 gray hairs man it's a thing that happens what's up beautiful how you do it so today we're talking about a little bit of a stressful subject for some people gray hair it's inevitable for a lot of us that it's going to happen aging is a real thing i realized that recently when i just had my 25th birthday that i am aging and i'm having a quarter life crisis if i even live that long gray hairs are probably in my future soon but listen there are a lot of myths out there there are a lot of facts out there about gray hair and we're gonna go over them all today we're gonna learn all about gray hair find out why gray hair happens debunk all of the myths you've ever heard about gray hair and then we'll move on to ways you can treat gray hair or not treat gray hair let's go over that all today and let's just get into things let's do it oh my god what is this that's so weird how did these end up here oh my god i might as well talk about them well i can here are my two new x mono products if you 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of my products and i cannot wait for you guys to get your hands on them yay and add it to your x mono collection that i know a lot of you already have yay let's get into gray hair why don't we start with the basics what is gray hair is it actually gray a lot of people think that literally your hair turns gray there's no such thing as gray hair i hate to break it to you it actually is just a loss of pigment in the hair follicle so as you get older you lose pigment in your hair the cells in the follicle actually die off therefore leaving your hair strand with no pigment left therefore it is basically a see-through strand of hair so when clear hair strands are layered on top of your scalp or on top of darker hair that is not yet turned gray it appears to be gray because of the darker surfaces reflecting through the hair fiber that is why it appears to be gray but if you really hold a strand out look under a microscope it is just a clear piece of hair kind of cool that you can have clear hair like we should start calling it clear hair instead of gray hair because i just feel like that's cuter that way like kind of trendy you know what i mean basically you have less melanin in your hair fiber which is the stuff that makes your skin the color it is the stuff that makes your hair the color it is and so on so once you lose that you no longer have colored hair it actually turns a different color which is kind of a beautiful process if you really think about it i mean really it shouldn't be something more shamed up it's quite miraculous that our hair can just change colors and it's one of the things what the human body that is just like what like it's right up there with like women having babies like how does that happen how does your hair turn clear somebody explain this stuff to me it's mind-blowing okay also a very interesting fact you may or may not know that hydrogen peroxide is the way we lift hair that is how you get from a darker color to a lighter color we use hydrogen peroxide that lifts the pigment out of the hair actually hydrogen peroxide naturally occurs in our hair follicle and as we get older it builds up and actually can block the production of melanin therefore losing that pigment in your hair follicle so weird okay let's not go over some of the things that cause gray hair aging is gonna be your worst nightmare when it comes to having clear hair no i'll call it gray hair just not confuse people today but clear hair is the same thing as gray hair so if i interchange the both of them in this video i just mean gray hair but it's not really gray it's clear about 50 percent of the population over the age of 50 has about 50 percent gray hair on their head half it is gray half of it is their color they usually have before they turn gray that's kind of wild um so basically at age 50 you're gonna really have a lot going on with that gray hair not everybody but most people also besides gray hair your hair also changes in texture as you get older it typically gets more coarse as you age your ethnicity and natural hair color could also be a deciding factor and if you're gonna go gray sooner or later white people Caucasians tend to go gray the fastest out of all of the different races on this planet all you Caucasians out there you're gonna go gray and also apparently redheads are the fastest to go gray out of all people on the planet so my very small population of natural redheads watching i'm so sorry to break it to you so after Caucasian people goes Asians and then African Americans so if you are not white you probably have a better chance of not going gray congratulations i am actually my bad scapegoat gray i'd rather not and maybe i would i would look good as a silver fox daddy you know what i mean so aging and ethnicity are two of the biggest culprits in why your hair turns clear or gray and now there are several other reasons but why don't we just go through some myths and if they are true let me explain how that can affect you going gray so the main question that i was asked uh if this myth is true or not was if you pull out one piece of gray hair more will grow back in its place do you think that this is true or false i'll give you a second false man what that doesn't even logistically scientifically make sense that what i got so much honestly have no idea who made that up or what they were on when they made it up no you can't physically make a difference in how your cells operate through pulling a hair fiber out of your head that's not how cells work they act on nutrition and stress and hormones not pulling a piece of hair out of your head unless pulling the piece of hair out of your head did cause you stress maybe more will come back but no so the next myth i want to debunk is that stress plays a huge role in you going gray do you think that's true or do you think that is false true or false true ish basically stress is your worst nightmare so stop being stressed go do yoga go meditate go do something makes you happy and get unstressed because it really ruins you in all different kinds of way not just getting gray hair ruins your skin it ruins your life and it ruins your hair get unstressed go get a massage if you are i don't know do something makes you happy yes stress can cause an imbalance of hormones in your body causing yourselves to react causing a loss of pigment in your hair causing all kinds of damage to your body so yes stress can cause gray hair however i wouldn't say it is the biggest factor of you going gray it can make you go gray a little bit faster but i wouldn't say it's the full on reason why you're turning gray however just don't be stressed i'm still learning how to be not stressed not succeeding now the next myth we're gonna go over is your hair it doesn't turn gray it grows that way do you think that's true or do you think that's false do you think it actually changes color or do you think it grows out of your scalp all is one color true or false that is true it will grow out of your scalp a different color than it was before it will not all of a sudden magically turn a different color all of a sudden okay you have to actually lose that entire hair fiber and when your cells regenerate a new one that is when it kind of loses its momentum and stops putting as much melanin in your hair causing it to be clear so save your damn hair fibers okay don't let them fall out however you do lose about 50 to 100 hair strands every day so good luck trying to save them from growing back gray okay moving on gray hair is more coarse than colored hair is that true or is that false i'll give you a second there this one's a weird one false and i actually learned that while doing the research for this video i always thought gray hair was more coarse more difficult to work with i mean it is but not because it's more coarse actually gray hair is actually finer than colored pigmented hair one of the factors of this could be because your scalp gets drier as you get older therefore making your hair fibers drier and they're not as silky and as soft as they once were making it feel a bit more coarse also another factor could be because people love to pull out their damn gray hairs and you shouldn't do that because guess what usually they grow back differently and they grow back more coily and they grow back uglier so stop pulling out your gray hair unless you want a full head of crinkly coiled nasty gray hair i don't want that for you and next gray hair is resistant to hair color true or false it's true gray hair is sometimes a hairstylist's worst nightmare you typically need extra coverage when covering gray hair as hairstylists call it a double natural nn usually is applied to the hair in order to fully repigment the entire hair follicle you need to refill the hair with all the underlying pigments and then deposit the tone on top in order to get a fully beautiful rich looking color on your head if you have gray hair sometimes people have extremely tough gray hair honestly i've seen people who get full coverage color and somehow it still doesn't cover their gray hairs it is so stubborn needs to go under heat it needs to be processed for longer it needs double the amount of color it needs a dying permanent color over the permanent color in order to fully cover those gray hairs and listen that's just a lot of work okay it is much more difficult to color gray hair than it is natural pigmented hair fibers your diet can seriously affect you going gray is that true or is that false listen your diet affects basically who you are and how you feel and how you live you are what you eat i'm sure you've heard that one before it is so true i am a big believer in you are what you eat it makes sense you whatever you're putting your body is who you are and how your cells operate is through the nutrients you give it without food you wouldn't be living with the right food you'll be living better with the wrong food you'll be living worse you know actually loss of b12 vitamins is a serious contributor to going gray so eating foods with b12 in them can actually slow down in the process of going gray and losing pigment along with helping cure heart disease cancers and other elements eat well stay hydrated do some fitness and you'll feel great and you will look great basically it's what i'm trying to get at so now that i have went over all of the myths and facts about gray hair let's now go over how you can treat your gray hair there are several different options on what you can do to treat your gray hair all right why don't we just go over my favorite first which is highlights most people with gray hair don't have a full head of it it is very uneven it is a lot in the front a lot up here none back here hair turns gray faster and slower in different parts of your scalp i like to try and even out the entire graying process with some really beautiful very very tiny highlights to give the effect like you are graying all over beautifully and it's more like just highlights you can throw in a single process color with some foil highlights and you will get a beautiful blend of your natural gray hairs and your natural pigmented hair and a full on different color however it will not be as much upkeep as doing a full on single process double natural full gray coverage retouch single process color why don't we just talk about that too i don't like single process colors full on all over one color i don't know who is a big fan of it if your hair sells out there listen honestly it's easy money for us you just walk in this lawn we quickly apply it and our assistant does the rest it doesn't look good and the reason why i say it doesn't look good and the reason why i actually try and transition a lot of people out of doing a full on single process over their gray hair to cover it is because no matter what typically it always looks too pigmented when you're filling gray hair you need to refill the hair fiber with all its missing pigments and typically you're never going to get that natural looking hair color unless it's really is natural when you're putting such a pigmented color over gray hair it tends to look heavy and dark light absorbent and it never really has like that vibrancy that real natural pigmented hair has and that is why i like to throw in those highlights and throw in dimension that way we're not trying to combat the gray we're trying to work with the gray that is what it's all about is working with the gray and not against it so highlights are going to be your friend work in some highlights can still do a single process coverage color work in some highlights you'll be all set it'll look beautiful also if you are used to doing a single process all over one color maybe another option for you will be to not do a full coverage single process do a partial coverage single process my mom i love to do that with her because she has about 50 gray hair on her head and when we do a single process color at a level seven which if you're not a hairstylist is like a dark blonde if we do a partial coverage single process she ends up with a little bit of pigment in her gray hair her natural hair color colored so when you layer those two on top of each other she gets little flecks of beautiful silver highlights but it's not as in your face as it was before but it really gives her a lot of dimension a lot of shine and it's just so beautiful i am obsessed with doing partial coverage single process on people with gray hair because it gives you that beautiful glisten of highlights and keeps you looking young and fresh but not like you're trying too hard to be young and fresh because also that's not a good look you know you can really always tell on somebody like is really grasping onto their youth when they're like doing the darkest single process color possible and you're like that doesn't look good your other option also is to just let your hair be gray especially for people who have beautiful distribution of gray hair on their head it is perfectly distributed there's no spots of extreme gray anywhere you can work with it i mean like live your gray life it is very trendy right now to be gray do it while you can i have no problem with gray hair i think it's beautiful and a lot of women and a lot of men and it's a beautiful sign of aging and honestly you're not going to be young forever which is a little scary to me i think it does look beautiful on all the people i've actually followed a bunch of hairstylists on instagram who do gray hair for a living and they do a beautiful job at transitioning people from a dark single process to their natural gray hair color and blending in their roots their entire head i'll insert some pictures here it is so cool to me and it's such a beautiful art and i see a lot of women you know doing the gray hair thing now i feel a lot of people are more comfortable with it for some reason and the more we talk about it the more comfortable people will be about it i think it's really awesome and if you do have a single process color and you want to just embrace that gray there's an option out there for you just go to the right hairdresser who specializes in that i think it will look wonderful and lastly you can use a purple shampoo if you don't want to go to the salon you already have gray hair you want to embrace it but you want to make it the best possible gray hair you can grab a purple shampoo i like finola they have a great purple shampoo it's awesome for toning hair i use it on my hair every once in a while to make sure it stays nice and white it's great for gray hair get that yellow out of it because what happens with gray hair pollution from the outside world if you're living in a city you have a lot of that so if you're living in a city you probably have some yellow gray hair and it's probably a little nasty my hair turns yellow also from the pollution outside that is why i need to keep on toning it and keep on taking care of it or else it turns really nasty yellow which is just gross so it actually does also happen with lighter hair and gray hair it will turn yellow do some clarifying treatments use a malibu clarifying treatment you can find them in a lot of places just google it do that every once in a while once in a month once every two weeks clarify your hair and use a purple shampoo and you will get that perfect sparkling shiny white beautiful silver hair that we sometimes see on the streets and you're like how did you do that that's probably how they did it or you can go into a salon and get what's called a glaze or a toner put on your head that will just remove those yellow tones in your hair and won't permanently color your hair and will wash away within several washes those are some of the options to dealing with gray hair living with it not living with it fixing it whatever you want to do with it i happened to really like gray hair and i think it's beautiful on a lot of people and i think embracing it is really fun whatever makes you happy go for it that is all i have for you today i hope you learned some things about gray hair it's a very interesting topic and i hope you enjoyed listening to me blabber on about it today don't forget to follow me on instagram i'm on omic don't forget to follow x mondo hair on instagram we have a new product launches coming up november 22nd and i am so excited about it cure that winter dry hair with these beautiful magical products of mine i am so excited for you guys get your hands on it and thank you for so much of the support since i've launched my haircare brand i am so beyond grateful for each and every one of you that watches my videos and supports me thank you so much you're an amazing person and i love you and that is all for today don't forget to live your extra gray-haired life or not and i will see you next time bye