Can a person's grey hair become less grey as they age?
Male, age in the mid 60s. My beard, which has for years been definitely grey – Santa Clausish – has definitely changed this year.
I trim it every 4–6 weeks to make it short; it gets pretty bushy in the interim.
What I noticed the last couple intervals is that instead of growing back pure white, it’s growing salt-and-pepper – definite brownish cast to the beard.
Sadly, this isn’t happening to the hair on top of my head, what’s left of it.
Why would grey hair grow back with color after all these years?
Could it be the vaccine?
Could it be global warming?
Why would something like this change?
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Browish cast is the hair is called brassiness.
Shampoo with a purple shampoo that restores it to correct color ( grey/white) to match the rest of your hair.
I have stopped dying my hair blonde as the costs are never ending, insteadI accepted the
grey comming in ( only on top part of my head) so recently I had my hair streaked dark
brown/black to match that part of my hair that is still growing.
I then had washed my hair with purple shampoo to blend in the grey as more is coming in.
At least it looks fantastic instead of brassy and unbecomming.
It looks like all silver hair with natural dark streaks and no costs thereafter except for the
shapoo and conditioner .
I see that many younger women have” dyed” there hair silver, grey or charcoal grey as well.
Think “Game of Thrones” series with the female star who had silver hair as this became the
trend lately.
I read an article some time ago that melanin deficiencies due to stress, or medication, or lack of vitamin B12 can cause premature graying temporarily. So when you see a hair growing back to it’s the original color that it just means that one or some of those factors isn’t a problem and some hairs may gain it color back but will probably turn white again, sooner than later. We do create only a certain amount of melanin as dictated by our DNA, so when that factory is shut down, then your hair will just go white and there is no bringing it back unless it’s by Clairol. The same thing happened to me. My hair was getting only really white hairs then some turned grey and some black and then it went back to a mix of white and black, which I hate. I liked it better when it was all white. Now it just looks dirty. I want it all white again.
By the way, I know plenty of people who started turning grey after the whole covid fiasco of 2020 and still turning grey. So I think stress plays a big role, but it could be that I know mostly people over 50 so it’s just bound to happen.
Comedian Steve Martin had early gray hair. He once told an interviewer that it began showing color again when he started taking vitamins. He stopped, because he understood that was part of his look now.
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