Tips To Disguise Hair Growth While Transitioning To Your Natural Gray Hair Color | Mod Podge

Hi everyone well here, I am multitasking, face mask on cup of coffee and I'm contemplating when I contemplate over something, no matter what I always do it with devotions and a good cup of coffee. But here we're going to talk about how to disguise when we're trying to transition to our natural color of gray hats. It was a lifesaver for me, a few other tips, things like jewelry statement pieces. Anything that you can put on. You take the attraction away from the top of your head and a fun pair of dangling earrings, but one of the most important steps. I feel lipstick and powder, not a lot just a little, but a bold lip does wonders for what's growing out. On top of your head stay tuned and I'll share wedding tips with you, hi everyone welcome to my channel thanks for stopping in you know, I had quite a few comments, a really really positive comments on the video I did about going gray and if you are New and you haven't visited that particular video. I will link it below and it really made me feel really good after posting that video, because I realized you know what there are a lot a lot of women who are out there right now as we're speaking contemplating going gray or bringing their hair to their Natural color there's a whole lot of us that end up dying our hair throughout the years, and then we just get to the point where we're tired of it. It has been a harsh crush process on our hair, depending on what we've been using as far as bleach or hair dye or stripping it down, and your hair just needs a break. You just get to that age and I'm not gon na name the age, because it could be four some who are in their mid 30s, 40s, 50s and then some and you just decide. You know what I've just had enough and I want to do it. But you just don't know how to go about doing it and how to get through the nasty awful. What I would consider really not so pretty phase, to put it mildly, and you just have a lot of questions, so you know making that video and posting it with the just the great response that I got from several several people. I just really want to encourage people who are on this adventure to going gray to just keep doing it, and just just do it for yourself and then make the decision. It is just not for me, it's not what I want right now, but so what I want to talk about today and I just decided - I think, I'm going to periodically come on and just post some little videos about the whole process of going great. Now, for the majority of us, I think it's more of a process that we go through during our midlife. I think some of us are gearing towards the retirement age we're not going to be out in. They quote unquote public and I or even if we are and we're still working that you know we just are tired of the process and I think that's where I was. I was just tired of the process and, as I mentioned in the last videos, those really difficult Gray's that seems squirrely and twirly and whirly and have a mind of their own, but just no longer want to accept hair dye, and I just it just got to Where okay, I used to be able to just do my roots every six weeks, and then you know after a while, then it was psycho. I got to do these five weeks and four weeks and within less than two and a half weeks, ooh there's the grade. So, no matter where you're at in the process or if you're quote/unquote, contemplating the process that right there is the first step, because I think if you contemplate the process for a long period, even if it's I'm talking a year or two, then at least when you Get to that, you know gut-wrenching place and you've contemplated it long enough, then you're really willing to just either go cold turkey and go for it and do it or graduate into it or do a little drastic thing like I did and just cut it off and Just let it grow now. I don't recommend that for everyone, because that in and of itself can be very shocking and very harsh, especially if you are a person who has never worn your hair short. So yeah don't recommend that. But if you're interested I'll link that other video below and just I'm gon na talk to you today about how to get through the rough stages of going great, I just thought you know that. That'S what helped me is trying to figure out how I can get through and I'm just gon na say it. This is the ugly stage. It'S just it's there. It'S it's there, girls, it's there, there's just no hiding it it's there. So let's do what? What is the obvious and the obvious, of course, our hats? Now I live in the south and when I started the process I was living in the south, so I didn't necessarily have to have a full-blown hat on. But as I had mentioned, I had gone from a little bit longer than this length to shorter graduated up shorter and then really to pixie it. So this hat and you can find all kinds of hats like this, because they're cute they're comfortable they can kind of serve as a headband. If you're gon na try to grow it out with you, know longer hair, but even when my hair was in a pixie just to wear this, just look at. Is it hiding this? No? Is it hiding anything in the back? No, but what it's doing it's, putting the focus on the Hat and not so much just on the bare roots growing out, so you've got a little bit of a band up here and if that's where you're starting to come out, then a hat works great. So I relied on these types of hats and I have another cute little one, that's striped and I wore them a lot, a lot and sometimes just brush my little hair back and I just had the little and it's just like. I said you have to kind of Kamla camouflage, so you want to take the focus off of the ugly, which is the growth and put it on the Hat. So this worked really good. Now, when it got to the point where my grades were really coming in full force, then I took there was a need for a full fledged hat, and you know what hats are cute and everybody wears them, and I don't even care if they don't wear them. But this especially with short hair. Yes, this saved me a lot and it just covered a multitude of what I would call sinful growing out. It just helped so hats, whatever kind of hat - and you can go with these big floppy brim - tats right there. But you know just to go to the grocery store. I never was really comfortable in a big brim hat, but they've got some smaller ones that have little brands on them and I get it hats it's hot here in the summer and hats are, you know a little bit constricting when it comes to the heat, but These type, you know whatever you call them: Sun, whackers or whatever they're great they're great, and I did wear these a lot a lot and if just if, even if I had to you know, run out, I could just you know, push my hair up a little Hairspray put one of those things on and it just didn't seem as bad okay and that's the key. It didn't seem as bad to me. So if I thought it didn't seem as bad and it looked better than just going out with just that. Half growth out coming out, um, ya, know and um. The next thing I'm going to talk about is you know, taking away a distraction from this. You know your face your hair and sometimes statement earrings. Now these are not statement earrings and I had short hair, and so I did have longer dangling earrings that I would wear, because I think that when you do put on a bigger pair of earrings - and these are just what I have on to today - it just Detracts from maybe what's going on here and the person or people who are looking at you may be drawn to more of the earrings and then there's less focus on this now. Do they still go back and notice? Oh boy, she's trying to grow her Gray's out? Okay, it could be, you can't, read people's minds and their thoughts. So who cares? But for you to go out put on a nice pair. Excuse me put on a nice pair of earrings and it's just a detraction and I always felt like it. Just it looked better and it was during the time where you know I was getting dressed and going out and fixing my hair and doing makeup. And you know I'm in-between this growing out stage and maybe we're going to dinner or something, and so I'm not gon na, go out to dinner for an evening and wear this. So a nice pair of earrings - and you know, maybe even a I had a couple of these stretch - bands and I just gon na show you this one happens to be in gray and then those little clip on flowers and sometimes just you know putting that on Behind your ears, if you have short hair - and you know a little flower here - it just takes away from that main growing out thing, so there's a disguise there and then um. Basically, because I had such short hair, I could never hide it in a ponytail. I couldn't put it up. I couldn't do that and I have noticed I've seen several women who are growing their hair out and they have longer hair and they're just kind of going the cold, turkey and just letting it come out, but wearing their hair up and teased a little. It does hide a lot of that growth, but these are some of the things that I did just to. You know kind of hide that growth and with short hair at the time when I have this short hair and I kind of had a little asymmetrical. I just tried to you know, tease over this top portion and then just kind of smoosh it together a bit and then hairspray it. I know you got a do what you got ta do. Another tip is um again taking the focus off of the direct. You know, okay, you feel like everybody's looking at your roots and trust me they're not now there might be a few people out there who are like contemplating wanting to do it, and then they look at your hair, and you might just be in that growing out Ugly stage and they're, like oh, my gosh, no way but you're halfway there, so you keep on going so pick up a pretty necklace, something that takes the focus off of you. I have these long chains and necklaces and I'll show them to you. As you can see, it takes the focus off of your face in your hair and so wearing. You know some pretty statement pieces that were longer and not so much grouped around my neck or dangling earrings. I just felt like it would detract the focus like directly away now. Is it true, I don't know, but did it give me some ease to go out better and feel like I was, you know somewhat put together? Yes, yes, it did. It made me feel better and I thought that it just was a detraction and I'm not sure if it was a detraction. I know I've had compliments on my necklaces before and I just think if you do it for yourself and if it makes you feel like. Okay, I feel like I can do this, then do it whatever it takes to get through the process, do it and the last but absolute most important. I think - and you know I don't want to say that this in a negative way, because if you're not accustomed to wearing makeup, then this last step that I feel is one of the most important steps is not going to matter to you. But if you are accustomed to wearing makeup or going out with powder makeup - and you know mascara and stuff - I say something now - I know it's kind of crazy, but really something more bold. On your lips and your face put together, I think: does several things number one it just. It makes you feel good number two you're going through a process of changing, transforming your hair to its natural color at the age that your act, and that in and of itself is a huge transformation. It'S it's an acceptance of where you're at in your life - and I know, there's a big movement for women who want to go natural and you know natural beauty their skin in in the raw and all that yeah, I'm not there with that. Just don't want to do that. I don't think they'll ever come a time where I will tire as I've stated before, of powder and lipstick, and I think those two things can do a whole lot for your look and so wearing a bold lip now. I know it's directed here to your face, but that's it that bold lip really lets. Your features stand out your face doing out and I still believe it two tracks from what's going on on the top of your head, and so today I wanted to share those few things with you and, like I said, if you're not used to wearing makeup - and It'S never been a part of you then ignore that last step. But if you are then maybe consider during this process going just a step further a little bit bolder, not meaning packing things on, but a little bit deeper in color, and this is a pretty color by NARS - it's called damn dive. I wore this a lot during my transition phase a lot. I were a lot in a bold color on my lip, and so today I'm gon na share with you what I have on my face and it's basic. It'S maybe six little items. I have the bye-bye foundation, this is the full coverage moisturizer and I really like this and I want to tell you and I am not lying. That'S all. I used that's a so basic. I washed and moisturize my face and did all you know my normal routine and then that much that I put on with well, oh right here my makeup brush my this is a Bobby Brown full coverage face brush and I'm telling you that's all I did. I it gives me the coverage I want and it's great I did have to go in and touch up with my NARS here. It is it's my concealer, because I have a couple of little breakouts because I did a deep cleansing mask and when I do do that, sometimes I get you know my pores purged, and so I had a couple little breakout. So I just covered that up and then I went directly in with my Chanel Alassane blush. It'S a favorite blush. I used it all last year and probably the year before, but I love this especially during the phone and then I went in with my powder and the powder that I'm using is hourglass. So I think right here, these two things right here alone, powder and lipstick. Key key to really making your face glow and taking away the attraction from that gray and just giving you that little bit of lift and that's all it is, it's just a lift. And then I finished it off. And I also think that this is extremely important and it doesn't have to be the brands that I'm using it's just. These are what I have been using. This is my Chanel, please say lumen Lumiere Deschanel. This is a highlighter and even if you don't want to put powder on worn foundation, if you just rub this on with a brush, it gives your skin such a highlighted glow. Now I use this on my cheeks and up on my forehead and down my nose. Little because I just think it just just makes your skin glow and that's what you want to do during this process. You want to look and find a way to get you through not focusing on the hair, and someone commented that you know they're going through a lot of praying during this time just to get them through and hey. If that's what works it worked for me, then that's what you do, because you know it's gray, hair, it's it's a color and for so many years it's just been taboo, and so now you know this younger generation just came out and went boom. Look at me. I'M sporting gray and I think a whole lot of us took a look at that and went if I could get my grace to look like that. I'D be happy so um anyway. So I think what I would like to do is to just come on periodically, and I encourage you. Let me know how you're doing in the process and because I want to encourage you, because I think you'll find that if you can get to that step where it's grown out, then I think you can really look at it and go hey. I like it or I don't, and at least you tried so until next time. Oh wait! One more thing! Sorry on my last video I did a mini house tour for fall. I mentioned these leaves, and I want to talk to you about these leaves because I said something that was incorrect. These leaves literally came from my front yard tree when I was living in Illinois and as you can see, I did this one exactly in the state. As they fell from the tree, but I said I waxed them well, there was a group of leaves that i have wax before, but these particular leaves have been. I think it's called mod podge I'll insert a picture and it's like eight thick white plastic glue. If you're not familiar with it, and you can do all kinds of soft things with Mod Podge and I might punched these leaves and what you do, is you just kind of lay them flat out on wax paper, and I took a sponge and on a stick And I just put the Mod Podge all over them. It'S like a white kind of thick, like Elmer's, glue, looking and then it dries clear and then, when it dried, I flipped them over, and I did the other side now. It took several hours for them to dry on one side, but then I just flip them over and did the other side, and I I'm not kidding I've had these same leaves that I take out every year and they've gone in storage they've stored in the hot, Intense you know attics and garages where I've lived and they have still kept their shape and also I mod podge. The stems, if you're interested in doing this, what I do to store them, so they don't break. Is I cut out parchment paper which I've used? The same parchment paper for the size and then I lay a piece on the bottom and a piece on the top, and then I put another. I don't leaf and another parchment paper, and not only can I just stack them up and then I just stick them into a big baggy, a big ziploc and store them flat. That way - and I usually make sure that I'll have anything crushing down on them and then I put them in a bin - that's lightweight and usually keep the the bag on top, but they're gorgeous they're, beautiful and I've had them for so long. So I just wanted to share that with you, because I think I mentioned that I wax them and I have done that before, but these these were with mine so until next time be kind, be humble age, gracefully, bye,