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50 Stunning Haircuts for Gray Hair

Gray hair has been one of the hottest trends for the past year, and even women who aren’t spotting any signs of grays are asking for this beautiful color at salons! So if you are looking for inspiration of how to wear it in style – these fabulous gray hair styles will leave you wishing you had embraced gray hair sooner!

1. Natural Gray with Highlights. When it comes to medium hairstyles for gray hair, nothing looks more sophisticated than highlights and lowlights. They create a modern, youthful color, guaranteed to give others major hair envy.

Gray hair has been one of the hottest trends for the past year, and even women who aren’t spotting any signs of grays are asking for this beautiful color at salons! So if you are looking for inspiration of how to wear it in style – these fabulous gray hair styles will leave you wishing you had embraced gray hair sooner!

1. Natural Gray with Highlights. When it comes to medium hairstyles for gray hair, nothing looks more sophisticated than highlights and lowlights. They create a modern, youthful color, guaranteed to give others major hair envy.

2. Subtle Lavender Undertones. A gray color can become a lot more interesting if you add subtle purple undertones. It’s trendy, youthful, and original – what more could you ask for?

3. Trendy Medium-Length Shag. This gray hair is basically one-length on the bottom, but it is layered and thinned out all the way down for enhanced texture and adorned with a white money piece to highlight the face.

4. Layered Gray Lob. Layered gray hair styles look otherworldly indoors and outdoors due to the incredible metallic glow. Since silver hairstyles are currently trending, they are a perfect choice for women of all ages!

5. Shoulder-Length Hair with Money Pieces. Gray may have been just a sign of old age in the past, but now it’s a trend of the NEW age! Try different haircuts for gray hair and spice them up with bright money pieces.

6. Mushroom Gray Balayage on Straight Hair. Multi-tone gray hair styles can add depth and dynamics to otherwise flat straight strands. This dreamy balayage does the job with a seamless mix of grays and browns.

7. Gray Hair with Balayage and Layers. Embrace your natural gray and emphasize its beauty with a silver balayage! Add movement and dimension with layers. These will make your hair look fuller and softer.

8. Gray Lob with Highlights. Trendy short gray hairstyles often incorporate unconventional hues, such as graphite and ash in balayage highlights. This way, a medium-length cut can be both low-maintenance and creative.

9. Short Layered Bob for Gray Hair. The short hairstyle goes well with silver hair. Women would look more youthful with this stylish layered bob as it softly frames the face. If your hair is naturally wavy, let it air dry and use a sea salt spray to get those piece-y waves.

10. Wavy Silver Lob. Natural gray hair styles are extremely beautiful, so we totally understand if you don’t want to dye your hair. Why not intensify your natural hair shade by washing it with toning shampoo? Your gray curly bob is sure to benefit from it!

11. Silver Gray Hair with Layered Fringe. This lovely pixie bob looks airy not only thanks to its subtle layers and feathered ends but also due to this dreamy shade of gray with almost unnoticeable cast of violet.

12. Long Gray Hair with Swoopy Layers. The layered contouring looks amazing on salt and pepper hair. Women can’t go wrong with it – ladies of all ages look absolutely phenomenal with long gray hair and swoopy layers.

13. Silver Blonde Ambition. If you’re not ready to go for any of the fully gray hair styles yet, use an ash blonde hue that incorporates some soft gray highlights. You can also go for some other complementary shades like light gold and silver.

14. Face-Framing Layers with Natural White Silver. In addition to the side pieces that spotlight the face, this naturally gray head of hair has a bit of layering around the perimeter for better volume and some point-cutting at the ends for extra texture.

15. Thick Layered Salt and Pepper Hair. Be creative with different colors in your hair and go for a cool-toned salt-and-pepper balayage! You don’t have to worry about your roots growing in a different color anymore.

16. Stunning Gray Long Bob. Ladies who have confidence know how to make the most of their medium-to-short gray hair. Rather than hiding silver hairs, they decide to embrace it and attract everyone’s attention to their haircut.

17. Gray Bob with a Side Part. This one is for the conservative ladies who are not into long hairstyles for gray hair over 60 and prefer the length above the shoulders. This classic bob looks neat and strict, while the side part adds more volume to your hair.

18. Black Hair with Silver Highlights. Blending black and gray hair is a chic way to completely transform your style. This is one of those cute hairstyles for gray hair that can reveal the funky, cool, and trendy side of you!

19. Gray Bronde Balayage Lob. Check this beautiful gray bronde color – it’s impossible not to love! The silver and white highlights give additional volume to your hair, making you stand out from the crowd.

20. Textured Platinum Bob. When it comes to white hairstyles, there are plenty of hues to choose from. This platinum gray shade, for instance, looks aristocratic and fresh, especially in combination with a textured cut.

21. Foilyage for Long Gray Hair. This hairstyle’s dramatic effect is obtained by wrapping strands of hair in foils during the dyeing process to achieve a brighter appearance.

22. Salt and Pepper Shoulder-Length Bob. If you have straight hair packed in an unlayered lob, pops of white against metallic gray will give your mane dimension and spice.

23. Gray Hair with Pastel Highlights. What can be fancier than silver hair? Women with gray hair become even more attractive with a little bit of another color added to the look. The so-called ‘purple mushroom’ complements the pale hues in the gray hair. Women, don’t miss this brilliant idea!

24. Flipped-Out Silver Gray Hair. This silver gray hair gains depth through the mid-length with lowlights and then transitions to a shaggy finish at the ends to deliver a bouncy feel.

25. High-Shine Classic Bob. The classic bob is one of the best hairstyles for gray hair over 60. For silver hair, the bob can show off a beautiful color that comes with naturally grown whites and added platinum highlights.

26. Layered Cut with Flipped Ends. In search of a hairstyle that would make you look elegant and feminine? Then try this haircut with flipped-up ends. Add some extra layers to fall around the crown boosting the volume and creating a flattering shape.

27. Brown Bob with Silver Highlights. Check this awesome bob for medium-length hair with not a hair out of place! Complete with silver highlights if you want to blend up your natural grays.

28. Piece-y Platinum Bixie. This combination of the bob’s length with the pixie’s layers is an idea of trendy silver hair for women wishing to get a chop without going too short. You will get the desired edginess without going messy.

29. Pearl Gray Stylish Lob. Pearl gray is a subtle and extremely pretty shade that has the power to emphasize your beauty. Get a blunt lob and dye your hair this color for an effortlessly cool look. Besides, mixed highlights will add texture and make your hairdo look exceptional!

30. Side-Swept Salt and Pepper Shag. Shoulder-length shags, such as this effortless comb-over cut seasoned with salt and pepper, are, probably, the most low-maintenance short gray hairstyles, as they require little styling. Rare touch-ups will be a bonus too.

31. Flipped-Up Gray Hair Over 60. This great piece of gray blending fills the hair with shiny highlights and thus makes the style more dimensional while the dense layers with flicky ends bring in plenty of bounce and a lot of texture.

32. A-Line Bob on Ash Gray Hair. Fine hair looks fuller in the front when gradually going longer towards the face, while a play of gray shades can further camouflage the lack of body.

33. Mid-Length Shag with Curtain Bangs. Both natural gray hair styles and shags are having a moment, but you can arrive at an even more impressive combo by adding trendy bangs and accentuating them with a splash of white blonde.

34. Butterfly Layers in Blended Silver and Blonde. Melting gray grow out in your flattering shades of blonde results in beautiful ‘grown-up’ white hair styles, which will gain amazing volume and movement with lush butterfly layers and a good blow-out.

35. Naturally Gray Waves. If you’ve already taken the leap, a similar hairstyle will look gorgeous on shoulder length naturally wavy locks. The face-framing layers are a bonus!

36. Mushroom Gray Bob. Neutral gray hair styles with splashes of beige or brown work fine for both blondes and brunettes and allow you to add depth and accentuate texture.

37. Black and Gray Balayage for Long Hair. This flawless color job inserts taupe highlights and silvery streaks into a dark base to deliver dimension and create a muted color palette that will accommodate grays easily.

38. Dove Gray Hair with Choppy Bangs. Natural gray hair styles can be handsomely adapted to your facial features like it is done with these lighter pieces softening and illuminating the face.

39. Straight Retro Lob with Gray Blending. The blending technique lets us rock beautifully customized gray hairstyles, and this straight, full lob oozing retro vibes through the flipped inward ends is no exception.

40. Voluminous Curly Gray Bob. This blunt-cut bob feels extremely chic and bouncy with the loose, messy curls while a deep side part creates additional lift at the roots and volumizes the silver-gray locks.

41. Lavender Gray Bob with a Peekaboo Effect. Although we have already seen many violet-tinted hairstyles for gray hair, this cool stacked bob stands out for the depth-adding black bursting out of the lavender gray tresses.

42. Gray Lob Layered on the Bottom. Older ladies can easily pull off the ‘90s supermodel long bob that mixes highlights and lowlights and has flicky layers to land volume and movement.

43. Youthful Subtle Lowlights. If you’re looking for a transitional hairstyle that creates a playful, rejuvenating effect, check this longer haircut with subtle lowlights.

44. Natural Gray Waves. One of the easiest hairstyles for gray hair is when you decide to refresh it with low-key layers. Add some waves to frame your face nicely!

45. Two-Tone Long Pixie. Here is one of those short gray hairstyles that allow you to elevate your sassy cut with a unique color scheme, for example, by placing a bright platinum blonde atop the authentic salt and pepper.

46. Short Blunt Bob with Smokey Feel. Mixing highlights and lowlights is among our favorite gray hair color ideas, especially when it comes to creating dimension and movement in poker-straight hair.

47. Soft Gray Balayage with Feathered Finish. This masterful gray blending injects plenty of dimension into the hair and gives the grays a subtle appearance, but you also shouldn’t miss the texture and airiness brought out by the feathered layers.

48. Light Gray Waves with Delicate Highlights. This shoulder-length hair shimmers with silver beautifully blended with the base gray hue and complemented with chunky face-framing highlights.

49. Bronde Hair with Beige and Gray Highlights. We like both the graduated front layers of this cut and the smokey spots playing with the beige highlights in the earthy balayage.

50. Muted Gray Rounded Bob. That’s a convincing reason to add a balayage to your fresh cut —the seamless transitions feel naturally sun-kissed and brighten up the look nicely.

Gray hair is fabulous – and we do hope you’ll own every strand of it! More and more women decide to stop the draining chore of regular touch-ups, and not to hide gray hair anymore. These gorgeous hairstyles are good examples of how to wear your gray hair gracefully. Find a hairstyle that complements your unique style and allows you to fully enjoy your silver hair without feeling like your look is outdated. There are so many trendy, youthful and enviable hairstyles for gray hair right now that you’ll probably want to experiment with a few as years go by! Have fun with it – and wear it proudly!

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  • Irene Spreadborough
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    Must be easy to manage.

  • ligia vallejo
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    simply love the hair styles

  • ligia vallejo
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    want my hair to look just like that

  • Bren Mac
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    I do like the mid to longer styles and would prefer to see the front of the hair cuts along with the back or profile shot. This way you can see the overall look ie: face shape with bangs/fringe or none. People notice you coming first, then leaving….

  • Pamela M Mathes
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    Does taking Biotin really thicken your hair? Was all the research on it done on men?; only?¿.

  • Paula M. Murray
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    My hair has always been fine. Going gray now does not help the look.