If you have gray hair, when did you first notice it?

[LaraMN]

I noticed a few after I had my daughter, when I was 23. It seemed odd to me, as neither of my parents had any grays until their forties. I think it was the result of bad karma for my pretending that my friend (whose Mom was totally gray by her thirties)was sprouting gray hairs. I don't have a ton of them, but the ones I do I have are wiry and metallic silver. I dye my hair anyway, so I don't see them until my roots grow out, but I know they're there!

[asthmaticeog]

1. I was 26 when they started coming in.

So I dyed it. Then when it started to grow in, my hair was black (the dye), brown and grey. I looked a total mess and realized that I'd have to keep touching up forever, so I shaved my head bald and started over, and I've just flown the grey flag ever since. So far it's only at the temples, which I actually kind of like.

[LaraMN]

3. I've come to appreciate the look of a few gray hairs.

On other people, anyway.
:rofl:

[myrna minx]

2. I started noticing a few grays when I was 19.

I;m in my thirties and I have a few more, but I really don't mind. My Mom is turning 70 and she was many grays, but she looks amazing so I hope to look like her when I'm her age. :-)

[LaraMN]

5. Mine seem to be coming in pretty slowly.

My Mom's 55, and has most of her natural color still, but she likes her grays, too.

[azmouse]

51. I was 19.

My family goes gray early and fast. I'm now 44 and am almost entirely gray... but you'd never know it. ;)
A big thanks goes to my stylist for helping me look like a stunning redhead!!! I'm thinking about going natural when I turn 50. I'd like to see what I'd look like with all gray hair. From what I can see of my gray roots it's a nice silvery gray so it may look pretty good. I don't want to be a slave to haircolor all my life.

[myrna minx]

52. I currently do not dye my hair. I may in the future, but not now.

I just have a bit of salt with my pepper. :hi:

[reyd reid reed]

4. I was in my mid-late thirties

when I first started to find a strand or two. They multiply like li'l rabbits, too. Since my hair's kinda light anyway, it wouldn't be so bad if the gray were the same texture but is it?

Nooooooooooooo.

My dad is gonna be 70 in September and I think I've already got more gray than he does.

Life just ain't fair.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. I've had a few in my eyebrows for a few years now (I'm 31).

None anywhere else, though. :shrug:

[LaraMN]

8. You can get them in your eyebrows?

I didn't even think about that...
oh no, that means I could get them *anywhere* ....
:scared:
be right back...
:rofl:

[Magrittes Pipe]

I've seen a few in other places on other people.

:o

[xmas74]

7. I had a streak of white show up on the back of my head

when I was 26. It goes all the way down-from the top of my skull and is about 1 1/2 inches in length.

After that I noticed greys starting to sneak in. Actually, mine are not grey. Every one of them has been almost pure white.

[Bridget Burke]

22. Nobody really gets "gray" hairs....

They are white. Combined with dark hair, the overall result is gray. Combined with light brown hair (like mine), the overall effect is dull beigish...

Folks on my father's side of the family are born with black hair that turns white fairly early. I took after my mother's side, in that I was born bald & grew blond hair that turned into light brown. But my father's genes showed up when the white hairs arrived. (My mother's hair was mostly brown when she died--in her 70's.)

Can't remember when I started using henna.

[DS1]

9. Someone else did

x(

but I STILL get carded :D

[Arugula Latte]

10. Late 20s, like maybe 29 or so?

I had to start dyeing it at 35 ... x(

[electron_blue]

11. 24

My mom and dad didn't start turning gray until their mid-late 40's. My siblings in their 40's still haven't turned gray. I must have had some gray karma back then. I had just gone through phd comprehensive exams, which were horrible, maybe that was it.

[City Lights]

12. Mine goes back to grade school.

4th or 5th grade. Just one small little patch on the right side of my head.

[grace0418]

13. 21 or 22

I'm 36 now and very salt & pepper. I don't die it. I kinda like the silver. So does my husband.

[Bridget Burke]

23. Dark hair goes salt & pepper.

And eventually will be a pure white. Light brown hair just gets duller & duller.

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. Early 20's- I had one that stuck out above all the rest.

I'm now getting more at 32.

[catmandu57]

15. I was eighteen

I remember standing on the street while my grandmother yanked a silver out of my head. Premature grey runs in the family, I don't care though I think it gives me a mature distinguished look.

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. First one at 25

up front at my hairline. I freaked.

I'm closing in on 40 in July. I have an interesting Cruella de Ville streak that shows up in my bangs, in addition to the ones that have begun migrating and reproducing. RAPIDLY.

reprehensor says he thinks it looks cool. But of course, he has that suave Richardo Montalban thing going. It's not fair.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. My dear Lara!

Do I have gray?! Omigod.....

I noticed my first WHITE hair at around age 20! I pulled it out.....to no avail.....

I did briefly consider dying my hair.....but I realized early on that this would be something I would NEVER keep up......

I was always a dishwater blonde before.....I really love my hair color now!

It is the prettiest it has ever been, IMHO......

:shrug:

:hi:

[LaraMN]

18. I don't blame you- yours is gorgeous.

It always looks so soft and pretty. The ones I've sprouted are very wiry and kinky. I can't imagine what a whole head of them would look like!

[CottonBear]

19. When I turned 41, I got 2 gray hairs for my birthday.

:cry: I have blonde hair so they don't really show up much. I have about 6 or 8 gray hairs now. I suppose I'll get some highlights eventually. :(

[Bassic]

20. I noticed one a month ago. I'm 27

And some of my beard is slowly going grey to.

[khashka]

21. Started a few years ago

My beard is nearly white and I've got this grey streak in my hair. And I'm not even 40 yet! But I'm enjoying it!

I'm gonna be a really cool sexy old man!

Khash.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Ah, my dear Khash......

With your attitude, baby, you will NEVER be old!

And you will always be cool and sexy......

:loveya: :hug:

[AlCzervik]

25. when i was about 18.

[NewWaveChick1981]

26. First one at 22

I was sitting in my car waiting for my brother to come out of a store. My hair was windblown, and I was trying to fix it in the car mirror. I then noticed a big, wiry gray hair sticking straight up. :yoiks: Of course, I had to pull it. A few months later, I noticed a few more, then it's been downhill ever since. I'm currently about 65% gray, but it's patchy. If I didn't color it, I'd have Bride of Frankenstein stripes on either side of my head. :mad: I'm not ready for gray hair yet! When and if I am, then I'll let it go naturally gray.

My mom went prematurely gray (totally gray at 30 and colored it until about age 50 or so), so I guess I lucked out and inherited her grayness. My dad is 75 and only has a small amount of gray at his temples.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

27. I started getting when I was 13....now its getting really bad

:hi:

[ThomCat]

28. 17 years old.

[miss_american_pie]

29. 20

But my mom started getting them at 16, so I guess it could be worse.

[FarLeftRage]

30. I first noticed some in my beard about 10 years ago...

after taking on the chin for so many years....

Now I have had a few gray hairs on my head for 2 years.

I'm 48, BTW.

[Sanity Claws]

31. 13

I was 13 when a schoolmate noticed a gray hair on my head. I first noticed them myself a year or two later in high school.

[Taverner]

32. I have a bunch

Gray with grace baby!!!

Of course, this is easier for guys than it is gals....

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. EmmyLou is my idol.

It helps that MrG thinks she's hot, of course. :hi:

[RebelOne]

33. If I have gray hair, I have never seen it.

I have been coloring my hair since my teens and I am now in my 60s. I am also blonde, so any gray would blend in.

[malta blue]

34. I got a few while I was in college and named them

after my boyfriend.

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. @ 19...Now they're coming in fast and furious at 35...

as a licensed hairstylist, I embrace them. I'd never subject myself to the varying degrees of chemical distress my hair would go through due to tinting. :hi:

[bikebloke]

37. Late 30's

They've been multipling since, even though I told them not to. If I wore my mop cropped, I'd have silver temples now. Only I prefer a mop which hides the snow.

[Lilith Velkor]

38. When I was 12

I only have a few now, 25 years later.

[cobalt1999]

39. About 30, but I'll never complain.

My brothers are going bald. My full head of hair can all be grey as long as it sticks around!

[Mutley]

40. I have one single gray hair that I just found about a month or so ago.

x(

[woo me with science]

41. age 39 nt

[atomic-fly]

42. Anderson rocks the grey.

[Ramsey]

43. My hairdresser told me 2 weeks ago!

I personally don't see it. I'm blond and really don't notice any grays. But my hairdresser claims they are there!

[billyskank]

44. When I was about 14

A little patch at the front. It's still there; it never grew, although you can't see it since I started shaving my head. Actually, my hairline might have receded it away by now...

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

45. never had grey hair, but I've had whites since high school

I think I first noticed a white hair in my senior year in high school. I got a few more in college, and a few more in my 20s. However, two marriages and fatherhood have led to exponential white hair growth.

[Blue Diadem]

46. They started when my oldest was about 16..I was 35.

I blame it on having 3 kids in 5 years..which meant dealing with 3 teenagers in the same household for a while..that and my sister and Mom getting sick and passing away during that time. The streaks that framed my face stayed that way for a while until about 2 years ago. Now there's a lot of gray on the top and sides..just not on the back. How weird is that? I'm 50 looking like I'm much older so I dyed it just last week.

edited to delete extra word.

[Spider Jerusalem]

47. At age 19...

early greying runs in the family. (My father was about 25% grey by his mid-thirties.) I'm 28 now, and don't have MUCH grey, but it's definitely noticeable in the right light.

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. Mid-30s, maybe?

Maybe early 30s? :shrug:

There's just a very few strands of 'em on my head, mostly at the temples. Like Lara's, they're of a different texture — almost like a very thin wire.

Now, my beard and mustache — different story. Those suckers are singin' "Ebony and Ivory." :eyes:

[In_The_Wind]

49. I spotted my first gray hairs back in 93.

It seem to have happened while I was visiting a very special person in my life. He was hospitalized with complications from emphysema for several months before he passed away.

[Dolomite]

50. 16

No shit - big streak started right in the middle of my forehead.