High school age. 16-18

First gray hair was at 12. Mostly gray by 30.

Mid 20s. Accelerated after having children starting in late 20s. Significantly gray now in my mid-40s, but the rest of me still looks young and I refuse to give up and let it grow out.

I currently color my hair every 4 weeks and have products I use for the in between times.

I am not good enough or patient enough to do box color.

My original hair color is dark brown/almost black.

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

57 female. Strawberry blonde. Only a few visible grey hairs around my temples. There’s probably more but it blends in.

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.

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.

Uh, your natural color is gray/white now. Sorry lady.

I had 3 grey hairs at 13 and by 23 I had streaks either side and on the top. By my late 40s my hair has turned entirely white, like an 80 yr old's hair might look.

Anonymous wrote:I started noticing a few around my temple area at about 40. Though at 44 is when they started becoming more noticeable when I would put my hair back. Female.

Same

23, hair was medium brown.

First grays popped up in 30s (medium brown hair), immediately started highlighting hair to hide it, fast forward to 40s, have to switch to full color and highlights to hide it. Late 40s I stopped fighting a losing battle and now 50s and natural with probably 80% gray on top and brown underneath.

Female, saw the fist grey hairs about 40, now 50 and I would say I am 20% grey. I have naturally blonde hair so it just looks lighter as the grey hair is actually white. Natural highlights!

In my early twenties I’d pluck out the odd strands that would show up. At 27 I realized there were too many to pluck and I started coloring my hair. I’m in my fifties now and I’d be completely grey if I didn’t dye my hair.

And honestly I’d just let it go grey if I hadn’t had my kids as late in life as I did. I don’t want to go to PTO meetings and have people think I’m the grandma!

30. At 42 I would be almost completely gray if I didn’t color my hair. I was a childhood blond that turned light brown if that matters but I come from a long line of early gray-ers. My mother and her father were both gray very early. My grandfather was totally and completely gray at age 28 when my mother was born.

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.