How old were you when you found your first gray hair?
Was it noticeable to anyone but you? Where was it? Did you find more after you found the first?
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Twenty. :-)
I was the only one who noticed, though…
I’m 20 and i have a spot of gray that’s kinda noticeable
a lot of people think its just a spot where my hair stayed blond.
Twenty-five. I have dark brown hair like my Papa’s side of the family (French) and the grey hairs were easy to spot.
I’ve yet to find one!
Woohoo! :)
My friend Aaron, however, has had a couple since he was like 10. Very odd…
25? I’m 28 now and have maybe 6 or so (3 of those in my bangs).
The whole front part of my hair is white, not grey, but does it still count? It looks really cool, depending on what color the rest of my hair is dyed.
I’m almost 36 and I have yet to find a grey hair. My wife started going grey at 21 or so, just like her mom. If she doesn’t die her hair about ¼ of her hair is grey. She is not happy about it.
I honestly have no idea. My wife’s been noticing them probably since I was thirty, but I don’t think most people notice.
Early forties. It’s in the genes. My father, who died at 73 (30 years ago yesterday) had lots of hair and very little grey.
My hair is dark, dark brown. Almost black. I’m 25 and have found about 25 of the suckers in the past 2 days. :( Mine started at 22, I think… But its extremely noticeable because they’re pure white on almost pure black.
The gray I have is only noticeable if I let my beard grow. I guess I noticed that when I was 39 or 40.
19 It sucks. My hair is dark brown, so they are very noticeable and the roots cannot be missed when the color is starting to grow out. Now I am finding them in my eyebrows.
It started with a tiny gray dot in my goatee when I was in my 30s. Soon, it was two, and over the next 11–15 years, I became Santa Claus.
I noticed the occasional isolated gray hair (about one hair found/year) starting when I was about 13. But I’m not worried about it: neither of my parents are totally gray yet and their in their 60’s.
My boyfriend, on the other hand, is on track to be totally gray by the time he’s 30 or 35.
I first found one when I was maybe… 19? Near the beginning of college. I’m almost 23 now and I have the beginning of a nice little gray patch that I just discovered when I decided to part my hair on the other side than I normally do a few days ago. They’d been hiding but there they all were! Maybe 10 or so. They’re very noticeable now that I know they’re there… I have dark brown hair.
Now in my thirties, I have a bit of grey at the temples. I’m tempted to color it, but, my stylist says that I don’t need to. She also loves my natural hair color. My girlfriend says that she thinks that the bit of grey that I have at my temples (you can’t see it until you brush my hair back) is sexy. <<shrugs>>
A friend found my first gray hair… on the school bus when I was in 6th grade. They were never super noticeable until I was in my thirties, and even now (at 42) most people assume that I’m kind of a dirty blonde rather than a redhead whose hair has faded drastically due to the ever-increasing amount of gray. I go back and forth between dying it and letting it go. For the last year or so I’ve been in the let it go phase, but I plan to dye it this weekend. I don’t mind that it’s gray so much as the fact that it just looks so dull. It washes me out.
My mother, a brunette, had a very visible gray streak in her hair from the time she was in her late 20s. It actually looked pretty cool.
@augustlan I wish I had a streak. That would look pretty damn cool. But the random bothers me.
I guess when I was about 26/27. They’re silver, a real shiny silver so I’m incredibly happy about it. When I get fully gray I’m going to grow my hair long and do lots of braidwork to show off the shiny to its best advantage.
oops, i’m seeing ages, I was born with it. So I have had it all 22 yrs of my life.
26—it was a good thing, too, because then I could finally walk into a bar without being challenged about my age.
By my early 40s I was nearly all gray, and since my early 50s mostly all white.
But I still have it, and the hairdressers I see each comment on how “lovely and thick” it is—and it grows like a weed patch. (I think it must be all the fertilizer underneath the bone.)
I think about the age of 12 or younger. I get gray hairs every once in awhile, usually the women at the salon will notice it… “Ooops, you have a gray hair. Want me to pick it out?”
Technically, there is no such thing as grey hair. Yank one out and you’ll see it is white. The grey or “salt and pepper effect” is due to the proportion of white to black, brown, red, etc. pigmented hair.
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A friend found it for me.I was 30-ish.He now has a head full of grey hair and it looks pretty good.I will never tell him this…waaa haaa haaaa…..;)
I was 10 years old when I found my first white hair. I found three that day. They came in a few at a time after that and by the time I was in high school they were noticeable to other people, I had brown hair. The white came in all over with big streaks at the sides.
Teased and sprayed, I was Bride of Frankenstein for several Hallowe’ens. ;)
By 30 I was almost all white, a bit darker underneath in the back.
Now my hair is all white, with just a dark one here and there.
I have never colored my hair, many reasons why, and I’m glad I never did.
38. It was in the front. I have about 6 now.
I am 31, i saw a single strand of gray hair about a week ago.
And i said woooooottt! :)
Haven’t found one yet, I’m 23. I did have a freak out, thinking I had them…my friend (a hair stylist) assured me it was just blonde..but it looks grey to me since they’re these random blonde hairs…they shimmer too much to be grey though.
I forget when it started happening to my mother. She has always gotten her hair dyed, mainly to mask the red in her hair…in our family, you either go grey early or red..and she and I both get reddish hair it seems (as we age). Hers follows a specific pattern, close to her temples. She would never allow it to grow in though lol
17. It was an eyebrow hair that had grown twice the usual length, and for some reason one half of it was white. Haven’t had once since.
Found the first one when I was about 30. Now I’m 43 and I still don’t have a lot of them. If I take after my dad I won’t be fully grey until I’m about 60.
@wilma I was a natural blonde for many years, up until high school..and have scrutinized these lighter hairs…they’re definitely blonde.
Oh @casheroo I don’t doubt that they are blond, of course blond or any color of healthy hair can shimmer. I was just saying that white hair can shimmer too. :)
So may I ask what’s wrong with having grey or white hair?I was always told it’s a sign of wisdom. That’s why I don’t have a problem.
Some in my moustache in my late 40s. Now what little hair I have left is going salt-and -pepper. I’m thinking of shaving my head and going for a full beard. I have a “bowling ball” type of skull and an uncertain how well it will look shaved.
I’m gonna wash that gray right outta my hair.
Or has someone said that already? I didn’t see it.
@mrentropy “I’m one of those little old ladies who uses Silk and Silver!” ;)
I suppose anyone who remembers that is old enough to use it!
@wilma I honestly don’t remember that one. Maybe it’ll come to me later on.
@shego When it comes on all of a sudden and contrasts starkly with everything around it, its not so cute. Especially if you think you’re too young for it. :P
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