Silver hair tends to fade pretty quickly, so you'll need some product to maintain its strength between dye sessions. To keep the yellow tones out of your silver hair for as long as possible, use a purple shampoo that is also color correcting.
As far as hair colors go, silver hair is one of the most delicate. Your silvery mane will need a little extra TLC to keep it looking chic and healthy. Ward off fading by shampooing only every couple of days. The more you shampoo, the faster your silver hair is going to fade.
Silver is a High-Maintenance Hair Color
Silver hair color is short-lived and needs special attention between coloring sessions. Without proper maintenance, your silver hair can soon become prone to frizz and lose its color vibrancy. Darker tones are slightly more consistent than lighter ones.
Neutral shades like soft blonde, mushroom brown, light copper, and caramel blonde balayage are the easiest to blend gray into (and maintain over time without wanting to shave your hair off).
Therefore the silver hair tends to fade to blonde, regardless of whether you apply permanent or semi-permanent silver hair colour. If you don't want all your hair entirely influenced by the silver colour popularity, you can always opt for the ever beautiful silver ash grey by our master stylist, Jen.
Silver is a beautiful color for hair, but maintaining it can be difficult. You may experience fading or yellowing. The bleaching process that is required to get your hair to this color is also very damaging, leaving your hair brittle and dry.
This shampoo uses clarifying ingredients such as violet dyes and magnesium to preserve the brightness in blonde and grey hair, while nourishing agents ensure your client's hair feels luscious and soft after every wash.
Silver shampoo is also perfect for natural grey hair which can develop a yellow tinge from exposure to elements such as wind, rain and pollution. The shampoo can help correct this brassy colour, as well as strengthen hair fibres.
Differences Between Gray, White, and Silver Hair Colors
Hair never turns the color gray; however, a person whose natural hair color is a light drab brown can appear to have drab grayish hair. Hair appears to be the various shade of silver when natural cool colored dark hair becomes predominately white.
Naturally occurring hydrogen peroxide can also build up in the hair, bleaching the color. Typically, white people start going gray in their mid-30s, Asians in their late 30s, and Blacks in their mid-40s. Half of all people have a significant amount of gray hair by the time they turn 50.
Colors to Avoid With Gray Hair
Neons with their vivid intensity may overpower people with gray hair regardless of skin undertone. Very pale pastels and light intensity hues may make you look washed out because there won't be much contrast from clothing to hair color.
Warm skin tones, for example, look beautiful when silver hair has a very slight peachy hue to it. Cooler skin tones, however, really pop against silver hair with a bluish shimmer to it. Neutral skin tone? You're lucky and can pull off a whole range of silver shades!
Many people's locks can benefit from purple shampoo. One demographic who may want to give a purple shampoo a whirl is those with graying, gray, or white hair. Purple shampoo can banish brassiness far away from your silver strands, leaving you with hair that is lustrous and bright.
It's important not to overdo it though; the more you wash your hair, the faster the dye will fade. When you do wash it, also opt for sulfate-free shampoo. Sulfates tend to remove color, so avoiding them will help you maintain your silver hair for longer.
Using a purple shampoo on grey hair can help to remove brassy yellow shades, leaving you with a flattering silver undertone.
You've also probably heard of purple shampoo — but you may not think it's for you. But purple shampoo isn't just reserved for blondes — it can actually be a holy grail shampoo for silver hair, too. If you're searching for the best silver shampoo, look no further than our purple, aka silver, shampoo.
How often can you use purple shampoo on gray hair? It is widely recommended only using purple shampoo on gray once a week. If you only wash your hair once a week, I'd move to only using it once a month.
There are quite a few reasons why grey hair can turn brassy or yellow, for example, everyday pollutants, exposure to chlorine and the heated stylers that we use most days can give grey hair yellowy tones. But, much as we love it, the sun is also a major culprit of turning grey hair a brassy yellow.
These are just some of the questions we get asked at Josh Wood Colour. Our expert colourist David Inman has some advice for you: “Grey hair will always suit you, so don't worry about embracing your grey. What you need to do is ensure the texture and shine of your hair is optimised, giving you depth and dimension.
Women of all ages can look fantastic in long gray hair, especially if it's healthy and well-maintained. Long layers or waves are especially flattering on older women with long silver hair, and naturally grey hair looks youthful in modern buns & braids.
Grey Hair Can Actually Make You Look More Vibrant
If you do decide to go grey, you don't have to feel self-conscious about it – the standards of fashion are changing. We don't have to feel limited by outdated stereotypes that “grey hair = old.”