if you're a natural redhead...

[Anonymous]

Do you have any grey?

I'm in my mid 50s and suddenly sprouting a narrow Bonnie Raitt-like greyish-white streak along one temple. My mother never turned grey. Hers turned auburn. And there are all these rumors of red just "fading" to a pink? Not sure where that came from.

[Anonymous]

I have white intermixed with the red. No gray. Red turns white in my family.

[Anonymous]

My mom is a natural redhead. She started seeing grey hairs in her mid twenties. She started dying her hair right away and continued for many years, eventually switching from a darker red to strawberry blonde as she aged. During the COVID restrictions, she stopped dying it. She was 78. She had no idea what it was going to look like without the dye. She was very happy to find that her hair was a very pretty, bright, snow white. Unfortunately, after the first 3 years, it started looking more yellow. She actually just looks blonde now.

[Anonymous]

My mom and I are both natural redheads. Her hair was a very bright "true red" though, and mine has always been more strawberry blonde.

Hers faded as more and more white/gray hairs came in. They didn't really look gray, they just lightened the overall appearance of her hair. Now in her 70s, her hair looks kind of blondish white with some hints of red. So almost strawberry blonde.

Mine is graying the same way but because my red was less intense to begin with, as the grays come in my hair just doesn't look gray at all anymore. It looks dark blonde or light brown, and you just see some red-gold in sunlight. I started coloring my hair because after 40 years of being a redhead, I don't feel like adjusting how I dress and do makeup. And my eyebrows are still red! It's been a weird transition.

[Anonymous]

Mean to say my hair doesn't look *red* at all anymore, as the grays come in.

[Anonymous]

No gray, but I'm only in my mid 40s. I was always more on the orange/strawberry blonde spectrum and it seems like I'm losing some pigmentation/becoming blonder as I age.

[Anonymous]

Lots of red in my family. 1 went very white. 1 a yellowish white. 1 a red head version of salt and pepper, emphasis on the salt. And 1 I guess just faded to a pale peach. (These are 3 siblings in their 70s and their parent). All very different results. Too soon to speak for their 40s/50s kids and tween grandkids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom and I are both natural redheads. Her hair was a very bright "true red" though, and mine has always been more strawberry blonde.

Hers faded as more and more white/gray hairs came in. They didn't really look gray, they just lightened the overall appearance of her hair. Now in her 70s, her hair looks kind of blondish white with some hints of red. So almost strawberry blonde.

Mine is graying the same way but because my red was less intense to begin with, as the grays come in my hair just doesn't look gray at all anymore. It looks dark blonde or light brown, and you just see some red-gold in sunlight. I started coloring my hair because after 40 years of being a redhead, I don't feel like adjusting how I dress and do makeup. And my eyebrows are still red! It's been a weird transition.

Eyebrows are funny, aren’t they? My older sister’s turned bright white and her hair streaked with white, but is still mostly dark red. Mine are still red, but I’ve started getting stick-straight, really thick black hairs intermingled with the red! It’s freaky. And I pluck those puppies immediately

[Anonymous]

47 and I have some white hairs around my hairline. My mother is 81 and her red has dulled, but she isn't grey.

I read that redheads lose pigment vs go grey. It's called achromotrichia?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:47 and I have some white hairs around my hairline. My mother is 81 and her red has dulled, but she isn't grey.

I read that redheads lose pigment vs go grey. It's called achromotrichia?

I’ve never heard that word before! Googling achromotrichia resulted in this:

https://www.howtobearedhead.com/redheads-will-you-go-white-or-gray/#:~:text=Since%20your%20genes%20never%20change,genetically%20you%20haven't%20changed.

[Anonymous]

My grandfather who had dark red hair faded to a sort of straw colored blonde in his 80s. My father and I who where more strawberry blonde got some grey around our temples in our late 50s with the rest of our hair very slowly becoming interspersed with white/straw colored hairs which just generally made our hair look paler.

[Anonymous]

My deeper red hair has faded to ashy blonde. I don't have grey but it is going whiteish

[Anonymous]

My darker red kind of auburn hair is turning white. I’m envious of all of you fading to nice colors. I’m coloring mine.

[Anonymous]

Red on the head, fire in the hole!

[Anonymous]

My red hair doesn't seem to have faded, it seems to have gone directly to white. I've embraced it. My mother's hair (she's 84) faded and ended up blond enough that you can't really see the hairs that are white. My brother isn't a red head but he's got a LOT of red in his beard. The hair that's red skipped fading and went directly to white. My red headed grandmother had hair like mine. It went directly to white. It was beautiful.