How can i make my gray hair gradual?

I am more than 50% gray but color my roots medium brown every 4 weeks. I am 42 years old and I would like to go lighter and gradually let me gray come in so that I don't have to color my hair so often. How do I do this? Thank you.

There are special shampoos in stores for grey or greying hair some of them are called blue shampoo cuz it gives a more silvery colour. I am sure if you ask at the store they could help.

There really is no solution for this. I am a stylist, trust me. The best thing that you can do is cut your hair and suffer through the growth period. Have a stylist help you pick out the best, shortest cut possible for your face shape and type. Take a year to keep growing it and keep the cut short until the colored hair has been cut out of it. The one thing I can reccommend is that if your current color is nowhere similar to your natural color (of the hair that isn't yet gray), have your stylist match it the best she can so that your outgrowth will at least somewhat match the stuff the is colored.

There was a big article about this not long ago in one of the women's magazines. They got like 10 women to let it go and stop coloring. They all had to do that.

Color is color. You cannot color your hair without covering the gray. You will always have visible, unsightly, gray roots. Sorry to break it you. Just go for it. Tell people around you what you are doing and--WORK IT! I applaud you, I love it when women let it go gray!

The blue shampoo is to keep the gray you have a nice, silver color instead of a dingy beige or blonde. It's a great enhancer of the gray once you go all the way. But please--buy a silver enhancer ONLY in a salon. That crap they sell at target and even at Sally's is not salon quality and is full of alcohol and wax fillers.

I was thinking about highliting my dyed hair with bleach and then the outgrowth may not be so apparent. Since you had this question 2 years ago...what did you do? how did it go?