We must be sisters! I am 28, almost 29, and I have been getting more and more greys since I was about 24. And mine are silver, really really shiny silver, so they really stand out against my dark brown hair. I am NOT happy about it. I started coloring it about a year ago. I think I am going to have to do that for the rest of my life… I don’t want to go grey!
Yeah, me too. The greys don’t hold the color very well. Shit! 
Salt & pepper hair is hot. I’m serious. Hot, hot, hot.
How you doin’?
My infrequent lighter hairs are silver. I kind of like them. They’re pretty hard to notice anyway since my other hairs are various colors from blonde to medium brown.
I started noticing grey hairs when I was 15. I don’t see the big deal.
My boyfriend is just shy of 27 and not only does he have some grey, he’s also losing his hair. It’s not a big deal, really.
I haven’t seen any yet (at 28), but I hope I get one of those cool streaks when I do. I’ve got really dark brown hair and a streak would look fabulous. I’m afraid that won’t happen, but I can hope, right?
I thought it was a myth too until it happened. Some people really like the white streak, but I didn’t, so I colored.
I’m a big fan of plucking them out. This system worked extremely well for me for years, ever since I saw my first gray hair at age 19. They didn’t start to get to be a problem until age 28 or so, and yanking them out worked very well for 10 years. Finally, when I began to be a bit obsessive about searching them out and destroying them, I turned to highlighting, and then quickly to just coloring my hair by myself. Now, 10 years later, what grows in at the roots is more gray than brown, so there’s no way I’m stopping now! Especially when I realized that of all the women in my church choir over the age of 35, only one was naturally gray, and she looks 10 years older than her actual age. And my sister, who doesn’t color her hair, looks so tired and old with all that gray. My hair is in great shape (except that it is falling out, which is a result of my recent surgery and temporary) and in about 10 years I will start lightening the color up (I learn so much from the choir!) so that I don’t get that stark, old-lady-who-dyes-her-hair look.
If you want black, get some indigo and apply it to your hair after you henna it. You will get a glossy raven’s-wing black that looks as natural as the henna does, as it will still retain the individual hair’s colors underneath and not turn everything all the same color. The all the same is what makes chemical hair dyes look so fake. You can also make a mix of henna and indigo to get an intermediate color or brown, rather than black. If you like the red, getting a really dark-staining skin-quality henna will give you a rich auburn instead of the bright orange sunset of doom color.
Disclaimer- I’m a professional henna artist who sells all this stuff, so I’m biased.
HennaDancer
Orange hair of doom, hahaha. Thanks for the tip. I’m still really young and young-looking despite the silver hairs so I’m okay for now with a red tinge to my hair but my mother says that by the time I’m in my mid-30s I’m going to start getting silver streaks so maybe I’ll bust out the indigo at that point.
My parents are both really suspicious of very dark-staining henna (the kind where it practically goes brown) because they claim that it has chemical additives. The variety of henna where we’re from in Maharashtra turns the skin a coral colour. In any case, my mom looks good with her really red hair but that’s only because she has the most golden coloured skin I’ve ever seen so it works out for her (dubious ethnic origin). On the other hand, I’m a tawny brown so I need darker tresses, I think.
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If henna stains anything other than reddish-brown, it’s not henna, and I’m glad to hear about more people being aware of how dangerous it is. Usually it’s either paraphenylenedianine (PPD) which is amain consituent in chemical dyes, or nigrosene or other leather dye, which is still carcinogenic if not immediately harmful to most.
However, there are individual differences between hennas from different climates and soils. For example, I sell two hennas, and with exactly the same recipes get two different results. The Indian one gives a bright, orangey color on my hair and on my palms stains coral at first, then darkens to a cool brown and fades in 3-4 weeks. The Yemeni one gives a dark auburn on my hair, and on my palms gives a deep pumpkin color which darkens to a mahogany or warm black and fades in 4-5 weeks. Saudi henna is known for its red color, whicle Moroccan stains moreinto the brown range.
I was using the stuff from Yemen on my har for a while and when I ran out a couple months ago, I let the hair grow a bit to see what color it really was now, since I’ve been hennaing it for eight or so years. I found white or grey hairs all along my scalp, which I hadn’t noticed before due to the henna’s coverage. A big part of that is that the henna I use is VERY fresh and skin-quality, so it has more tannins available to stain skin than the usual stuff bought from a store counter.
HennaDancer
I’ve had a couple of grey hairs, but after keeping my head shaved for a couple of years, when I decided to let my hair grow back, I noticed that I didn’t have any grey hairs anymore. Both my parents started going grey at about the same age I am now, but I’m kind of the genetic freak of the family. I was the only one born with blonde hair, and it’s slowly darkened over the years, but my hair is still lighter than everyone else’s in the family.
Oh, and I’d like to say that I think women who wear their grey hair proudly are smokin’ hot!!! 
That makes sense, HennaDancer. Thanks for the info. My family is Indian so that’s why my parents insist that henna should turn your skin a golden coral-delicate maroon colour. I have been at weddings where the bride’s design is practically black and my parents have insisted that such a colour is absolutely unnatural for Indian varieties.
And yes, I will personally attest to choosing your henna carefully. When we first moved to North America my mom picked some dodgy henna up somewhere and it blistered her skin and since then she’s become very careful about what she puts on.
I’m another one who started growing grey in my teens, kinda weird idn’tit? I didn’t worry overmuch about it, got a bit tired of explaining to ignorant folks that no, in fact, grey hair isn’t caused by worrying nor am I a stress-basket. Amazing how many people still think that.
I didn’t start coloring to cover the grey until I hit thirty, by then I was near fifty percent and that felt too severe for my age. It’s like the “talk to me, not my boobs” things, but instead people are staring openmouthed at my head. Coloring has the additional benefit of softening the…wiriness (is that a word?) of the greys and they blend into my curls better instead of sticking out in every direction.
I’m not quite afraid or ashamed of being grey, I’m just not ready yet. 
I started finding the occasional gray hair at the age of 11 or so, and by the time I was 22, I had gray streaks at the temples. (Since I tended to wear my hair pulled back most of the time, they were fairly obvious.) I’ve been coloring my hair since then, and it’s really no big deal. I go with a color that’s fairly close to my natural shade, just a little redder (my hair’s ash-brown with gold and red highlights anyway.) Between the tendency for the red dye to fade over time, and the closeness to my natural color, the roots tend not to look too bad if I neglect them. I leave it on a normal time, not the time suggested for fully covering gray, so the gray hairs stay a bit lighter than everything else and make natural highlights.
My white hair is pretty noticeable if you’re paying attention. I noticed my first couple, I think, in high school. I am 25 now and I have a ton. I don’t care. 'Course I’m a guy and it’s supposed to be “distinguished” for us. But seriously, I don’t think there is any threat of me actually balding, and I’d rather have a full head of white/gray hair before 30 than go bald by 50… So I don’t mind getting more gray hair so much.
I’m 26 and I’m up to four grey hairs 
. I actually think it’s kinda cool and so does my fiance.
I can’t say when they started showing up. I’m a shaved head man myself and just started to grow it back out. First there was two. Then during my last haircut, two more popped up. All of them are on the right side of my head: two near the back of my head and two near the front.
FTR, I think salt-n-pepper hair and beards are hot (on men).
I’m seventeen, and I noticed my first gray hairs today. Granted, they’re just the results of not washing my hair yesterday after being splattered with gray paint, and I can fix the situation with one quick shower, but still!
I started turning gray when I was 16 and throughout my 20s and 30s had a really nifty white streak just right of center and really loved it. Then it started getting more mixed in all over. I still liked my hair but it made my skin look like crap and all of a sudden colors looked different on me. It was strange. So I hit the bottle. 