JZ, I think they recommend no hair dye in the first trimester, and after that only things like highlights, that don't actually touch your scalp.

OBs vary on it. Mine had no real opinion, other than going with what I was comfortable with. Contrary to popular opinion, the fumes are considered the more harmful aspect, not the potential slight amount of chemicals through the scalp.

I think completely gray hair or salt-and-pepper hair often looks great. My hair, as became depressingly obvious as it grew back in, is about half gray and half dark blonde, or, as the friend who colors my hair described it, "the color of a rat."

Oh, thank you Ple! I like Fire Red rather a lot.

I think completely gray hair or salt-and-pepper hair often looks great.

I agree, Ginger. If my hair would go pretty!gray, I would let it. But blondes do not gray well. It's this weird, yellowed-with-age, gray thing. No, thanks.

But blondes do not gray well. It's this weird, yellowed-with-age, gray thing.

Aiiiiiiieeeeeee!!! Please don't tell me that! I had counted on going white.

Redheads can have the same problem. My grandmother was a dark auburn and her "white" hair wasn't really white when you looked closely. She always wore it up in a bun, so it was kinda hard to tell, close to the scalp seemed to be the whitest.

But blondes do not gray well. It's this weird, yellowed-with-age, gray thing.

Aiiiiiiieeeeeee!!! Please don't tell me that! I had counted on going white.

My hair used to be blonde. It looks okay gray.

I adore Hec's gray. He's silvering beautifully. Some blondes definitely do go a sort of dingey yellow, but it's not a universal rule.

I like it, Hec. I know it's not quite a Hecliment, but I owe you some.It's not everyone who can look distinguished and hip, both.

Okay?

I do not think that word means what you think it means.