I am always encouraging women to wear their gray/silver hair proudly, and I don't plan to ever artificially cover mine. There is no shame in doing so, and this book only reinforced my personal beliefs. It shows beautiful women of all ages with their natural color. And the book also provides many tips and styles for making the most of silver hair.

I thought this was interesting and good food for thought - my black hair started going grey in my early 20s, and I am sick of the whole dying process. Although ultimately I decided not to take the plunge myself (yet), I am sure it will be a valuable guide for people who do.

There were tips and advice in here - which is great - but there were too many testimonials/stories of women who have already gone grey for my liking.. While I get the point was to make you feel that you weren't alone, it became a bit samey - particularly as so many of the stories featured a level of salon hair support that someone with natural curls is hard pressed to fine just getting a hair cut in my country! I have quite thin hair (even though it dries into massive curls I show a lot of scalp) and the examples all feature thick hair, so my personal concerns weren't put to rest.

Silver Hair provided great tips for mostly curly-headed women, some of which can be used for straight hair. I would have liked to see more photos women with straight hair or perhaps reflect in the title that is really for curly hair. And, yes, I have straight hair and would have appreciated more on the subject. The photos used were great and I would recommended for my curly-headed friends.

I liked the message about loving your hair but I just couldn't get past the first 23 pages. The book was ok but I just can't read anymore of the same message being repeated again and again.
Rating: 1 Star

Quite a new concept and very positive. If this impacts everyone, I'm sure no woman would ever require to hide her grays. The book has experiences from real people who choose not to color their grey hair and how they loved it. Hope this turns into a revolution all over the world. The real message is to embrace yourself as you change. It has advice on how even dull grey hair can look pretty with adequate care. Thanks to the author for writing this book. A must read for everyone because someday everyone will have those greys!

Besides the celebrities that are now dying their hair silver (why!) there are plenty of examples of those letting nature takes its course, and they look stunning. Exhibit A: Jamie Lee Curtis. With an Exhibit A that’s so gorgeous we don’t really need an Exhibit B.

If you’re sick of the hair dye merry-go-round, especially those with dark hair whose roots show almost as soon as you dry your newly coloured hair, Silver Hair is a useful book to help you take the plunge. While I understand that it’s only hair, it is a surprisingly scary thing to contemplate what you’ll look like if you step away from that little bottle of dye.

With plenty of photos of celebs and the woman next door either letting their silver shine or showing the multi-coloured transitional phases, this book shows that you can actually look good while your hair is mid grow out and gorgeous with silver.

Besides the beautiful photos there is also plenty of information. Silver Hair dispels myths, addresses common concerns, provides advice on managing the partly grown out look and mindset that goes with it, prepares you for the compliments (yes, you read that correctly), and there are plenty of stories of ordinary women who have ditched the dye.

You’ll also learn tips and tricks for managing and caring for silver hair, along with some recipes for homemade hair care products. Other than focusing specifically on your hair you’ll learn clothing, makeup and accessorising tips that will enhance your new look.

My Nitpick: Okay, so maybe that’s not the right term to be using for a book about hair. 🤨 Anyway, while I loved the different ages represented in the women in this book I was disappointed that in just over 200 pages there was only one man included.

So, what did I do? Between requesting to read this book and actually reading it I went from waist length coloured hair (sometimes chocolate brown, sometimes purple with a rainbow of extensions) to a buzz cut. My poor hairdresser, who was literally the girl next door growing up, was suitably traumatised but, after asking several hundred times if I was really sure, went for it and I love it.

I’ve got occipital neuralgia so mine was partly a medical decision but I can hand on heart tell you that it’s the most liberating thing I’ve ever done. Do I get some funny looks out in public? You bet. Do I care? Nope! That was a surprising but welcome side effect - while Samson’s strength was in his hair, apparently my tendency to people please was in mine.

Now if my hair is longer than my eyelashes I’m ready for it to get buzzed. I’ve saved time, money and plenty of care factor for the true priorities in my life, A.K.A books, and my only regret is that I didn’t take the plunge years ago.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Workman Publishing Company for the opportunity to read this book.

This is another insightful and helpful guide to embracing one's natural beauty (in terms hair color, especially) by Lorraine Massey, expert hairstylist and author of Curly Girl. Her writing is clear, her tone is inspiring, and her advice is refreshingly honest. While making sure the reader understands all aspects of what it means (and how long it takes) to go gray (or to "go silver," as she prefers to say), Massey offers nothing but positive encouragement and makes the reader understand why the time and effort will be worth the end result. Most useful to this reader was her inclusion of several different photos of different women (of all ages, colors, and hair types) in various stages of going gray. It is ultimately these photos which will help one decide whether or not they are ready to stop coloring their hair. While I realized I am not quite ready to embrace my natural hair color, I still find this book worth keeping. When that day eventually comes, I know I'll want to go back and reference Massey's tips.

Silver Hair: Say Goodbye to the Dye and Let Your Natural Light Shine: A Handbook by Lorraine Massey with Michele Bender is currently scheduled for rel;ease on February 6 2018. Written by the author of the bestselling Curly Girl, Silver Hair covers step-by-step the many options for going silver with style. It includes before-and-after photos of real models; advice on how to stay gorgeous during the silver journey—with tips on the best ways to have a smooth color transition; keeping your silver gorgeous with the right hair care and DIY recipes; and finally how to complement your chic new look with flattering fashion, makeup, and accessories. Going silver is not just about style, or saving time and money at the salon or on your own. It satisfies that deeper desire for authenticity and the freedom to be oneself.

Silver Hair: Say Goodbye to the Dye and Let Your Natural Light Shine: A Handbook is an encouraging and useful guide to those that are pondering the end of dying their grays, and the start of embracing the hair nature is giving them. There was a large number or stories from different women that have gone through the transition, all telling the methods they used and how their looks, lives, and perception of themselves changed. As someone with naturally dark hair, and plenty of what I like to call "wisdom highlights". I did not find much in the book that was relevant to me, because I have not dyed my hair in a number of years and the stories are mostly about giving up the dye, and the process of growing out the color rather than just letting nature have its way from the very beginning. However, I did enjoy reading about how other women felt about their hair and the reactions they received when they embraced the silver. The most instructive thing for me was the tips for hair care and treatments. I think this would be a great read for those considering making this transition.

As a woman who long ago realized that coloring my hair was aging my appearance much more than accepting the grey, white, and silver that had been emerging since my twenties, I can testify to the practicality and insight of this guide. Several of the tips for transition (and the informing of awkward realities) are ones I had to discover on my own, and it would have been a great comfort to know it was all part of the natural progression.

The abundance of photos is fabulous, especially those of women mid-process. The text is direct and engaging, and the structure invites both cover-to-cover reading as well as revisiting of relevant chapters. I was especially gratified that the author thought to address the change in tones of both clothing and makeup that best complement after the transition is complete.

The models and real-life examples tend toward those with thick, lustrous hair, and I kept hoping for a few with fine, thin hair to represent another (arguably numerous) population. When I realized the author's first work is a book called Curly Girl, that put into context the imbalance. There is still much value to be gleaned no matter personal characteristic, but it's always a benefit to allow a variety of women to find themselves in the featured styles.

Overall, a strong option for those who are flirting with the decision to free from the tyranny of coloring or who want a knowledgeable companion for the transition.

I received a copy of this book for an honest review from NetGally.

I've been dying my hair for years and have always been frustrated with the idea of covering the grey. I am the type of woman who doesn't wear make-up and likes to be as natural as possible, but the idea of not colouring my hair intimidated me - especially after the many comments I would receive when my roots would show.

After reading Massey's book, I felt myself becoming more and more comfortable with the notion. I even began speaking to friends about it and they took the plunge first! Now we are a group of women who proudly show our silver streaks!

I loved the many examples and ideas for going naturally grey. However, the attention to this part felt somewhat lost in the "go silver" pep rally. Way too much time and pages are spent trying to convince the reader that this is an okay thing to do. I feel if you weren't at least somewhat sold on the idea, you wouldn't have picked up the book to begin with. So, some patience with the enthusiasm of the author is needed. Past that, the book had some great ideas for how to gracefully go grey and how to take care of grey hair to make it look its best.

Lorraine Massey's "Curly Girl" helped me and others embrace our curls rather than fighting them. "Silver Hair" will do the same for those of us beginning to find the stray gray hair (as well as those who have been coloring them for years). Massey covers how to transition from dyeing to gray, changes you might need to make to your makeup or wardrobe, how to select a shampoo, and more. All of us age, and few books address how to do it naturally. Even if you decide against going silver, "Silver Hair" will make you feel better about growing older.

I just can't read the download to computer books. I'm so sorry

Interesting and creative options for readers who currently cover their grays but are ready to transition to their natural color. This should be a staple on salon coffee tables!

Power to the gray! A wonderful support and guide for those looking to embrace their own silver beauty. Massey provides the why and various methods for tackling the tough transition from dyed to natural hair.

From the authors of Curly Girl (a book which saved my life as a teenage) comes this fabulous new manual on making the bold choice to proudly go silver, and do it with grace. I've got a few years yet my self before grey hairs start appearing, but you can bet this book will be in my hands by that point!

Silver Hair by Lorraine Massey offers not just practical tips for women who choose to stop coloring their gray, but also the moral support most of us need. Hair can be an emotionally laden subject for any woman. From the get-go, parents fix bows in baby hair, applying a bit of “Girlie Glue - Because It’s Never Too Early to Be Girlie” if actual locks are sparse. Braids, ponytails, curls, barrettes, headbands, beads - hair is our crowning glory on our best days, hidden under a scarf or hat on a bad hair day. We get it swept into up-dos for proms and weddings, let our hair down when times are good, chop it off to mark endings and beginnings.

When silver shows through, we decide whether to cover it or not, and a lot of us opt for color. For many, it’s an acknowledgment that youth is an advantage socially and professionally, and if we can pass for a while longer, that’s to our advantage. Or we sense the strangeness of silver. Its texture is foreign to us, and we are unsure how to tame it. Getting back to our natural hair color can seem intimidating. I know because I did it myself over a decade ago. As I was letting it grow into gray, many women my age or older confided that they’d like to stop coloring their hair too, but they were not sure how to go about it.

For those willing to go natural, Silver Hair provides a road map. Massey, who also wrote Curly Girl: The Handbook, profiles women who have made the decision to let their gray show. They talk about the cost, the time, the mess of coloring, as well as their trepidation about the process of growing out gray after years, sometimes decades of dyeing. Through their stories, Massy offers strategies for growing out gray while minimizing the color line. Highlights, lowlights, temporary dyes, and other transitional methods are covered.

Keeping silver hair in shape means adopting new maintenance routines, but as this book illustrates, none of them are particularly onerous. A good conditioner, sulfate-free shampoos, and a good clean haircut work wonders. I was particularly interested in her list of ingredients to avoid: fragrances, silicone, isopropyl alcohol, parabens, cocamide DEA and lauramide DEA, imidazolidinyl urea and DMDM hydantoin, basically ingredients in practically every shampoo I’ve ever used. Massey gives recipes for homemade cleansers and hair tonics that use natural ingredients, which sound intriguing.

Changing hair color can mean changing make-up and clothing colors, something I experienced myself as my hair grew grayer. I tried to stay with the creamy white neutrals, autumn tones, and gold jewelry I’d always worn, but eventually realized that pure white and silver tones could work for me now.

My major criticism of Silver Hair is that the personal profiles became repetitive, bogging down an otherwise well written book. I would have preferred fewer profiles just to keep it moving. I did like the photos of the growing out process, since this is what most women seem to find so intimidating. No matter where they were in the transition, they all looked great. Some of the cuts and styles were just stunning, making me wish my hair was a lot grayer!

For women looking for a guide to making what’s essentially a life change, Silver Hair offers the wise advice of an expert who knows the options and understands how to support her clients and readers in their journey. As Massey says, you can always change it back, if you want to. But embracing your own aging with a positive and affirming attitude can light up more than just your hair, promoting a confidence that is in itself a deeper kind of beauty.

I loved this book as I made the decision to stop coloring 5 years ago and love my hair. Being grey and silver in todays youth oriented society is a major decision for women. This book helps give us support , reasons and sound advice for those just starting to go grey. My hair took 4 years to grow out and during that time I did feel insecure and was ridiculed in public. Youth still ridicule me in public but now I own it and laugh at them or call them on their rudeness.
I wish I had read this book when I started the process. Thank you to the author for the support, for your compassion and for innately recognizing that our power as older women evolves even higher once we free ourselves from hair color. My feeling is after a certain age you should stand tall as who you really are and own your grey and silver, not giving into a male oriented youth based society that predicates women's value on how they look in hair color. If your not comfortable with your true hair color after 50 then you don't know who you are. We are proud, we are many and we are beautiful with our shiny natural highlights . Thank you this is a wonderful read I highly recommend . Well Done ! This book will convince you to dump your salon, stop paying for your hair colorists Mercedes payment and free yourself to be who you are.

Easy, very inspiring read. Great photos that chronicle the awkward but realistic timeline of growing out beautiful, healthy hair, along with suggestions about maintaining and helping the process along with cuts, conditioners and understandable explanations about how all the chemistry helps or hinders that objective.

This book has been really encouraging for me as I begin a journey of ditchign the dye. It's helpful to see the between stages as well as the before and afters. It has given me hope that I can look good with silver locks and that it may even be the best thing I do! Pictures are great and the womend all look fab.