How I Transitioned My Hair To Gray At Home 

I'm tired of coloring, bleaching, toner and all the rest. I'm going through the transition the natural way and will get a haircut at the six month mark. I'm 53 and have been coloring since my early 20's. I'm done with it all and just looking forward to the natural process of turning gray. For all the ladies out there going through the process I wish you luck and much happiness with your new silver look!!

I honestly love and respect every single woman who takes this road!! And they ALL look beautiful and more sincere. I went from long dark to pixie, I've been cutting it for the past 2 months, getting rid of the fake color, and I finally have my natural color!! To my surprise it is "salt and pepper". Love it. Now, I am letting it grow. Even though I look so different because of the drastic road I chose (that's just me), I don't feel like a different person but more true to myself, authentic. I stopped interfering with my natural aging process (I am 45) and it is definitely a freeing process of authenticity and acceptance. Also a detox of decades of color products. Loving every minute of it!

I had the last of my colour cut out a few weeks ago so now almost sure silver, and naturally quite curly. This morning a complete stranger stopped me in the supermarket to tell me how amazing my hair looks!! Just shows you it's worth it.

Hi, thank you for sharing your story. I am 75 and when I turned 70, that was my time to stop with coloring. As I did not have the patience to go through the growing out stage, I had my hairdresser bleach my hair as light as possible. At that time I had about an inch of gray showing and she took the bleach just up to that mark. Then I took a product called Manic Panic, Blue Steel, which is a toner and brushed it all,over. Then left on for 45 minutes. Then washed it out with cold water and behold.....my whole head was a silver gray with my own natural gray. As my hair grew out everything just blended together! Isn’t is funny that when we make a decision to change something, a job, a location etc....the first sentence that runs through our mind is “why didn’t I do this sooner!” The best of everything as you go forward on your journey!

3 years ago I let my roots grow out and then shaved it to 8mm and I've never looked back. It's now down to my bra strap and I have beautiful white streaks throughout my hair. I feel so free not coloring my hair anymore.

I transitioned 6 years ago, at age 44. Best decision ever!

You’re gonna LOVE the color and the freedom! I’m 16 months in. The first 6 months were difficult (second guessing, catching the new color in various reflections) but by month 9 I loved the color and was SO ready to cut off the dye. I cut a little too short, and now I’m growing it out. I still have about 1 1/2 inches of dye left to cut off. I’ve set my expectations for 2 years to have the length I want AND all the dye cut off. 😄

OMG I'm so happy you mentioned authenticity!!! I've also stopped coloring it for the same reason. I feel it's so fake... plus, the amount of plastic and harsh chemicals one uses... thank you for sharing your experience

That part about feeling impatient to see what it will look like. That's how I feel as well. The uncomfortable part is the in between.

You’re so brave. It’s looks great. I would leave it alone other than using the purple shampoo. It looks healthy and very unique. Just let it be now and don’t look for trouble.

Covid causing salons to close really helped me to finally let my natural hair come in and now 3 mos in am too am excited to see what it looks like. I already feel much more free and the feeling I have of not having to color every two weeks is great. I am toying with the idea of lighting my dyed hair a couple of shade then cutting it to my shoulders to lessen the demarcation line but who knows. Keep going, I am sure it will look great.

You look amazing and authentic. What an inspiration you are !

I love it half way through, after 2 bleaches and color! You did a great job! The color is more suited for your skin coloring. You are very brave and it is gorgeous!

It looks amazing on you! I'm thinking of doing just this. Thanks for the tips & encouragement ☺️

Your hair looks GORGEOUS!!! I'm incredibly hopeful, thank you for all the great tips & advice. So happy I found your channel. 🙌

This video helped me so much with my indecision and insecurity about my hair. I'm about to color mine silver to stop the constant battle against the gray. I'm 40 years old and started getting gray at 35. This is something I'm excited about as I feel exasperated with the current look and lack of enthusiasm I have with it now. However, I still am a bit anxious and also hoping I can do this successfully. Going to a salon is a horrifying experience for me and if I mess it up I'll probably just be stuck with it until I decide something else. Yes what a pain in the a** I am lol. Anyway I just wanted to thank you for sharing your experience. Wish me luck! ❤️🤞

Stunning! Thanks for being part of the Silver Revolution!!

I love how your hair is coming in!

Ohhh love it! Now I'm inspired to go gray. I just turned 67 and have been using dyes for way too long.

Everything you said in your video about colouring your hair at this stage in your life is exactly how I’m feeling. Thank you for your inspiration!!!! It looks awesome and I’m on the same journey. Mine is curly so I’m going to let it grow out.

Girl your hair is GORGEOUS! U are really patient. The end color is fabulous.

Absolutely stunning ❤️. I love how you gave all directions. I also have dark curly auburn hair so I am going your way. The transformation is just gorgeous! Even if you have different colors in there, who cares! 👍

I love it! I've been waiting for my gray to come in; it's taking forever. I get a few grays and then the roots turn brown again, and it's been going back and forth for 15 years. I discovered that my grays are curly, like corkscrew curly, and I was so excited. Now I have a few of those around my face, which I love, but I feel so impatient.

I'm 2 minutes into this video and all I can think is that I am her!! Tired of coloring my hair every 4 weeks (I'm 54). I need a change! I've been doing the curly girl method too and I'm getting bored with it. I think I'll mix it up a bit next time I visit my stylist. This year's been crappy and I want to do something fun and different just for me! Thank you for this video! You've given me the boost I needed to just go for it and accept and embrace the grace change. Age is just a number anyway!

Don't give up. I'm where you are now. I think I'm going to love it. Good luck girl.

You look beautiful, I am 65 and thinking of doing it myself. Thank you for sharing

If the Got2b is a semi or demi, it lays on the surface of the cuticle and doesn't enter deeply in. You can reapply it if you need to. I think taking time and working on the porosity of the hair before reapplying will help the hair receive color in a more uniform way. I agree..hanging with it to see what transpires is wise. Also, so glad you mentioned purple...the bluish ones can give green undertones when trying to cancel yellow. You helped folks miss an unwanted surprise. Different color conditioners have a different load of color in them..experimenting can turn up a favorite....if you cap with a plastic cap to trap body heat you can get a little extra conditioning and even a little more out of the color too. The Olaplex is a great addition and there are other treatments in the line you can use too. Also, coconut oil ( I buy at Grocery Outlet in the natural foods aisle)and a cap would smell fab and be a nice treat for scalp and hair. And skin too 😃

So authentic and beautiful! Wow. Love you gray!! Thanks for sharing and for your honesty and integrity. XO

OH WOW! your hair is GORGEOUS!! This is my hair goal.

Thank you so much for this video showing the way to go back to natural (grey) hair colour and stop colouring every 3 weeks

I don’t have gray hair yet but I kinda want to dye my hair gray just for the hell of it!:) I love this and I LOVE your authenticity!

It took me 2 years to get rid of my color. I got SO many compliments on it when I was transitioning. I love the freedom I have now with my OWN, God-given color. It was a journey, for sure. I have Curly hair, too.

I’ve let my hair go natural quite a few years ago, I absolutely love my grey hair! I will never dye it again, it’s empowering! Your hair turned out beautiful, you rock the grey and if I were you.....I’d let it be it’s true color, it suits you!

You look amazing with grey hair! So much brighter in your eyes! Your natural silver hair is gonna be a real head turner:). Go you!

Your transition to authenticity is lovely. I love it. I've been want to do it myself, but no one wants 2 mess with my hair so ive been chopping it off little by little during this pandemic

It looks great!! U look better with the grey hair. At least it’s going to be easier to blend with what u achieved here. This helped me a lot with figuring out how I can transition to my natural grays.

Love your hair. I’m trying to just let mine grow out but you’ve given me hope!

Oh thank you for your very clear and honest account. I'm a couple of months in. I also feel compelled to let my grey hair shine. It feels cleaner in some way. Just gotta find my path to my natural colour. I'm excited and can't wait.

I absolutely love it!! Looks fantastic on you!

I’m so with you! Coloring my hair just doesn’t feel like me anymore. Thank you 🙏

Same here. 52 and not feeling authentic with coloring my hair. You said it so well. I had to jump to the end to peek: you look FABULOUS.

WOW! Great job and curls!

The pandemic has really been a paradigm shift for me. I've wanted to go silver for a while and watched Deb Arndt's RU-vid channel a year ago and her method is to color only your part and when the gray underneath is long enough, change your part. March 9 was the last time my hair was colored at the salon and I've only been dying my part and some of the crown. Underneath the silver is coming in strong. I'm not skillful enough to do what you did. I really like the way your hair looks and it will blend nicely. Good luck and thanks.

It looks so good gray! Thanks for this video ❤

Oh my god... this is so gorgeous!!!!!!🌬❄️

So glad I found this. I have similar hair color to yours at the start of your transition. Thanks for sharing!

Absolutely gorgeous!

Thank you! My hair is where yours was. I am thinking of going natural also. This has helped. Your hair looks great.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!! I’m ready too!!

Looks fantastic! I went 4 months, but caved and colored again.So sorry I did. Thanks for showing your process.

wow. thank you. feeling very much the same - when you said, for some reason, although you love your wild hair, it doesn't feel authentic anymore- you made me feel connected . thanks for sharing.

Covid pushed me to start the process. Four months in.

I love Your hair, not just the color but those curls , gorgeous hair. You got it now. You are the Hair Warrior!! 💜😎

I love it! Your curls and the color are gorgeous!

I'm so glad I came across this video. You have the same curly hair as me. I'm 62 now and I hate coloring. My curls are so sad! I miss them. You've inspired me.. thank you❤

Hair looks fantabulous!!!

Hi Alissa, I attended one of your raw food teacher certs in Maine about 15 years ago. Fun to see you pop up on youtube and especially because at 55 I'm in the same boat with the coloring. Getting really tired of every 3 weeks doing roots, am seriously thinking of going all the way like you did. Thanks for the inspiration!

Oh my gosh it’s going to be SO pretty!! You’ll see. And you’ll get so many compliments:)

Bombshell. What an inspiring journey. Thank you Gorgeous!

This turned out amazing on you! Looks great! Thanks for sharing this it gives me courage when the tome comes to transition

I completely agree with what you are saying and I feel like it is a new journey in my life and I am happy not to be putting chemicals in my hair anymore. I am going to go to my hairdresser on Friday to see if she can help me transition better!

AUTHENTICITY!

Congrats on going natural! It is definitely a process.. I grew my hair hair at 37. And I love it! That was 6 years ago.

looks GORGEOUS!!!!!

We have/had similar hair and what you are saying really resonates! People knew me for my hair but it didn't feel authentic to me anymore! I just wanted to be me, whatever that me is. I have been growing mine out since last summer and first I bleached it, so now it's half bleached blonde-ish and half grey. And I chopped a bunch off. Not a great look, but a work in progress. I like your method better! :-) Thanks for the video!

I'm BLOWN AWAY by the SUPERB job you did. Girl you went from a 5 to a 10 loks wise with the great hair job. Its magnificient on you. I watxhed about 20 videos of people transitioning to grey hair and looked at thousands of grey hair images so I was expecting VERY little from your video but I am in AWE😮😂❤ BEST HAIR TEANSITION I've ever seen. You look absolutely beautiful 😍 ❤ Amazing job.

You go girl, you did great!!! My mom also chopped her hair and she's embracing the silver hair. Perfect timing during the quarantine 😅

I love it. Just leave it like this and let it grow naturally. Trim the ends every know and then.

You're beautiful no matter what! I was thinking of using henna to go red; but your video is making me re-think that. (I've never colored and have started seeing lots of gray). I've been going through the same thing about questioning authenticity vs. not, so I had to laugh when you said the word AUTHENTIC. Same exact thing I've been thinking for months now. All of God's blessings on you. Sending you big hugs and warm wishes! ~Kim Richerson

Good for you! I had the same feeling of not being authentic and went gray a year and a half ago. Wish I had done it sooner.

Same here. When we get a certain age in life, we do change, and it's natural. You are attractive, and have beautiful hair and a sweet spirit... Blessings !!!

wow your hair is beautiful i've spent a lot of money on getting my hair lighter i was affraid to use bleach myself i'm happy with the lady that colored my hair but i just had to tell you you did good

Your hair looks great!

It’s good to finally feel the natural texture of your hair. I grew mine out about ten years ago, never looked back. I dyed it for about thirty odd years.

You're gonna ROCK IT! I'm a year and a half in...really, try to stick with it!

Your hair looks amazing ❤️ the colour thanks for sharing X

This was the video Ive been looking for! I am at the same point, as you, at the beginning of the video. I am not fooling myself, nor anyone else, anymore. Time to get authentic. Thank you!

It’s just like a blonde whose going gray. I think you did a great job!!👍

Hair looks beautiful

Congrats! I have been "natural" (grey) for 8 years, and the freedom is pretty awesome! I have tried every blue/purple shampoo and condition their is.... I finally found Aveda Blue Malvada shampoo once a week (mixed with a little bit of my regular shampoo as this shampoo is a little too dry for my dry hair) and my regular conditioner. It takes out the brassy right away to ALL hair colors and makes my hair look so bright and shiny. Good luck on your transition, you will love it....

Everyone says dont do box dye, but sometimes maybe some of us just gotta or want to. I think u made the best choice to not re-bleach and it looks great for at home!

You have a stunning curl pattern 👍👍 the grey looks amazing on you.

Your hair looks great and makes your skin look glowing and pretty much more flattering :)

I am so glad you didn't do a 3rd round of bleach! Love your voluminous curls! I am 39 and about to start the transition...I started noticing grays when I was 19. I'm about a month in, but this is a normal stage for me. I heard about Sarah Harris from British Vogue and was really motivated by her pictures and then started delving into the gray hair community. I think I may do something similar to you. I want long hair and am not looking forward to the demarcation line!

All women it seems look better in their natural gray! 🎉 startingmy journey now at 56!❤. Love your channel

Aww Alissa I love your transition wow, I agree with everything you said. I'm 51 and after many years of blonde highlights & Toners I made up my mind in 6mths ago to lets go grey. I did a DIY Cider Vinegar & Water (50/50) left on for 40mins and it did strip any toner and brassiness out of my hair so my hair looks like a bob version of yours at the end of this video. I love your hair and it makes you look much younger than the red hair. Just found you today, It's 2.30am in England but finding your video has cheered me up. New Subscriber for sure. Julie xx

You look gorgeous and younger with the silver locks; you are rockin' it! Olaplex is a life saver when using bleach. Hair actually feels like its had a deep conditioning treatment - no breakage or "straw hair". Keep being authentic because it suits you and it's so freeing.

As a whole it looks great, I’m In The process of doing the same. My hair was a dark brown color to began with. Your hair looks great my turned a brassy red brown and my roots are super light an bright .

Girl you look fantastic! Thanks for inspiring other women around the world :-)

I was growing out my natural hair (grays) then became really bored, started cutting it and eventually decided to try going red. Now I just had a touch up on the red but I miss my natural grey hair. I am willing to do a full chop in a few weeks and start over, but I may try going gray at home. I don’t think I want to chop it because it will be really short. Which I have done that in the past but it takes so long to grow it out. Thank you for sharing your transition. Your hair looks gorgeous. I know this is a few years later. Your video is still helpful.

Alissa I think you look amazing as a silver vixen!! It actually makes you look YOUNGER! So pretty.

Dang 😻 love it! I wanna try but don’t want to burn up my hair nor do I want any upkeep lol yours is gorgeous.

HOLY MOLY, YOU LOOK GORGEOUS!!!!

OMGOSH!!!! Half into your video, and. LOVE the color transition!!! Will continue to watch❤️

The last time I dyed my hair I think it was round the 15th of February! I have about 1 1/2 to 2 inches of growth and and it’s a nice salt and pepper color which I really like and I’ve decide to just leave it! Going to do this Gray hair thing! For now naturally but when I can I’ll check with my stylist to get her input, but definitely not going to dye it anymore! And it doesn’t look that bad since I was dyeing my hair blonde for the last 4 years so that helps! Good luck to Alissa and everyone going on the Gray Journey!

I can so relate to having your wild wavy hair being a big part of your identity. I too have had big hair my whole life (was always told it was curly, but now realize it’s wavy with spirals and ringlets) and I’ve dyed it a dark red auburn for probably the last 10 years. At 53 years of age, I’ve decided it’s time to show off the authentic (grey) wavy mane that’s hiding under the dye. Wish me luck lol

It came out PRETTY ❣️

Your hair looks gorgeous! I’m so jealous 😍

First off, you're gorgeous! And thanks for the video. I bought Overtone in black thinking it would help me make the transition without damaging my hair. However, it turned my gray roots pinkish/purplish. Since I'm only 4 months in, I'm getting away with quick fixes like L'oreal root spray cause at least it washes out. I've also put in a couple of gray tape in extensions to get people used to seeing me with that color. I actually really like those.

Looks beautiful!