How do I get silvery gray hair?

How do I get silvery gray hair?

To get silver hair, you have to bleach your hair until your strands are almost white. The darker your natural color is, the more bleach sessions you’ll have to go through to lighten your hair enough to achieve that ethereal silver hue. The bleaching process can be very damaging to your delicate mane.

Why do I have strands of grey hair?

Your hair follicles have pigment cells that make melanin, a chemical that gives your hair its color. As you age, these cells start to die. Without pigment, new hair strands grow in lighter and take on various shades of gray, silver, and eventually white.

What does a silver strand of hair mean?

As we get older, the pigment cells in our hair follicles gradually die. When there are fewer pigment cells in a hair follicle, that strand of hair will no longer contain as much melanin and will become a more transparent color — like gray, silver, or white — as it grows.

Who is Whitney Lichty?

Whitney Lichty, from California, first started dying her hair for fun during high school but when in her early twenties she first noticed silver strands of hair in her dyed brunette locks, she felt pressure to dye her hair to conceal the strands.