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

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  • scrapjen
    scrapjen Posts: 387 Member
    I'm rather surprised I haven't found one yet! I'll turn 44 this year ... wow, feeling old as I write that. I see plenty of my friends that have had to color. I have colored, but not for grey ...
  • ElizabethObviously
    ElizabethObviously Posts: 380 Member
    I was about 25. That is when I stopped dyeing my hair and let my hair grow out and chopped off all the dyed stuff! I do not see them as something bad. I think they are beautiful.

    My sister was 12. Her daughter was 5.
  • EddieHaskell97
    EddieHaskell97 Posts: 2,227 Member
    College, I was seduced by Mrs. Robinson. She sheds.
  • molonlabe762
    molonlabe762 Posts: 411 Member
    27ish?
  • EEfromJersey
    EEfromJersey Posts: 219 Member
    I was looking at a picture when my first grandchild was born almost 4yrs ago I was 48 and my hair was still jet black now at the rate I'm going i'll look like Bob Barker pretty soon.
  • Noogynoogs
    Noogynoogs Posts: 1,028 Member
    21
  • ThinkInOregon
    ThinkInOregon Posts: 283
    I still don't have any!!
  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
    None yet.. after rearing 9 kids... my grandmother died at age 72 and never had a grey hair.....
  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
    Around 24 years old. I'm now 51 and it's coming in at a good clip.

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    That is some beautiful grey hair !
  • ilenewilliams
    ilenewilliams Posts: 48 Member
    I am 47 now and just yesterday when I got my hair cut, she commented that I had a few grey's starting to come in on the crown of my head. There were about 6 or 7 so I guess it's starting?
  • twiglet1959
    twiglet1959 Posts: 20 Member
    45
  • Alaarie
    Alaarie Posts: 29 Member
    23 or 24... don't remember exactly.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    About 40 or so.
  • Sueb1420
    Sueb1420 Posts: 19 Member
    48 and not a one to be found yet.
  • Drawing_a_Blank
    Drawing_a_Blank Posts: 14 Member
    Sometime in my early 30's. I'm nearly 50, and I still don't have very many, though, so I guess I'm lucky.
  • ameliealure
    ameliealure Posts: 1
    35 years old (this year)
  • raevyn70
    raevyn70 Posts: 113 Member
    My mother pulled one white strand from my head when I was 13
  • ThisCharmingFellow
    ThisCharmingFellow Posts: 132 Member
    25, I think.

    Was very concerned that I would end up like my father who started going grey at 15 and by the age I am now had a mop of white hair.
  • malakisi
    malakisi Posts: 2
    14. yep.
  • cheekym7
    cheekym7 Posts: 570 Member
    I'm 34 and havn't spotted one yet
  • wpwarrior88
    wpwarrior88 Posts: 1,513 Member
    25 - hubby says I have a "fetlock" now; daughter pulls them from the back of my head. I like my slivers and earned them all!
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    I'm 39 and I've never had a gray hair
  • frangrann
    frangrann Posts: 219 Member
    I'm 50 and I have none!!!!!
  • Frayde
    Frayde Posts: 337 Member
    19, right after the first baby was born. But when I was 4, I promised my Granddaddy that when I got "old" like him (he was probably 55 at the time), if I had pretty white hair like his, I would never color it. Well, it's white like Granddaddy's, so now I'm about only 3/4 brown and 1/4 white. "Ah, well, a touch of grey...."
  • slk_5555
    slk_5555 Posts: 177 Member
    Early 30s I think. I'm developing a cruella deville style strip of greys at the front - none anywhere else. I started plucking them out at first & then decided I would rather have a few greys than a bald patch. Hairdresser disguises it amongst blond highlights most of the time:-)
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    grey hair....not yet. Thinning hair like 15.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    I'm 28, none yet. My husband got his first grey hairs during boot camp. :laugh:

    I'm amused that this was bumped today. Found my first grey hair yesterday. :laugh:
  • shmerek
    shmerek Posts: 963 Member
    38-39ish
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    i'm 29, and i think i MAY have spotted my first one in the past couple months. not absolutely positive though. not highly concerned either :smile:
  • beleeLafter
    beleeLafter Posts: 47
    I'm so old that I don't even remember :noway:
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