I remember vividly it was on my 29th birthday, because that was a rough time in many ways.
At first I simply snipped off the grey at the temples (Never pluck! Do you want to create bald spots? Damaged follicles don’t always grow back).
Started with grey cover a year later.
“Hid” the process from my wife for years, then one time just suggested it to someone discussing grey at a party. Once I learned my wife knew all along (from the obvious coloring smell in the bathroom), I felt a fool for thinking that I could hide such a thing, and fool for thinking I needed to. She’d been covering grey herself.
I got my first grey hairs (at the temples) when I was about 30. Never colored them or tried to disguise them in any way. I’ve thought about coloring my hair, but that’s just because I think I might look good as a redhead. Especially with all this hair. Might even take it out of the ponytail for that.
I have 3 grey eyebrows – they popped up at 30. I’ve colored my hair since I was 14, so for all I know I might have some grey hair, too. However, my hair color of choice at the moment is brown.
The thing I’m noticing most is that about a year ago my hair started getting wavy, and in some areas, actually curly. After having straight hair all my life, this is a weird thing to get used to.
I found my first grey hair at 25. Now at 36 I have grey strands through out my hair. I color but it is as close to my natural color as I can find. My BF on the other hand has completely grey hair and goatee and I think he looks very sexy.
I started getting grey hairs at 19. I have pictures from college that include a prominent grey streak right up front that almost looks phony. Then, suddenly, it stopped. My hair went back to chestnut brown.
A few years ago the director of my theater company cast me in the role of an elderly man, despite that fact that I was around 28 – half the age of the tenor who was supposed to be my son (!?!). So naturally I had to do something about my hair. The spray-on stuff they sell around Halloween is a mess and runs terribly when you sweat. So on the first night of dress rehearsals, I smeared white shoe polish into my hair. Once it dried, it looked like perfectly natural white hair with some dark streaks. I just had to be sure to comb it into place before it dried because it held like no mousse or gel you’ve ever seen. When I stepped out of the dressing room my wife looked up at me rather startled and told me that I looked amazing with white hair. She absolutely loved it.
Today, at the age of 33, my hair is still solid brown, but I’ve got grey patches in my beard. And I have no intention of doing anything to stop it.
First gray hair at 21. Never bothered to try to cover it up. Now, at 49, I shave my head and dye the goat. Not a lot…just enough to mute the gray, not get rid of it entirely.
Mine came in around my mid 30’s. My temples and that general area. I’m encouraging their growth and proliferation because I can raise my consulting rates accordingly.
I found my first grey hair in my early twenties. I’m 30 now, and have a few more than I did then, but nothing profound. I won’t color my hair unless asked to do so by The Blonde.
Mid teens, maybe 16. I’ll be 26 on friday. Tried to cover for a while, but it’s dye resistant, so if I dye my hair red (auburn, really), I get nice red hair with pink bits where a little bit of dye stuck to the grey. This washes out after a day or so.
Ardred used to pull them, but he can’t anymore, because I’d have a huge bald spot if he did.
He got his first on his head (lots in the beard, white, blond, red, etc) Feb. 15, 2005. It’s a day that will live in infamy. (he’s 30, btw).
I don’t have the cover option, so I’m trying to go gray gracefully. It’s hard sometimes, but when I keep my hair very short and spiky, it’s not nearly as noticable.
A few here or there started showing up in college, when my hair was naturally a dark blonde. Now, my hair has slowly gotten darker with the years, I’m a medium brown shot through with threads of silver. Which would be fine. But my right temple is developing a “hank” of grey. Ugly grey. “Did you spill paint on your head when they painted your office” grey. Me and Miss Clairol will be having a meeting very soon.
My dad went grey by the time he was 25. He fought it by using Grecian Formula for years. By the time he was 55, his hair had a distict mossy green tint. So we were finally able to convince him to stop it. My mom is 71 and just has little grey streaks at her temples.
I was in my first year of law school, back in my old college town visiting friends and fraternity buddies, when I noticed a bright white hair in the very front and middle of my hairline. I think I was around 30. I come from a family of early grayers; my mom says her hair looked heavily frosted with silver by that age.
I noticed when I was about 18 (I’m 24 now) and I have been noticing more. They aren’t really at my temples but about midway back on my head and noticable when I part my hair down the middle. I color my hair every once in a while - but more for fun and a change than covering anything. I’m hoping I’ll go silver like my father instead of grey like my mom (she covers it and it looks pretty natural). My dad also started going grey in HS and is now almost completely white and silver.
I was around 26 when I started noticing them on my head, then 28 or so when I started seeing them in my beard. (I won’t go any lower than that, for the sake of common decency). They’ve taken over the temples and most of the beard by this point, and are gathering around the back of my neck to stage a full-on assault of my head.
No plans to fight back, other than shaving my face when the beard gets too depressing to look at. It’s just too much effort.
In my late 20’s, I guess, I started getting the occasional grey hair. Throughout my thirties, I just had a white streak in my beard that I didn’t mind. Now, my sideburns have turned white and that sort of irritates me because it makes me look old (or at least my age, and I don’t need any reminders of that). But coloring it seems silly.
I am sort of surprised that medical science hasn’t figured out what causing greying and come up with a cure for it. You have to figure that it would sell like gangbusters, probably only second to viagra.
