How old were you when you noticed one? How did you react?
I was about 17. My hair was black, and it really stood out: one silver gray streak among the night.
I liked it. Partly because of something I read that implied people once thought premature graying was a sign of intelligence.
I started turning noticeably gray in my 30s. I still liked it – it’s a nice, silver gray that I think looks good on me. Now it’s mostly gray, with a few black highlights.
How about you?
Probably around 15-17 as well. I have thick short brown hair and one gray wirey one sticking straight out on the side of my head. I’m 24 now and have probably pulled 10 or 15 gray hairs out of my head, but none in the past several years.
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I still have it 6 years later.
It’s mounted and framed with a lablel bearing the name of a particularly troublesome 9th grader in my class that year.
He was very proud.
erm, make that 8 years later…wishful thinking.
My first gray hair showed up when I was 20. It showed up very nicely in my very-dark-brown hair.
Here is the thread I started not too long ago on this:
My very first hair came out when I was 17. I only had three, and it stayed that way until very recently (I’m 28).
Now I notice a lot more coming out. Still not enormous amount, though.
My hair turned gray quickly, the summer of the year I was 42 – which was also the year we took in the three teenage boys as de facto foster parents. I had a tailor-made comeback to any smartalec comments they made about “getting old and gray,” thanks to that fortuitous timing.
My parents found my first one when I was five. I’ve always had a few. In the last few years it’s starting to come in at the temples quite a bit. I’m 29, and the rest of my hair is still black, so it’s not too noticeable yet.
My mom’s hair went white when she was 38, and her father’s hair was completely white by the time he was thirty, so I guess I’m beating the odds for that side of my family. Funny enough, my grandmother (mom’s mom) didn’t have much in the way of grey. When she passed away at the age of ninety, her hair was mostly black, with a few small streaks of grey.
I’ve only found one, and it’s been there for a year. Except it’s not on my head it’s down lower, and I can’t pluck it because it hurts. Looks really funny too.
Don’t remember exactly, but I have been going grey for a long time. Since my mid-teens, I guess.
I, like my late brother, started around age 17. The hairs right along the part in my hair started to go, followed quickly by others. Now, I’m no longer “dark brown with a few gray hairs,” I’m “gray, with a few brown ones left.” I’m 40, BTW.
My grandmother was completely gray by the time she was 20, and a fraternity brother of mine was born with gray hair. He was pale and had very light colored eyes, so I always suspected it may have been from some form of albinoism.
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I was about 14 or 15. My mum found it, and insisted on pulling it out. I have a few now (approx. 8 years later), but there’s not many of them, and I manage to hide them under the rest of my hair. Luckily, even though my hair is dark brown/black, it does this weird thing sometimes of changing shade slightly, depending on the angle at which you look at it, and where the light is, so you have to be really looking for the grey hairs. It seems that they’re growing in a thin streak on the left hand side of my head.
I’m 48 and I have no grey hair at all. I’m still quite blonde naturally (although I do highlights these days), so they wouldn’t show up much if I did have any.
My mom greyed fairly early, but my dad was quite late with the grey hair. I believe he was over 50. He’s a nice salt-and-pepper now.
My husband’s beard is Santa-like, as is most of his hair, particularly in the front. He’s been graying since he was about 40.
I found my first grey when I was 23 (ten years ago). I’ve been dying my hair regularly since my late teens, but just recently stopped. I’m rather surprised at how much grey is there… :eek:
I found my first at 25, and within the next 2 years found a couple more. I plucked them all.
Now, on the verge of 31 I think there’s one hiding out in there somewhere. When I’m brushing my teeth I sometimes get a little glimmer of reflection, so I’m sure it must be a gray - but I can’t track it down.
The first one(s) on my head, I noticed when I was about 23 or 24. And I’d been completely oblivious to it. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine about gray hair, I said something kind of snarky about it, and she pointed out that I’d better be careful what I say because I had plenty of my own. After she mentioned it, it was like the end of the Sixth Sense – I could suddenly see them everywhere. Mine are mostly in the back, apparently; I’m graying around the temples and have random hairs spread out all over, but when I get my haircut now and they get to the back of my neck, I’m convinced that they’re taking bits of hair from an old man somewhere else in the shop and throwing it down my shoulders. That couldn’t possibly all be coming from me!
When I started growing my beard in, I started to notice more and more gray patches, and it would seem to get more and more gray every time I shaved and grew it back in. At this point, I reckon it’s still predominantly brown but the gray has taken over at least a third. And I have gotten comments about it, but not enough to make me head for the beard dye yet.
The ones that bug me the most, though are still the gray chest hairs. They’re still in the minority, but they’re gaining ground very fast and making their presence known.