Five months and counting…on October of last year, on my birthday, I decided to stop coloring my hair dark and slowly start lightening up & growing out my silver highlights. I even wrote about it for the Philippine Star’s Y-style section (read my blog entry here Hot Strands: Silver Streaks). It was daunting at first since I’ve had dark hair all my life (and I even kept a bottle of L’Oreal Excellence Natural Brown #5 on hand in case I changed my mind) but I found myself enjoying the style changes and really loving the transition process…

Since I didn’t want to cut my hair short, what I did was lighten my hair first (I shifted from a dark brown to a chocolate brown base, and I used a temporary dye that faded). Then as the roots grew out, I added light brown highlights to blend them into my brown hair, slowly shifting to ash-blonde highlights as the silver hair grew out and my temporary dye faded. I went for an ombré-in-reverse effect using highlights as I grew out my silver hair, and continued having trims to help it catch up.

Here’s what going from dark to light looks like through a series of Facebook profile pics…

…from dark brown…

…to chocolate brown…

…to adding light brown highlights…

…to growing out my silver highlights…

…to my current silver streaked ombré-in-reverse hair color.

So what do you think of the progress so far? Love it or hate it?

*Postscript 2017: What started out as a style experiment and personal journey led to some extraordinary things a few years later! To see the crazy adventure it took me on, read “Real Beauty, Surreal Experience” here

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