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Silver Hair: Say Goodbye to the Dye and Let Your Natural Light Shine: A Handbook Kindle Edition
Whether you’re naturally graying, weaning yourself off the dye, or coveting the chic #grannyhair trend, your hair will shine with this empowering guide.
Here are step-by-step tips on letting nature take its course—or using lowlights, highlights, blending, and toning to transition with minimal drama (and avoid a skunk line). Tips on haircuts, tricks for the best care (conditioning is crucial). Products, including the DIY variety. Plus, the most flattering clothing and makeup to accentuate any shade of gray. With unique treatments and techniques from hair guru Lorraine Massey, Silver Hair is a call for celebrating and enhancing your natural radiance, with thrilling results.
Welcome to the inspiring guide for every woman who’s ready to find her true colors. Written by the authors of the national bestseller Curly Girl, here is everything you need to know, from going gray stylishly to living silver gorgeously, including Silver Lining Stories and before-and-after photos of real women. Going silver is not just about a certain look, or saving time and money at the stylist—it’s about fulfilling a deeper desire for authenticity, empowerment, and the freedom to be oneself at any age. So let’s get started.
Featuring:
- The many perks of naturally silver hair
- Style and beauty to play up the silver
- Toners and color blending
- Avoiding the skunk line
- Hair care routines
- DIY recipes, including Lavender and Verbena Herbal Hair Tonic
- Face-framing silver streaks
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWorkman Publishing Company
- Publication dateFebruary 6, 2018
- File size34611 KB
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About the Author
Michele Bender, co-author of Silver Hair and Curly Girl, is an award-winning freelance writer. She has co-authored best-selling books, such as Believe Me with Yolanda Hadid and The Immune System Recovery Plan with Dr. Susan Blum. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, Real Simple and Family Circle, among other national publications.
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- ASIN : B06VS5BSPM
- Publisher : Workman Publishing Company (February 6, 2018)
- Publication date : February 6, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 34611 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 209 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0761189297
- Best Sellers Rank: #696,427 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #379 in Beauty, Grooming, & Style
- #718 in Aging (Kindle Store)
- #1,424 in Grooming & Style
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About the authors
Michele Bender has been an award-winning freelance book and magazine writer for more than 20 years. She co-authors and ghost-writes best selling books with high-profile experts and celebrities as well as proposals. Some of these best sellers include:
BELIEVE ME: MY BATTLE WITH THE INVISIBLE DISABILITY OF LYME DISEASE by Yolanda Hadid, star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RECOVERY PLAN by Susan Blum, M.D., in its 19th printing with 100,000 copies in print.
SILVER HAIR: A HANDBOOK with Lorraine Massey.
CURLY GIRL: THE HANDBOOK by Lorraine Massey, with over 400,000 copies in print.
Michele has written articles for national publications including The New York Times and almost every top magazine including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Redbook, Marie Claire, Family Circle and In Style, among others. She has had regular health, fitness and beauty columns in many of these publications.
Michele won a 2017 National Health Information award for a Family Circle article on back pain. Also, a series of seven articles that she wrote for Family Circle won a Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications. She also won the Samter Journalism Award from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and Excellence in Media Award from the Skin Cancer Foundation.
In addition to print work, Michele has contributed interesting, energetic beauty, health & fitness content to websites such as Yahoo! Health, ivillage.com, lifescript.com and Dr. Oz’s Youbeauty.com. Michele’s essays appear in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, Chicken Soup for the College Soul and If These Walls Could Talk.
Over the course of two decades, Lorraine Massey founded Devachan salon and the DevaCurl product line (she left the company in 2013), authored three critically acclaimed hair care books: Curly Girl: The Handbook, Silver Hair: The Handbook, and Curly Kids: The Handbook and brought the revered Curly Girl Method to life, which has since been adopted by hundreds of stylists worldwide. Today, Lorraine is the sole owner of Spiral (x,y,z), a hair salon in TriBeCa and founder of CurlyWorld, a line of hair care products void of sulfates, silicones, parabens, and synthetic fragrances. When she's not educating from behind the chair at her salon, Lorraine spends her days traveling the world, from Egypt to Australia, teaching the Curl by Curl method through interactive workshops and classes.
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If you're not familiar with Lorraine Massey, she's the author of Curly Girl: The Handbook and the creator of the Deva Curl line of hair products. Her book helped launch the Curly Girl Method of not using silicones or sulfates on your hair, and helped me make the transition to embracing my natural waves when I first discovered her book over seven years ago. This new book does the same thing for the silver-hair movement that her previous book did for the curly-hair movement, and is a wonderful guide to embracing your natural silver hair.
The book is organized into several main sections:
* The Glories of Being Silver -- explains the benefits of going dye-free
* Enlightened -- provides suggestions for how to grow out your hair without adding any chemicals
* The Highs and Lows of Transitioning -- explains how you can use highlights and lowlights to help with the growing-out process
* Silver Streaks -- explains how adding a few streaks can help make the transition easier
* Pixie Magic -- shows examples of how cutting your hair short can help start the process
* Dyeing to Be Silver -- highlights (no pun intended) how adding silver can jump-start the transition
* Glorious Grey to Stay -- includes homemade recipes to help keep your hair healthy and shiny, especially if you want to avoid silicones and sulfates
* Silver Wear -- covers how to select clothes and makeup for your new coloring
What's great about this breakdown is that it covers all the various techniques that are out there for transitioning so that you can make the best decision as to how you want to go about it. For me personally, when starting the transition process, I had considered adding highlights or going for a pixie cut, but decided in the end to cut about 13 inches off my waist-length hair and to gradually grow it out. The first few months (when it looked like I was just lazy about coloring my roots and had a "skunk stripe," as it's called, going on) were the hardest, but using different styling techniques and cutting off most of my hair made the process easier for me. After initially cutting it to that shoulder-length lob, about ten months in, I decided to get it cut to just below my ears.
The last two chapters are especially invaluable, and I also love how many photos are included throughout the book to show what the process looks like on so many different women. Seeing photos provides motivation and makes the process seem less scary. It helps to know what to expect as you start this journey.
As mentioned at the start of my review, I just passed the three-year mark of being dye-free. When I made the decision to stop dying my hair at the age of 43, only a small handful of my friends were supportive; most told me that letting my silvers sparkle would age me, and there were only a few books out there that helped with the process. I decided to trust my instincts and stop dyeing, and have been so happy with that decision. Although I have much less grey than I thought I did and it seemed to take so long to grow out, the process helped me learn a lot about myself. The decision to stop coloring is such a personal one; many women stop because they can no longer handle the fumes or because they have allergic reactions to the chemicals in the dye. For me, it started because I wanted to move away from chemical color and had been doing my own henna for a few years, but it had stopped covering the grey. I finally realized that I also wanted to dismantle the stereotype that women can't look chic and youthful when they embrace their greys. Whatever your epiphany or "ah ha!" moment is, this book can help you through those rough patches that are bound to crop up.
Here are a few other tips while transitioning:
* If you're on Facebook, consider joining some of the grey hair groups that are out there. Checking in and seeing the process and the finished looks helped keep me on course during the process and kept me from wavering.
* Take monthly progress photos. It helps motivate you to see how you *are* making progress, even when it may not feel that way. (Warning: when you were dying your hair, it seemed like it would grow so quickly and you always had to color your roots, but when you're growing it out, time seems to slooooow way down! :-) )
* Start a Pinterest board of inspirational women with silver locks. When I felt my resolve wavering (and, to be honest, it's happened even recently), looking at those photos helped remind me that silver hair doesn't age you. I still pin new looks and images of silver goddesses to inspire me.
* Check out blogs and websites for more ideas. Lauren of How Bourgeois in particular has some wonderful posts about the process, as well as tricks for styling your hair during the grow-out process. Her half-up style was my go-to to help hide the demarcation line.
My hairstylist (who does Deva cuts for curly hair) said that Lorraine Massey may also be coming out with a line of hair products for silver hair, and I sure hope that she does!
Wherever you're at in your journey, I'd recommend getting this book. The information is so helpful and important, and I know I will return to this book again and again for ideas, just as I do with the _Curly Girl: The Handbook_. Lorraine, if you're reading this review, thank you for shining your light on us and providing us with such wonderful information!
Update: It's 2024 and I now have very long silver hair (except for the hair underneath in the back that wants to remain dark). I can tell you it was worth the long awkward stages that I thought would never end and I am so much happier and healthier without putting toxic chemicals onto my head. You can do this!
This is a very inspirational and positive book. Many of the women in this book had different reasons for going gray but what they all had in common was that they had no regrets after doing it. There are also different ways to go gray from going “cold turkey”to having your colorist assist you in slowly revealing the gray.
This book left me feeling good about my decision. The reason I’m not giving it five stars is because African American women were hugely underrepresented in this book. There is only one in the entire book. This was disappointing. Part of what helps you to feel good about this journey is seeing women who look like you. Thankfully there are online resources for this.
The point is, no matter how you’re going to tackle this change, this book will explain the science behind going grey/silver, utilizing color to attain this goal, or even going cold turkey!
By only page 18, I was 100% positive that I’m making the right decision to ditch the dye. I highly recommend this book!!!!
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Great information to compliment our 'platinum' hair..