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Natural Gray
Salt and pepper: individual white and dark strands mixed together so the head reads mid gray from a distance.
Try Natural Gray on your own photo. Free to download, iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
Both renders are HairGlam output. In the app the shade lands on your photo instead.
This is not a flat gray, it is a mixture, and the effect depends entirely on the ratio of white strands to dark ones and how they are scattered. Up close you see two colors; from across a room you see one soft gray. It moves differently in light than a solid dye because the white strands catch and the dark ones do not. The white portion tends to yellow from product and pollution rather than fade.
- Undertoneneutral, cool. The mixture averages out to a neutral gray with a slight cool cast, so it sits comfortably against most skin without pushing either warm or ashy.
- Starting pointAs a dye job this is lowlighting over a pre-lightened base rather than a single process, so dark hair still needs sections lifted to white before the pepper goes back in.
- UpkeepA purple or blue toning shampoo every second or third wash keeps the white strands from yellowing, and the lowlights need refreshing about every twelve weeks.
Try it before the bleach
Color is the expensive mistake to get wrong. Put Natural Gray against your own skin tone first.
Silver
Hot Magenta
Cotton CandySee it on your own face first
Every style in this catalog renders onto a photo of you, so you are judging your own face shape and coloring rather than a model's.
Free to download. iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.