I’m in my fifties and I have a lot of gray hair, beard and head both. It’s never bothered me and I don’t really think about it that much. My best freind from work is 44 and he has those ‘temple wings’ of gray hair, I personally think they look very distinguished and wish mine was like that instead of the pepper-shot look I have. But, everytime my friend gets a haircut his roots ‘go black’. When his mustache starting getting grey hairs he shaved it off. I tease him about it and for a long time he denied doing it, but I finally broke him down. He said his wife likes it that way.
So my question is for the men, do you dye your hair/beard? And if you do, why?
Started going grey when I was 21, and every year it just got worse. Hated looking older than I was. Now, at 48, I look a good 10 years younger. Grey isn’t evil, but why should the women get all the fun of “changing your look?”
I do, but there’s nothing wrong with my current color, I just like variety. Tonight I think it’s going to be strawberry blond. or orange, depending on how crappy the color I bought at walmart is. Word to the wise, if you like your hair, don’t buy the cheap $3 colors at walmart. I don’t care, but some people don’t like to buy red hair color and have purple hair, or blonde and have orange hair. Just a friendly FYI. (I’m 24 btw)
I’m 38 and have the grey temples thing going. I think my 40’s will be a race to see whether my hair goes grey before it falls out, or the other way around. My wife likes the grey… guys are lucky that way.
I dyed my hair black (permanent) for Halloween. It’s kinda cool, and certainly changes my look. The ladies (including my wife) seem to like it too. Tomorrow I’m getting it all shaved off, though (down to a 1/4 inch, not bald).
As for a more permanent dying of my hair… nah. And if I had a beard (extremely unlikely… disgusting things, those)… also, nah.
I would like to because I am going over the hill the second time. I will be 75 on my next birthday. But my wife says it is a no win situation because once you do it, you have to do it over and over again to keep the roots the same color as the top.
I dye my goatee… I’m 38 and over the past five years it’s gotten greyer, and greyer, and greyer… now it’s salt and pepper. Mostly salt. So occasionally I dye my chin. But usually I just trim it back.
But there’s no grey on my head… I have a nice long, thick head of hair, long enough to touch my waist if I tilt my head way back.
But ladybug did find a few greys on my chest, and… umm… elsewhere…
I’e dyed and bleached my hair on and off for about a decade. I don’t really know what my natural head color is. My goatee is a different color and so is my body hair. I do it because I like playing around with the colr and also because I have more grey than I’d like at age 35.
I’m doing the tiny chin-beard thing and it just doesn’t look right in salt-and-pepper, so I dye it to my natural–dark brown–color. If I were not doing sales engineering (meaning “you have to look business-like”) I’d dye it jet black and bleach half my head blonde.
New & Improved Scott dyes his hair more often than I do. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is an accomplishment.
It’s not to cover grey, but it’s fun and variety: blond, black, red, blue, purple etc. As long as he doesn’t do that mokawk thing again, I’m good with it.
I hadn’t dyed or bleached my hair in ages, but a couple weeks ago I got some blonde streaks put in professionally. It’s almost summer here, so I figured a change was in order.
Hurt like a bitch having my hair (it’s only an inch or so long) pulled through that rubber cap with what appeared to be a crochet hook, but I like the look. Cost me $50, which is a bit less than what I was expecting to pay–it took over 2 hours.
I have used Grecian for Men’s Beards about 3 or 4 times.
It gets out the gray, and closely matches my hair color ( the “Medium Brown” ). However, it only lasts a day or two, then the gray comes shining through again…
Dunno what to do about the gray up top. I’m 41, and vain beyond any reasonable measure. ( It’s true. ). I’m gonna leave the top alone to go slowly gray naturally. But, that’s just me.
I started going gray in college, and now at the ripe old age of 31 I’m pretty much salt & pepper (heavy on the salt). I really don’t notice it and it never crossed my mind to color my hair.
My older brother on the other hand can’t stand his gray hair. He doesn’t color it very frequently though, and he looks really weird (to me) switching back and forth several times a year.