Men: Do you color your hair ?

[steve2470]

Color = to another color or to hide gray, etc.

Personally, I do not (as he looks at his gradually graying follicles), but I have thought about it.

Simply curious. Ladies, if you want to chime in, feel free.

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	0 (0%)
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	9 (82%)
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	2 (18%)
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[intaglio]

1. What hair? n/t

[steve2470]

2. one less decision to make :) nt

[uriel1972]

4. my point exactly... nt

[Chan790]

6. I'm in the same boat--voted "pass" and thought "I have hair?!"

Actually I do have hair but it's only 1/4" long.

Also, neither of my parents has begun to gray...and none of my grandparents started graying before the cusp of 70.

[Agschmid]

9. Yup.

[trof]

22. Yeah. I keep a tan on my scalp.

[Codeine]

24. Yep, mine is Shiny Scalp color. nt

[Scuba]

3. I dye my dark brown hair gray, to look more distinguished.

[sendero]

5. I don't have any hair..

.... but I do touch up my beard. That's one reason people guess my age 10 years low

[Ron Obvious]

7. I don't seem to need to...

For some reason my hair refuses to go grey, even though I'm at an age where it should have.

I have a little bit of grey at the temples which I rather like, but I'm actually less grey now than 10 years ago. I don't know how that's possible either, since I don't have any noticeable hair loss..

As someone who looked about 13 in High School and was carded well into his forties and hated it, I would actually rather welcome more grey...

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. Hell no! One of the true joys of getting old is that I no longer

give a fuck about how other peoplee think I look. As long as my wife is happy, I'm happy.

[OriginalGeek]

10. I'm more bummed about losing it than it going gray

I have a little gray at the temples and have no plans to ever change that.

I might have had more gray in the middle if I still had much hair in the middle. :/

[steve2470]

11. actually I'm the same as you, but probably a tad more gray

I've been slowing losing hair on top for maybe 15 years. My maternal grandfather was totally bald on top, so I'm always told that may be my fate. Meh. If it happens, ok. The hairdressers are always asking me if I want to use Minoxidil etc and I always say no. If someone can't cope with me being partially bald, that's their problem.

[OriginalGeek]

12. lol yep

I doubt I would use any product either but I'd still rather keep it than not. My maternal grandpa had a head full of stark white hair into his 80s so I'm wondering if my mom ruined my genes or something.


If she were alive she'd probably blame me for pulling it into a pony tail for the last 30+ years.


I don't mind my gray and I'd be perfectly fine with hair as white as Grandpa Smith's. But as long as I can keep a little evidence of counterculture I'll be OK. I'm thinking "Larry" but my wife isn't so sure lol

[Aristus]

13. I don't really have enough hair to color.

And it isn't the color that is the problem with my gray hairs. It's the texture. What is left of my brown hair is the way it has always been: soft, silky, and baby-fine. My gray hairs, on the other hand, are wiry, crinkly, and essentially unmanageable. And they grow seemingly ten times faster than my brown hair. In-between haircuts, I'm always plucking or snipping the gray hairs I wake up with, just so I don't go the whole day with bed-head.

My dad had the same problem with his gray hairs, but unlike me, he never did anything about it. He always looked as if he had just awakened from a two-week sleep underneath a sofa.

[Jokerman]

14. I've thought about it, but it isn't for me.

I'm fortunate to still have may hair and I have only recently started to turn gray.

Most people guess my age to be 10-15 years younger than I really am and that is nice but my rapidly graying hair is about to put that to an end.

I'd like to keep looking younger but the bottom line is that I'd eventually get tired of having to maintain an artificial hair color and then I'd end up going gray all at once.

May as well just let nature take its course.

[DFW]

15. Nah, can't be bothered.

I have to think it would make more of a difference to me if I were single. But I'm not, have had the same girlfriend/wife for nearly forty years, and couldn't imagine for the life of me what it would mean to suddenly be looking again. To say I'm out of practice would be a rather gross understatement.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Nope....never thought much about it...

Pretty sure I never will, unless I get a starring role in a movie or something.

[dipsydoodle]

17. Hardly worth it with a #0

[Iggo]

18. Oh good gawd no!

I love my white buzz cut.

[Paulie]

19. Not since the early 2000's

High school I had white. Powered bleach, cream activator, pour on scalp, scream, rinse then Alberto VO5 hot oil treatment.

When I was done with white I used temporary wash in brown which became permanent.

Then in the late 90s early 2000's used Clairol Hydrance (no ammonia) to add in a purpleish shade on the grey that were stating to come in.

Now I let it go; mostly grey with brown highlights.

[Jamaal510]

20. I've never had to (yet),

but once I do start going gray, I'll only use hair dye on occasion. Using it too often can make a person's hair fall out, I hear.

[MillennialDem]

42. Female here, only 33 - dye my hair regularly (no gray yet) just hate the natural blonde and but lov

e the midnight brown in a bottle.

Anyway.

Been dying it bimonthly for 12ish years and my hair is still thick and 2/3 of the way down my back so I think what you've been told is BS. Maybe if you wanted to have really long hair and you were bleaching it platinum blonde and your hair was already thin/fragile/weak you'd lose a decent amount.

[steve2470]

21. no female input ? ok nt

[BainsBane]

30. Most women do

once they start to gray. My mother never dyed her hair, and she started to gray in her 20s.

[steve2470]

32. your mother was very brave, for want of a better word

I'm perfectly ok with women not dying their hair. Either way works for me, and of course, not my business or decision.

[MillennialDem]

43. 33 and not a single gray (yet) but already dye it because I don't like my natural color. I will cont

inue to dye it to hide the gray.

[PeteSelman]

23. I'm considering it.

Not to cover grey or whatever but because it might be fun to have electric blue hair.

[Codeine]

25. I did in high school (black, maroon, burgundy, blue)

but now I'm bald as a billiard ball. The men in my family lose it early.

[handmade34]

26. my hair refuses to gray

so I color it that way

[bigwillq]

27. No.

Don't think I ever will since I shave my head once a week. When my hair becomes gray, I'll probably just shave it more than once a week.

[PRETZEL]

28. I voted other

about 20 years ago, a young lady in my office said I looked "distinguished".

I was in my mid 30's.

Decided shaving it off was better than dyeing it.

Have been doing it ever since.

[cherokeeprogressive]

29. Only the hair on my Chinny-chin-chin. n/t

Cuz I ain't got no hair on my shiny dome.

[whistler162]

31. Tried it once but the crayons kept breaking!

[Xyzse]

33. Don't need it yet.

Although, I think I'd be ok sporting gray.

[Wait Wut]

34. I'm glad to see the 'No' vote winning.

I've been obsessed with men with gray/salt & pepper hair since I was about 8. I loved gray hair so much that I tried to convince my stylist to dye my own hair gray...at 16. He started to hyperventilate.

[progressoid]

35. Hair???

[Arugula Latte]

36. I think the trick for men for dying hair is to get it to look natural

by maybe letting a little gray show through. This "I've got one shade of hair and I'm sticking with it" method looks weird on older men like Sir Paul:

[steve2470]

37. he must love that shade

God knows he has enough money to hire the best stylist in UK.

[closeupready]

38. Yes, to hide gray. It makes a difference, IMO.

[dawg]

39. I don't think the gray in my hair looks all that bad.

I had a friend once tell me that I needed to have *something* to make me look my right age. I took it as a compliment.

[jmowreader]

40. Yes...about four different colors, all woven together

It is naturally extremely dark brown. I have a deep red, a lighter brown and two blonde shades in it during the summer; during the winter we do three shades - red, medium brown and light brown. It's fun and people like it.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

41. ughh, not another pubic hair thread again.

[MillennialDem]

44. No wonder so many said they shaved it off.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

45. I thought about it when I was looking for a job

I thought a little color might help during interviews.

But then I got a job, so forget about it. It doesn't matter.

Now my hair is mostly gray, and the rest is white.

[baldguy]

46. .

[Bucky]

47. My coworker is four years younger than me and he's started darkening his beard

Dude's a sell out. Once I get some gray, I'm gonna flaunt it

[bif]

48. I've been doing it for years.

You've heard of salt & pepper hair? Mine would be salt if I didn't color it. Started going white when I was 17.