# When did you get your first gray hair?  How gray are you now?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 6, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-get-your-first-gray-hair-how-gray-are-you-now/288599 "2005-02-06T01:58:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-you-get-your-first-gray-hair-how-gray-are-you-now/288599/41 "2005-02-07T15:43:11Z")

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I noticed my first gray hair when I was 17.

Now, at 52, I’m 90% gray. I stopped listing my hair color as "black’ when I was 35.

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