Grey Hair

[Seshat]

Anna just found my first grey hairs. (Or at least, first noticable ones.)

I'm 45, nearly 46. I apparently have three of them, right at the crown of the head.

[Seanette]

Took you this long?

I'm within a few months of your age (turned 45 in August), started noticing gray strands at 28.

[AnaKhouri]

Eh, I was 21. I am now 35 and have lots of beautiful white hairs, some quite noticeable. I think they look cool. I will never dye them.

I have very dark hair though and my mom says dark-haired people go grey/white earlier (I suspect it's just more obvious against dark hair). What color is y'all's hair (just curious)?

[Seanette]

Naturally dark brown. Currently red.

[dawnfire]

I was 35 when I noticed my first grey hair. I mainly get them around my hairline and on the nape of my neck. I'll admit I've plucked out some strange ones. I had one hair that (from root) went grey, dark brown (my natural colour) and grey again.

[Kittish]

I've been getting grey since I was in my teens. My hair is a mix of light brown and blond, so it isn't too noticable, except for the witch streak developing at my right temple. And even that isn't solid yet.

One of my step moms has been solid grey since she was 20, same as her mom was.

[AccountingDrone]

One uncle was solid grey at 20, I have had grey hairs since I was in my teens. My mom, on the other hand did not start going grey until in her 70s. No dye assist for my Mom. *sigh* She is 93 and did not start looking older than 65-70 until about 3 years ago at 90 when her alzheimers hit her badly enough that she was mostly nonfunctional with forming new short term memories.

[mathnerd]

Before I had kids I had fireball orange hair that was super thick and had curls that looked like Shirley Temple's did when she was a kid.

Then I got pregnant with my oldest (age 24). The color stayed the same, but my hair straightened out to the point where it's slightly curlier than wavy, but not those ringlets that I used to have. Eldest DS popped out with these amazing Shirley Temple ringlets.

At age 26 I got pregnant with middle DS. During the course of that pregnancy I notice my hair go from fireball orange to bleach-white. Guess who popped out with fireball orange hair? So much so that the doctor didn't say "It's a boy!", he said "It's a redhead!"

I was somewhat afraid of what would happen to my hair when I got pregnant with youngest DS. Thankfully, at least he had the decency not to steal my hair like his older brothers.

[Jay 2K Winger]

My hair started going gray early. I wasn't even 20 and I was getting gray around the temples. When I finally started shaving my head a couple of years ago (~30yrs old), I was pretty much salt-and-pepper.

[firecat88]

I started going grey when I was 18. I get it from my dad, who was completely salt-and-pepper by the time he was 30, and his mom, who started to go silvery-white around that age as well. Since the surgery, I've apparently had a lot of them grow in, but I'm on doctor's orders not to do anything more hazardous to my head than a dry cut for the next six weeks.

[MoonCat]

I was the last of four siblings to get noticeable gray hair...and I'm the second-born of the lot

I'm naturally brunette but I color it a dark red-brown because why the hell not. The color actually looks better on me than my natural brown. Someday when it's too much trouble or starts looking too fake I'll go silver

[XCashier]

I'm originally dark blonde/light brown, started going grey in my teens (got that from my dad, who was completely silver by 30). I normally dye my hair light brown. Last time I went too long between dye jobs, I saw that my roots were silver in three stripes; one at top center and two by my ears, all going back, like a cross between Rogue of the X-Men and the Bride of Frankenstein!

Eventually, I'll stop dyeing my hair, when it's completely white or I'm 50, whichever comes first. Or maybe when it's completely white, I'll try a blonde dye job and freak my hubby out!

[Jester]

My mom started going grey when she was....well, no one really knows, since Mom pounced on that shit like the Secret Service protecting the President from snipers. She started dying her hair at some point, but she had some really good shit, because it was (A) her natural color, and (B) didn't look like it was dyed. Combine that with the fact that everyone in my family looks younger than they are (I got carded in August in an Orlando bar--I'm 44), and no one really even noticed or thought about my mom's hair. Which was exactly what she wanted--for it to be unnoticed and under the radar.

Finally, a few years ago, Mom said screw it, and stopped dying her hair....and in very short order, her head was completely grey. And yet, despite that, the woman still doesn't look anywhere near her 79 years.

Myself? I've noticed a couple grey hairs here or there over the last few years, but nothing major. The oddity on my head is my goatee. It has various random white hairs. Not grey, mind you, but white. But that's not a recent thing. When I grew my first mustache at the age of 18, there were some white hairs in that, too. Mom says Dad had the same deal with his facial hair. The difference is, as I've aged, the white hairs have increased in population. My latest goatee, recently grown, has definite white hairs that can't be missed. Meh. Whatever. At least they're not grey. And I can always shave the goatee off, as I often do.

[Food Lady]

I have medium golden brown hair with a few sparklies, as I call them. They are the color of chrome. I noticed them a couple of years ago and I just turned 41. I think it will be a while before any grey is really noticeable; I must take after my dad rather than my mom. He's nearly 80 and still has nearly-black hair. He'll go bald before he goes grey.

[LillFilly]

I started getting them at 23 or so. 10 years later I'm almost 40% grey, pretty even distribution. I usually self-color with a dark auburn. Hey, at least I'm not going bald...