I was 31. It was a nosew hair.
I started finding them a couple of years ago (I’m almost 42). I have a few around my temples, but they don’t show much because I have red (strawberry blonde?) hair. Not balding, either, so I reckon I’m “lucky”.
At 34, Ive been bald for over 8 years. A gray hair would be a reversal of fortune.
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I found a white arm hair during an excruciatingly boring college class when I was 18.
I haven’t found one yet and I am 31. I kind of like the look though and wouldn’t be stressed at all if I started to sprout a few. My maternal grandfather was born in 1909 and he started to go gray in the mid 80s and only recently went completely gray, so I may have a long time to go yet.
- I’m grey at the temples now, kinda like Reed Richards.
well I am 60 and have very few…
They group together in two patches, one on my right eyebrow, and the other on the right side of my head.
I first started getting a small silver patch on the front of my head when I was 34 Now, at 43, I have white hairs interspered among the brunette, but the overall effect is not that noticeable, yet.
Your first grey hair on your head is traumatic,
but the first grey hair(if you’re a boy) on your chest is too;
as well as, when the “drapes” match the “curtains”.
I hear you.
Every hair that goes gray is a hair that decided to stick around. Gray hairs are my friends!
My first couple at around 38, on the temples. Two years later just after my Mum died a whole sprinkling seemed to appear at once. Since then there hasn’t been much change. I’ve inherited my hair colour from Mum and her mum, neither of them actually went grey, apart from the temples so I don’t expect to either. Must phone the cousins on that side to see how they’re doing.
Found my first one January 1, 1998. Great way to start the year.
I’ve got just a minor sprinkling now, and they’re all coming in near the same place, along my natural part, so someday I’ll have the Bride of Frankenstein thing going. Cool.
I got my first gray hair my first year of law school, so I guess I was 29. My mother was almost entirely gray by that age; in colloge she got a sudden shock of gray hair in the fronet, then it went straight to the back (like a skunk, as she put it), then it covered her whole head.
You all would have enjoyed the typo I nearly just made: “My mother was almost entirely gay by that age.”
My scalp hair is still the color it’s always been. But I found my first gray hair when I was about 36. It wasn’t just a freak hair that was always white and I just noticed it. No, I’m familiar with the hair in tha location, and there have always been nothing but dark brown hairs there.
Where? It was on my scrotum.
Since then (I’m now 40), I have a lovely crop of grey pubic hairs, all on my scrote. And about half of the whiskers on my goatee are gray.
I swear, it’s sheer coincidence. I am not that flexible.
Better to have grey hair on your head, than black hair in your sink!!
I’m 44. My full and luxuriant hair is still all dirty-blond, but the beard I let grow since last year has several grey hairs.
My first showed up when I was 14, and they multiplied briefly… then stopped. There is this one stupid patch of grey (I call it “platinum”, since they are super shiny and silvery, but very fine and almost reflective, like a CD, and some are almost clear, like a fiber optic wire thingy). Either way, it’s only on one side of my part, and they only start in the middle and hang out in the front. So, just the “upper right corner” of my head has these freakish strands shot through it. snarls Gragh. I hate it. I have dyed my hair my normal dark brown - didn’t cover it. Medium brown… light brown… blonde… red… very red… redder… reddest… pink… in desperation I once dyed it black. None of it worked. You know, the dyes that say they cover grey - only for so long. Like, a day or two (in my experience, anyway). I’ve had it done professionally. Nothing. The strands keep throwing the dye off like an old trenchcoat and proudly exposing themselves for all to see.
I am now 26, and I have no more than I had at 14, and no less, either. I don’t know where they came from. I can’t make them go away. ~sigh~
I never had any grey hairsuntil I was 21 and my daughter was born and had the worst case of colic I’ve ever heard of - for nine months!! :eek: During that time I developed a patch right in the front. Probably 20 or so strands. Not really developing any more. I highlight my hair, so they kind of blend in. They’re kinda clear-ish like somone else was describing.