It happens pretty early in my family. I’m thinking puberty. My older brother was salt & pepper by the end of high school or college I think. It took longer for me, but I’m sure I was spotting 'em around the same time.
My older sister went ambiguously blond at a young age, so no way to tell.
In my late 20s, I think. At the same time, my younger brother was getting a bit of a bald spot - the grey didn’t bother me much.
Hard to say. Probably mid to late 30s. I’m 46 now. Since I have to maintain a military style haircut I keep the sides very short. All my grey has been in the classic Reed Richards style. When its short you can’t even see it. I think I was getting grey beard hair first.
I got the first grey hair on my beard when I was only 20 but I haven’t noticed any grey hair on my head despite having very dark hair to contrast it with.
Ha! I have a friend who calls them platinum highlights.
I don’t know, six maybe? I’ve had a few hairs that are whitish my whole life. If they don’t slap you for doing it, take a really close look at a lock of a natural redhead’s hair sometime. You’ll definitely find some blonde hairs mixed in, and maybe white too. It’s one of the reasons red is hard to fake with dye.
I’ve found 1-2 a year since my late 20s.
I always pull them because they are mutants compared to the rest of my hair. Normal hair is dark brown, straight, and fine. White hairs tend to be thick and curly.
Shortly after turning 27.
I don’t call them white hairs. I call them wisdom hairs.
Also, not all of my white hairs are on my head…
Some of them are on my arms!
I’m 46 now; I don’t recall when I found my first grey hair, but it was long enough ago that it feels like I’ve ‘always’ had them. I also don’t recall my reaction, but I’m pretty sure it was something along the lines of “oh”.
My barber, who is an otherwise lovely bloke, can’t get it into his head that I don’t care about going grey, and no, sir would not like any “product”. As for his own hair, the guy is about 70, and his hair has so much black dye in it, it actually looks like it’s slightly blue. I’ve been told by a black-haired friend of mine that people with black hair who want to dye out the grey should NEVER use black hair dye, but rather the darkest brown they can find. I think he’s right, the black looks anything but natural.
ANYTHING but black!
The sallow skin coupled with the flat dyed black looks like a vampire! :eek: My elderly uncle thought he was fooling everyone with his Grecian Formula - even when he was too weak and sick to perform his own hygiene necessities, he DID dye his hair! Bless him.
About 30. Not that big of a deal. Nearly 40 now and rocking a Reed Richards ‘do.
Found one the other day, I’ll be 29 soon.
For the past few years I’ve had one single, solitary, thin white hair thats grows on the outside of my nose (on the left nostril, to be specific). It’s unlike any other hair on my body; very thin and light and totally white. I pluck it out when it gets long enough. And it grows back. Rinse and repeat.
Turning 40 this year, and have a sprinkling of white hair, mostly on the left side of my head and in my sideburns. Still not enough to usually be noticeable, and even had barbers disagree with me on whether I have any or not. They’re there, though, and they have a curl to them that my dark hair hasn’t; when I’m getting shaggy, they curl up and stick out.
Now, I won’t go into the white ear hairs I’ve been plagued with the last few years…
Late 30s. Three wispy white hairs in my forehead that have since fallen out and not returned.
16 here too, and have also found hairs that are white at the ends and gone back to black at the roots. Weird.
I’m 36 now, and still about 95% dark. But have found white hairs in my eyebrows which aren’t acceptable 
June 5, 1981, 3:07 PM EST
I started going gray while I was in high school (thanks, mom’s side of the family). It started going white when I was in my early 50s. If I quit using Just For Men today, I would be snow white within 3-4 months as it grows out and the dyed area gets cut off.
I was 10. It was the only for a few years, then I started finding one every now and again in my mid-late teens. Then it ramped up around 20, and by the time I was 22 I had temple wings. That’s when I started dyeing it, and I haven’t stopped since.