Depending on how much gray you have, it might be as simple as adding a few highlights to bring some of that lighter color through your ends and allowing the gray to grow in. Others may find it more difficult and require repeated sessions, but it is still within reach for the majority of individuals.
Adding cool-toned or silver highlights throughout the hair is the ideal approach to allow your gray to fully develop. Allowing your roots to grow out is a multi-step procedure, but with gray highlights and regular maintenance trims, you’ll be there in no time.
Maintaining Faux Gray
You can apply some false gray to help your natural gray grow in and blend in with whatever color your hair is currently. However, it is difficult to maintain the false gray. When you add it — it’s essentially highlights — you’re removing any color from your hair, turning it blond, and then applying the (fake) gray on top of that. This method is highly harsh on the hair, thus the color may only last a short period or may not last at all.
Fortunately, the industry has progressed, and we now have some fantastic products to help keep the color in. There are shampoos and conditioners designed specifically for grey hair. Some contain pigment, which helps deposit more gray onto your highlights and fully freshen the color, but there are other purple-toning shampoos and masks that help to keep those unpleasant yellow tones hair bay.
Even mixing gray hair with highlights and lowlights might harm your hair. The most important thing you can do before and after going gray and beginning the process of allowing it to grow in is to take care of your hair. Protein and bond treatments significantly improve how your hair retains color. If the hair is too damaged by a drastic color change, it may utterly reject the gray you’ve worked so hard to incorporate. Keeping your hair happy and healthy throughout the process is the key to achieving the low-maintenance appearance you’ve been after.
