How old were you when you found your first gray hair?

[Anonymous]

My 12 yo has had one for years.

My first came in at 47.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably early 30's, now late 50's I'm about 30-40% grey

I was 20 and at 49 I am probably 10% gray. I don’t think when you find them determines how quickly you will be significantly gray. I did have a friend with black hair who was probably 30-40% gray by 30 years old! Had to keep up with coloring her roots constantly.

[Anonymous]

20s but it was single strand here and there. I'm Asian with dark hair so I was able to spot them pretty easily. Started actually going gray in the mid-thirties, when I had to start coloring my hair to cover it up. Again, with dark hair is was more noticeable.

[Anonymous]

22 but they showed up like once every five years. So I didn't even think of dying until 45. Now every morning I wake up there are 100 more gray hairs.

[Anonymous]

17. Started dyeing hair at 19. Now at 52, parts of my hair are entirely silver when my roots come in.

[Anonymous]

50

[Anonymous]

I've got some kind of genetic condition (and my children have it too) where a patch of my hair has been gray for a really long time. I think since I was 8 or 10. I've also got a couple of spots on my body where the skin is completely white so I think it's related. The gray hair never bothered me but people did point it out when I was in Middle School.

[Anonymous]

Late 30's but once I noticed, I realized there were kind of a lot of them around the crown of my head. I have dark blonde hair so they are harder to spot.

[Anonymous]

18, started dying it at 20, irish early grey family history. I was a brunette, stopped dying it at the beginning of the pandemic, now totally grey and 47. But my eyebrows are still dark brown.

[Anonymous]

Found first hair at about 22. (I'm a light brunette.) By mid 20s, I had enough that I couldn't pretend that they were flukes. I've been coloring my hair since then, but I was probably completely gray by late-40s.
In some ways, it was less traumatic to go gray early, since I never had to associate my gray hair with other signs of aging like menopause or wrinkles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:About 45. I’m medium blonde that’s always been naturally streaky with a lot of color variation. The grey hairs don’t bother me, they blend in pretty well.

Same, I was 47. And like another blond poster, I’ve found only white hairs, no grays, and they are coarser/curlier than my other hair (which is medium curly). A few years later they still aren’t noticeable to anyone else, but I do find them regularly.

[Anonymous]

20, was mostly gray by 35

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably early 30's, now late 50's I'm about 30-40% grey

I was 20 and at 49 I am probably 10% gray. I don’t think when you find them determines how quickly you will be significantly gray. I did have a friend with black hair who was probably 30-40% gray by 30 years old! Had to keep up with coloring her roots constantly.

+1 Found my first at 17 and I am only around 5% gray now, at 41. It's enough that I notice it now, especially at the temples, but my hairdresser said it's too soon to think about coloring because my hair is thick and that will be a lot of hassle for minimal return (he's the one who gave me the 5% estimate).

[Anonymous]

18. Fully white at 45.

[Anonymous]

I had my twins when I was 29. After they were born (like starting that day) I began growing a half inch wide pure white streak in my hair. I leaned into it. Decided it looked cool and parted my hair so it showed.