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Some gray hair sets in with the entire head of hair losing its color gradually. Using a mild coloring product or a rinse can offer a color boost during this transition time.

Many older women take advantage of their lack of pigment and color their gray hair blond. We all know that even Scandinavian people don't have blond hair at 68 years old, so I think older women with an originally light hair color need to be careful not to select a blond that's too pale or too yellow if they do color their hair. For light-haired people, though, it almost makes the least sense to color gray because the difference in what pale hair does to the lighting of a face isn't that dramatic.

Very aged faces don't always look very enhanced when dark dyes are used, so I think that needs to be a consideration for older women. Silver hair can actually lighten or even highlight a face, while a dye in black or brown can seem to overpower the paler skin tones of the elderly. In advanced age blue, gray, or green eyes can become paler. Silver hair can make those stand out more. Nice, dark, brown eyes may stand out more with silver hair as well.

The sixty-five-year-old woman who can look fifty-five with a good hair-coloring job may want to take advantage of that for a while; but, in general, I think once people are close to seventy gray or silver hair isn't just age-appropriate, its often more attractive.

Healthy hair will always be more attractive than unhealthy hair, and naturally gray hair on a person of a certain age can be attractive, as well as "just kind of right". It is, though, those few years and few hairs (both which increase in number) which make exactly when one allows hair to go completely gray that is a very individual matter.

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