Clooney, McDreamy, Idris - the term ‘silver fox’ is no longer reserved solely for you. There’s a troop of silver vixens hot on your heels...

Whether natural or via a bottle, it seems the attitude towards grey hair could finally be changing. A beauty double-standard that’s seemed to favour our male counterparts considerably more in the past, prehistoric perceptions about going grey could be on the cusp of receiving a much-needed makeover. I started going grey when I was around 28 - well, white technically - with each strand standing out like a lightening-struck antenna against my raven black hair. I was mortified and instinctively, my first response was to pluck the rotters out - such was the impact people’s running commentary about them was having on my self-confidence.

However, the words of Samantha from Sex and the City ran on repeat in my head - “If you pluck it, six more will come to its funeral.” Whether true or not, I decided to part ways with my tweezers and instead shift my trusty centre parting a few inches to the left to cover my stripes up. Six months later, I started dying my hair - first in patches and more recently, all over because as it turns out, lightening does in fact strike twice. In fact, several times and like wildfire, the blighters had no predictable forecast as to where they would hit next.

To be honest, I find the whole exercise of root touch-ups and restrictive grey hair masking hairstyles exhausting, as is catering to a need to cover up what is essentially perfectly natural. Isn’t it time we started to embrace it? The good news is that the wheels are already in motion with a roster of industry pros and celebrities starting to view grey, white and silver hair in a whole new light and hairdressers offering services to both try out the trend and to allow women the option to go grey as gracefully as possible too...

1. GOING GREY NATURALLY...

In an industry obsessed with youth, 50-year-old supermodel Kristen McMenamy is one of the leaders of the grey hair comeback. “You’ve got to keep moving forward,” the former redhead once told Vogue and the mother-of-three hasn’t looked back, gracing its cover and hitting the Chanel runway in 2011 with a beautiful mane of silver locks in tow.

Beauty and fashion industry experts such as Anna-Marie Solowij, co-founder of BeautyMART, Sarah Harris, Fashion Features Director at British Vogue and Linda Rodin, founder of Rodin Olio Lusso are also paving the way when it comes to letting nature take its course and slowly but surely, the stigma attached to embracing our changing tresses is gradually starting to lose its sting.