I’m blonde originally and used to get highlights twice a year. I transitioned to grey hair when I embraced my curly hair. Apparently bleaching is bad for curls, so I reluctantly gave up the highlights. I dreaded having grey hair but it hasn’t been that bad. My hair is more of silverish and honestly almost looks blonde still, so I’ve been pretty happy with it and have no plans to go back.
Mine is the same. I’m originally a very light brown (some say strawberry blond), but my gray is a silvery white...lol My older sister is always wishing her gray looks like mine...
My 34 y.o. son had almost black hair but now he has silver white streaks in it. He wears it long and is always getting compliments on it.
My wife had hair problems, soon after we married I convinced her to take B-12 liquid and use Coconut based shampoo. Her color went from very white and fine to a grayish blonde color. She had talked about coloring it, but she decided it was not worth the trouble. It looks nice and the texture of the hair is much better.
Her doctors blood tests had shown low B-12 and nothing seemed to correct that. (including tablet B-12 supplements) But the sublingual Liquid B-12 works much better and her tests showed it normal again. As you get older, the body has difficulty in making B-12 on it’s own.
I’ve read that the white color is from a peroxide that develops in the hair folicals