How old were you when your hair started to turn gray?

[Anonymous]

44 temples. Female. Brown hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s so genetic. My mom is 70 and her hair still hasn’t turned grey.

+1. 73 year old mom has no grey. I'm 40 and don't have any. We are both blonde FWIW.

[Anonymous]

I noticed my first gray strand at 24. There were just a few till I turned 40 and my entire head also seemed to turn gray almost overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s so genetic. My mom is 70 and her hair still hasn’t turned grey.

+1. 73 year old mom has no grey. I'm 40 and don't have any. We are both blonde FWIW.

Agreed. My grandma is 91 and has no grays. She was a tow head when she was young, but is mostly a dirty blonde now. People didn’t realize she didn’t dye until Covid

[Anonymous]

First gray hair at 36.

I’m 52 and have very little grey hair. A small sprinkling at crown. I’m probably 1/16th grey.

Brunette.

[Anonymous]

Started in early 20s but it was v v slow to change until early 30s. Now I am late 30s and it’s probably almost 50% and speeding up it seems. So sad…the expense of dyeing my hair is quite high but I am not willing to be gray now.

[Anonymous]

Started going aggressively gray in my late 20s. I had dark brown hair and dyed it through my 30s. Went silver at 42-43 and no regrets (47 now).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by all the late responses on here. I’m 36 and all my friends have gray hair.

I feel somewhat like an outlier and have no grays yet.

Same! I’m 35, no grays. Hair is light brown. My DH is 36 and has lots of gray, especially in his facial hair (his dad was mostly gray by 40).

My mom is in her early 60s and has experienced more of a loss of pigment in her hair vs. going gray. Her auburn hair is more like strawberry blond now. She highlights it to add pigment, but doesn’t dye it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised by all the late responses on here. I’m 36 and all my friends have gray hair.

I feel somewhat like an outlier and have no grays yet.

This. I’m 45 and have no gray. Same as my mother before me.

[Anonymous]

I'm 46 and have 3 strands. I'm light brunette, like level 6.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I started graying in my mid-/late-30’s.

Am now 53 and feel my hair is at least 90% gray.

I am a Female & my natural color is actually black so I need to color ideally every ten days-2 weeks to appear polished.

Same— except i started graying a bit earlier. Im Indian. I color my hair at home. Since it’s naturally black, the gray really stands out. I just use Revlon, in natural black, soft black, or brown black. It’s cheap and works, but i still resent the fact that the gray grows back so quickly.

If you color so often, are you just touching up the roots (v whole head)?

[Anonymous]

I had individual white hairs starting in my 20s, and I think it started to be majority gray in my late 30s. Original color was blonde but it turned dishwater when I had kids.

I've been dying it light brown for years now but if I stopped I believe I'd be totally gray with white strands. I'm 42.

[Anonymous]

Fun fact, JLO has been all gray since her 20's

[Anonymous]

Started getting white hair in my mid-twenties. Now, at 53, I'm 100% white (but I still color for the time being).

[Anonymous]

I’m 43 and for about two years I have had about two gray hairs.