Same pattern, but I’m 20 years younger.
The beard started graying after my son was born. I blame the Boy.
In my late 30s I started to develop a grey patch on the right side of my chin, which has very slowly begun to grow. A couple years ago (I’m now in my mid-40s), I began to find a significant amount of grey starting to appear around my right temple in particular and my left temple to a lesser extent. Aside from the odd grey hair elsewhere, that’s about it so far.
Head by at least a decade. My beard isn’t “greying” so much as I just have a decent number of those rogue white hairs that seem to grow more quickly than its brothers. Meanwhile my temples have quite a bit more salt than pepper and the rest of my head is slowly following suit.
Over the last year and a half, gray’s been blooming in my beard seemingly exponentially. Hardly a gray hair elsewhere, though there’s a few now that are growing in the crop of hair over the ears. I’m 41.
Head. I got my first gray hair when I was 17, and by 30 was noticeably gray at the temples. Even today, where my hair is almost white, my beard still keeps a lot of the original black.
The hair on my head STARTED getting greyer first. But the beard turned mostly/entirely white sooner.
I’ve never tried to grow a beard, but 7 years ago, when I was home with pneumonia for a week, I didn’t shave. And that’s when I learned that, IF I grew a beard, it would be nearly all white.
The hair started first, but at 50 it’s mostly its original color. My beard started later, but it’s been almost completely gray for a few years.
beard. If I have any gray hairs on my head, I haven’t seen them (haven’t looked, mind you.) grew out the beard for november, and the corners of my jaw were gray.
Approaching the mid century mark…got no gray hair on the head, beard, or otherwise.
My beard is noticeably greying. My head, conversely, has so few grey hairs they’re hardly noticeable.
So, for most men, beard seems to go grey first judging by the responses so far. Any idea why?
Beard; All kinds of weird white and grey there. Head has begun to acquire fine silver highlights, but not remotely on the same scale.
Not even 40 yet.
My father’s body hair went grey first. Then he went bald. Then his beard went gray. Dunno if that’s a Dominican thing. My uncles also have a similar experience.
Hair color: mousey-brown
Beard color: brown, dark brown, black, red. ( yeah, a real dog’s breakfast of colors)
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About age 45 chest hair started with grey
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Quickly followed by nether regions going grey
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then head hair got lighter and lighter, with a silver tint at certain angles and lighting, but mostly still mousey-brown
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beard still mottled with all colors including grey. But I don’t grow a beard anyway.
( when I did, was frequently asked if I dyed my beard hair to get all the colors :smack: ) -
Now 53, and grey slowly taking over, but beard is the last to go for me.
Beard, well before age 30. I was comfortably past 40 before I started getting noticeable grays on my dome.
Beard, but I only started letting my beard grow out about a couple of years ago - by which time male pattern baldness had made it pretty irrelevant whether the hair on my head was greying or not.
Now I shave my head completely bare once a week and trim my beard to about 5mm. The beard has white streaks that are more or less symmetrical - when I first grew the beard, my colleagues suggested that it looked like I was trying to climb face-first out of a badger. Oh well.
I had my first grey beardhair at 21. I’ve never had a single grey hair on my head.
Hair is blonde, beard is light ginger.
Beard went first, where the tash goes below the corners of the mouth. So If I go the goatee, basically the whole beard part would be grey but everything else is a mix of ginger and silver.
Temples are greying a little but the rest of the head, nothing obvious. Although a few greys mixed in the blonde would be hard to spot anyway.
I’m rapidly approaching the half century.
First ones on the back of the head, but the beard caught up and left them in the dust.