I don’t see old ladies with blue hair anymore

Do forty year-olds count?

They now have varying shades of maroon. Aka "menopause red." Especially in Europe.

Fashion changes.

They went the way of pink flocked Christmas trees.

Yes, OP. It's not 1970 anymore. Most women have zero concerns about either dying their hair even if it's obvious, or just letting it go grey.

I used purple-tinted shampoo to make my grey hair sparkle, and I'm a man.

The blue hair was a mistake from using too much purple shampoo.

R2 is correct. I hate that maroon-purple hair, like La Osbourne. Hideous. No one's skin looks good with this color.

Now it's royal blue

Another thing those damn trans kids coopted for themselves!

Seriously though what was the story with old ladies and blue hair? We're just talking tints of blue right?

Yes r11. Even more tinge than tint. Not always noticeable in certain light. Kind of like how my 75 year-old brother's "brown" hair looks orange in sunlight.

This now for all ages in Flyoverstan. You should have seen the monstrosity that checked me out at the Walmart. I mean the transaction itself…. Had this dark teal color with awful roots.

Ohhh. My mother just explained that it was certain types of hair products of old that if not used properly or exposed to certain elements or moisture could cause the blue color.

When you're old and your hair turns white it can look dull and take on an unpleasant yellow tone. Washing in a slight hint of blue can make it look better, but if you overdo it it just turns it blue or purple.

My mother had a circle of blue rinse women friends. She once explained (as did R15) that the blue was a check against a pissy yellow cast.

I actually see a lot of older women experimenting with the different colors that young people are wearing - pink, red, blue, gold, green - not the WHOLE head obviously.

It's fun and refreshing to see older women not have that default white, permed or helmet hair. I'm all for it.

Ladies who tint their hair bizarre colours are just dead common!

I'm right here, Hon

My hip sixty-something friend has had not the blue rinse in her hair but GenZ blue streaks put in her hair

I see Sharon Osbourne finally has the face she deserves.

Kim Novak was originally popularly known as the Lavender blonde, dilly dilly.

They're drooling with extensions tied to the back of their heads now.

Why did old ladies have blue hair back in the day?

There came a time when the people who used the phrase "blue hair brigade" were ancient themselves

a gay expression we used for the olds

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I like blue hair.

I see people all the time with white/grey hair that have that hideous yellow tint to it and I always think they could do with a good blue rinse. The yellow tint in grey/white hair is awful!