How To Slow Down and Handle With Gray Hair?
Walnuts, fish, and zinc could help with gray hair
Backe recommends adding certain foods to your diet to help supplement missing nutritional benefits. First, he suggests adding walnuts to your diet. “These are a great source of copper which helps to lend pigment to your hair follicles.” He also suggests adding fish, seeds, and leafy greens like kale and broccoli as sources of omega-3 fatty acids and zinc, “which are imperative for strengthening hair health and even restoring color.”
Vitamin B supplements
Chicken, when consumed in large amounts, can provide vitamin B-12 and B-6, which Backe explains has been shown to reduce the occurrence of gray hair. But if you’re not much of a meat-eater, supplements may help. “B-vitamin supplements help increase your body’s ability to prevent graying,” explains Backe. “Just be sure to balance out the rest of your diet with lots of roughage, leafy greens, and lots of water.”
Going Gray Is Beautiful and Natural
When all is said and done, graying is a natural part of life and there isn’t any reason you should feel the need to hide it if you don’t want to. “Gray hair is beautiful,” says Pacheco. “What matters in the end is how you’ve taken advantage of the years that have passed.” If you fall into this category and just want to fully embrace the gray-hair life, visit your hair stylist and let them know! They’ll be able to provide great ways to fully elevate your look.
Gray Hair Is Actually Different Hair
Going gray is commonly explained as a loss of pigment (aka melanin) in the hair shaft. Typically, this hair has a different feel and texture than its pigmented counterparts. It’s been noted that gray hair is coarser, thinner, and “less manageable” — but there are products to help with this! Consider gray a new stage of life, one that you can learn to embrace in your own way.
Don't have to dye it
Just because you’re going gray, doesn’t mean you have to dye it“It is so frustrating when pesky gray roots suddenly appear and you don’t have time to get to the salon,” says founder of SO SILK HAIR, Mary He. When hair dye isn’t an option, or if you don’t have enough grays to rock the look just yet, Mary suggests simply parting your hair differently. “If you part your hair on the opposite side from your everyday part, there will be less regrowth on that side so you won’t see the gray.”
Plucking One Gray Hair Will Not Cause Three To Grow In Its Place
This old wives' tale is a myth. Each follicle can contain only one hair, and plucking it won’t make it able to produce multiple hairs. Furthermore, what you do to one follicle has no effect on the ones around it. That said, excessive plucking isn’t a good idea—it can damage the follicles and even stop hair production in that area altogether.
Makeup can help tackle surprising gray roots
You can also use temporary at-home coloring techniques to disguise roots. Cherry Wang, founder of UR BEAUTY HAIR, recommends using a little bit of makeup to cover grays. “If you must cover them quickly, you can put a little makeup primer on the roots of your gray hair and then put some eyeshadow to cover the gray hair temporarily.” Mary also has SO SILK HAIR Color & Lift with Thickening Fibers, which come in five different shades. “It lets you brush away the gray instantly,” she says.
For women, french braids and curls can also do wonders
Mary recommends using a big barrel curling iron to create waves. “Gray roots are always less noticeable on wavy hair,” she says. If you prefer your hair up, Mary suggests crossed and french braids that will also help hide grays (or enhance the look with weaves of color).
Gray hair stills needs SPF
Because gray hair is usually coarser and can be dryer than regular hair, you also want to condition it consistently to restore smoothness. Gray hair is more susceptible to discoloration and yellowing caused by the sun, chlorine, or mineral deposits in your water. To prevent this, rinse hair with water before and after swimming, or, better yet, wear a swim cap. Protect hair in the sun with a scarf or hat, and consider adding a filter to your shower head if your water contains a lot of deposits.
Melanin helps protect hair against free radicals such as UV rays. Since gray hair is missing this pigment-making protein, it means it’s also much more susceptible to UV damage. A recent study points out that without this protection, the UV light melts the cortex, making the hair more brittle and damaged. So just like your skin, you need to protect gray hair against the sun. A simple way is by using a protectant spray like Rene Furterer Solaire Protective Summer Fluid.
Backe recommends adding certain foods to your diet to help supplement missing nutritional benefits. First, he suggests adding walnuts to your diet. “These are a great source of copper which helps to lend pigment to your hair follicles.” He also suggests adding fish, seeds, and leafy greens like kale and broccoli as sources of omega-3 fatty acids and zinc, “which are imperative for strengthening hair health and even restoring color.”
Vitamin B supplements
Chicken, when consumed in large amounts, can provide vitamin B-12 and B-6, which Backe explains has been shown to reduce the occurrence of gray hair. But if you’re not much of a meat-eater, supplements may help. “B-vitamin supplements help increase your body’s ability to prevent graying,” explains Backe. “Just be sure to balance out the rest of your diet with lots of roughage, leafy greens, and lots of water.”
How to Handle With Gray Hair
Going Gray Is Beautiful and Natural
When all is said and done, graying is a natural part of life and there isn’t any reason you should feel the need to hide it if you don’t want to. “Gray hair is beautiful,” says Pacheco. “What matters in the end is how you’ve taken advantage of the years that have passed.” If you fall into this category and just want to fully embrace the gray-hair life, visit your hair stylist and let them know! They’ll be able to provide great ways to fully elevate your look.
Gray Hair Is Actually Different Hair
Going gray is commonly explained as a loss of pigment (aka melanin) in the hair shaft. Typically, this hair has a different feel and texture than its pigmented counterparts. It’s been noted that gray hair is coarser, thinner, and “less manageable” — but there are products to help with this! Consider gray a new stage of life, one that you can learn to embrace in your own way.
Don't have to dye it
Just because you’re going gray, doesn’t mean you have to dye it“It is so frustrating when pesky gray roots suddenly appear and you don’t have time to get to the salon,” says founder of SO SILK HAIR, Mary He. When hair dye isn’t an option, or if you don’t have enough grays to rock the look just yet, Mary suggests simply parting your hair differently. “If you part your hair on the opposite side from your everyday part, there will be less regrowth on that side so you won’t see the gray.”
Plucking One Gray Hair Will Not Cause Three To Grow In Its Place
This old wives' tale is a myth. Each follicle can contain only one hair, and plucking it won’t make it able to produce multiple hairs. Furthermore, what you do to one follicle has no effect on the ones around it. That said, excessive plucking isn’t a good idea—it can damage the follicles and even stop hair production in that area altogether.
Makeup can help tackle surprising gray roots
You can also use temporary at-home coloring techniques to disguise roots. Cherry Wang, founder of UR BEAUTY HAIR, recommends using a little bit of makeup to cover grays. “If you must cover them quickly, you can put a little makeup primer on the roots of your gray hair and then put some eyeshadow to cover the gray hair temporarily.” Mary also has SO SILK HAIR Color & Lift with Thickening Fibers, which come in five different shades. “It lets you brush away the gray instantly,” she says.
For women, french braids and curls can also do wonders
Mary recommends using a big barrel curling iron to create waves. “Gray roots are always less noticeable on wavy hair,” she says. If you prefer your hair up, Mary suggests crossed and french braids that will also help hide grays (or enhance the look with weaves of color).
Gray hair stills needs SPF
Because gray hair is usually coarser and can be dryer than regular hair, you also want to condition it consistently to restore smoothness. Gray hair is more susceptible to discoloration and yellowing caused by the sun, chlorine, or mineral deposits in your water. To prevent this, rinse hair with water before and after swimming, or, better yet, wear a swim cap. Protect hair in the sun with a scarf or hat, and consider adding a filter to your shower head if your water contains a lot of deposits.
Melanin helps protect hair against free radicals such as UV rays. Since gray hair is missing this pigment-making protein, it means it’s also much more susceptible to UV damage. A recent study points out that without this protection, the UV light melts the cortex, making the hair more brittle and damaged. So just like your skin, you need to protect gray hair against the sun. A simple way is by using a protectant spray like Rene Furterer Solaire Protective Summer Fluid.
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