How to Cover Gray Hair

Trends appear and disappear in this world of rapid change because this is the way world goes! In due course of time you are gonna grow gray hair at length. By the time you are about to cross your thirties or forties, you will begin to find some gray in your hair and sometimes may look quite older than you are!

Gray hair can pose stubborn and may be hard enough to do away with ‘through coloring’. Apart from that there are different approaches to treat this natural condition. However, if you wish to color your gray hair, following information on the modus operandi may be of help:

Consult the experts

Before you take with covering your gray hair, you ought to chalk out a program beforehand with a trustworthy hair salon. The crew there would examine the general condition of your hair to ascertain if there won’t be any adverse reaction in case they applied a hair coloring chemical.

Do it yourself or let the experts do it for you

There are two approaches: Either you approach a professional hair dresser to apply the colors that are compatible with the natural color of your hair or you may employ products manufactured for domestic use.

Choosing the right shade

Select the hue which is the best approximation of your natural hair color. You can try a contrasting tinge as well. The aura broadcasted by the colored hair will be largely based on your original hair color. Therefore you must be in cognizance of the fact that the visual effects generated by the color vary from one individual to the other.

Permanence of the color

You may ask the vendor about the durability of the color while you are going to purchase a certain dye. Some chemicals fade out just in eight shampoos, while others can stay a month long. There are some permanent dyes also, so better take up the matter with a professional beautician.

It would be in fitness of things to try a temporary one in the beginning particularly if you are new in the business so that you have all the options in front of your before finalizing a permanent selection.

Go max!

Hunt at the grayest zones of your head; this will be more lasting. Normally people grow more gray hair at their temples and crown than the back of the head.

Go light!

Extend the time between ‘touchups’ by darkening your hair with a couple of shades if you are a ‘brunette’. Blondes are lucky because their gray hair is comparatively less visible.

Finally, the Natural treatment!

Henna, commonly designating a small shrub, is famous for the dye extracted from its leaves. The shrub, also known as alkanna and mignonette tree, grows in damp earths in northern Africa and southern Asia. The orange-red dye acquired from its leaves is dispensed as a rinse to impregnate a reddish hue to hair on a large scale.

The Muslim women in particular use the dye to stain their nails and tips of their fingers and parts of their feet. Men use it to color their beards. The stain is also employed to color hides, leather and the hooves and manes of horses. Recently, mummies have been found embalmed in cloth dyed in henna.