What’s left of my hair is red. Though it’s become browner since I was a kid.
My mom is in her late 40s and you can’t really see gray, her hair is just lighter than when she was younger. Her grandmother, who was the only previous redhead in the family, died in her early 60s and hadn’t gone gray. I’ve heard red takes the longest to look gray because we have different colors in our hair anyway, from white to blood red, which is more pronounced than other colors’ variations from strand to strand.
Hello nurse!! How you doin? 
This reminds me of the story that my grandfather keeps repeating (because of the impending birth of my child) of how terrible it was to see bright red hair on his newborn son’s (my dad’s) head. He’s never explained why it upset him (my hunch is some kind of superstition), but it bothered him enough to keep my dad’s hair cut so short as he was growing up that he came to be called Butch. We hope our kid has flaming orange hair just to spite him.
At any rate, he seems to be OK with my reddish-brown mane. It’s slowly but surely becoming tinged with gray…at the tender age of 26! Carpet is a duller shade of the curtains, but my facial hair is noticeably redder.
Is your grandfather Italian, brix? There’s an old Italian superstition that redheads are bad luck.
elfkin, my grandmother (also a redhead) started going grey when she was 19, and had white hair by the time she was 30. I’ve found a few strands over the past couple years, and I’m not liking it.
Germanic origins, but Roman Catholic. That probably explains it!
Could happen. I’m told, or rather was told by my mother, that when my sister brought a friend home to see the new baby her friend blurted out, “But, Eleanor, he’s got ORANGE hair!”
Yes, sadly, I have to add that my hair also has a shock of silvery gray hairs, on the front right. I’m only 26, as well, however, I’ve had this gray hair since I was 14. My mother went gray early, as well, so it might not necessarily be red hair, but genes unrelated to red hair. Perhaps genes related more to gray hair
She never went completely gray, though, and at 46, she still looks incredibly young.
Both she and my grandmother are Roman catholic, as well. I never thought of the connection before - must have been a double threat, then! Cursed by a redhead, cursed with red hair… oh, whatever are we to do? Bah!
Me. Starting going grey at around 16, so I “clean up” the color every couple of months or so, as close to natural as I can find. Carpet matches. 
As, in fact, she is.
He beat me to it. But another redhead checking in! 
Of course, but what I mean is that she looks like she’s MY age! So maybe “incredibly young” was the wrong phrase… let’s just say, she looks at least as young as her baby girl - ME
I’ll see if I can find a cite for that one… I say she’s a freak. 
Another checking in. I have dark auburn hair, but with brown eyebrows, and brown body hair. But down below is a color of something fierce! (Something I’m sure you all wanted to know. )
I’m a redhead, although I’ve been called “strawberry blonde”, “copper”, and “ginger.” Oh, and I’m a lefty which makes me a total freak.
Hooray!
I used to have a red beard. Now it’s gray.
Tris
“In my opinion, there’s nothing in this world, Beats a '52 Vincent, and a red headed girl.” ~ Richard Thompson ~
I was merely commenting on the relativity of “old” and “young.”
When I was in the Army I looked at our squadron commander as, not “old” exactly but certainly “mature.” He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1940 so in 1944 he was all of 26.
My hair was red when I was little, up until I was about 12 or 13. I come from a large family of redheads, ranging from a natural burgundy to very light strawberry. My mom has auburn hair, or she did until it started going grey.
See here, warning, nekkid kid pic.
I have no idea what to call it now, it’s darkened to somewhat of a very dark ashy blonde. No gold, very little red left, it’s sort of no color. Odd. Oh, and I don’t have a single recent pic of me since I went back to my natural color.
I actually prefer my hair dark, now that I’m grown into my face and stuff. I have always been very fair, with light freckles and rather dark eyebrows, grey eyes.
The carpet’s sort of odd, too, burgundyish.
Flaming red, sometimes with blond highlights. All auxiliary hair is dark brown with red highlights.
I’m an orange head, exactly 5’2, 130lbs but russian voice I’m strong like bull, blue eyes at birth but now sea green. My hair is 3 feet long from scalp to tip, gaudy I know but I’m growing it out for locks of love… or life, whatever. It’s thick enough to separate into two braids when they cut it so I will make 6 wigs!! Yea me.
I am a goddes. Bring me grapes. And men.
I’m a lefty redheaded freak, too!