The best hair colors for covering gray blend naturally or provide full coverage, with ash blonde, mushroom brown, caramel, and copper being excellent choices for blending, while warm browns, rich reds, and golden blondes offer excellent coverage for more stubborn grays, with highlights/lowlights softening regrowth for less obvious root lines. Consulting a professional is key, but generally, lighter or softer shades are recommended over very dark colors, and demi-permanent dyes can gently blend, per Wella Professionals and Hair.com.
1. Highlights in a Cool Blonde Shade. There are three reasons we recommend blonde highlights for covering grey and white hairs. First up, the difference between cool blonde and silver shades is minimal, so grey roots won't appear as visible (even six weeks after your last colouring session).
Grey hair has a different composition to regular hair, so it's harder to get dyes tot stick completely. My stylist recommended going lighter when your hair starts greying as it's easier to hide, but it's also a bigger investment to maintain hair like that.
Blonde is one of the best colors to cover gray hair because there's only a slight difference between blonde shades and silver shades, so the new dye can be easily blended.
Cool shades like ash blonde and mushroom brown are among the best hair colors to hide grays, since the cool tones won't clash with your silvery streaks.
To boil it down, there are essentially two different types of color your colorist will use to cover gray hair—demi-permanent or permanent. Demi-permanent haircolor options, like Redken's Shades EQ Gloss, deliver non-permanent pigment that will gradually fade over time.
For a youthful look at 60, opt for warm, soft, blended colors like honey blonde, caramel, warm auburn, or chocolate brown with caramel highlights, which add brightness and soften features, avoiding harsh, solid dark colors or platinum blonde. Adding subtle highlights or lowlights creates dimension, and embracing natural gray with a silver or platinum shade can also be very modern and flattering, especially with a soft, layered cut.
The Colors to Avoid with Gray Hair
Here are a few to steer clear of: Muddy Neutrals: Beige, taupe, and other muted tones can make your skin look washed out and ashy. Earthy Yellows and Oranges: These warm tones clash with the coolness of gray hair and can make your complexion look sallow.
As you age, hair often gets lighter (due to graying) or may need to be lightened to look more youthful, as very dark colors can create harsh contrasts, accentuating wrinkles and shadows on mature skin; adding softness and warmth with lighter tones, highlights, or multi-dimensional browns/blondes is generally more flattering and rejuvenating. The key is to choose colors that harmonize with your current skin tone, not your skin tone from decades past.
Less colour, more often
So, if you're colouring at least partly to cover stubborn greys, your new rule of thumb needs to be – less colour, more often. Colour over resistant greys can fade faster than greys which readily absorb colour, so adding less colour more frequently can help you achieve ongoing grey coverage.
The best hair colors for a 60-year-old woman with gray hair blend with or embrace the gray, focusing on ash blondes, platinum, cool silvers, or warm honey/caramel tones, depending on your skin's undertone and preference for low-maintenance blending (ash/platinum) or covering (warm tones/highlights). Embracing natural silver with stylish cuts or using highlights and lowlights creates soft transitions, while rich caramels and honey blondes offer warmth and seamless gray coverage.
While traditional hair dyes may offer quick results, they often come with harsh chemicals that can damage hair over time. More people are now turning to gentler, holistic alternatives such as henna for grey hair, grey hair shampoo, and Ayurvedic remedies that not only color but also nourish the scalp.
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Our Top Hair Colors for Gray Hair
There's no permanent way of removing grey hair. Once melanin production has dropped, white strands will always grow through with a grey tint, even if you pluck them (which is not recommended).
Highlights help disguise grey hair in a more natural way than all-over color. All-over color needs to be touched up more often than highlights because when your hair grows, you'll experience a “demarcation line” that can look harsh against brown or black hair. It's all about blending!
To look younger, opt for styles with movement, layers, and face-framing elements like the Butterfly Cut, Modern Shag, or a Layered Lob, which add volume and soften features, while Curtain or Wispy Bangs conceal forehead lines and highlight eyes, and a well-placed Pixie Cut can lift the face for an instant refresh. The key is to avoid heavy, one-length styles and embrace texture, fullness, and strategic highlights to create a fresh, vibrant look.
Are chunky highlights in style in 2025? Absolutely. The beauty of trends is that they always come back around, and right now, chunky highlights are one of the hottest looks in hair color. But the trick is to update them so they feel fresh and new.
While beauty is subjective, surveys often show brunette and blonde hair as the most popular choices, with brunettes sometimes preferred for long-term partners (linked to intelligence) and blondes often approached more in nightclubs (linked to approachability). Red hair and black hair also have significant appeal, but often rank lower in general surveys, though specific studies and individual preferences vary widely, with some research showing dark hair contrasting with bright eyes as highly attractive.
Light Blonde
Ultra Light Cool Blonde or Ultra Light Natural Blonde will do the trick.
Q: Can Vitamin B12 prevent gray hair? A: While there is no conclusive evidence that Vitamin B12 can reverse grey hair, it may help prevent premature greying by supporting overall hair health. Adequate levels of Vitamin B12 contribute to healthy hair growth and may help maintain hair color.
Shoulder-length waves
This length strikes a perfect balance - it's long enough to create the illusion of more hair, but short enough to avoid looking stringy or lifeless.
Greys stay warm, more like a pale gold than anything remotely blue. Choose cool tones, with tonal blends of colour - highlights, balayage and other techniques for layering colour all work really well. Ash brown, icy blonde, mushroom tones, and even inky bluish tints to grey can work well.
Going too dark. Hair that's too dark doesn't reflect light. It can look opaque and age you, zapping life and color from your face. Very dark, one-dimensional hair will put a spotlight on your grays and regrowth.