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I keep thinking that some of us have an ideal we want to look like of our gender identity and wonder how many of us dye our hair. What color do you dye it?

Yup, blonde over my original white. I get the roots done every four or five weeks. I'd jump in front of a steamroller to save my colour tech!  :laugh:

Hugs, Devlyn

Yes, and I'll never stop, there is entirely too much grey! Lol

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I still don't have any gray, really, but I have very fine hair.  Adding color adds a little bit of volume too, in my experience (correct me, Julie, if I am imagining this).

For years I did foils every 12 weeks or so, always asking to push the lowlights and to move toward auburn/copper.  Every time, I ended up some shade of blond, which gets more blond over time because the lows wash out but the highs are basically bleached that way.  Last cut (just before the profile pic), I said I want auburn/copper and had a pic ready.  She nailed it.  It's fading now, but still nice. 

Any decent salon should save the "recipes" from your previous colors.  This is even better than having a picture in terms of reproducibility. 

Quote from: rmaddy on January 26, 2018, 06:35:09 PM
I still don't have any gray, really, but I have very fine hair.  Adding color adds a little bit of volume too, in my experience (correct me, Julie, if I am imagining this).

For years I did foils every 12 weeks or so, always asking to push the lowlights and to move toward auburn/copper.  Every time, I ended up some shade of blond, which gets more blond over time because the lows wash out but the highs are basically bleached that way.  Last cut (just before the profile pic), I said I want auburn/copper and had a pic ready.  She nailed it.  It's fading now, but still nice. 

Any decent salon should save the "recipes" from your previous colors.  This is even better than having a picture in terms of reproducibility.

I like your hair in the picture.

Every 2 to 3 months, I color it. My natural color has too much dark blonde with white.

Quote from: KarlMars on January 26, 2018, 06:39:56 PM
I like your hair in the picture.

Thank you...it's a crop from a larger group photo, and maybe not the best way to show my hair, but it was a very enjoyable event, and I'm fond of it.  If you get all forensic about it, you can catch just a glimpse of my wife's hair to my right.

Red...you can't have enough red  :)

Quote from: Mendi on January 26, 2018, 09:58:00 PM
Red...you can't have enough red  [emoji4]

Second! Love my natural ginger hair now even though I took abuse for it as a guy all growing up.


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Not a whole lot of gray, but there is some naturally. My natural hair color is a light brown with natural red, but I love the red so much I go red. I have it done every 5 weeks or so. I was doing red henna for many many years, but it started to darken my hair too much due to buildup so I switched to conventional hair color and now the henna is gone and I could lighten a little. It's a little lighter now that in my profile picture.

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I do.

I darken it.

It's a strange situation. I was a blond kid. However I hated everything about myself and in a symbolic gesture of flipping the bird to childhood, as soon as I graduated sixth form we had to move away to another part of the country, and I cut my hair and dyed it black. I was sick of everything at the time and wanted to see the opposite of what I saw in the mirror. I think even my clueless parents understood how I didn't have a great time as a child and wanted to leave it behind.

Anyway, it turned out I was fond of black. All through my university years it was black or sometimes red, but not once did I grow it out. I got pretty good at dyeing my own hair. Nobody in my adult life had seen my natural hair color, including me. I hadn't seen it for 18 years.

Last year I got curious and decided to grow it out. It wasn't blond any more but brown. It weirded everyone out. It even weirded me out at little as the last time I had seen it, it was far from brown, and I couldn't even describe the sort of brown it was. The closest I could come to describing it would be "rat brown", lol. For some reason my eyebrows are darker naturally and fit having black hair just as much as they fit the darker brown.

People wouldn't let it lie and kept saying how weird it was, how they didn't like it, and tbh neither did I. So I got a bunch more dye for the year and went back to black. Permanent dye is probably bad for hair but I've never had any ill effect and it always makes the hair feel and look better. So what the hell, I see no reason to stop. 

Hypothyroid issues a couple of years ago cleared up but they permanently affected a small stripe of hair on my left temple which is now pure white. People think I'm dyeing only to hide it. Lots of Just for Men jokes  ::)

No, I don't dye my hair at all and I don't quite understand what needlessly smearing colour into my hair would have to do with my transition or my physical goals anyway. Changing my hair colour would not be attaining a manlier physique/appearance. It wouldn't change anything other than having an unnatural hair colour that was probably unfitting for my phenotype afterwards while I now have a great natural hair colour that fits my type and that every hairdresser compliments me for and that many envy me for.

Yes usually every 4 to 6 weeks I am slacking a little bit I am at 7 weeks now

I was going to, but as it gets growing longer and longer i get more and more comments of how nice it looks. I didn't think I'd like gray hair. But it's growing on me. :icon_invision:

Quote from: DawnOday on January 29, 2018, 10:31:11 PM
I was going to, but as it gets growing longer and longer i get more and more comments of how nice it looks. I didn't think I'd like gray hair. But it's growing on me. :icon_invision:

You have a nice gray.  You can fight it or rock it, but I think the latter usually works out better.

I might once I start graying and/or I decide to grow out my facial hair. Sections of my facial hair are a pretty different color from my head hair, so I can see that bugging me to the point of dying one or the other. For now I don't really find venturing beyond my boring natural color to be worth the hassle.

The white hairs don't bother me much but the gray bugs me out so I go for the champagne blond because it's the closest to my original

Yep, too much grey! My hair originally was medium brown, but I decided on Auburn when the time came to dye it. Since my then my friend switched me to a professional coloring, which ended up being somewhat redder (which is fine with me!). She does my roots every 3 or 4 weeks, and every couple months does the whole head.

No never have, but have always thought about it, i dont think i will while in boy mode, never felt right too

Quote from: Christy Lee on February 12, 2018, 05:34:23 PM
No never have, but have always thought about it, i dont think i will while in boy mode, never felt right too

It didn't for me either even though I always really wanted to. What difference would it make with an inch of hair lol

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I get mine colored every two or three months, mostly to cover the gray from the temple area. I enjoy what the highlights do for my look. The  base color is very close to my natural color.

Quote from: Allison S on February 12, 2018, 06:17:10 PM
It didn't for me either even though I always really wanted to. What difference would it make with an inch of hair lol

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Ive always had long thickish hair thats just something i was blessed with, i use to grow it out to like an afro style at school, i think i was trying to grow it out like a girl, but still it just never felt right to die and it i like having black hair, but ive thought about going either red or blonde in the past but as i said its never felt right as a boy

I haven't progressed enough to pass as a woman yet but I have been experimenting with temporary colors.  Tried a "brown" look and my daughter tells me you are and always will be a blond!  Not sure if it was to compliment me or tell me I'm fer sure a blond, duh.

I would like to try some darker colors just to see.  When my daughter dyed my a darker shade than what my hair was it seemed that my facial color changed to. 

I've been getting partial highlights with a toning glaze every 6-8 weeks, and full highlights with a toning glaze every 4 months; I love the color, but the longest my hair will grow is what you see in my avatar, so I'm going to give my hair a break from the bleach for awhile, and just get toning glaze treatments every 3 weeks since it is gentle and won't damage my hair.

Quote from: kitchentablepotpourri on February 12, 2018, 09:43:49 PM
I've been getting partial highlights with a toning glaze every 6-8 weeks, and full highlights with a toning glaze every 4 months; I love the color, but the longest my hair will grow is what you see in my avatar, so I'm going to give my hair a break from the bleach for awhile, and just get toning glaze treatments every 3 weeks since it is gentle and won't damage my hair.

Your hair looks nice.  Mine, as opposed to my avatar is not Ben Franklinish, but not too far off :)

Been going grey since 19. 3 years since I had a colour, I'm now a natural ash blonde at 60. Have never got my hair to grow past shoulder blades, don't know if it's a family thing as my sister (58) is the same

Yeah, I always maintain my hair dyed. For a year now I've maintained it black, and re-dye the roots about once every 6th/8th week or so. Not very often but that's because my natural hair colour being dark brown, the difference is very small and barely even noticable. I also dye my beard and eyebrows black, which I do more like once every 2 weeks, cause I have light blonde stray hairs in my beard.

For me, I've always disliked my natural hair colour. I think it looks very dull, ashy and brought out all the flaws of my skin. I hated it as a kid and kept begging my parents to let me dye it. And I've also always been very drawn to contrasts, so black hair with my very light skin speaks to me. Fierce or intense looks in general, really though.

I generally prefer having a very masculine style, but if there's one aspect of me I like to be feminine about, it's my hair. I often tend to wear it in half updo's, curl it or braid it. Basically style it in ways men typically don't. Cause I feel confident now that I'll pass as a guy even if I wear my long hair like a bride's maid and that feels liberating somehow, for me. Sometimes I put fake-dreads in it though, like in my profile picture, so those dreads are not real but just temporary extensions.

I like going wild with my hair, but it's more so a means for me to express my creativity rather than my gender. I just want to show the artist in me.

I've gone with lots of other colours before though, but always keep going back to black. That feels the most "me" but sometimes I get bored with it. I haven't had my hair natural since I was 12 years old, which was almost 17 years ago now.

When it gets naturally grey though, I want to stop dyeing it, and be a total silver fox! But with long hair, like a wizard. I do look forward to getting grey hairs, but I suspect that will take another decade or two. Unless my harsh way of living will let me earn that prematurely.

What does it usually cost to color and how often done? If you are thin up top and you color hair does it help or make the thinness look more obvious?
Monica

Quote from: HappyMoni on February 22, 2018, 06:18:41 PM
What does it usually cost to color and how often done? If you are thin up top and you color hair does it help or make the thinness look more obvious?
Monica

My colour, cut, and style is $100, then a tip. Add in a Christmas present, too. My hair grows like weeds and the roots are pure white so I'm in every four or five weeks.

My salon isn't quite as fancy as Devlyn's so it costs me between sixty and eighty for cut, color, highlights and styling plus tip. I get it done every three or four months. As for covering thin areas, I think it would only help if the color or highlighting that you are using is quite light so that your scalp would be less contrasty and wouldn't stand out as much.

Tia Anne

I dye my hair at home with store-bought hair dye (brands like Schwartzkopf, Loréal, etc), so it only costs me about 7-8 dollars, roughly conversed from Swedish krona. I also cut my own hair at home, with varying results, of course, but it saves me a lot of money nonetheless. I have no education in hair styling/dyeing, just self taught through many years of trial and error.

I'm afraid to, my hair grows so slow, if they messed it up it would be a disaster for me.

Quote from: Anne Blake on February 22, 2018, 06:50:43 PM
My salon isn't quite as fancy as Devlyn's so it costs me between sixty and eighty for cut, color, highlights and styling plus tip. I get it done every three or four months. As for covering thin areas, I think it would only help if the color or highlighting that you are using is quite light so that your scalp would be less contrasty and wouldn't stand out as much.

Tia Anne

I pay a yard waste/brush removal charge each time they cut my barbed wire, it drives the price up.  >:-)

No.

I refresh my highlights about every six months. Every time I go, we keep shifting from more blonde to more red, and it keeps getting better and better.

My natural colour. Been brown, red, blonde black, brown red blonde and natural colour for 4 years

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I really like my natural salt and pepper hair.  It makes it really hard to guess my age! 
Since I've reduced my stress level while growing it out it has more areas of black.  ;D

Quote from: Mendi on January 26, 2018, 09:58:00 PM
Red...you can't have enough red  :)

What she said.

So yeah, my red comes from a box. Do it about every 6 weeks.  Once in awhile I get it done at a teaching salon.  Not too expensive there.

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Yes I do.  I think I will let my hair go to it's natural grey, once it is as long as I want it o be (shoulder length).  I have lots of hair on my head, and once it will go grey, I will have a head full with lots of grey hair!

Absolutely although  you wouldn't know it at the moment...its a lovely light brown with discerning grey roots...time for a redo but have been so busy lately I haven't made the time. After seeing myself the first time I did it I vowed I would never go back to grey with flecks of brown...it seemed to take years off my appearance.

I just do mine at home with permanent dye. After 20 years I finally figured out how to do it without destroying the bathroom.

I have a mane now, and I don't want the hassle of visiting a hair dresser every 3 months. Just trim the ends myself. Again, good enough at it now to not have to need help. With beard care and haircare a necessity, one can end up being pretty good at the whole self-hair dressing thing.

I will have highlights put in sometimes.

Only so the grey bits dont show under my wig.

Every 30 to 60 days for the last 3-4 years.  It's not working though,  >:(  I still get the senior discount sometimes with out asking.    :laugh: