I noticed my first gray hair about 4 years ago, during the very stressful year after my son was born. I was 36. Now at 40 I have about 10 gray hairs visible on my head (I still have a full head of hair BTW).
How about you?
I’m 51 and I have yet to see the first. My husband is 47, and his beard is mostly white. He has a little white on his head, and a few stray white hairs on his arms and his chest. He started going white (takes after his dad) about 10 years ago or so.
Last year at age 26. My first two started around a scar from one of the times my head met a hockey stick. Now it’s starting to spread with out help from Easton. I’m up to 4 or 5.
I started going gray in my early twenties. Just a few, then they bred! By the time I was in my mid-thirties, it was salt-and-pepper. By my forties, it was more salt than anything. 3 years ago I shaved my head. To hell with the gray!
I’ve had a small gray patch on the back of my head since I was in high school. Now that I’m 42, I’d say that I still have brown hair. Maybe 1 hair in 20 is gray.
mid thirties. Now the hair around my face is getting very white/grey–but since I have blonde hair, it just looks more blonde.
Interesting tangential topic: I have a friend who had to have chemo for ovarian CA. She is doing well now, but of course, lost all her hair. It had been an uninteresting brown–now she is a sexy salt and pepper. It goes better with her skin tone, it’s thicker and more manageable…go figure!
I found my first grey hairs while I was living in Mississippi…that would have been around 1998, so I was 25. I’m 31 now, and I don’t have a lot, but a steady group of them on the left side of my head. When I remember, I yank them (it’s a fairly regular group of about 10 of them).
Just a couple of months ago, I noticed 3 or 4 short grey hairs sticking straight out of the top of my head. I have always dyed my hair, since I was 14, so if they were there before I doubt I would have noticed. I’m currently letting my hair grow out to natural again.
I’m thirty-four and I first noticed several grey hairs a few months ago.
On one hand it’s depressing.
On the other it makes me aware that life is short and I need to get started on my dreams now if I’m going to see them realized. I hold my husband and daughter a little closer every time I see one.
Got a few in my early to mid twenties. It’s seriously starting to pick up speed now I’m in my mid-thirties, but not so much as people notice right away. I don’t care if I’m grey or not, but the problem is I’m doing it in blotches, which looks weird. None of this distinguished grey temples stuff for me, I’m afraid. I’ve been asked, when sitting down, if I had been painting ( there’s a patch right on top of my head that looks like I’ve spilled something). I’m rather grey up my beard on the left side of my face, but not on my right. The whole thing is all over the shop, but now I’ve got an ultra buzzcut and my beard is trimmed right down, so it doesn’t matter.
I am 37. I have one 1 gray hair. I’ve had it for 3 years.
My sister in law (30yo now) has had gray hairs since she was 24. I dye my hair in the winter because my winter color is kind’a mousy; she dyes because otherwise she’d have to call herself “grey” instead of “raven”. An aunt of mine (70yo) had grey hair by the time she was 30; I always liked it; her hair is blinding white now and still beautiful.
What I would give to have gone gray at 24 instead of simply losing my hair. Instead of hair that a little Grecian Formula or something of that ilk could temporarily cover, I have to deal with “glare” coming from the dome region. That’s why I have taken to keeping my head shaved. While I might dye my hair if I felt it necessary, I can’t imagine getting hair plugs or taking Rogaine. Really it isn’t that important to me.