I finally got a white hair

[Verteron]

I started greying when I was about 15 and was very peppery and quite obvious by the time I was 20, although didn't seem to get much worse between 20 and 25.

It was a laugh at school, and a pretty easy target for jokes (and a pretty easy one to handle too, there are far worse things one could be teased about!).

Now I'm older, I actually feel the need to dye more than I did back then, as I think it makes my face look older, but I generally resist it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I've started to get some noticeable gray on the sides. Not bad for a 48-year-old. And I always wanted to grow up to look like Reed Richards.

But, like Flukie, if I let my facial hair grow it comes in quite gray.

 

[Capn Flukie]

My facial hair comes in silver now, real shiny like, like a new dime!

Like Stalin!!

I'm not quite sure how to take that.

 

[Timby]

I grew a beard not long after I turned 20. Around the time of my 21st birthday, I started noticing hairs that were white as snow in it.

I've been coloring it since I was 22.

 

[propita]

Two actually.

One in each eyebrow. Which makes them easily removable when I get my eyebrows done, since they'd be removed even if they weren't white.

Let me get this straight: You don't want the 2 white hairs in your eyebrows but you're not going to pluck them out yourself. You're going to wait until someone else "does" them?

Come on...2 seconds and they're gone.

Ah, no...even I'm not that lazy to not do that myself. But when things get shaggy and my brows need to be done, these hairs are in the area that gets cleared.

Eyebrows! The hair on the top of my head is fine (like Dad's was) but my eyebrows! Long and wiry if I don't trim them (also, like Dad's--but he was a guy). My hairdresser laughs and says I need a relaxer for my brows.

For those with silver hair--that usually looks so nice on just about anyone.

What was it a comedian said when he was going bald and saw a gray hair in the sink? Something about "well, it's gray, but it's still a hair."

 

[LeahBoBo]

Wait until you get a gray pube.

In the back of your mind, you hear Death clearing his throat.

Joe, plucker

Geez, Joe. You're a cheery soul.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I started shaving my head four years ago - never looked back. I much prefer being bald. I plan on staying that way for decades to come. It's win-win, really; I have a look that I am comfortable with, and I will never have to worry about gray hair or (worse) toupees...

Before, in the 'dark times' I had blonde hair. Now that I am bald, I grew a goatee - completing the Ben Sisko/Ming the Merciless look that I prefer - and it comes in *reddish*. I can't grok that. I wonder why facial hair tends to come in a different color than head hair.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Ah, no...even I'm not that lazy to not do that myself. But when things get shaggy and my brows need to be done, these hairs are in the area that gets cleared.

Just wondering.

I started shaving my head four years ago - never looked back. I much prefer being bald. I plan on staying that way for decades to come. It's win-win, really; I have a look that I am comfortable with, and I will never have to worry about gray hair or (worse) toupees...

Just curious, do you have to do anything to keep your head from being too shiny? Most guys who shave their head or are bald look ok, but the other day I was standing behind a guy and his head was so shiny that I almost had to put my sunglasses on.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Just curious, do you have to do anything to keep your head from being too shiny?

I have no idea how shiny I am. Nobody's ever complained, let's put it that way.

All I do is shave, the same way I do the bottom of my face: in the shower, with shaving gel and a razor. That's it. I don't do any pre- or post-shaving treatments.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I started noticing a few silver hairs when I was about 19, but it didn't start getting really noticeable until a couple of years ago. I'd been getting blond highlights for the last six years, so they hid the silver, but my bf convinced me to go back to my natural colour when he was here in May. So now it's even more noticeable, but it's only at the temples, and a bit in my facial hair.

 

[Shatmandu]

Now that I am bald, I grew a goatee - completing the Ben Sisko/Ming the Merciless look that I prefer - and it comes in *reddish*. I can't grok that. I wonder why facial hair tends to come in a different color than head hair.

Mine does the same thing. My hair was brown, now it's gray.

But during both, my beard comes in an ugly, ugly red color, like Ronald McDonald's crotch.

I grow it out once a year, hoping that it's more gray than red. No luck yet.

Joe, with the grain

 

[Kira's Mom]

Wait until you get a gray pube.

In the back of your mind, you hear Death clearing his throat.

Joe, plucker

They actually make hair coloring for pubes now (normal hair dye is too harsh for the area). I saw it in the Vermont Country Store catalog. I think it was called Color Down Under.

Found my first silver hair at 22. My dear sister saw it first, and reached over and yanked it out. I usually pluck them when I see them...but they're getting more frequent. I'm probably going to start dying my hair in a year or two.

 

[MetalPants]

Wait until you get a gray pube.

In the back of your mind, you hear Death clearing his throat.

Joe, plucker

It's more like I hear Death wheezing and coughing, so I'm nice and offer him a smoke.

 

[Vanyel]

I started getting gray hair in my early thirties. Hereditary. I used to pluck them out. My dad had a head full of gray hair before he turned 40. Luckily, while I grayed a little early (not in my teens like some others have posted) my hair is still dark brown. Keeping my hair a little long hides the gray a bit.

I think the favorite bit of advise my dad gave me was that "my hair can turn gray, so long as it doesn't turn lose."

 

[Kestra]

I don't think I'll care too much when I get older and my hair starts turning. I'll probably dye it for awhile and then just give up because I'm lazy like that. I'm more concerned about losing hair altogether!

 

[Pingfah]

I'm 33, I have grey in my beard, but if there are any in my hair you'd never tell because it is so light anyway.

It doesn't matter anyhow, i'm not receeding or going bald, and that's all that matters. As long as I don't go bald I couldn't care less if i went white as a sheet.

 

[ITL]

Started greying in my 20's, now in my 40's with plenty grey. Don't mind it one bit.

 

[JonathonWally]

Wait until you get a gray pube.

In the back of your mind, you hear Death clearing his throat.

Joe, plucker

They actually make hair coloring for pubes now (normal hair dye is too harsh for the area). I saw it in the Vermont Country Store catalog. I think it was called Color Down Under.

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Much easier trying to shave it off then try to dye it.

 

[Holdfast]

What about your chest? At least pubes are not immediately visible, when I go to the beach people know I'm on the short list to Graveyardtown.

First greys on my temples - disliked it but now I rather like having a few greys there.

First greys on my chest - serious WTF. Still don't like them there. That's old man territory.

 

[Capn Flukie]

lol @ at that commercial - No Play for Mr. Gray!