Hi Everyone,

How many of you pull out your grey/silver hairs and at what point would you stop?

Do you like the texture of your grey/silver hairs?

I've just stopped plucking and I am anxious to see how much "silver" I actually have.  It is also kind of coarse and curlier, too-so that could be cool... 8)

My grey hairs were only noticible during the winter when my hair was/is darker.  I don't think I ever intentionally pulled them out.  There weren't that many until more recently.  Now they sorta blend in with the blonde.  I worked harder at keeping my hair out of the sun this summer, so it did not lighten near as much.  This may be the first time I will really see how much grey I have!

There's an old wive's tale that says if you pluck out one gray hair, two will grow in. This is probably based on the observation that gray hairs only increase when you pull them, with the mistaken logic that the cause of gray hair is plucking gray hairs, rather than growing older.

It is highly unlikely that plucking hair will increase the number. Those who pluck eyebrows do not end up with unibrows, unless they started that way.

If it was true, we would have an industry that would increase the thickness of a person's hair by plucking it, after greatly lightening their wallet.

While it may be possible that continually pulling out hair might cause damage (This is the opposite of the above proposal!), for you, at this point, the damage is done, and it is undoubtedly also recovered as much as it will. Do you think permanent damage was done to your hair?

I would never recommend pulling hair out for any reason.  If a hair is pulled too often, the follicle will quit producing hair - certainly NOT what you want. 

The reason the say if you pluck a grey hair, 2 will replace it: If you had 1 grey hair, you are already producing them.  The odds are another grey hair will grow in after another hair is lost, plus the plucked hair will again produce a grey hair.   The reality is, you will have more grey hair!

I need all the hair I can get *eek*.

I am at that point where there is enough grey to make my hair look mousey and I'm not happy about it, I'd love it white though.

I don't color anymore because I found that when I got over a certain amount of greys the stain would just never wash out and I got demarcation lines and if I manage to get as much length as I hope to I really don't want to be stuck with that...g

I'm very interested in trying henna myself-but I have about 6 months to wait, since I just did some lowlights
on Nov 1, plus I still have 6 inches (at least) of bleached
hair.   I don't like my natural colour( blah brown) light-med  brown.  However, all the reading I've done on henna on the henna sites reccommend not using it on
previously chemically treated hair for at least 6 months.
Also, it sounds like a lot of work to apply.  I've never
coloured my hair at home (by myself). 
However, I'm intrigued by the fact that it has conditioning and hair thickening and strengthing properties.   I like, red, so that's not a problem.

When I tried to henna, it looked like the gray had become light red, not pink. This made it less noticeable, and it was okay with me, as I have also temporarily covered my gray with manic panic colors in the past. But it was so messy for so little improvement that I just stopped doing it.

Congratulations on stopping, Anais!

Your hair will love you for it!