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).
Platinum Blonde
We love a blonde hair color at any age, and the platinum blonde is a perfect shade to cover gray hair and make a statement at the same time.
It depends on the shade of grey. With a white-ish grey you might get away with putting blonde on it; if you're a steely grey it won't cover it. Highlights might be better; you could blend the grey in for a silver-blonde look.
Gray hair is typically more coarse and more difficult to cover. Using a permanent hair color will give you the best coverage. It also helps if you choose a target color that is neutral or has some gold or red tones in it. Ash colors generally do not cover gray hair on their own.
We recommend shades like Chocolate Brown, Mahogany, Praline and Light Brown to cover grey hair. However, if you are regular with your touch ups, going for darker shades of brown is still a good choice.
Many women take the arrival of grey hair as an opportunity to go lighter. Some in fact choose to go blonde. As we said before, going blonde makes grey hair that much easier to cover, as blonde hair and white hair are quite close to each other in aspect.
Ask your colorist to add highlights and lowlights to complement your gray hair in shades of platinum, ash and medium blonde. These natural-looking, cool tones in light to dark shades will blend beautifully with the cool, silvery tones of your grays.
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).
If you add the right hair colour, your 'grey' hair will act as highlights, giving you a completely new look that will get you noticed for all the right reasons. Professional colourists usually recommend a darker shade for your roots and a lighter shade that matches your natural hair for the rest.
How to Turn Gray Hair Blonde. Gray hair can be colored many different shades, such as platinum blonde, medium brown, or pure black (for this color, we recommend Simply Color Jet Black 1.0).
Lifting Grey Hair All the Way to White or Grey Blonde
Use a good quality bleach to lift the hair as light as possible. Level 10 is ideal. Push all the way to level 10 extra light blonde -in other words, palest, palest yellow. Then use intense pearl blonde toner 100V to tone.
Pick the Best Blonde Hair Color to Cover Gray
This is determined by the percentage of gray and your client's desired look. For up to 30% gray coverage: Apply a semi-permanent color Opens in a new tab, like Color Fresh Opens in a new tab. It's great for blending wispy grays, without leaving a strong line of demarcation.
Blonde highlights can brighten your natural hair color and help to disguise gray hair with a blended finished look. Blonde highlights can also create depth and interest in your overall hair color by adding brightness to your natural hair color and mixing in the gray hairs so they're less noticeable.
This at-home platinum blonde hair color will give you rich, radiant and gorgeous color while providing 100 percent gray coverage — even on those stubborn silver strands.
You can also go with high-lift dye, which is a type of permanent dye that includes additional boosters and ammonia to strip out stubborn or dark gray. High-lift dyes lighten and deposit new color simultaneously so that you don't have to bleach your hair. Gray hair is fragile so it's best to avoid bleach if you can.
Best Gray Coverage: L'Oreal Paris Excellence Creme – Light Brown. The L'Oreal Paris Excellence Creme provides full gray coverage with triple protection. The triple protection system seals, replenishes, and conditions hair. It even covers stubborn gray hair.
And if you use bleach on gray it will turn a yellow color. Bleach removes the color from the dark melanin in your hair (which remains with darker gray hair), it leaves the lighter melanin (which is responsible for blonde hair) this is why bleached hair always turns yellow.
Ash Blonde Hair
This shade of blonde has quickly become one of the most searched blondes in the past 5 years. With a complexion-brightening undertone of silver and gray, it's a crowd favourite for lots of different skin tones. It has a cool, ashy tone that's perfect for those who want a low-maintenance look too.
But in lowlighting gray hair, you can dye even the stray silver strands as well. As for the overall process, highlights take longer to do and need more maintenance compared to lowlights. Ultimately, we prefer lowlights for gray hair.
Baking soda is a great natural remedy for gray hair, as it helps to clarify the hair and scalp while also restoring vibrancy and shine, especially if you're struggling with hair loss. Plus, baking soda can prevent discoloration due to exposure to sunlight, extreme dryness, or other factors.
While a demi-permanent or semi-permanent hair color can be applied to any level of gray, it's often used to camouflage early grays, giving 30-70% coverage.
These gray tones can appear because of too much toner or an ashy dye. Whatever mishap got you to this place, don't stress. Fortunately, an ash attack is not hard to fix, even on your own.
Chocolate, deep caramel and toffee, rich auburn reds and deep blonde tones all work, but try to avoid going too light or insipid feeling with colours. Grey is usually naturally warm, and it's usually best to embrace and even enhance this rather than trying to cool things down with blue tones.