My hair is greying and I don’t know what to do either. I am 33. I used to streak and lighten my hair but I stopped last year when I noticed the roots were coming in with more grey because I have never been good about touchups and even though I think dark roots look a bit bad, I think grey roots look very bad. So I thought given my track record I would have to decide whether I want to just go grey naturally or become more vigilant about retouching.
My hair is dark blonde so grey hairs don’t give me that nice silvery contrast, they just make my hair look dull and mousey.
At 45, I’ve got more than a dozen in my beard, a handful in the “sideburn” area in front of my ears, and maybe 5 among the hairs towards the front of my head, nice long ones.
My sister went grey at 30.
My Mom’s Mom finally started getting her very first grey hairs around 83 or 85, thereabouts, although by the time she died at 92 they outnumbered the black ones.
My girlfriend got her first greys in her early 20s.
I’m 34 and I have salt & pepper hair. More salt than pepper. My hair started out dark brownand now there’s LOTS of silver in it. I actually have more grey hair than my father. Dont plan on coloring it. Why change what you’ve got, especially when women love it!
But like I always say, it may be turning grey, but at least it ain’t turning loose!
I like women with grey hair. Emmylou Harris is HOT with her hair like that.
I got my first grey hairs when I was 21. And I definitely say don’t dye them! My hair’s not dark - but it used to be really really blonde & got darker as I got older - I’m sure it did it deliberately just to make the grey show up more! But despite that joke, they don’t bother me.
I started getting gray hairs at 18. Chicks dig it.
Which probably doesn’t help you too much.
However, if this were a Star Trek episode, you’d be evolving into a white tiger or something. Which would be cool, although it would make it more difficult to pursue your career as Bridge Control Expert.
But that probably isn’t too helpful, either.
Getting all grossed out by gray hair is one of those things that people have to get over, or prepare to be grossed out by all their friends and family during the latter portions of their life.
I’m not bothered by the fact that I’m getting gray (actually silver) hairs. I got my first at the age of 19, although grad school added considerably to the count.
The main reason I color my hair is that the rest of my hair has darkened over the years from a light brown with blonde highlights to a much darker, listless ashy brown. I color close to my old hair color (if a bit darker) just so that it doesn’t look too blah. At whatever point I get the sense that the silver is winning the battle, I’ll step back to all-natural.
Oh please, give me a break. She would look hot if her hair was blonde, brown, black or red. It’s not the gray hair, it’s the woman. And any woman whose hair has gone solid gray/silver looks better than the salt & pepper stage, which just looks old and tired.
I always thought I’d be a “let it age naturally” kind of girl, until I realized that it just made me look old. I’m not hot, so I can’t distract them with my body and my face. Clairol is my friend, and I found a shade that matches my original color perfectly (I still have the braids I got cut off on my tenth birthday…so glad I kept them, if only to use as swatches!)
I don’t like Henna, I’m afraid. Henna doesn’t get the subtle shading of my hair…it’s all one color or nothing! I don’t particularly like hair dye either, and for now don’t intend to use any. The only ones that really annoy me are the two grey hairs in my bangs.
Ethilrist, I’m not grossed out by my grey hairs. Just befuddled. You know, this isn’t supposed to happen to me. With no false modesty, my hair is beautiful. I’ve taken super-good care of it all my life. I used no chemicals in it until I was close to 20. The curls are still healthy and natural, and I only cut it enough to keep it healthy. I never even blowdry it.
And after all that it still decides to go grey? That’s gratitude for you.
However, I guess I don’t mind evolving into a white tiger.
I’m 29, and I first started getting grey hairs when I was 27. I now have quite a number right along my center part. I have dark blonde hair, so the greys aren’t really noticeable at this point.
I’ll probably just let myself go grey, I don’t want to deal with touching up roots all the time. I’ve also decided to grow my hair long again. I don’t want to end up with the standard middle-aged lady’s haircut: short, layered, permed, and colored. I’d rather look like a wacky hippy with long, grey hair.
Elenia, I didn’t mean to say that you were grossed out, just a certain segment of the population.
Chances are that the hair you’ve been taking care of isn’t responsible for the greyness–it’s a change at the root of the hair, often caused by scar tissue or other injury to the skin the hair’s growing out of. I have a scar on my chin that’s barely noticeable, but that was the first place a patch of gray hair showed up.
You know what I really find cool? Those neat little patches of white that some people have in their bangs. I saw a mother and her son shopping once that had identical white patches in otherwise very dark brown hair. It looked really cool, especially in a matching set.
Wel, I’m glad to hear that, because I have two white hairs in my bangs. My bangs are very short - less than 2 inches, most of the time - so you really see the white. We shall see if it becomes a patch.
But despite that joke, they don’t bother me.