L'Oreal developing pill to prevent gray hair

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: kabc


LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Would you take a pill to prevent gray hair? One cosmetic company is developing an "anti-gray" supplement they hope will do just that.


But don't get too excited just yet. L'Oreal claims a pill in development won't be available until 2015.

The supplement reportedly contains some kind of extract that mimics a chemical that protects pigment in hair.

According to experts, however, the pill will have to be taken for 10 years before hair starts turning grey.


Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health&id=8384841

[Duer 157099]

1. the pill will have to be taken for 10 years before hair starts turning grey.

Huh? Maybe they mean "stops turning grey." ??? :shrug:

[pnwmom]

26. I bet they mean BEFORE. How great would that be for them?

Everyone starting to take a pill in their 20's . . . .

[elehhhhna]

81. ...and then there'll be the inevitable massive recall

due to horrible, undisclosed (trade secrets! hello!!!) side effects.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. A little late for me, then. I would've had to start taking it in my midteens.

[alittlelark]

14. Same here.

[Jamastiene]

40. same here

[malaise]

55. Same here

:rofl:

[Lithos]

3. It will cause sterility and cancer

But will still be a major best seller....

L-

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. I wonder how that eyelash drug is selling? Seems the commercials aren't as frequent.

[WolverineDG]

36. Probably not a lot

I mean, why risk permanent iris discoloration just to have longer lashes, when you can use mascara or falsies? I couldn't believe that commercial when I saw it---I thought it was a joke.

dg

[Texasgal]

80. Actually, the drop has been around a very long time

It's the drug they use to treat glaucoma. Long lashes are just a side effect.

[Red State Rebel]

67. I've been using it for 2 years and love it!

It really does a great job - I'm hooked :)

[MedicalAdmin]

60. There are already supplements that can do this.

And without the side effects you mention. I should clarify that the ungreying of the hair is a side effect of treatments for other conditions like cancer or metabolic diseases.

There are a couple of our patients who have been pleasantly surprised by this. I am approaching 50 and don't have a grey hair anywhere. Lucky I guess.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. I like my gray hair.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. As do I!

[pnwmom]

27. I think it goes better with my gray skin.

;)

But seriously, very dark hair with middle aged skin just looks strange.

[pipi_k]

37. Oh, let's go beyond middle age, even...

The lady who owns a little restaurant in town is 70 if she's a day....

One time, about a year ago, she decided to dye her hair black.

Shoe polish black.



It was really disturbing. Especially when she wore bright red lipstick.

HUGE disconnect....

She has since let it grow out although she still wears the red lipstick occasionally, but it doesn't look bad with her own natural hair color.

[Xithras]

62. It depends on the quality of the dye job.

My grandmother had sandy-blonde hair before she started going grey in her 50's. In her 70's, she bought a bottle of hair dye and tried to restore her color. It looked horrible and out of place on her, and you could instantly tell it was fake.

My mom was so horrified by it that she took my grandmother down to a proper stylist and had her hair re-dyed again. The stylist used a completely different method and developed a coloring for her that fit both her age and skin tone. He also helped her develop a new makeup routine that was age appropriate and coordinated well with her hair color. The change shaved 15 years off her looks, and appeared completely natural.

From that day, until my grandmother died, my mom and her made it a routine to go to the salon together every two weeks. Of course, I think that my grandmother liked that part even more than she liked her hair color :)

[pipi_k]

69. That's one of the problems with store shelf hair dyes...

They're one-dimensional...that is, natural hair has more than one color to it. If you use a home dye you're more than likely to end up with something that looks fake.

Plus it can react with other things in the hair itself, or even be the completely wrong warmth/coolness hue for the person's skin tones.

A stylist can work with those issues and do a better job of creating depth in the color and the proper warm/cool thing.

Your grandmother must have had good skin. Because it's awfully hard to disguise wrinkles with makeup. It's not like plastering a wall and expecting that the cracks won't show...the wall is relatively stable. A person's face is mobile and those cracks are gonna show up.

My next younger sister is two years younger than I am, but looks AT LEAST seven years older than myself. She can have her hair dyed, she can get a nice makeup job, etc. The best that's going to happen with her is that she looks younger than the 67 she appears to be and more like the 57 she actually is. Her skin is terrible. Her neck resembles a turkey's neck. There's only so much hair dye and makeup can do, really...

She's actually one of those people to whom I would say, hey...you don't have to make yourself look 30, but you don't have to look 67, either....

[elehhhhna]

82. afte 50 a woman must choose between her face and her ass

paraphrasing Catherine Denuve.

Sis should maybe gain ten pounds. Plumps out the wrinkles.

[pnwmom]

71. Go to a salon for maintenance every two weeks? Horrors!

I think people who think dye jobs are making them look younger are usually deluding themselves -- unless you're looking at them from behind. Or unless it also comes with some plastic surgery or wrinkle treatments. Then, maybe so.

There is nothing natural looking about salon colored hair on people in their 70's. It might be attractive, but not natural.

[Saphire]

85. :)

[MedicalAdmin]

61. Like this?

[pnwmom]

70. I said gray, not green!

[MedicalAdmin]

86. Potato, pahtahto. n/t

:)

[Lugnut]

49. I do too.

I earned every one of these suckers and I'll be darned if I'll try to prevent them or color them.

[spiderpig]

74. I like my gray too!

It's evenly distributed throughout my brown hair - and as my stylist once said, "You're not gray - you're sparkly!"
:)

[Me.]

5. I Heard About This Several Years Ago

It was the result of cancer research

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Fat lotta good that does ME.

Still, at least I'm not bald.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l38YXrGJxx0

[Confusious]

7. As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point.

Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest produced in greater numbers than the rest. A process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd it began to reward those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

Some had high hopes that genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution. But sadly, the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections

Idiocracy.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. ..and growing eyelashes. hee!

[kestrel91316]

8. Sorry. I'll pass on that one. Besides, not having kids has kept me

pretty free of gray hair, it seems, compared to other women my age.

[pnwmom]

29. I don't think having kids is what does it.

Because my sister and I don't have much either, for our ages. Neither did our mother, till she was much older.

So I bet it's largely heredity and general health.

[dimbear]

9. The obvious side effect would be preventing aging itself.

Nobody wants that.

[Odin2005]

11. What a waste of resources, they need to be taxed more.

[marmar]

15. What's wrong with letting nature take its course?

nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. hiring discrimination. People dont go to job interviews with gray hair

[pipi_k]

30. I would question whether it's really the gray hair...

I mean, I don't know who people think they're fooling when they're 50+ and their hair looks so obviously like it came from a box. Unless they get plastic surgery on their faces, but then the neck skin gives them away. Or their hands, which can give away someone's approximate age.

Plus if a person hands in a resume or fills out an application, it's probably going to contain information on the person's educational background (years, etc) and various jobs.

Not good to lie about that sort of thing. They can dye their hair, but they can't iron out wrinkles or claim they graduated from college 8 years ago when it's been more than 25.

[Liberal_in_LA]

33. yeah but people are visual. Chronicle age may be obvious from the resume

but jobs are so competitive now, people are doing whatever they can to compete

[pipi_k]

35. I don't know if anyone else does this, but...

when I see someone, the first thing I see is the eyes, then the rest of the face, then the hair last.

I judge someone's age by the face first...not the hair.

Wrinkles or lack of them. Sagging jowls or not. Bags or sagging under the eyes or not.

Honestly, I think it's sort of sad when an older person has hair that doesn't match up with the rest of the person's looks because it came from a box.

I think maybe one way hair dye might help an older person would be to give him or her confidence, and that might be what helps him or her land a job over a younger person.

Which isn't a bad thing

:)

[Missy Vixen]

41. Obviously someone who's not fifty yet...

>I don't know who people think they're fooling when they're 50+ and their hair looks so obviously like it came from a box.<

I'm over fifty. My natural hair color is blonde. My hair is now a warm golden blonde, via box. One of the nicer benefits of being partially gray at this age is that the hair color bonds to the gray hair (at least in my experience,) differently than my hair's normal pigment, creating "highlights" many women pay big bucks to get at a salon.

It's hard to believe that any woman in this country would question why women over fifty color their hair, use moisturizer/sun block, get a makeup or clothes update, etcetera. If you'd like to keep working, you're sure as hell doing it, and it's not because you're vain. It's because the vast majority thinks women over fifty shouldn't exist.

>Not good to lie about that sort of thing.<

I don't lie about anything at all.

Did you know it's illegal to discriminate on the basis of age? Why shouldn't any woman use the weapons at her disposal to appear even a few years younger?

[pipi_k]

54. OK, here's the problem

There's nothing wrong with women over a certain age doing what they can to look their best.

What I think is sad is when women try to fool themselves, or others, into believing they are 20+ years younger than what they are.

Like Priscilla Presley. She's had a face lift, obviously. Yeah, she looks great, as long as she doesn't expose her neck, which tells the true story about her age. Does she think nobody is going to see that?

Joan Rivers. She's had so many procedures her face looks almost immobile. What on earth is attractive about that?


It's just as sad and obvious as a balding man who uses one of those ridiculous comb-overs. Screw that shit! They look stupid. I'd rather see a completely bald head than one of those idiotic hair-flaps jumping up and down in the breeze.

Our hair color changes as we age, and I would say it's extremely rare for someone over 50 to have hair just as black as it was when s/he was 20. Or blonde. Or brown. Mother Nature knows best what our hair color should be at any particular time.

This is not about women. It's about anybody who tries to thwart the passage of time and ends up looking ridiculous in the process.

About the lying part...my point there is that a person (not necessarily a woman) can always take pains to look the best s/he can, but trying to look 10 or 15 years younger (or more) and thinking s/he will be able to get away with it only works if the person doesn't write down his or her real birth year on an application or whatever. True, age discrimination is illegal, but if I were an employer who discovered such a lie, I would question the person's general honesty.

And if the person is lying to a prospective romantic partner about his/her age, that's just as bad.

My thought...people can look the best they can for their age, but don't think they're fooling anyone by going for the "I'm 20 years younger than I really am" look.


PS...I am about to turn 59. I do look younger, but only because I took care of my skin...not because I dress like a 20-something, and not because I dye my hair or have gotten plastic surgery. I gave up trying to look 20 when I turned 45 because I realized how incredibly asinine I looked.

[Missy Vixen]

57. Why are you so worried about it?

>What I think is sad is when women try to fool themselves, or others, into believing they are 20+ years younger than what they are.<

Why is it your business at all what another human being does to his or her appearance? I might add that you sure as hell haven't cited any MALES who radically changed their appearance via plastic surgery - Bruce Jenner comes to mind. Do you think Regis Philbin's hair is naturally that color? How about Wolf Blitzer's?

Who fucking cares, besides you?

>What on earth is attractive about that?<

I don't obsess on the plastic surgery procedures of celebrities. I'm wondering why you do. While you're at it, try asking yourself why someone like Sandra Bullock felt it necessary to "have work done". She's lovely. If you look at photos of her over the years, though, she's had help. Does it make her a lesser person? No. She'd like to keep working in her chosen profession.

What happens to women who DON'T have plastic surgery or cutting-edge grooming help? Perhaps you might consult a recent thread about Hillary Clinton, for instance. She looked "tired". Maybe she needs a new hairdo or a clothes update, according to some posting on that thread. She's too busy trying to rebuild our good reputation in the world to hang out at a spa or get an eye lift, but it's just not enough, is it?

>Mother Nature knows best what our hair color should be at any particular time.<

Again: Why do you care?

>True, age discrimination is illegal, but if I were an employer who discovered such a lie, I would question the person's general honesty.<

So, the 99ers that are suffering age discrimination for including dates on a resume should just suck it up and deal? Believing there is no discrimination against women over 40 on basis of personal appearance is ridiculous at best.

>I gave up trying to look 20 when I turned 45 because I realized how incredibly asinine I looked.<

That's your choice.

It's interesting that you believe any woman who employs grooming assistance like hair color or updated makeup tricks is "trying to look 20 at 45".

[pipi_k]

65. Ummmm....

because it's a free country, supposedly, and I'm allowed to have an opinion on the subject?

You don't have to agree with my opinion, but that doesn't mean I don't have the right to have it.

Geez. Chill out.

[SheilaT]

46. Wrong.

I've been to lots of job interviews with my lovely gray hair.

Keep on getting hired, also.

[Missy Vixen]

58. With all due respect, you're one of the few

Those over 50 (hell, those over 40,) continue to experience discrimination in hiring across all industries.

[SheilaT]

59. And with all due respect I am quite tired of

those who say no one, absolutely no one over the age of 60 or 50 or even 40 ever gets hired. Yeah, there are going to be some employment areas that are a lot worse than others for getting hired if you're past some magic age, but it's simply not as universal as is portrayed.

I'm not going to have an amazing career at my age, but I can get work.

[shanti]

78. you may be tired of hearing it

but many people have stories of themselves or family members who are unable to find employment after 50. my father was one of them. he never worked after 52 even after dyeing his premature gray hair to impress the recruiters. just because you aren't one of them doesn't make peoples' experiences invalid...

[shanti]

77. ah well

that's probably why one has gray hair by the time he/she retires! ;-)

[LanternWaste]

63. No haircuts, no deodorant, no toothpaste...

No haircuts, no deodorant, no toothpaste...

Those are three examples of what I believe is wrong with that particular dogmatic absolutism.

[pipi_k]

66. Hahahaha!!!

Really, now...

I don't think the person you're replying to was even suggesting such a thing.

The topic involves gray hair. Not bad hygiene...


:+

[elehhhhna]

84. getting old !

lol

[pipi_k]

17. I like my gray hairs...not a lot of them, but...

they look nice.

I spent years artificially frosting it.

Now it's got natural silver and I don't have to spend any money on it.


Oh, and I know a few people whose hair is totally silver/white and it's gorgeous.

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. Gray hair is nice when it doesn't have that yellow hue. Of course there is

hair stuff to wash out the yellow. lol.

[pnwmom]

28. What would be wrong with yellowish highlights?

I thought people paid lots of money for that.

:shrug:

[pipi_k]

32. They do, but...

it all depends on your skin coloring.

Yellow undertones make me look rather cheesy. Cheap, I mean....not like cheddar or mozzarella... ha ha!

I don't wear yellow gold...only white gold, sterling silver, or stainless steel. I have blue/gray/green eyes and light skin that looks better with colors that have blue undertones.

Someone with a warmer skin tone would look better with the yellow, I think...

[Kurska]

18. Gray hair is classy.

And I'm a 20 year old. Gray hairs are just about the only good thing about ageing.

[JI7]

19. before ANY Greys show up ?

or before your whole or half or whatever amount turns grey ?

[CurtEastPoint]

21. L'Oreal tests their shit on animals.

[RebelOne]

34. I know. That is why I do not buy L'Oreal. n/t

[RebelOne]

87. I have boycotted L'Oreal for years because of its animal testing. n/t

[RebelOne]

89. Fortunately, I have always been a natural blonde,

but as I grew older, I used hair color to keep it that way. But now that I am growing older, I noticed that I do not have to touch up my hair color that often because the gray blends in with the blonde and no one can tell the difference between the gray and blonde.

[HockeyMom]

22. My husband started turning grey in his late 20s

So he would have to have taken this as a teenager?????? lol Seriously, how do you KNOW 10 years before you start turning grey?

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. I suppose most people would have to start taking it young,then take it FOR LIFE!

[BiggJawn]

23. As I age, Grey hair is the *LEAST* of my worries!

Metabolic processes OK? Check.
Joints as limber as when I was 20? check.
Eyesight still 20/20? Check
Waistline under control? Check.
Digestion OK? Check.
Reproductive Functions? All systems GO!
Hair? OHMIFUCKINGAWD! A GREY HAIR! All units go to DEFCON TWO!

Yeah, grey hair is the LAST thing I get out of bed and pace the floor over at 3AM...

[madokie]

24. I like my gray hair

[brewens]

31. I dig my distinguished greying look! It works just fine for me. Now

if they could just make my knees not feel old. That I'd be into.

[valerief]

38. I wonder what else it will do to the body. nt

[astral]

39. I heard it was a mineral deficiency that causes grey hair.

I was looking just for a quick link to something along those lines and I came across this page that I do not recall seeing before. I am just going to post the home page here:

http://www.healthsupplementsnutritionalguide.com/index.html

anyways, if mineral deficiency can cause grey hair then supplementing would reverse it? So I've heard but I don't know if it is true. I heard that PREMATURE grey hair is cause for alarm as it may be a red flag for other health issues such as being prone to aneurysms. I would guess this 'anti-grey supplement' coming up must consist of minerals we need to stay healthy.

But we're going to want to know what it is before we take it, right?

[provis99]

42. I want a full head of Anderson Cooper style gray hair.

I'm tired of this poo-colored hair that covers my head.

[Jamastiene]

43. When I was younger, I had jet black hair.

That was the natural color of my hair. When I turned 18, I started going gray super fast. By the time I was 21, I was completely gray. My mother went gray by the time she was 22. I always used to joke that having me (when she was 21) was what caused her to go gray. Maybe I should not have joked about it, lol. My hair is too gray for me now. I hate it. I miss my black hair. :(

Too bad this didn't come out before I turned 18. Of course, if it takes 10 years to start working, I probably would have had to start taking it at 8 years old. I doubt they'll want kids taking it. So, everyone in my family is just doomed.

[tblue37]

92. Premature graying is sometimes associated with diabetes.

If that happens to run in the family, too, you should get tested for it.

[Angry Dragon]

44. The secret:

it just makes your hair fall out
NO HAIR = NO GREY

[TwilightGardener]

45. Too late for me, then.

[SheilaT]

47. I can't even begin to imagine what the side

effects of this kind of pill would be.

I'm over sixty and have gray hair and I really like it. While I fully understand why many people color their hair -- and I did until a few years ago -- as you get older you have to be a lot more careful about just what shade you color it. It's too easy for there to be a mis-match between the hair color and the aging face. Sometimes it's just a matter of finding a better shade or tone.

One of the things I like about my gray hair is that it's a little bit coarser than the original brown hair was, and so my hair now is fuller and looks better and is easier to manage than it was when I was younger. Sometimes I miss the old hair, but life does go on.

[MrsBrady]

48. how in the heck are you supposed to know when you are gonna

go grey? I didn't know I would start to go grey at 27.

So I guess they want people to start taking this stuff when they are in their teens?????

[pipi_k]

56. I think that's about the size of it...

My next younger sister started going gray...actually had a big gray skunk stripe down the back of her dark brown hair at the age of 23.

I've even heard of cases where people started to go gray IN their teens.

Bah. Manufactured "crisis".

I know plenty of people who would be overjoyed with any hair at all, no matter what color it was...

[Politicalboi]

50. Does it work for

Down there too? LOL!

[Raine]

51. I color my hair every couple of months

I'm fine with that. :-)

[Javaman]

52. In an odd side effect...

it also cause erectile dysfunction.

:rofl:

[Bake]

53. Better to have gray hair than NO hair!

I'm told mine is a nice shade of silver ... but the goatee is Col. Sanders WHITE.

:hi:

Bake

[shanti]

79. THANK YOU!

my formerly average thickness brown hair has thinned considerably since going gray...at least i have enough to put in a ponytail!

[Quantess]

64. It's not that hard to just dye the roots every months or 2.

I buy the boxed kind. Only professional hairstylists can tell I dye it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

68. Great! Now if I can only train my nose hair to look like a moustache, I'll be set. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

72. .

:spray:

[pnwmom]

73. And so you only find out it didn't work for you AFTER you've taken it for 10 years.

Nice racket, L'Oreal!

[saras]

75. As I get older, I begin to see all our culture's attempts to stay young as pedo-creepy

[NightWatcher]

76. Forget cancer, diabetes, and disease...we've got to cure gray hair and limp dicks

[elleng]

83. Too damn late!

[Taverner]

88. Great. No cancer cure, no AIDS cure, no cure for Parkinson's or MS

But we'll be damned if we can't keep our hair and it's color, and keep getting boners well into our 80s....

[lunatica]

90. But gray hair is beautiful!

Jesus! It's taken me 63 years to get some! And the same for my wrinkles. I don't want to give any of them up. I've worked hard to get them.

[Zanzoobar]

91. Party hard. Live dangerously. Die young. Problem solved.