# I'm getting grey hair and beard, and I'm not even 30! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2012, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712 "2012-08-07T07:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/21 "2012-08-07T21:54:14Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Dude, what are you blathering about? Are you complaining about looking young or looking old? :dubious: You’ve made posts in other threads about how “cursed” you are about your boyish looks. I have the face of a high schooler with grey hair…lol. Mods please spare the rod on Ambivalid! ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/22 "2012-08-07T22:56:40Z")
My mum’s best friend started greying in her teens and was completely grey by her mid 20s. My best friend started greying early and was 60% grey by her mid 20s (I found my first grey hair at 31, and am still waiting on the second. She called me names when I told her). What I take away from that is that mum and I are hard on our friends 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/23 "2012-08-07T23:55:04Z")
Better than balding. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/24 "2012-08-08T00:07:15Z")
I have almost entirely white hair now. I was very recently told by a certain young lady that if I were to dye my hair, I would look in my early 30s. She doesn’t WANT me to, because she says that it is sexy. Apparently, the incongruity between it and my almost complete lack of wrinkles is notable. I asked her because when we went to a dance club last weekend, I noticed I was the oldest person there. She told me that I was the sexiest person there (with white hair, I suppose). ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/25 "2012-08-08T00:15:44Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Dude, what are you blathering about? Are you complaining about looking young or looking old? :dubious: You’ve made posts in other threads about how “cursed” you are about your boyish looks. I’m the same way though. People always think I’m about a decade younger than I am but they probably wouldn’t think that anymore if I wore my hair up in public because then it’s really noticeable at my temples. I get some white hairs (my normal hair is almost black and my old person hairs are stark white) on other parts of my head too but I yank most of them out. I recently had to stop at my temples because there are just too many there ☹ I’ve always had some weird white hairs though, but it used to be that half the time they were white at the tip and half the time they were white at the root end (sometimes even striped back and forth a few times). Once I started noticing way more of them being white at the root than the tip, that’s when I knew I was doomed. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/26 "2012-08-08T00:41:19Z")
What’s really interesting is when your beard’s got different colours than your head hair. I’ve seen guys with brown hair and multi-coloured bears; that’s gotta be frustrating! I’ve been dying my hair for 30 years, so I’m sure it’s grey, I just don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/27 "2012-08-08T00:57:07Z")
If you’re a guy, all I can say is ROWRR! Really, most guys don’t start really looking good until they begin to get some white hair in the mix. missred, who began to grey at ~20 years old and have camoflaged it ever since. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/28 "2012-08-08T01:00:01Z")
ha! Try going gray AND balding before 30. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/29 "2012-08-08T01:03:47Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I have the face of a high schooler with grey hair…lol. > > Mods please spare the rod on Ambivalid! Gotcha. To commiserate; I have grey hair as well (I’m 32). I’ve had it since I actually _was_ in high school. I have been shaving my head for the past eight years or so, and I recently grew it out for the first time in those eight years. I was shocked at the overwhelming whiteness to my new hair. :eek: I went back to shaving it. ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/30 "2012-08-08T01:20:15Z")
Mine started turning at around 27. I let it go for over a decade + and then one day, I was walking through the local grocery store and they had Clarol Natural something or other on clearance for $1.50 and thought, “what the heck” it will grow out if I hate it. It was fun at 40 to look like I was in my early 30’s. It colored the hair and beard. I freaked out that the skin under and around my beard looked black, but it washed off. Will I keep it up like the Mother-in-law? No, but when it grows out is when I need a hair cut any way, so I have no roots showing when I go in to the Sports clips and I come out fully S&P. I think of it like any other grooming I do, and sometimes I just let the grey show for months at a time. It’s just a matter of what I want to see when I look in the mirror… ---
**Author:** ![ceilidh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@ceilidh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ceilidh)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/31 "2012-08-08T02:29:02Z")
I’ve had students who have started getting their first grey hairs their sophomore year of high school! ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/32 "2012-08-08T03:16:27Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > It’s weird, but not completely unheard of. I used to work with a guy who was completely and totally silver by the time he was 35. . Yes, I’ve known two twins who had grey hairs around 30 too. I also had a lock of white hair in my early 20s, but it never went beyond that until I was 40+. Apart from dying your hair, I can’t see what you could do. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/33 "2012-08-08T03:19:36Z")
My first gray hairs showed up when I was a junior in high school. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/34 "2012-08-09T06:51:21Z")
I don’t care so much about grey hair on my head, but a few months ago I found one on one of my eyebrows and I plucked that sucker within seconds flat. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/35 "2012-08-09T18:52:56Z")
Hey, you know what’s worse than grey and balding before 30? Grey and balding \*after \*30. Because then you don’t just \*look \*old, you really \*are \*old. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/36 "2012-08-09T18:57:16Z")
I’m 26 and for a couple years now people have been commenting at how shocked they are when they notice how grey my hair is. I’m thinking by the time I’m 40 I will probably be completely grey. No plans on coloring it! I kinda like the Steve Martin/Anderson Cooper look! ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/37 "2012-08-09T19:43:01Z")
I started getting grey hair when I was sixteen. It started becoming noticeable around 21/22. It started becoming necessary to dye it about 3-4 years afterwards. My hair is still mostly dark, mind, but the area right around my part is where the grey is concentrated, so it’s super noticeable. I have one or two grey eyebrow hairs, as well. And then the other day, I found (spoiler for those who don’t want to know): …a grey pube. Fuck me, I’m not even thirty… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/38 "2012-08-10T21:36:56Z")
I worked with a fellow, many years ago, who was full-on salt-and-pepper by the time he was 24. Of course, he was a bit of a jokester, so the office opinion was that he got another gray hair every time he told a lie :D. And as others have said, be glad you have it at all - two of my brothers were visibly balding by 30. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/39 "2012-08-10T22:17:43Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Happened to me. I was losing my hair before I was 30. Sucks, but what can ya do? Well, actually there are a few options, but I chose none of them. Perhaps to my detriment. The same thing happened with me. I’m probably older than you, and in my time there were few if any options available. There is a positive aspect to going bald at an early age, at least compared with going bald in middle age. In the latter, and far more common scenario, advancing baldness seems to be a blatant symbol of the fact that you’re no longer a young man. But if you’ve already lost most of your hair while you are still obviously young physically, in every other way, it can actually be less painful. I admit, I’d rather have kept my hair. But since I did lose it, I’m actually grateful it happened years ago, long before I reached the typical age at which it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712/40 "2012-08-11T03:24:47Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > …Then we did it and it rocked! > Use it man! Made me smile. My hubby and I shared a somewhat similar moment. 🙂 > [@Taomist](#): > > Trust me, many, many women find it sexy, especially with dark hair. I’ve dated an inordinate percentage of early-greyers, including a few who were going gray at 20. Mrrow!! I am one of those women…mmmrrrow! > [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](#): > > …And then the other day, I found (spoiler for those who don’t want to know): > > …a grey pube. > > Fuck me, I’m not even thirty… Sorry **Angel** but this was hilarious 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-grey-hair-and-beard-and-im-not-even-30/630712.md?page=1)