And how’d you react?
I have… no… particular reason… to ask…
Mine are silver, but 26 was when I found the first. It didn’t take to the dye I was using at the time. I plucked it out. I stopped dyeing it a couple years ago as an experiment, didn’t really know what color my hair was after more than 25 years of a rainbow of colors, and since I knew there was a lot more gray than that first one I found at age 26, I was curious.
I have no idea how to determine what the percentage of gray is, but so far I like it. It’s still at a point where people just think I have chestnut brown hair, but once in a while someone will pluck at it to “get a piece of glitter” out, but it’s a silver hair. It glints in the sunlight and so far I really like it. Plus not coloring it every 6 weeks has been a relief. My biggest adjustment has been that there’s just enough now to affect the texture, and I seem to be going from the “oily” hair I’ve been used to my whole life to maybe “normal-to-dry” and that’s been the biggest adjustment trying to find shampoo and conditioner that work better.
It wasn’t really that momentous a day, so I’m not entirely sure.
I think I was about 30 and I still very rarely find gray hairs 5 years later.
That’s…probably not much consolation to you, as I’m guessing it’s happening earlier to you.
Well, if it helps, of all the ageing things, I think gray hair is one to fear the least. It looks pretty cool all else being equal.
Late 30s. It wasn’t me, sadly: it was my mother, who plucked it out and promptly got yelled at the top of my lungs. The conversation went along the lines of “oh, wait a minute plucks hair” “aaaaaiiiiiii! Whatthefuckdoyouthink you’re doing, howzabout you stick those hands where the sun don’t shine front side!” “But it’s a white hair!” “AND? Are you planning on leaving me bald if I end up being silver at 40? Hands off my head, period! Actually, hands off anybody’s head, for fuck’s sake!” “:oSorry…:o”
(46 now and I’m up to some 6 white hairs)
- Didn’t bother me one bit.
Wish I had bloody hair to go grey, u don’t know how lucky u are.
I think I had grey hair in my early 20s - if that helps. There were probably a few lurking around in my late teens, but by about 22 or 23 they came out of hiding and firmly established themselves as visible. I didn’t do anything about them, because what’s the point of arguing with genetics?
Now, in my mid 30s, I’d rather they stayed, because the problem now is lack of hair, and the colour can go hang.
Early twenties. I’m mid-forties now and I think, under the color, that I’m probably at least 80% gray (actually white). They’ve completely changed the texture of my hair, and it’s…not nice.
About 17. 18 more noticeably. Im a silver fox now at 34.
28 or so. Now, at 40, I have quite a few, but they are oddly concentrated on the sides of my head. As I keep my sides and back pretty closely cropped (#2 guard every other week), I look noticeably older if I need a haircut badly. If I let it go past two weeks, I stop getting carded for alcohol. 
Mid-twenties for me. I don’t remember paying much attention to it. I was totally gray by 40, and white by 45.
Approaching 32. I’m now approaching 38 and waiting for the second one.
Hoping my good luck holds - if I’ve still got less than 5% grey in September 2016, I’m going to donate my hair as my 40th birthday present to myself.
I thought it was definitive proof that I’d grow old with grey-white hair (like my irisih male relatives on mum’s side) rather (than going bald like the norwegian’s on my dad’s side. I have more hair than my brothers - but it’s getting close.
I was around 45 and really, it didn’t bother me much. My family had a much stronger reaction as this is the earliest anyone has started to gray. My siblings, to their relief, haven’t started yet and we’re all in our 50s now, so it’s clear I’m the anomaly.
Around 19 I think. I was hoping I’d go silver. I did not, and still haven’t. I am patchy and weird looking, what little hair I have.
I’ve never had good hair. And that sucks.
I wish it was only white/grey hairs. I started losing my hair when I was 18.
I was about 13, so I never really associated it with age, but with wisdom. 
I’m 60 and the first one has yet to appear. 
I hated that I inherited my hair from Dad’s side of the family - fine and straight and pretty much blah, but Dad was in his 70s before his first gray hair appeared. My mom, with her thicker, wavy hair, started graying at 40. One sister accuses me of coloring my hair to hide it, but I don’t - I just don’t care enough. When it turns, it turns. I’ve earned it, I won’t hide it.
My husband, on the other hand, is nearly 3 years younger than I, and his white hair started to show up almost 20 years ago. He’s the one who’s offered the senior discounts when we go out.
Started going bald at 24. First gray chest hair at 27. First gray hair on head at 28.
Going gray is far better than going bald.
It was about 7 years ago, so around 30.
I was at work washing my hands in the restroom, and the light caught a bright silver hair on my temple. I blamed my trainee at the time
Didn’t actually bother me at all, I have more now and I like the way they look.