At what age did you get your first gray hair?

[LostInAnomie]

I'm 26, and I got my first about a month ago.

[mainegreen]

1. 18 nt

[qwertyMike]

43. Never

My daughter's a hairdresser.

In reality about 43

[Maine-ah]

52. ha! me too! 18, and my last one was at 30.

yanked 'em out.

[RetroLounge]

2. June 26th, 1998

I know this for a fact...

RL

[yvr girl]

4. That's just weird

Why do you know the day?

What was the time?

[RetroLounge]

7. Birth of my first child...

It's gotten way more gray since then...

RL

[yvr girl]

10. I like gray hair

on a man.

Not so fond of it on myself.

[Left Is Write]

14. Here is a perfect example of someone who looks better in gray:

[yvr girl]

19. You have excellent taste

George is totally yummy.

[Proud MD Liberal]

3. 18,

My mother pulled it out of head when she dropped me off at college.

[KitchenWitch]

6. Welcome to DU!

Grab your favorite beverege and enjoy!

:beer:

[KitchenWitch]

5. When I was 15

Meh, grays...no biggie.

[mopinko]

8. 16

been solid silver for a long time now.

[mike_c]

9. I've had them for nearly as long as I can remember-- sometime...

...in my teens, I suppose.

[Left Is Write]

11. I haven't.

I'm 40.

[MissB]

12. I still haven't gotten one.

:P

[graywarrior]

13. 18....thus, Graywarrior

[Mutley]

15. I just found my first gray hair about five or six months ago.

It was before my birthday, so I was 26.

[ThomCat]

16. 14

Though I didn't get my second until I was 20.

[Darth_Kitten]

17. 29

:)

[petronius]

18. I had one around 32 or 33 on my head

Haven't seen one since, but I do have 4-5 grayish strands in the beard...

[Arugula Latte]

20. I think 29 or so ...

That's a weird sensation when you start to age before your very eyes ... :(

[Blue-Jay]

21. Somewhere around 22-23.

I still have many more browns than grays and it's all still there, so I'm not gonna complain. I earned every single one of them.

[MichiganVote]

22. 42, just lucky I guess

[Jamastiene]

23. I started getting gray hair before I hit 19 years old.

My mother was almost totally silver on top by the time I was born. She was 21 at the time. By the time I hit my terrible two's, she was buying dye in bulk. I don't know why it runs in our family to get gray so early.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. I didn't mess around with gray, my dear LostInAnomie!

I pulled my first white hair out at age 20!

And now, many years later, I am solid silver, and loving it....:hi:

[bikebloke]

25. Mid-30's

My father's started coming in around 30, so I'm doing better in the ageing stakes.

[Deja Q]

26. 33 - some gray beard hairs and a couple nose hairs to boot.

:cry:

[NewWaveChick1981]

27. I got my first gray hair at 23.

I remember it very well. I immediately pulled it. A couple of months later, I had three or four. After that, twenty or thirty. According to my hairdresser, I am now 70% gray (I'm 43) but in no way, shape, or form ready to go gray, so I keep it covered. :)

[Nikia]

35. Me too

Except that my mother noticed it and pulled it. Now I get grey hairs occaionally but not in significant numbers. I am 28.

[Pithlet]

63. Same here. The first one I noticed, anyway.

I mentioned it to my hairdresser at the time, and she said "You've had a patch of white hair in the back of your head as long as I've been cutting your hair. I didn't believe her, but she showed me, and sure enough. There's a birthmark on my scalp on the back of my head about the size of a nickel, and all the hair there had turned solid white. I'm 34, now, and have quite a bit of gray that I dye to cover up.

[Courtesy Flush]

28. I was in high school

But it never amounted to much. Just a hair or two.

Now I'm 47 and just getting a good salt and pepper beard.

[nini]

29. 17

runs in my family

[YankeyMCC]

30. Early tweenties thereabouts n/t

[idgiehkt]

31. I just found one yesterday and I'm 38

My mom has a full head of dark brown hair at 60, though; it's greying slightly in the front, so I hope I got her genes

[dpbrown]

32. Hard to remember now....

...probably around 30 or so.

[REP]

33. Twelve, But I Have Black Hair

Got my first period and my first white hair at 12; I'm sure they're related.

[qnr]

34. Don't know, but I had loads of it by about 20 n/t

[Skittles]

36. I will be 50 in March and have yet to see my first one

I'm not sagging either......SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET !!!!! :D

[Nicole]

37. 44

I have about 20 that I can see. I might be completely gray in the back though.:rofl:

[fizzgig]

38. none yet

i'm only 25 but my hair seems to be getting darker and more coarse as i get older

[William Bloode]

39. I'm turned 40 this year and still none in my hair.

I started getting then in my beard and mustache around 38, so it's coming, and soon. :scared:

[u4ic]

40. 5

I developed a grey streak at the back of my head.

[Dave Reynolds]

41. 19.

And there were about 15 of them when I noticed.

[madrchsod]

42. it was so long ago i can`t remember!

somewhere in my early 40s`

[greblc]

44. 23. Enjoy

I'm 39 now and it more gray than not.

[av8rdave]

45. I think my mid 20s

[alittlelark]

46. 14, found 5 in the center of my bangs

Dyed my hair 'Medium ash Blonde' because the pic looked right. Hair turned green... washed hair 10 times in a row. Ended up with damaged slightly green hair and haven't dyed it since.


Now, at 42, I get complements on my hair at least 3-4 times a month. Platinum silver and blonde/red.

[Alexander]

47. 14....I'm 23 now, and have been asked "Are you going gray?"

Yes, I am, and I like it! My grandmother went gray in her 20s, my mom in her 30s. It can look distinguished, and I prefer my gray genes to baldness genes.

It probably goes without saying that I'm a guy...

[clyrc]

48. Soon after my first daughter was born

at 25. 11 years later, I color my hair, but I can see lots of gray in my roots.

[leftofthedial]

49. stayed grey-free well into my forties

but the last five years have been horrific and it's now going fast . . .

[last_texas_dem]

50. I'm 23 and just found one the other day

I've noticed maybe two or three before; I was probably 21 when I noticed my first grey hair. I actually don't mind how they look all that much; I have light brown hair so they blend in fairly well. The one I found the other day was one of the longest hairs on my head, so I had gone about ten months without noticing it! The texture of them is quite different than the other hairs on my head, though.

[CC]

51. I thought I found one a few weeks ago,

ask any and everyone I could if it was a gray hair. Guess it wasn't/isn't since everyone laughed and said it wasn't. I guess I will know if I have gray when my hair is 50% or more gray. BTW I am a natural blond and that is why people laughed and swear it is as blond as the rest. I thought it looked more gray and was a tad thicker. So 46 and still no gray. I could really care less about gray hair but please let me inherit my mom's skin. No wrinkles at 70 plus.

[av8rdave]

53. Allright....I just found a gray one on my chest

NOW I'm pissed!

Thanks for bringing THAT subject up!

[miss_american_pie]

54. 20

I have bad DNA. :hi:

[olshak]

66. mid 20s, but had it in my beard at 18 n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

55. 39 - just found some this year

I've been lucky, I guess - I've only seen a couple so far. :)

[malta blue]

56. 19...

I named it after my BF at the time since he was a rather aggressive and frightening driver....

[windlight]

57. I was in 6th grade

it was rough but then i went..meh..:shrug:

[Bassic]

58. 27. It fell off though.

Although I do seem to be getting a little bit of white in my goatee.

[Brewman_Jax]

59. 40 or 41

so rather than get a bad dye job, like a friend of mine, who is male, I just have it buzzed.

[LaraMN]

60. 23 n/t

[bif]

61. 13 or 14

But they've mysteriously all dissapeared.

[reyd reid reed]

62. I was in my mid-late thirties somewhere

Oh, well. They're not too bad, I s'pose, it's just that they're coarser than the rest of my hair.

[catmandu57]

64. 18

My Grandmother yanked out of my head on Main street.

[anarch]

65. mid to late twenties, I think

My "grey" hairs are not really grey, though...they're pretty much completely white.

[closeupready]

67. 25, if I recall correctly.

eom.

[hedgehog]

68. Does white hair count?

No gray, but more and more white hairs have shown up in the last few years. My dad is about 75, and the last of his red hair is finally fading to white.


Added on edit: I'm sure I've added a bunch of white hairs already today. I should be all white by morning at this rate. The suspense is killing me!

[BarenakedLady]

69. About 33-34 or so.

I still only have a few at 37.