with dye, wigs, botox and the rest is its a lie, but you can't stop lying because then you admit the lie.

I love watching a pubic mid life crisis.

Pics when you get it done please.

Eek!

I find that grey hair on a man is much more attractive than looking too high maintenance. I'd leave well alone!

oh god...

How short is your hair?

Grey hair doesn't make you look old, btw.

I've grecian 2000'd my 'tache, it worked fine.

It was blonde though (NOT ginger or grey!).

If I was going grey though I think it's best embraced - certainly on older folk it's often easy to spot.

How short is your hair?

Also, which hair we talking? Plan on matching cuffs and collars?

what makes people look old is them grimly trying to cling on to their youth.

nah it's the giving up and acceptance that suddenly jeans with a shirt and blazer looks ok and that loafers are comfortable.

at that point seek a vet with a shotgun. there is no cure and beige will be next.

I'm thinking of going from this kind of grey:

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to this:
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careful, that could be painful LOL

I would happily turn for either Anderson Cooper (handy as he is already gay), or Mr Clooney.

So I reckon either is just fine.

Here's how it's done!

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Don't, both of those are cool

woman do it i supose,but avoid if i were you,seems to always look shite on men,embrace the silver gift.

Dyed hair - on a bloke?!?!??

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Seriously, It looks pathetic.
Just don't.

You know how you feel when you see a bloke with an obvious wig - it's funny, but secretly you feel a bit disgusted and sad for humanity?
Well that's what people will think when they see your STUPID, SAD, PATHETIC, NEEDY, RIDICULOUS AND VAIN dyed hair. 🙂

People will laugh. Not in a good way.

No one cares about grey hair on a bloke, but dying your hair sends out a message that you are not to be trusted and are sadder than a kitten's funeral.

No one takes a bloke with dyed hair seriously on any level.
You might as well just wear make up and get it over with. 😀

embrace the silver gift

*s****s*

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Stop this silliness.

Silvio Berlusconi's barber to the forum please

Hair - I wish.

Leave well alone.

There should be a warning with any kind of hair dye for Men.

" You will look like a Dick "

Embrace the naturalness of HuManity.

shoulders back, breath, step forward, smile.

My skincare routine has always been good

What would you recommend for that rugged, experienced yet youthful look then?

What would you recommend for that rugged, experienced yet youthful look then?

L'Oreal, and sometimes a tinted moisturiser in the Autumn/Winter if I feel I'm looking a little washed out.

Rusty Spanner - Member
Dyed hair...

....get it over with.

So that's a "No" from you I reckon.

there is no cure and beige will be next

I was resplendent in something that could only be described 'bright beige' today

I always think I still have brown hair till I see a photo of myself, quite scary how grey I am considering I'm only 41....

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NB I'm the one on the right..... 😉

No one takes a bloke with dyed hair seriously on any level.
You might as well just wear make up and get it over with

not true, I took Nick Fiend very seriously as ASF were ace.

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I did back in the 80s when I was 20-something. grey on a goth doesn't look good 😉
this is me c1988, go on, have a laugh:
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when I got to about 32 I couldn't be bothered any more.

this is me now (well, strictly speaking, 2009):
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If you start dying it now, your mates will laugh. muchly 😉
and the other parents at junior's school will s**** and whisper behind your back.

Hair?

I went bald in my 30's and shaved it off. If I grew what bit I'd got, I'd be as grey as footflaps ^^ Neither bothers me, or seems to draw attention from anyone, whatsoever.

I think it sounds like a cracking idea. I'd wager that a lot of the posters on this thread are either dyers already, but afraid to admit it, or simply too insecure to take the plunge themselves. I've been dying my hair grey since I was a student and it's given me an air of gravitas that women really can't resist and men respect. Well worth it.

A slippery slope indeed.

Where will it end?

Dyed eyebrows and pubes?

Seriously MTFU. Age with grace and dignity as those qualities are timeless.

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the prosecution rests

I'd wager that a lot of the posters on this thread are either dyers already, but afraid to admit it, or simply too insecure to take the plunge themselves. I've been dying my hair grey since I was a student and it's given me an air of gravitas that women really can't resist and men respect. Well worth it.

Having been grey/greying since late 20's I think the only way to get away with it is if you take action immediately it becomes a little noticeable. One it's mostly grey you have passed the point where ridicule is inevitable.

It's never bothered me but I tried 'colouring' for a few months in my early 30's at GF's suggestion and being blonde'ish got away with it until an experimental change in dye necessitated a month of hat wearing (think Russ Abbott) and rather gave the game away.

I would strongly advise getting it done professionally (and subtlely) if you go down that route but bear in mind, to keep it that way it's going to be lots of ££'s for years!

It will be skinny jeans next, I'd put money on it 😯

I get the piss taken about my dyed hair even though it isn’t.

Tazzy & John, yes dying hair as a teenager is completely acceptable as a means of upsetting and alienating parents, providing that other, more socially acceptable methods such as drugs, motorcycles, abandonment of education etc have already failed.

But in middle age?
Might as well start looking at Harleys and having affairs with your daughter's friends.
'Cos that's what will happen. 😀

mogrim - Member
What would you recommend for that rugged, experienced yet youthful look then?

Cement should be good for that. For the post apocalyptic burnt look 🙂

In that photo up there ^^^^^, Footflaps is the one on the left so not really qualified to comment on greyness 🙂

Every time I trim my beard I notice a bit more grey. I'm quite looking forward to the full Sean Connery look.
I used to live next door to someone with a combover. I couldn't look at him without laughing.
It would be the same if someone I knew had grey hair and turned up one day with it not grey.

If it's just a couple of grey hairs you could pluck them.

You could compromise and just do the eyebrows dd?

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From one grey head to another

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😉

I did, years ago, using gestetner copy paper. green, red and blue iirc.
incredibly cool until the drugs wore off.

I've been feeling self-conscious about looking like an "old" dad

Dunno when exactly, but I came to a startling realisation a few years ago and it was like a huge weight was lifted:

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT YOU.

I always think I still have brown hair till I see a photo of myself

I stopped colouring my hair when I started to go grey (used to always be dicking around with it) as I didn't want people to think I was hiding something.

Well thanks to my fantastic auto-immune system, I've had grey/white patches of hair since I was 10 and a comb over/curtain thing to cover a bald patch(Alopecia areata) the shape of Africa on the back of my head(age 33) now thankfully gone.
So going grey camoflagues the patches I have had for 30 years and I no longer get asked daily if I've been painting!

thought about it as i am starting to grey at 42 - not even Clooney levels [ or looks mind]

I then realised I still had all my hair and it was just a slippery slope tbh that ends with some of the pics above or a comb over and a wig.

We are getting old - deal with it
FWIW being a dad suddenly made me feel a lot older[finally an actual proper grown up with real responsibilities] than i did the weeks before- you get over it - trust me when you do the school run you wont be the oldest dad or the oldest looking - sometimes I am not sure if the grandparents are dropping them off or the parents - folks may think that of me though 😳

I agree with the other ladies that have posted - go grey gracefully and don't dye it!

trust me when you do the school run you wont be the oldest dad or the oldest looking - sometimes I am not sure if the grandparents are dropping them off or the parents

This is true.

Being 30 and mostly grey, I am one of the greyest dads at school but in our area I'm probably the youngest dad in my daughters year, year 1 shes 5.

Don't worry about it.

Well, I'm going to buck the trend with my opinion!

So ... if you're genuinely not happy with your hair then get it coloured. I would suggest that a hairdresser would have the necessary expertise as opposed to a barber. To avoid the 'flat' colour look, several differing shades using foils can appear more natural. Would possibly need doing every 6-8 weeks so you need to factor in the cost.

All family on my mother's side went grey at an early age and, in fact, I only remember my mother as having grey hair when growing up.

I got my first grey hairs aged 18 and, believe me, I couldn't get it coloured quick enough! This may or may not have had something to do with boys. 🙂

Hope the family are well dd. 🙂

Alternatively just don't look in the mirror if you're unhappy with your hair colour!

Let it go grey, grow it long and start cosplaying as Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.

How very vain.

Yes, I admit its rather self-conscious.

How very vain.

For men or women?

Let it go grey, grow it long and start cosplaying as Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.

I think you just lost most of STW, MrsT.

Certainly lost me. 😕

Off with your head! if that's a bit messy wear one of those things old ladies wear after they've had their hair done.

Vain? For Men of course. We expect our Ladies to keep up the maintenance and hair colouring is as normal as breathing for girlies 🙂
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Did that sound [i]slightly[/i] Victorian?

I just created this image especially for this thread and then realised that with grey hair, the troll does indeed look older! Arghhhh!

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very funny thread, cheered my lunch break up no end, fab.

I think you have yer answer, if you're a youth it might be ok to dye your hair but otherwise you will be mocked and scorned by all. My mid life crisis is to grow my hair long and return to the metal days of my youth. I am blessed and continue to have thick hair. Although it is very grey in places and grey hair has a different texture. I'm aiming for somewhere between the brad pitt channel look and a dodgy metal biker. NOT the Terry Nutkin look! I dont really care if it works or not... its a hobby, an interest. 😉

Have you thought of ramming your face with chips and burgers, becoming morbidly obese, and neglecting your personal hygiene until you develop some horrific skin conditions, and a fetid, noxious aroma wafts from your person? Then clad all this (lets call it the New Bravissimo!) in some garish polyester, quilted leisurewear.

That way you can look in the mirror and weep gently yourself without even noticing your hair?

Result!!!

You'd be better off with a really nice haircut than a dye job. Looking at Clooney and Cooper, I'd say Clooney is older anyway (I mean he is as it happens, but he looks older too)