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To ask when you got your first grey hair

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Lolabirdy · 10/04/2025 10:01

so I’m 26 and I’ve got a few clusters of grey hairs growing from around my hairline and behind my ears. Theres 3 or 4 that are very visible when I tie my hair up.
I know it’s normal to get grey hairs but I didn’t think I’d get so many so young? My parents didn’t go grey in their 20s. I’m not going to colour them as I think it’d be easier to embrace them but just wondering when you first started going grey?

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stanleypops66 · 10/04/2025 20:36

Late 20’s

Crazycatlady79 · 10/04/2025 20:34
Cathmawr · 10/04/2025 18:13

Early twenties the first time I noticed it. Me mum has told me I was born with lots of black hairs and one wiry grey!

I'm 34 now and they're thick and fast. Am embracing it too x

Alicehatter · 10/04/2025 18:11

When I got married

SummerFeverVenice · 10/04/2025 18:10

49 started get a few silver threads. Sick of people asking me if I dye my hair.

frogpigdonkey · 10/04/2025 18:08

In my teens. In my 40s now and salt and pepper but with a couple of pure white patches around my temples. If it was all that colour I’d grow it out!

Genevieva · 10/04/2025 18:06

Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould · 10/04/2025 14:57

I’m 42 and a red head… I cannot wait to go grey (well we go white not grey). I check almost daily!! Nothing nada!! I do however have one white hair in one of my eyebrows. Even when I have them tinted this one stays white. My lashes and eyebrows are clear…. No pigment at all. Also how lovely you are embracing it!! I love grey/white hair!!

You have the best hair colour. Don’t wish it away.

MyNameIsAlexDrake · 10/04/2025 18:05

About 19yr old, I’m naturally very dark. Dyed my hair every 3 weeks until around 40yo then I transitioned to blonde. I’m now fully white at 50yo.

Genevieva · 10/04/2025 18:05

45, but both my parents are still more colour than grey in their 70s. I’ve got about 3 that I can find, but I’m blonde (don’t dye my hair) so they don’t really notice.

NeedaplanNeedtogo · 10/04/2025 18:03

I had a few grey hairs all my life and I used to pluck them out but they became more noticeable around 24 years old and too many to pluck out.

Mickeychampionwhatgoodami · 10/04/2025 18:03

BurgundyZero · 10/04/2025 10:18

25
40s now and still mostly dark hair but a bit more noticeable silver now. I find it pretty

Not silver dahling..it's platinum.🧑‍🦳
I'm near 60 embrace the platinum 😄

BogRollBOGOF · 10/04/2025 18:01

Summer 2020.
Mid-40s now and more have appeared, but they're not obvious yet. I think it will be going for a streak approach as there is a cluster together.

I'm not at the point of trying to work out whether to be arsed with dying it yet.

LunchBoxPolice · 10/04/2025 17:57

30, during my second pregnancy. I was very hormonal and called my husband to cry about it 😆 Got lots more now and don’t really care

Toddlerteaplease · 10/04/2025 17:42

43 only one though.

Roselilly36 · 10/04/2025 17:41

50

BlueWalker · 10/04/2025 17:41

Year 7, so around 11 years old. It was noticeable (the rest was very dark) enough a few years later that I started dying my greys around the age of 20. It grows fast; I would have visible regrowth within a fortnight so I just stopped dying it in my 40's and now it's 50/50 - dark hair underneath and totally silver hair on top. If I wear my hair half up/half down it's two different colours. Which I kind of love.

gannett · 10/04/2025 17:39

I don't have any yet but I like the approach of a friend of mine who started dyeing her hair grey at 35 for fashion reasons... and also so she never has to actually know.

KellySeveride · 10/04/2025 17:32

In my teens. Started getting more grey hair in my early 30’s. Now 39 and have a good chunk of greys but my hair is so thick that they’re still not that visible as they’re underneath.

muddyford · 10/04/2025 17:31
  1. Found them round my temples.
Leapintothelightning · 10/04/2025 17:29

Found my first grey hair at 16, my roots were probably mostly grey by my late 20s. I’m 33 now and if I let my hair grow out it would be fully grey

mondaytosunday · 10/04/2025 17:28
Hammy19 · 10/04/2025 15:08

14, totally white by my late 30s

PeachesPeachesPeachesPeachesPeaches · 10/04/2025 15:05

I was in my early twenties. My mum is late 50s and still no greys.

C0medianHeckle · 10/04/2025 15:00

20s

DefyingGravidy · 10/04/2025 15:00

I was 26 when I noticed my first grey hair. But I didn’t have enough to start dying my hair until I was late 40s. I have fair hair though so it’s not as obvious as if I was dark.