I've lamented here before about the rapidly gray onslaught my hair is facing. I've had gray hair at this point longer than I haven't had gray hair. My first appeared shortly after the start of puberty (around 12) and was nice enough not to bring lots of friends along until I was in my mid 20s. I aggressively dyed it until about two years ago. I was chocolate, chocolate cherry and eventually blowout burgundy thanks to L'oreal Feria, who make a great hair color I must say. My hair color was always rich and lush and the conditioner was freaking amazing. However, about two years ago I was about three weeks post relaxer and looked up to see the little gray army marching across my scalp like now what broad? I'm sure you're wondering why would you worry three weeks post, surely your color was older than that. Yeah no it wasn't. We'd relax and then hit it with the permanent color and condition the mess out of my hair to make sure it didn't fall out of my scalp. It would result in gorgeous color after my scalp stop reenacting Sherman's march across Georgia (for the non American readers he burnt a lot of Georgia along the way just cause). It is the only hair color I tried that with and I wouldn't recommend anyone else do the same thing but the semi permanent colors would be pointless on my hair. Within a few washes I'd be back to just plain old salt and cayenne pepper (well it was red) hair.