At what age did you start dying your hair to cover gray?
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Anonymous
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brunette with very fair skin (I'm part irish and part croatian).
Had to start dyeing in my early 30s when I could no longer just pluck a couple. They are really out of control at this point. I turn 44 in a couple months. I color every 4 weeks (I have a lady that comes to our house - she's awesome!), but I may have to cut it to 3 or start doing the roots myself. I should probably just go gray and admit defeat, considering the pandemic is causing my face to age 20 years ;P |
Anonymous
| I've been highlighting my hair for a long time but just started getting gray strands about 2 years ago at 57. So far they blend in with the highlights. I am old enough that I may just let the gray grow in a few years. |
Anonymous
Yup--me too. I have hair dye delivered on a monthly Amazon subscription. |
Anonymous
| Half Asian woman. I started covering grays at 19. I’m 40 now and still don’t have many, but I definitely got them early. |
Anonymous
What is the point of your post? She didn’t ask for input from people who DON’T color their hair. 
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Anonymous
| I started at age 44. Started getting the occasional gray at ~32 or so. Now at 47, I'm only ~5-10% gray, but it is sprinkled pretty evenly around my head and it looks kind of unkempt against my level 2-3 almost black hair. I use a level 5 demi-permanent to darken the white strands a bit so that they blend in. |
Anonymous
| White F brunette with very fair skin. I first noticed grays around 18 and have been coloring since I was about 24. I dye my hair about every 5-6 weeks but should probably do more often. I need a root cover up after about 3 weeks. |
Anonymous
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OP here.
I’ve been going gray slowly, since I was 20. I feel like this year, at 40, all of my grays just magically appeared. Thanks for the responses. I will probably start dying my hair every four weeks now. |
Anonymous
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White woman, red hair. Started noticing white (redheads don't go grey, apparently). Used pandemic shut-in boredom to experiment with dyeing.
About every 6 months seems to be what I need. 45. |
Anonymous
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Late 20s. White woman with dark brown hair.
I color it at home every 4 weeks. I’m 47 now. It’ll probably take until my 60s70s before I stop. |
Anonymous
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25, dark brown hair. Stopped dying at age 41. Age 45 now, hair is silver soon to be white.
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Anonymous
| Started to notice grey at temples around 43 ish. But at that point if I missed a color appt it wasn’t awful. Now, at 48, I am in there as scheduled or else I look 10 years older. They greys have multiplied and I do not have the complexion to have a head of grey hair. In the past year the amount of grey seems like it has doubled. I think most is age but the pandemic certainly hasn’t helped. I feel like the aging process really accelerates after 45/46. Even my eyebrows are losing color! |
Anonymous
| 20, white (Irish/English), dark hair fair skin. |
Anonymous
| I’m Indian, turn 50 this year, and started coloring my hair when I was 30. I had been going grey since I was 18 or so. |
Anonymous
| 30s, but started spotting grays in my teens. Brunette. They def increased after children. |