If you want to go all in on a costume, there are several ways to change your hair color.If you want a quick solution, you can use a brush or spray to coat your hair with talcum powder or white face powder.You can use grey hair chalk to give your hair a more realistic look.
Step 1: White powder can be applied to a sponge or brush.
Purchase loose white face powder.A makeup sponge or brush can be used to dip the powder into.
Step 2: The powder should be brushed along your temples.
You can begin graying your hair by brushing it along your temples with a sponge or brush.Even though the powder is white, the natural color of your hair will come through to make you look gray.Since people tend to go gray first around the temples, brushing the powder at them is enough to make you look older.Focus on working the powder from the roots of your hair, especially around the hair that frames your face.This will give it a more realistic appearance since hair naturally greys from the roots up.Make sure you don't get powder on your face.If you get powder on your forehead or neck, brush it away with a wet cloth.
Step 3: You can sprinkle the powder on your hair.
If you want a dramatic, all-over white look, sprinkle powder over your hair.You can sprinkle a pinch of powder over your hair by leaning over the sink.You may want to drape a towel around your shoulders, as this can be a messy process and powder will fall onto you.
Step 4: You can apply the powder to your hair.
Use your fingers to spread the powder down your hair shaft after you sprinkle it on the top of your head.
Step 5: You can spray your hair.
Once you have set the powder, spray your hair liberally with the spray.After you wash your hair, white powder should wash out.
Step 6: The toothbrush should be dipped in white or gray greasepaint.
White or gray greasepaint makeup is often used in clowning and can be purchased at Halloween or costume specialty stores.Rub the brush in paint after dipping a toothbrush in greasepaint.Greasepaint is less messy to apply than powder.If you apply long hair all over, it will feel heavier than powder.Depending on the shade of grey, greasepaint can work.If you use a light hand, your natural hair color will come through so that it won't look grey.
Step 7: You can brush your hair with a toothbrush.
The greasepaint should be brushed through your hair in the same way that you applied the powder, starting at your temples and forehead and going out to the rest of your head.Too much greasepaint in one spot can look blotchy, so use a light hand and work in layers.
Step 8: To cover your head, use a hairbrush.
If you want a dramatic, all over grey effect, use a hairbrush.Put a thin layer of greasepaint on your hair and brush it through with a hair brush.After washing your hair, greasepaint will wash off.
Step 9: You should use a wide toothed comb to brush out your hair.
Use a wide toothed comb.Take the comb and comb a section of hair at the side of your face.You can more evenly spray your hair with a comb out.You don't need to comb through your hair if you have short hair.
Step 10: There is a spray at the top of your hair.
Still holding the comb in your hair, spray the top of the section of hair you are combing lightly and evenly with gray or silver hairspray.If you have short hair, you can simply spray your head with the spray and build it up in layers if you want a more dramatic effect.At most beauty stores and Halloween stores you can find temporary gray or silver spray color.It is best to check the packaging or consult a store associate before purchasing a temporary silver spray.Depending on how much you use, Hairspray may make your hair stiff.
Step 11: The comb should be run to the tips.
Once you have sprayed the top of the strand of hair, run the comb down your hair shaft and spray to the tips.
Step 12: You can spray the rest of your hair.
If you want to repeat the process on your whole head, you have to comb out the rest of the hair and then spray it from the top of your head down to the comb.You can apply the spray using a mirror for the back of your head.The colored hair spray usually lasts from 1 to 3 washes.
Step 13: Wet your hair.
Purchase gray or silver hair chalk at a beauty supply store and dip the tip in water.You can use a spray bottle to spray your hair.Hair chalk is very bright, much more so than sidewalk chalk or even artist pastel chalk.
Step 14: Take out a section of your hair.
If you want to separate your hair from your face, you need to brush it and hold it at the tips.
Step 15: Rub the hair with chalk.
The tip of the hair chalk should be rubbed at the roots of your hair.
Step 16: You can change the rest of your hair.
Hold out a section of hair and coloring it with gray hair chalk on the rest of it.If you have long hair, you may need to re-dampen the tip of the chalk several times.
Step 17: Put the chalk in the heat.
After you finish coating your head, blow-dry your hair to set the color for the day.If you want the color to last a few days, use a hair straightener or curler on the gray parts of your hair.
Step 18: It's a good idea to spray with thwirp.
Since hair chalk can rub off on your clothes without using a spray, make sure you spray your hair all over.It is recommended that hair chalk come out in one to two washes.