So there are a few options when your hair turns gray/white, as a woman...

[Mister Obvious]

I am just planning for the future, in case I'm alive at that time. If I start getting hairs which are gray, I will prefer to take one of these dye approaches. 

But if they go white instead, I will likely just let them stay that way. I hope to get lucky with white. All the people in my family seem to go pure white.

However, if they are gray...

It depends on how I feel about it, but aesthetically I would prefer some other look. It's not a big deal, but if I want it to really look the way I'm envisioning...

There are literally 2 options.

The first is bleaching the shit out of it until it's literally white...

https://www.stylecraze.com/articles/how-...hair-white

Fun fact: That article uses a photo of my Russian model girlfriend, who I've mentioned on here before, which just blows my fucking mind. But I digress.

I really think if you could achieve some stark white hair with this method, it might be worth doing.

But if it's not STARK fucking white, SNOW fucking white, ALBINO FUCKING WHITE... it is not gonna be good enough for me.

So the plan is that I have waist/bottom back length hair, and I want to keep it cut straight across. I don't like a rounded cut on the bottom, I want a perfect, straight edge.

But if all I can get is a slightly rounded cut, that's fine, fuck it... I don't like getting haircuts, and I will be very displeased if I have to seek outside help to maintain the bottom cut/shape. 

I'd never get my hair professionally cut more than once every couple years. If I can't do it myself, I'm not interested and I don't care what it looks like. Besides, I find trimming the ends on my hair at this length very easy to do by myself. The shape of the cut/bottom is acceptable to me.

For me, the only question is...

Do I want to go with that stark white business which involves harmful/damaging bleach to the roots every so often if my natural hair hasn't gone white "enough"...

Or do I want to go with the ONLY safe and hair-healthy option that actually covers white/gray hair, which is natural henna powder, but it only comes in orange/red?

Of course the darker your natural hair is, the more the henna blends in. If your hair was totally white, it'd be bright. But if it was totally white naturally, ya'd fuckin' just keep it that way cuz it'd look badass, so. Yeah.

But I consider my hair dark blonde, though a lot of people call it brown. It's whatever, they both result in the same henna shade...

https://i.imgur.com/Ehy8HnG.jpg

This is a high accuracy example of this hair color after henna.

And any whites/grays would just be a lighter shade of red. They'll be covered completely, no problem.

So...

BLINDINGLY WHITE hair, at that same length...

Or henna?

Which one?

I just don't even know if it's worth the effort of having to do this kind of shit to the hair, even just as often as every couple months.

If you added it to the hair trimming routine done around that same rate, I guess you could make a Friday night out of it... it's a lot of work though.

I don't even like doing stuff like that anyways, so I dunno if I'd really wanna bother.

Alas, I am going for a certain look...

And really, if bleach wasn't so damaging to hair, I'd just go for the super stark white...

But what good is having all that hair if it's baked from over bleaching???

Cuz the henna is a natural conditioner, it's an amazing mask treatment for your hair. It grows around India where people have very dark hair anyways. When they treat their hair with it, the red hue just blends in.

I've had red hair several times in my life... it's cool, I like it. And I always prefer a natural option. But I just dunno if it's the right move, I mean white and red are vastly different.

But if the hair started growing in WHITE... technically you could just bleach it hardcore once to make the whole thing white, and doctor any original colored hair that is left as it grows in.

I just dunno... it's all too much work and I really dunno if I will have the time to devote to something so vain, frankly.

It is trite, tripe, banal nonsense and I frown upon it. 

But I do have a certain aesthetic in mind, and I really want to be able to make that vision a reality. 

I feel like I'd be letting myself down if I didn't achieve it, I've always fulfilled all my other visions.

Which would take more time and be more work?? Well I haven't bleached my hair very many times. But I do like the way it looks, even though I've never had it completely bleached to white before.

Bleaching hair would be faster than henna, as henna requires preparation beforehand and the mixture must remain on the hair for hours.

Bleach, damaging and unhealthy. Henna, really messy, takes a long time and is orange but makes hair healthier.

Agh. I just don't know.

I wanna go with the white.

But I dunno if it could ever be as stark white as I'd want it.

Just leaving it natural could become boring. It really could. 

I am sorry to say it, but if it's gray and not white, I consider that boring, gray is a very boring color.

I do not like to wear gray (although I regret to admit that sometimes I do), I don't like having anything gray, not paint or clothes or anything. 

I don't prefer silver, I like gold. But when it comes to hair, I like white even more.

That's why it's between white or orange (gold) to me.

It's too much effort. I shall never do it. I just could never have that much time to waste.

I am disappointed. I want the white hair.

[Mister Obvious]

My heart longs for the white hair.

It does.

I cannot even front.

[Mister Obvious]

The safer option would actually be white, because you could just throw another color on top if you decided it sucked.

You can't do that with henna. You can't henna chemically treated hair, and you can't chemically treat henna'd hair.

This wouldn't be a big issue, except for we are dealing with hair which takes ~5 years to fully grow out.

Nobody has that kind of time to waste.

[Mister Obvious]

White may not really go with my skin tone though.

That could potentially fuck everything up.

Like what if it made me look yellow or some shit, ew.

There's just no way to know.

What if red would go better???

But isn't white kinda like platinum blonde??

Isn't that supposed to be a color that people look good with??

Historically, I totally hate fake white-blonde hair.

But I would go for it if my hair was turning white anyway.

It's only when it's done on regular hair that I think it's stupid, if it's natural it's fine.

[Mister Obvious]

I just don't like the in-between phase of hair turning colors.

I want all that shit to be one color.

And if every single hair had to fully grow out white for example...

With that hair length, and bearing in mind hair's growth, anagen, shedding phases, it would take close to TEN FUCKING YEARSSSSSS to turn one solid color.

At the FASTEST.

I shit you not, that's how long it would take.

Fucking unacceptable.

It must be one color.

I cannot stand that dual color shit, not on the top of the hair at least.

At the ends, who cares what color it is, you trim that shit off so frequently, it wouldn't matter.

Letting it just naturally transition wouldn't be acceptable, takes too long.

[Mister Obvious]

And what is the trigger for taking this kind of action?

How many gray/white hairs do there need to be before you decide it's time to fully change it to the end game color?

Hmm.

Seems like something that would really vary from person to person. Seems like a personal preference.

Like you're certainly not gonna pull the trigger at one or two gray/white hairs.

I guess when it becomes super noticeable, that's when you'd go for it.

Regardless, the dyeing will be a huge and fast change, regardless how much gray/white has grown in.

It seems like there will have to be action taken no matter what.

Even if it starts growing in as the desired white, you will still have to either bleach it (or henna) no matter what if you're not willing to wait 10+ years for the whole thing to match.

Oh man. This is really tough.

[Mister Obvious]

Maybe easier just to die before your hair starts turning. I mean I am just saying, this all sounds like a lot of maintenance. It would certainly save a lot of time if you were just dead instead.

[Mister Obvious]

Which is almost as boring as just having gray hair.

[Mister Obvious]

So yeah, it looks like death isn't even an option here. We have to bleach it, or henna it. Those are the only options.

[Mister Obvious]

If it took ~10-12 years for your hair to turn all one color (white) then you would be old as fuck by then and you couldn't even enjoy it all being one color before you were dead.

So this is literally a life and death situation.

[Mister Obvious]

This is why the color change has to take place in one fell swoop, to the entire length of hair.

[Mister Obvious]

Most old people don't keep long hair, I guess this is why they start cutting it short.

Dunno, but that is not what I'm going for, and the whole length thing changes the approach you gotta take.

Actually, it wouldn't even matter if you did have short hair, it'd still have to grow in white/gray ALL over, so you're STILL looking at like 10 years.

[Mister Obvious]

If your hair only started going gray or white at say 55-60 (that's where it happens for most people in my family), you'd be at least like 70 before ALL of it was grown out, OMG no!

Lol. Super unacceptable.

Cuz if you bleached it as soon as it started getting out of hand, say at like age 60...

You'd get at least a decade longer with solid white hair, heck you might have 20 years left to live at that point.

Whereas if you let it all go white on its own, you'd have like 10 years MAX left to live by the time it was all white, OMG no.

[Mister Obvious]

Say you were lucky and your hair started getting a bunch of gray/white in it by age 45...

You could fucking change it to solid white and have solid white hair for ALMOST 30 WHOLE YEARS BEFORE YOU DIED.

It's like not waiting til you're 65+ to live a retiree lifestyle...

Why wait until you're 70 to have fully gray/white hair???

Why not just go all the way as soon as possible??

Like as soon as your hair starts giving you the gray/white go-ahead...

Why not just go for it right then and there??

[Mister Obvious]

Seems like white is the only way, IMO.

Yeah, you COULD kick it with the henna for literally the rest of your life cuz that'd be the only option once you did it.

BUT...

If you went with white, it could be colored to something else later.

And in fact, if you wanted ANY hair color other than red, the white hair (base) is the ONLY way to achieve that.

So if you go with henna, you're really pigeonholing yourself.

It may be worth it, it may not be.

It depends.

[Mister Obvious]

I guess you could try to color it to match your natural/original hair color so you could act like you didn't have gray/white hair at all.

Lol, no. That is not fun. Sounds boring. Why just color it to your natural hair and put in all that effort and not even look different?? No way.

[Mister Obvious]

I dunno...

One time I bleached my hair and even though I felt like it looked interesting and I kinda liked it, I also didn't like it all that much.

I never toned it though, so it was not pure white.

I feel like it just looks weird, like it clashes with my skin tone or something.

I think I would need a tan if I was going with the pure white hair. Wouldn't that look better??

Whereas with orange hair, it's fine to be pale.

If you're pale with super white hair...

I dunno, that might not look good. It might make you look all sick and weird.

Maybe this debate is stupid and white is the obvious choice.

Or what if henna is the obvious choice and white is the dumb choice???

I CAN'T TELL!!?!?!?!??#!?!?!?

[Mister Obvious]

I feel like "platinum blonde" is the most understandable and relatable term to use here.

I think referring to it as white is over complicating the matter.

It's basically platinum blonde, because the toner is what makes bleached hair white instead of yellowy.

[Mister Obvious]

Apparently toner is super bad for your hair too, and to maintain a pure shade of white, you'd have to tone it a few times per month. Sounds damaging... lots of damage would accumulate to hair of that length, which takes years to grow out and SHOULD NOT be put through damaging treatments.

Oh man... beginning to look like this whole bleaching thing might just be way too hard on the hair. Starting to sound like the less good option.

[Mister Obvious]

Would sort of dark, ginger hair be better aesthetically, or would platinum blonde be better?

I don't really like the white hair as much now that we're calling it platinum. It's starting to turn me off.