Your first grey?

The day following my sons birth I had one grey hair. I was 22 years old. http://www.webmd.com/beauty/hair-nails/abcs-premature-graying

I can really say I’ve never seen my gray although I know it’s there. By the time my hair started getting gray I started losing my vision. I always color my hair so you can only see the gray in the roots.
It’s practically impossible to see the top of your head with bifocals so… I’ve never seen my gray hair.
Started losing my eyesight at 43.

As far back as I can remember, I’ve always had one or two strands of grey hair. (My hair is black and usually long, so it’s easy to spot.) And they’re always in the same two symmetrical spots on both sides of my head.

Strangely enough, I also have these “super strands” in the same spots. About 5–6x the thickness of my other strands of hair. I’ve often wondered if these “super strands” are sucking out extra nutrients causing the other strands to go grey?

@fluthernutter I haven’t noticed any white or grey on my head, but I know exactly what you’re talking about regarding the “super strands”. I have those, too, and they’ve always been puzzling to me! They’re really wiry and wavy, and much thicker than the rest of my hair strands, and they’re always nearly black. My hair is very fine and the strands are thin, and my hair is very straight (and light, mousy brown), so I have no idea. The “super strands” (I like your terminology) are very sporadic, too.

I have no idea if this will sound stupid, but I always wondered if it was because my great grandma was Native American…?

As a guy going grey doesn’t bother me one bit, better grey than gone.
I noticed my first grey in my mid thirties now in my fifties I have a lot of grey.

@DrasticDreamer I think everybody gets these crazy thick, wiry hairs. They’re like hair follicles on steroids.

I’ve also heard people call them head pubes. Ha! I prefer my terminology. :P

The first strands didn’t make an appearance until my early 40s. They were were at the temple. Ten years later there’s quite a bit more all over. I just refer to them as natural highlights.

I was 16, had just gone through a lot of shit with my health, dunno if that was related or not.

For what it’s worth I’m 22 now and have not seen gray hairs with any regularity since then, I don’t think seeing your first is any indication that you’re starting to go, although it does seem a little odd that it was symmetrical!

I found a single, solitary grey interloper when I was 19, on the side of my head just above the ear.
I shave my head now, but if I let it grow, it’s still mostly black with the odd grey coming through.
I imagine the most traumatic is when a grey pube shows itself, that must be fucking awful.

As a young adult, a small shock of grey began to appear above my forehead in my then popular pompadour wave. Its density increased over the years but did not spread to the rest of my hair until my late thirties. The salt and pepper phase gradually changes to totally grey by the time I was sixty. The grey hairs were thicker than my dark brown hair, but now in my seventies new thin strands of grey are popping out in random locations on my head.

I was about 32-ish. I have dark brown hair and I started seeing sprigs of grey in the front. I also had very curly hair most of my life. Around the same time the greys appeared, my hair started to relax.

I’m 44 now and my hair is almost straight and all salt n’ pepper.

@ucme Sigh, it is, it is.

I notice 2–3 grey hairs at around 49. I have maybe a dozen or so now.

Male. Began losing my hair around age 24. Grey in my late 40s. No big deal.

For me, it was about when I turned 35. I was also beginning to bald then.

My friend Steve was hit by a rock in the head when he was about 10. The hair growing from the impact point was grey ever since.

@rojo Brave, very brave.

I’m naturally blonde and have very few gray hairs at 55 now. A few at my temples just below my ears and in my bangs but I also use a semi-permanent hair color every 9–10 weeks or so. I have contemplated stopping the coloring to see exactly how much gray I have, but nah…I like my hair color and even when it starts growing out I can get away with going extra weeks because it blends so well with my natural color.

Odd thing is, it is only the left side??

I was 22, so last year. I noticed a gray hair on the side of my head. I’m ancient now :(

Hasn’t happened yet. Ha!

Ahh, ahh, we fade to grey…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSTeJOxiaw

I noticed the first ones when I was in my mid 30s but I don’t remember the exact age. I just remember finding a grey hair on my hairbrush and thinking “Where the hell did that come from?”

Fifteen years later I’m still not even 30% grey yet. However, I have noticed that my brand new facial hair is coming in grey, especially the moustache which I think is going to be pure white (though there isn;t enough of it to be sure, yet). The neckbeard is still brown.