Old Vain Pilots...beard coloring?

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Officially in the over the hill crowd and looking for beard coloring recommendations...and I figured what better group to get advice from than pilots that refuse to give in to old age!

Have a short bead that is now pretty grey. I did let it go full grey but it is a super uneven splotchy grey and hair on head has yet to go grey and still pretty solid. Looking for that peppered grey suggestions, not the Billy Mayes OMG that thing is dyed solid like a bad toupee look. Tried the Just for Men touch of grey and that chemical concoction left me insanely itchy and broken out, was using Refectocil color for a while which was the right amount of color but left the remaining grey yellow-ish which was almost way worse...anyone got products recommendations they have been happy with to help fill in the color?

Any I'm still way to lazy to go back to full shave every morning...
 
Shawn said:
anyone got products recommendations they have been happy with to help fill in the color?
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Well, I use Just For Men beard coloring, blonde to get a light brown color. Sounds as if you have an allergy to something in that so I have nothing.

Just so everyone knows, my chin is snow white while everything else is a very light brown, turning whitish, so I color to even everything out.

Colored my eye brows once. It made me look like a flaming cross dresser so I never did that again...

edit: My wife really likes the way coloring my beard makes me look.
 
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When I was around 37 we went cruising on our boat and I grew a full beard. It came in grey. We stopped to get fuel in Trinidad and the fuel guy asked my wife how much fuel her dad wanted. She made me shave it off and I have been mostly clean shaven for the next 26 years.
 
Plano Pilot said:
When I was around 37 we went cruising on our boat and I grew a full beard. It came in grey. We stopped to get fuel in Trinidad and the fuel guy asked my wife how much fuel her dad wanted. She made me shave it off and I have been mostly clean shaven for the next 26 years.
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My wife and I both consider it a compliment…makes her look young, makes me look like I’ve got a trophy wife. :rofl:
 
I've been going gray since college. The mustache has been salt-and-pepper for a years. Now more salt than pepper.

I don't sweat the gray... at least it's hair.
 
flyingron said:
I don't sweat the gray... at least it's hair.
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Like the old joke said, balding is the process in which you head begins resembling your butt, with the outside happening first.
 
Id ether own the new color, or shave it.

Got folks at work who use that coloring stuff, it ain’t…. convincing

Blotchy look ain’t ideal, but guy who colors his beard look is less ideal
 
Goatee grey, mustache brown: I tried to shave it all off, but my wife said I looked better with it. Grows back so fast, easy to experiment and then revert.

I tend to shave it all off on scuba vacations for better mask fit.
 
Just don't use the color you used to be. That always looks fake.

Me, I'd be thrilled if I could grow a decent beard of any color.
 
Like I’ve told my wife, just because you can DIY a paint job doesn’t mean you won’t get a better outcome from a paint shop.

That’s about all the advice I have on hair coloring.
 
Daleandee said:
Whatever the wife likes is what you go with ... you know happy wife/life and all. :yes:
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To a point

These days in the US marriage is less and less of a wise idea

Happy life/ life
 
No coloring for me, as Popeye said, "I yam what I yam." Grayer every year, my wife likes it that way, and I'm going to enjoy watching her turn gray too, it's barely starting now at the edges.
 
Still waiting for puberty to kick in to be able to grow a beard.
 
Mine is splotchy too, I’d rock out salt n pepper but I hate the off center skunk stripe I get in mine. So my wife uses hair dye from the ladies aisle. You may not be able if just for men broke you out- but it is different… it lasts much longer, seems like better dye. It does have the “OMG that’s dyed” look for a few days then tones out and a few greys pop through. So we try doing it on a Thursday/friday and by Monday it looses the monolithic dye look. If you try it- grab a fan as it gets fumey especially on the mustache, a fan really helps.
 
Roller said:
These days in the US marriage is less and less of a wise idea
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These days marriage to a US lady is less and less of a wise idea.

My opinion due to experience...I am perfectly happy with my Filipina lady. And she is fine with me coloring my beard. She understands it makes me feel better about myself. Might not look better, but I feel better.

There is a couple at our church that just celebrated 62 years together in marriage. Wow.!!
 
Huckster79 said:
Mine is splotchy too, I’d rock out salt n pepper but I hate the off center skunk stripe I get in mine.
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I shave my head because there's not really enough up there to mess with anyway! I grow a beard because it's easier than shaving and sometimes I even get lazy about trimming it as you can see here! I have that off center stripe as well!

A lady I work with told me once that she liked the way I had the gray strip down the middle, but when I was coloring it, I needed to make sure it was even on both sides. I laughed and ask her, "you think this is a look I designed? This is all natural! I don't color my beard." I don't think she believed me. She has no idea how lazy I am.
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