How old were you when you got your first grey hair?

Question

I'm 22, and I THOUGHT I got my first grey hair at 21, but it sortof looked blonde, but I just found an honest to goodness grey hair (more like white) on my head tonight... you can actually see on the strand of hair where it just... stopped growing in brown and started growing in white. How did your first grey hair make you feel?

Answer 1

I was 19. My first gray hair was actually white too. I felt scared that I was going to get a head full of grey hair very soon but that was 5 years ago and I haven't had but two or three show up. I was really kind of worried. A hair stylist and a dermatologist told me that sometimes a few stray hairs will turn white or silver but it's typically caused by a short hormonal change and goes away as quickly as it started...especially if the hair is not entirely silver or white. If the hair is partly brown and then simply turns to silver, don't worry. Unless you have premature grayness in your family, it's probably hormonal. That's what I was told and it seems to be true.

Answer 2

I am 49 so I can am quailified to answer this!!!! I have grey hair buy so what a little hair coloring can go a long way! I color it my natural color but sometimes I will just let the grey show. No big deal it makes me feel...... Wise. After my parents died It started coming in. I never had any grey until my early 40's.

Answer 3

im 16 right now and i got gray hair at 11 i guess you could say, however i think it depends on your family it is heridetary. I have a lot of gray hair except its not on the top of my head more like if i put my hair halfway up or split it then you can see it . Sometimes its annoyign cause teens my age think its so weird and that im too young to have them. If i can handle having soem gray hairs im sure you or anyone older than me could. It really isnt bad and i dont plan on dying my hair at all it is a dark black and i like the color too much to dye it and the more you dye your hair the more gray hairs you get,I think its also true that ifyou pull one gray hair then more grow back

Answer 4

I was about 36 when I got my first gray hair and my first thought was "I'm getting old" since then I haven't had very many grays occur, I'm 39, and I tend to use hair color, not only because of this but also because I like to experiement with different shades.

Answer 5

What we call “gray” isn't factually precise. At it sluggish in one’s existence, our bodies stop having the flexibility to replica the pigments of our toddlers, and the alternative hairs are colorless. whilst white hair mixes with dark hair, the customary effect is gray. yet each and every guy or woman shaft isn't gray – it’s white. those white shafts are often thicker than the colored shafts, and are much less doable. gray hair has lots in undemanding with coarse hair, yet you need to use much less warm water in each and every step. additionally, don’t use styling products; they'd turn the white shaft YELLOW. WHY DO YOU ASK?

Answer 6

I got my first grey hair when I was about 25. I had three years of teaching in a public elementary school and it was noticed by a student. I told him that it was somehow very appropriate because it had his name all over it.

Answer 7

14. Seriously. My mom plugged it out for me. Just one hair though. But now I am grey all over, including you know where. Even my arm pits were grey. i'm not that old though. Will you turn out the same way, I wonder.

Answer 8

I was twelve. When I was younger, I always swore that I would NEVER dye my hair, too. That lasted until I was 23, and had three people in one week look down at the top of my head and say, "D--n, girl!"

Answer 9

I don't know. It was never an "issue" with me. Someone probably pointed my first one out to me sometime back in my 40s- & I commented, "Oh, -That's nice..." & forgot all about it. My feeling is; we PAY dearly -with our lives- for those grey hairs. They're badges of "honor" in a tough World. :)

Answer 10

if you have blonde hair it will naturally get bleached by the actual sun in the summer. There was this guy in my class who also had golden blonde hair that was a medium brown near the bottom. When he came back to university after summer vacation, it was nearly platinum blonde!