Icey Silver at Home

It's your choice, but I would just use a silver shampoo over the toners. You can keep trying, using it for a few mins a time until you get the result you want instead of pot luck with a very damaging toner.

So using a shampoo for silver will actually make my hair more silver?  I had no idea! I've already bought some so I'll try that.

Thank you!

Yep. I've only used toners you mix with peroxide twice but I've had far better results using silver shampoo left in for a few minutes. You might need to leave it in longer to get the result you want, but it's best to do it in short bursts or you might end up with a purple tint.

Try it, but now I'm seeing your photo on a different device, I'm suspicious it might be slightly too dark for a proper silvery white. It's close, but might be just not quite there. Hard to tell!

There is one last thing, you might find any shade of silver/grey might end up aging on you. The shade you have it now looks fab and I think you could even push it closer to white and still look great, but I think you'd  benefit from just a hint of warmth in the hair that grey rarely gives. Unless you can add a tiny bit of pink it can drain the face of anyone over 40. I'm 44 and grey makes me look so ill! You look fabulous at 60 and if I look half as good as you in 15 years I'll be very happy 🙂 I'll still have brightly coloured hair though 😉

When you say to add pink...how do I do that?  Is there a pink shampoo or do I buy a dye?  I like the color my hair came out, but not particularly crazy about it on me because I have a very light complexion, and I think you're right that the silver white would look better. 

Thanks so much for answering my multitude of questions! I obviously do not have a clue about hair color and appreciate all your help!

I would just keep washing with silver shampoo, toner faded pretty quick anyways. 

I think it looks good