Why greige is the new It hair colour
Going greige is all the rage
24 April 2021 • 6:00am
Andie MacDowell and her daughter Rainey Qualley in Coach s new campaign
Credit: Courtesy of Coach
I got the sense those who were opposed felt I was letting the side down. That’s not how I see it (Andie McDowell’s grey and out and she’s just landed a Coach campaign) and, to be clear, I’m not recommending a one approach suits all. But grey is hugely emotive, as I’ve discovered.
To be fair, I’m currently grey meets beige-blonde. Sally Northwood, my colourist at George Northwood, banished the brassiness that four months of cancelled appointments produced, and used bleach and balayage to brighten a few pieces around the grey so it blended more subtly with the rest. She finished with a creamy/platinum gloss to remove yellow tones and soften the highlights. See you in eight weeks, she said. After years of having to go every four to five weeks, that felt liberating.
One of the many trends on TikTok last year showed videos of young women ‘discovering’ that they had curly hair after many years of brushing and drying it straight(ish).
The premise is that unless you learn how to work with your natural hair texture you may not actually know what it is. I discovered I had wavy hair when I was around 18, so this makes sense to me.
As a baby my hair had been curly, but as it grew longer and longer (my mother was obviously going for Rapunzel vibes) the weight of it pulled the curl out.