When to start dying grey hair
The Real Reason Hair Turns Gray And What To Do About It
gray hairs man it's a thing that happens
what's up beautiful I could do it so
today we're talking about a little bit
of a stressful subject for some people
gray hair it's inevitable for a lot of
us that it's going to happen aging is a
real thing I realized that recently when
I just had my 25th birthday that I am
aging and I'm having a quarter life
crisis if I even live that long gray
hairs are probably in my future soon but
listen there are a lot of myths out
there there are a lot of facts out there
about gray hair and we're gonna go over
them all today we're gonna learn all
about gray hair find out why gray hair
happens debunk all of the myths you've
ever heard about gray hair and then
we'll move on to ways you can treat gray
hair or not treat gray hair let's go
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gray hair why don't we start with the
basics
what is gray hair is it actually gray a
lot of people think that literally your
hair turns gray there's no such thing as
gray hair I hate to break it to you it
actually is just a loss of pigment in
the hair follicle so as you get older
you lose pigment in your hair these
cells in the follicle actually die off
therefore leaving your hair strand with
no pigment left therefore it is
basically a see-through strand of hair
so when clear hair strands are layered
on top of your scalp or on top of darker
hair that is not yet turned gray it
appears to be gray because of the darker
surfaces reflecting through the hair
fiber that is why it appears to be gray
but if you really hold a strand out look
under a microscope it is just a clear
piece of hair kind of cool that you can
have clear hair like we should start
calling it clear hair instead of gray
hair because I just feel like that's
cuter that way like kind of trendy you
know naming basically you have less
melanin in your hair fiber which is the
stuff it makes your skin the color it is
the stuff that makes your hair the Clara
t'v and so on so once you lose that you
no longer have colored hair it actually
turns a different color which is kind of
a beautiful process if you really think
about it I mean really it shouldn't be
something more ashamed of it's quite
miraculous that our hair can just change
colors and it's one of the things about
the human body that is just like what
like it's right up there with like women
having babies like how does that happen
how does your hair turn clear somebody
explain this stuff to me am i blowing
okay also a very interesting fact you
may or may not know that hydrogen
peroxide is the way we lift hair that is
how you get from a darker color to a
lighter color we use hydrogen peroxide
that lifts the pigment out of the hair
actually hydrogen peroxide naturally
occurs in our hair follicles and as we
get older it builds up and actually can
block the production of melanin
therefore losing that pigment in your
hair follicle it's so weird okay let's
now go over some of the things that
cause gray hair aging is gonna be yours
when it comes to having clear hair no
I'll call gray hair does not confuse
people today but clear hair is the same
thing as gray hair so if I interchange
to both of them in this video
I just mean gray hair but it's not
really great it's clear about 50% of the
population over the age of 50 has about
50% gray hair on their head half it is
gray half of it is their color they
usually have before they turn gray
that's kind of wild so basically at age
50 you really have a lot going on with
that gray hair not everybody but most
people also besides gray hair your hair
also changes in texture as you get older
it typically gets more coarse as you age
your ethnicity and natural hair color
can also be a deciding factor and if
you're gonna go gray sooner or later
white people Caucasians tend to go gray
the fastest out of all of the different
races on this planet all you punk Asians
out there gonna go grey and also
apparently redheads are the fastest to
go gray out of all people on the planet
so my very small population of natural
redheads watching I'm so sorry
it's afraid to do so after Caucasian
people goes Asians and then African
Americans so if you are not white you
probably have a better chance of not
going great congratulations I am
actually my bad scare bug Greg I'd
rather not and maybe I would I would
look good as a silver fox daddy you know
what I mean so aging and ethnicity are
two of the biggest culprits and why your
hair turns clear or gray and now there
are several other reasons but why don't
we just go through some myths and if
they are true let me explain how that
can affect you going gray so the main
question that I was asked if this myth
is true or not was if you pull out one
piece of gray hair more will grow back
in its place do you think that this is
true or false okay
Falls man what that doesn't even miss
achill II scientifically make sense that
would I got so much honestly have no
idea who made that up or what they were
on when they made it up no you can't
physically make a difference in how your
cells operate through pulling a hair
fiber out of your head that's not how
cells work they act on nutrition and
stress and hormones not pulling a piece
of hair out your head unless pulling the
piece of hair I've your head did cause
you stress maybe more will come back but
no so the next myth I want to debunk is
that stress plays a huge role in you
going grey do you think that's true or
do you think that is false true or false
true ish
basically it stress is your worst
nightmare so stop being stressed go to
yoga go meditate go do something makes
you happy and get unstressed because it
really ruins you ain't all different
kinds of way not just getting gray hair
ruins your skin it ruins your life and
it ruins your hair get unstressed go get
a massage if you are I don't know do you
think makes you happy yes stress can
cause an imbalance of hormones in your
body causing yourselves to react causing
a loss of pigment in your hair causing
all kinds of damage to your body
so yes stress can cause gray hair
however I wouldn't say it is the biggest
factor of you going grey it can make you
go gray a little bit faster but I
wouldn't say it's the full-on reason why
you're turning gray however just don't
be stressed I'm just learning how to be
not stressed not succeeding
now the next myth we're gonna go over is
your hair it doesn't turn gray it grows
that way do you think that's true
maybe that's false do you think it
actually changes color what do you think
it grows out of your scalp all is one
color true or false that is true it will
grow out of your scalp a different color
than it was before it will not all of a
sudden magically turn a different color
all of a sudden
okay you have to actually lose that
entire hair fiber and when your cells
regenerate a new one that is when it
kind of loses its momentum and stuffs
putting as much melanin in your hair
causing it to be clear so save your damn
hair fibers okay don't let them fall out
however you do lose about 50 to 100 hair
strands every day so good luck trying to
save them from going back great okay
moving on Brahe hair is more coarse than
colored hair is that true or is that
false I'll give you a second there this
one's a weird one false and I actually
learned that while doing the research
for this video
I always thought gray hair was more
coarse more difficult to work with
immunity's but not because it's cool
more coarse actually gray hair is
actually finer than colored pigmented
hair one of the factors of this could be
because your scalp gets drier as you get
older therefore making your hair fibers
drier and they're not as silky and as
soft as they once wore making it feel a
bit more coarse also another factor
could be because people love to pull out
their damned gray hairs and you
shouldn't do that because guess what
usually they grow back differently and
they grow back more coyly and they grow
back uglier
so stop pulling out your gray hair
unless you want a full head of crinkly
coiled nasty grey hair I don't want that
for you
and next grey hair is resistant to hair
color true or false
oh it's true grey hair is sometimes a
hair stylist worst nightmare you
typically need extra coverage when
covering gray hair as hair cells call it
a double natural and n it usually is
applied to the hair in order to fully
repayment the entire hair follicles need
to refill the hair with all the
underlying pigments and then it deposit
the tone on top in order to get a fully
beautiful rich looking color on your
head if you have gray hair sometimes
people have extremely tough gray hair
honestly I've seen people who get full
coverage color and somehow it still
doesn't cover their gray hairs
it is so separate needs to go under heat
and used to be processed for longer
needs double the amount of color it
needs a giant permanent color over the
permanent color in order to fully cover
those great hairs
and listen that's just a lot of work
okay it is much more difficult to color
a gray hair than it is natural pigmented
hair fibers your diet can seriously
affect you going gray is that true or is
that false listen your diet affects
basically who you are and how you feel
and how you live you are what you eat
I'm sure you've heard that one before it
is so true I am a big believer and you
are what you eat it makes sense you why
are you putting your body is who you are
and how your cells operate is through
the nutrients you give it without food
you wouldn't be living with the right
food you'll be living better with the
wrong food you'll be living worse you
know actually loss of b12 vitamins is a
serious contributor to going grey so
eating foods with b12 in them can
actually slow down in the process of
going gray and losing pigment along with
helping cure heart disease cancers and
other ailments eat well stay hydrated do
some fitness and you'll feel great and
you will look great basically it's what
I'm trying to get so now that I have
went over all of the myths and facts
about grey hair let's now go over how
you can treat your grey hair there are
several different options on what you
can do to treat your grey hair all right
why don't we just go over my favorite
first which is highlights most people
with grey hair don't have a full head of
it it is very uneven it is a lot in the
front a lot of here
none back here hair turns grey faster
and slower in different parts of your
scalp I like to try and even out the
entire grain process with some really
beautiful very very tiny highlights to
give the effect like you are growing all
over beautifully and it's more like just
highlights you can throw in a single
process color with some foil highlights
and you will get a beautiful blend of
your natural gray hairs and your natural
pigmented hair and a full on different
color however it will not be as much
upkeep as doing a full on single process
double natural full gray coverage
retouch single process color why don't
you talk about that - I don't like
single process colors full-on all over
one color I don't know who is a big fan
of it if you're a hair stylist Heather
listen honestly it's easy money for us
you just walk in a salon we quickly
apply it and our assistant does the rest
it doesn't look good and the reason why
I say it doesn't look good and the
reason why I actually try and transition
a lot of people out of doing a full on
single process over their gray hair to
cover it is because no matter what
typically it always looks too pigmented
when you're feeling gray hair you need
to refill the hair fiber with all it's
missing pigments and typically you're
never gonna get that natural looking
hair color unless it's really is natural
when you're putting such a pigmented
color over gray hair it tends to look
heavy and dark light absorbent and it
never really has like that vibrancy that
real natural pigmented hair has and that
is why I like to throw in those
highlights and throw in dimension that
way we're not trying to combat the gray
we're trying to work with the gray that
is what it's all about is working with
the gray and not against it so
highlights are gonna be your friend
working some highlights can still do a
single process coverage color working
some highlights he'll be all set it'll
look beautiful also if you are used to
doing a single process all over one
color maybe another option for you will
be to not do a full coverage single
process do a partial coverage single
process my mom I love to do that with
her because she has about 50% gray hair
on her head and when we do a single
process color at a level 7 which if
you're not a hair stylist is like a dark
blonde if we do a partial coverage
single process she ends up with a little
bit of pigment in her gray hair her
natural hair color colored so when you
layer those two on top of each other she
gets little flecks of beautiful silver
highlights but it's not as in-your-face
as it was before but it really gives her
a lot of dimensional a lot of shine and
it's just so beautiful I am obsessed
with doing partial coverage
single-process on people with gray hair
because it gives you that
beautiful glisten of highlights and
keeps you looking young and fresh but
not like you're trying too hard to be
young and fresh because also that's not
a good look you know you can really
always tell in somebody like is really
grasping onto their youth when they're
doing the darkest single process color
possible and you're like doesn't look
good your other option also is to just
let your hair be gray especially for
people who have beautiful distribution
of gray hair on their head it is
perfectly distributed there's no spots
of extreme gray anywhere you can work
with it I mean like live your grey life
it is very trendy right now to be gray
do a lot you can I have no problem with
gray hair how you think it's beautiful
and a lot of women and a lot of men and
it's a beautiful sign of aging and
honestly you're not gonna be young
forever which is a little scary to me I
think it does look beautiful all the
people I've actually follow a bunch of
hairstylist on Instagram who do gray
hair for a living and they do a
beautiful job at transitioning people
from a dark single-process to their
natural gray hair color and blending in
their roots their entire head all
inserts and pictures here it is so cool
to me
and it's such a beautiful art and I see
a lot of women you know doing the gray
hair thing now I feel a lot of people
are more comfortable with it for some
reason and the more we talk about it the
more cultural people will be about it I
think it's really awesome and if you do
have a single process color and you want
to just embrace that gray there's an
option out there for you just go to the
right ear dresser who specializes in
that I think it will look wonderful
and lastly you can use a purple shampoo
if you don't want to go to the salon you
already have gray hair you want to
embrace it but you wanna make it the
best possible gray hair you can grab a
purple shampoo I like finola they have a
great purple shampoo it's awesome for
toning hair I use it on my hair every
once in a while to make sure it stays
nice and white it's great for gray hair
get that yellow out of it because what
happens with gray hair and collusion
from the outside world if you're living
in a city you have a lot of that so if
you're living in a city you probably
have some yellow right hair and it's
probably a little nasty my hair turns
yellow also from the pollution outside
that is why I need to keep on toning it
and keep on taking care of it
or else it turns really nasty yellow
which is just gross
so it actually does also happen with
lighter hair and gray hair it will
turn yellow do some clarifying
treatments use a Malibu clarifying
treatment you can find them a lot of
places just google it do that every once
in a while once a month once every two
weeks
clarify your hair and use a purple
shampoo and you look at that perfect
sparkling shiny white beautiful silver
hair that we sometimes see on the
streets and you're like how did you do
that that's probably how they did it or
you can go into a salon and get what's
called a glaze or a toner put on your
head if that will just remove those
yellow tones in your hair and won't
permanently color your hair and will
wash away within the several lashes
those are some of the options she would
dealing with gray hair living with it
not living with it fixing it whatever
you want to do with it I happen to
really like gray hair and I think it's
beautiful on a lot of people and I think
embracing it is really fun whatever
makes you happy go for it that is all I
have for you today I hope you learned
some things about gray hair it's a very
interesting topic and I hope you enjoyed
listening to me blabber on about it
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your extra-bright haired life or not and
I will see you next time bye
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