Is gray hair the next in-vogue hair color? According to Hanna Hanra of the Times UK, “growing numbers of women are no longer eschewing the very thought of gray, but embracing a gunmetal mane with pride–and attitude.” And most of them are under thirty. Including 19-year-old British socialite, and Bob Geldof’s daughter, Pixie Geldof, pictured above with makeup maven Pat McGrath. Pixie showed off her silvery gray hair at the British Fashion Awards last week.
Pixie told Times UK, “I’d been blonde for three years and fancied a change. I wasn’t thinking about the color, I just put on a bunch of toner one day, and there it was. It was rad. I didn’t want to do another colour like pink, grey just seemed obvious.”
So, a hair coloring accident started this trend? Sounds like it!
Hanra says, “This is a youth movement, from east London’s cool set to models on the Paris catwalks, women are throwing the tonsorial rulebook out of the window and going with the gray.”
What do you guys think? Would you ever dye your hair gray? And if you started to go gray, would you let the color come through or would you cover it up?
P.S. Here is another post I wrote about gray hair last spring that kind of relates, if you’re interested.
I love grey hair on women who let there go naturally. On 19 year old…i don’t like so much.
Gidget: I totally agree!
Nonononnonno!!
maybe its a statement of not trying to hide your old soul…
but aesthetically its not pleasing!
Kat, while I like natural gray hair on some people, dying it gray when you’re like 25 is weird looking to me.
I don’t dye my hair at all. I have jet black hair and love it, even though there’s a bunch of white hairs here and there. Both my grandmothers have pure white hair and I think it looks cool. I kinda look forward to having all that white hair. 🙂
Jessica, I think gray hair can be so gorgeous, so good for you. And lucky you! 🙂
Natural gray hair can be lovely, if properly styled and cared for. Peaches up there looks ridiculous. Sorry, this isn’t a trend, it’s just dumb.
Chris, yeah. It’s a weird trend and I have yet to see it here in L.A. (Gray hair on young people I mean!) Maybe it will stay overseas. 😉
I agree, it looks ridiculous on that 19 year old girl! So unflattering…I agree some people look great with their naturally gray hair (Paula Dean, anyone?) But I think it always makes you look older…so I will probably be dying my hair for quite a while once it goes gray!
Meghan, I totally agree. Some people look amazing with gray hair. I posted about that once, I should link it in that post, but here is the link:
http://www.haironthebrain.com/2009/03/tuesday-hair-inspiration-2/