Darn right! I really wish the afore-mentioned sis-in-law would color her hair, it's long and straight and I swear being grey adds a good 20 years to her age!
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Grey hairs??
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Cindy
Originally Posted by mferr84
fwan.... for every gray hair you pull, two will grow back!
I'm 36 and I've had some gray hairs poking around for years now. I've colored my hair since high school, though, and I'm told that can make them sprout sooner. (Fortunately, the coloring covers them.)
I noticed my first greys when I was 18. I've never coloured my hair, and have been white or nearly white since my mid-thirties -- just like my Mum. She had auburn hair in her youth, but I've only seen it in pictures and the hank that she had cut off, that I still have in a drawer. She never coloured her hair either, though a couple of her friends never believed that
but that's why I haven't -- I had a pretty good idea what it was going to do and when and have not been disappointed. All of her family had thick coarse dry hair, with at least some red in it, that turned early and nicely. Why mess with Mother Nature unnecessarily?
On my Dad's side, the hair is mostly thin, wispy, limp, does a kind of nondescript salt and pepper thing in the 40s or so. I don't know what I would have done if I'd gotten my hair from him.
Genetics have a great deal to do with it, so figure out which side of your family your hair takes after and guide yourself accordingly.
On my Dad's side, the hair is mostly thin, wispy, limp, does a kind of nondescript salt and pepper thing in the 40s or so. I don't know what I would have done if I'd gotten my hair from him.
Genetics have a great deal to do with it, so figure out which side of your family your hair takes after and guide yourself accordingly.
I started getting my first grey hairs at 21 as soon as I became pregnant. Hubby reckons that one of the kids turned him grey and the other made him bald. Gee - I hope I only get half of that package
For a while they were barely detectable, but then about 8 years ago I started to colour my hair - it's become a necessity now
For a while they were barely detectable, but then about 8 years ago I started to colour my hair - it's become a necessity now
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Yikes, it seem's like pretty many of you started really early. I'm sure I had a few for awhile now and just started to notice them more now.
It certainly doesn't make me feel good though to see them grey hairs!
Haha - well, maybe not, but dont let him pull them out again fwan!!Originally Posted by mferr84
fwan.... for every gray hair you pull, two will grow back!
I found a few white hairs when I was 17,never a grey one,and now I have a couple.I've never dyed my hair.
I'm 38 & it's a good thing I never did that, because I wouldn't have any hair left! And everytime I have to color, there is more.Originally Posted by mferr84
fwan.... for every gray hair you pull, two will grow back!
Lisa, if you have fairly medium to lighter brown hair- this may work..... I had my hairstylist highlight my hair just by pulling though little tiny strands - My highlights were always sparkling gold which hid the sparkling white very well
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Thanks for the advice Chris!Originally Posted by captiva
Lisa, if you have fairly medium to lighter brown hair- this may work..... I had my hairstylist highlight my hair just by pulling though little tiny strands - My highlights were always sparkling gold which hid the sparkling white very well
I was once thinking about reddish highlights, not sure if that would look right though.
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It's funny you posted this topic today because I was just obsessing about finding several grey hairs this morning. It's like they just showed up overnight because I have really dark brown hair and never noticed them before today and I'm 31.
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I found my first grey hair the other day. Well, it's probably not the first but it's the first one I've ever noticed!! It actually really stressed me out - a lot more than I thought it would!! Right slap bang in the middle of my hair-line on my forehead. It's the first time since I turned 30 that I actually felt old...lol
My sister started going grey when she was 16, just like Mum.
Thank goodness I didn't follow suit but have noticed a few in my crown since I was 25, it's having kids that does it to you!
Thank goodness I didn't follow suit but have noticed a few in my crown since I was 25, it's having kids that does it to you!
I started getting the first gray hairs in my mid 30s. For the first ten years or so, I pulled every one I found. But by then I was getting more and decided it was time to quit that. (I still pluck the white ones I find in my eyebrows, though.)
I've never dyed my hair since college days. I'll be 64 in a couple of weeks and still only have a little bit of gray near the temples. Since my hair is light to medium brown, the gray is hardly noticeable even yet. It blends in and just looks like a touch of highlighting. Both of my parents and my brothers had much darker hair and the gray showed worse, so I'm glad all four of us girls somehow got a lighter brown.
I've never dyed my hair since college days. I'll be 64 in a couple of weeks and still only have a little bit of gray near the temples. Since my hair is light to medium brown, the gray is hardly noticeable even yet. It blends in and just looks like a touch of highlighting. Both of my parents and my brothers had much darker hair and the gray showed worse, so I'm glad all four of us girls somehow got a lighter brown.
None here either. I'm 15.
if they are from stress, ill be getting them soon! and im 16!!!
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I noticed my first few grey hairs in my early 20's. By my mid 30's I was getting highlights, and that worked just fine to blend them in. My hair is medium brown, and I got copper highlights, just a few tones lighter than my hair. Then, for quite a few years, I used those demi-permanent hair colours. They were lots of fun, but they don't cover grey really well, so when a lot more started showing up at my temples, I decided to just bite the bullet and have salon dyed hair. Now I have it dyed a base colour pretty much the same as my natural colour (as I remember it), and add a couple of different colour highlights.
My sister, who is 2 years older than I am, has virtually no grey hair, and until she does, I'm dying mine.
I am positive mine is from stress. My parents both turned grey much much later,
I have a friend who turned grey in her 20's, and has beautiful silver hair. She has had women ask her where she gets her hair coloured, they don't believe that it's natural.
My sister, who is 2 years older than I am, has virtually no grey hair, and until she does, I'm dying mine.
I am positive mine is from stress. My parents both turned grey much much later,
I have a friend who turned grey in her 20's, and has beautiful silver hair. She has had women ask her where she gets her hair coloured, they don't believe that it's natural.
