I should say perhaps more accurately when did you NOTICE, you’re first gray hair.
I recall my first gray hair was on my birthday when I turned 27, I was looking in the rear view mirror of my car and saw it. AWWWW → PANIC → I was old.
Of course it had to be there long before but I just noticed it.
So when did you first notice your hair was turning gray
I found one in the 4th grade. Just the one, and after it fell out I didn’t see any more for a few years, but I was finding them regularly by my sophomore year of college and started dyeing my hair to cover the gray by graduation.
I noticed mine just before my 30th birthday. I have super curly brown hair and found this long, straight, dead-looking hair just sitting in amongst the curls.
I made an appointment for my 30th birthday to have my hair highlighted. That way I could “cover up the gray” without having to “dye my hair”. It just mixes in with the blonde bits now.
Until I was about 20, my hair was blond. Then it started to darken a bit. Then when I was about 25 it seemed to be lightening again. I thought I was going to have blond hair again. Wrong. By the time I was 30, it looked pretty much like my profile pic.
Do gray/white eyelashes or eyebrows count? I have a couple of those, but I’ve had them for as long as I can remember and don’t yet have any gray hair on my head.
My first one was at 14. By 17, I had maybe 10. At 31, I have two solid white patches at my temples and a fair amount of silver tinsel strands throughout the rest.
My mother used to find the occasional gray hair when she was brushing my (dark brown) hair when I was a child.
There were enough grays that I started coloring it to cover them by the time I turned 18. I imagine my hair is mostly gray under the dye now (in my 30’s). At least when I let the roots grow out too far it appears to be entirely silver/gray.
The other day, I plucked one of the grays because it would not lie down reasonably with the rest. When I looked at it closely, I found that it was only about half gray. The end with the root was still brown. WTH?
Found a couple on the temple around age 30. Maybe a dozen on my hands & arms now (35). Also have a bunch of grey on my chest hair. All the ladies say it looks distinguished.