When did you start graying?

[Anonymous]

It’s such a range. 45 and no gray here, dark hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually the lighter your hair complexion/color, the earlier you start.
Usually.
Some very light blonde people start going gray in their mid 20s are completely gray/white by their 40s.
Some dark haired people don't start until their late 50s and don't go gray until their late 60s or 70s.

Interesting. My blonde family is definitely exception to that then. 78 year old mom, 48 year old sister and 45 year old me, none of us have even spotted one yet.

My grandma was a tow head, but still blonde as an adult (dirty blonde, but never brown) and she is still gray free at 92. It's wild. My cousins and I used to look for her grays and we were convinced she dyed her hair, but she never has. During covid when all her friends couldn't get their hair dyed, they were shocked she still had no grays. Her son has dark brown hair and didn't get any gray until mid 60s.

I don't think hair color and complexion have anything to do with it. I grew up with lots of Asian friends and so many of them already had grays in high school. Maybe because we can see it easier in their dark hair?

[Anonymous]

47 with more and more all of a sudden, but it's mainly underneath my top layer of hair. So if I pull the sides back, it's very noticeable, otherwise not at all.

My mom is 72 and not completely gray yet.

[Anonymous]

I developed a white stripe around 18. Maybe about 20 or so hairs. I’m 52 now and still have the white stripe and a handful more strays, but not many that seem to stand out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Usually the lighter your hair complexion/color, the earlier you start.
Usually.
Some very light blonde people start going gray in their mid 20s are completely gray/white by their 40s.
Some dark haired people don't start until their late 50s and don't go gray until their late 60s or 70s.

Interesting. My blonde family is definitely exception to that then. 78 year old mom, 48 year old sister and 45 year old me, none of us have even spotted one yet.

78y/o and no gray? Me thinks someone is coloring on the sly.

Her dad died at 99 with little to no gray so its definitely a genetic thing.

[Anonymous]

My family are blonds and redheads. The blondes tend to first get some noticeable greying in their 60,s. My Mom is maybe 25 percent grey in her early 80s. The redheads do not go grey, their hair fades to a pale straw colored blonde. I’m strawberry blond and I have a very small amount of grey at my temples and the rest of my hair just presents as a lighter shade of red/blonde now than when I was younger. I am 60.

[Anonymous]

started at 39 when I was pregnant with my last child. Noticeable at 42 or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usually the lighter your hair complexion/color, the earlier you start.
Usually.
Some very light blonde people start going gray in their mid 20s are completely gray/white by their 40s.
Some dark haired people don't start until their late 50s and don't go gray until their late 60s or 70s.

I thought it was the opposite?

Fair, dark (originally lighter) blonde here, 54 and I've only plucked a handful from my temples. Otherwise nada.

[Anonymous]

Currently, a few at my temples and a few strays elsewhere.

62

[Anonymous]

It started my first year of law school at 29, but I’m very blonde so it wasn’t noticeable. I had enough for others to notice it by my early 40s or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crazy range! I am 49 and have just a few strands so far, but my younger sister (46) has darker hair and considerably more gray.

That's what I was thinking. I was also surprised my brown lasted so long. I have very hard to notice unless you are in my family grey. They look like highlight hairs. I have the kind of brown that gets lighter brown highlights in sun exposure. BUT the new hair near my temples is greyer than the rest, which I don't like. I have male pattern baldness thining too. I'm 51...I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It started my first year of law school at 29, but I’m very blonde so it wasn’t noticeable. I had enough for others to notice it by my early 40s or so.

Likewise. Started at 27 lot of school stress showed more at 43

[Anonymous]

I’m 46 and just started to see a few grays. Not noticeable yet but I assume this is the beginning

[Anonymous]

Mid 40s. I’m 50 and it it 80 percent gray and I just started coloring for the first time.

[Anonymous]

I don't know when it became truly noticeable because I started highlighting almost immediately after grays started appearing. From there it was a progression of highlighting and coloring until I finally gave up the losing battle to cover and stop coloring at around 50.