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Grey Hair Filter

Stopping the dye means eighteen months of transition. Look at where it ends up, and at the blended halfway point, before you start.

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A woman in her fifties with a silver-grey shoulder-length cut

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Grey Hair Filter results

Twelve of the most-asked-for cuts and colours. Try any of them on your own face.

Silver blend grow-out Grey Try this on me

Chin-length blunt bob Short Try this on me

Textured pixie Short Try this on me

Long face-framing layers Long Try this on me

Curtain bangs, long layers Long Try this on me

Caramel balayage Colour Try this on me

These six are a slice of the atlas, each one rendered on our demo faces with this tool. There are 120+ in it.

Three steps

How it works

If you can take a selfie, you can do this.

01

Your selfie

Add your photo

One front-facing selfie, hair visible. That's the whole setup.
02

120+ looks

Pick a look

120+ cuts, colours and styles, all on that same photo.
03

Your result

Take it to your barber

Save the result and show it, instead of describing a cut and hoping.

Where your natural silver actually ends up

The grey hair filter takes one photo and puts your own silver back where the dye is. You get the blended halfway point - soft root, tinted ends, the stage that lasts the longest - and the finished grey once the last coloured length has been cut off. The second one is the version nobody at the salon can show you, and it is the one that decides whether you go through with it. Growing the colour out is not reversible in an afternoon; it is somewhere near eighteen months of a visible line. Your face, your skin tone and the light in the photo stay exactly as shot. The only thing that moves is the grey.

Silver blend

A grown-in root melting into charcoal and silver, with the dyed ends still there. This is the halfway stage, and it is where most of the transition is spent.

Full natural grey

Salt-and-pepper, steel, pewter or a bright white. Pick the one closest to the regrowth at your parting so the render matches what is actually coming through.

Length matters

Silver sits differently at every length. See it on a chin-length bob, a textured pixie and shoulder-length layers before you book the transition cut.

Toner or not

Toner keeps white hair cool and stops it going yellow. Compare a toned ash silver against untoned natural grey so you know the upkeep you are signing up for.

Grey rarely arrives on its own. If you are not ready for the line, see whether balayage can blur it, or check a blonde against your skin tone instead. Length changes the whole read too - try a bob or long layers alongside it. Upload one photo whenever you like. The first look is free and needs no account.

Questions about the grey Hair Filter

Straight answers, no hedging.

Will I still look like me with grey hair?

Yes. Your face, your skin tone and the lighting in the photo are left alone, and only the colour of the hair is replaced. That matters more here than with most shades, because grey reads cool and it sits very differently against warm skin than against cool skin.

Can I see the halfway stage, not just the finished grey?

That is the more useful of the two. You can look at the blended version - grown-in root, softened line, colour still sitting through the mid-lengths and ends - next to the fully grown-out version, so you know what you are living with in between rather than only where it lands.

What happens to the photo I use?

It is used to create your render and kept in your library, where only you can see it. It is kept private to you, and the privacy policy explains each step.

How close is the render to my actual grey?

It is a reference image, not a prediction. It estimates your natural shade from your regrowth and the tone of your hair, but real grey comes in unevenly: often whiter at the temples, coarser in texture, sometimes brassier. Use it to decide direction, then confirm the shade with your colourist.

My hair is dyed dark. Does that change anything?

The render shows you the end state, not the route to it. Dark box colour can need a colour remover, a few sessions of highlights or a long grow-out before your natural silver is the only thing left on your head. Ask your colourist which of those applies to your hair.

Does grey look different at different lengths?

Yes, and it is worth testing. Silver reads softer on shoulder-length layers, sharper on a chin-length bob and cleanest on a pixie. Plenty of people cut shorter during the transition to lose the dyed ends faster, so try the colour on more than one shape before you plan it.