Cover Your Gray Hair In-between Salon Visits

Cover Your Gray Hair In-between Salon Visits

Cover your gray hair in-between salon visits with simple tips from Ask the Pro Stylist. You won’t believe how easy it is to hide those pesky grays with a few tried and true tricks.

Welcome seekers of the Fountain of Youth to Ask the Pro Stylist’s How-to Tuesday hair and beauty advice. Now while I truly wish I could bottle a potion to make us all 25 again, I do have a few tips that hide our age. But, I truly thought everyone knew about this, my secret to cover your grey. Guess they haven’t read my columns (wink, wink).

On a recent excursion to the Long Island Vineyards, one of the lovelies said she put her hair in a ponytail to hide her grays, and hadn’t heard about hair mascara. We discussed gray hair, which next to wrinkles, is the most dramatic aging sign EVER. The difference is gray hair can easily be concealed, taking ten years off the face. So, why then would someone choose not to dye his or her hair?

Gray hair, regardless of age, has a nasty habit of popping up everywhere, even on our vaginas ladies. Because a healthier lifestyle has promoted rapid hair growth, the need to head to a salon has become much more frequent, and as you all know, I do not advocate at-home box hair coloring. But we can delay salon visits with little tricks, thankfully, because we all gray differently.

You can Cover Your Gray with the product of the same name found at Ulta, which is a wand (mascara) in various colors for the hair. There are also powders with a blush-like or eye shadow-type applicator and crayons that cover your gray hair. But if you don’t want to run out and purchase something separate, depending on the color of your hair, you can use clear gel mascara dipped in eye shadow or bronzer or even a brown, red or black mascara if you own one similar to your natural hair color. Simply apply to the gray area, part, or hairline, let dry, which is very fast, and run your fingers or brush through it so it doesn’t appear matted.

See you next Tuesday! Until then, happy styling!

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