Growing Out Your Natural Hair Color

I'm growing in my grey but I'm not prepared to cut off my shoulder length straight bob, so I have two conflicting colour bases.

On the one hand, I have about 4" of glossy black through all the greys which also contains bright, sparkling silver, but at the same time, I have about 8" of fading darkish brown with lots of golden tones through it.

Eventually, I expect I will be cool colours, as I've mid blue eyes, with the odd gold fleck near the pupil and with a darker blue outer ring around the iris, and pale skin. But with probably another year to go, how do I work out which colours suit me during this transition, and how am I to ensure I'm neither mutton dressed as lamb nor mistaken for granny?

Hope you can offer suggestions, and encourage other ladies out there to go with their natural hair in the process.

Ruth from Scotland

How brave to let your true colors shine through. I love the idea of owning your natural color and tone... and then learning to dress to it. Your colors will look best when you are all natural. But it's scary to grow that grey hair out! Watch this week's episode to hear how to dress during your transition... and what I think about coloring your hair vs going grey.

 You may also enjoy my book "Great With Gray: Discover Your Most Flattering Colors To Wear When You Have Gray Hair" 

Jennifer Vax

Jen Vax is the founder of Your Color Style. She is a best selling author, speaker, artist and entrepreneur. She helps women learn how to wear color in a way that expresses their true nature. Take the FREE color analysis quiz to get started.