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Did anybody go grey at a young age?

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Waxonwaxoff0 · 07/04/2020 13:21

The women in my family tend to go grey quite young. I didn't manage to get my hair done before lockdown and I've noticed a fair few greys coming through! I'm 30 in a couple of months.

Anyone else start going grey early?

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Ohyesiam · 07/04/2020 18:13

@EchidnasPhone
My friend went back to grey by going from left to right, rather than growing it out from the top down. So she left a lock beside her face undyed, then when it next needed doing she left a few more locks. That and going shorter Was how she grew the dye out.

MrsT1405 · 07/04/2020 18:47

I went to school with a boy who was grey at 12.
I'm 67 and still 95% brown.

CormoranStrike · 07/04/2020 18:51

Yup, first grey at 14, fully grey by mid forties.

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HelloCanYouHearMe · 07/04/2020 19:08

The odd grey hair started to appear in my late teens... this is me now at 40

Did anybody go grey at a young age?
HelloCanYouHearMe · 07/04/2020 19:09

Again with photo...

Did anybody go grey at a young age?
Besom · 07/04/2020 19:12

Yes went grey very young. It's platinum/silver now and I really like it.

LuvMyBoyz · 07/04/2020 19:16

My grandmother had jet black hair until she was 95 and was only a bit salt’n’pepper when she died at 102.

I started going grey at 28. Dyed my hair until I was 53 4 years ago. Loving the freedom of my natural grey colour. Bonus is the great condition of my hair.

Alsohuman · 07/04/2020 19:20

That looks exactly like mine @HelloCanYouHearMe.

grey12 · 07/04/2020 19:26

That's not early ;)
I started going grey mid twenties but some people go way before that.
You can join the new going grey movement! Been doing it for a year and feel great!
If the idea of colouring your hair every couple of months annoys you then you can think about it

HelloCanYouHearMe · 07/04/2020 19:48

What did it for me was totalling up how much a 5 weekly trip to the hairdressers for a colour was costing me... I then had it all stripped out and went from brunette to ash blonde then let it grow out.

amusedbush · 07/04/2020 19:56

I thought I might. My mum is 55 with naturally almost black hair, and the only greys she has are little white wisps at her temples.

I’m much more like her sister in colouring (pale skin, mid-brown hair), and my auntie was very grey in her 20s. I’ll be 30 next month and I don’t have any at all.

Although I was so focused on checking for grey hairs, I missed the arrival of slight crows feet AngryGrin

Frompcat · 07/04/2020 19:59

30 isn't young, I thought that was about average. I started getting greys at 18!!

springydaff · 07/04/2020 20:09

I went grey in my 20s. Dye, dye, dye for years (so tiresome!) and one day had it cut very short and let the grey grow through. Why hadn't I done it before! It looked amazing! Why do you think the young women dye their hair grey..

Had chemo and now my hair is white and soooo thin. My crowning glory is gone and I look like an old dear 😭

ListeningQuietly · 07/04/2020 21:16

springy
It will take a while but your hair will get its thickness back
you'll be fine

deste · 07/04/2020 21:16

I’m nearly 70 and hardly any grey at all. My dad who was very blonde when young went grey about thirty but my mum never had any so I take after her. My sister and brother are both white.

springydaff · 07/04/2020 21:25

It's been over 4 years LQ. Not looking likely 😭

springydaff · 07/04/2020 21:26

Even the Queen (and my 92yo mum) have ticker hair than me.

wowfudge · 07/04/2020 21:29

I started getting grey hairs in my early twenties. About five years ago I went from colouring my hair myself to having it done at the hairdresser's to get a better colour for my skin tone. I grew the dye out with her help by lightening the base colour and having two different shades of highlights, using high lift rather than bleach. Then she stopped doing the base colour and I grew the highlights out. Took about 18 months, but it never looked terrible. I've been completely grey for about three years and I love it.

ListeningQuietly · 07/04/2020 21:30

springy
Hang on in there - a friend suddenly started getting proper hair growth over 5 years later.
Chemo kills the follicles. They take a while to recover
but they likely will

springydaff · 07/04/2020 21:34

You've made me cry LQ!

My hairdresser regularly feels for sprouting hair and assures me it's there. But yet to see the fruit!

Yy I should be grateful I'm alive etc etc. But it's fucking shit to lose your (white) hair.

ListeningQuietly · 07/04/2020 21:37

springy
I had alopecia. I thought it would never end. But it did.

springydaff · 07/04/2020 21:43

Sorry LQ. I know it's rubbish to mourn my hair when others have it so much worse.

But it was fucking lovely, you know? People regularly stopped me in the street to ask about my hair - where I got it done etc. Now I look absolutely ancient. People are surprised to hear my actual age, thinking I'm much older - think 10, 20 years older.

Sorry. Self pity alert!

ListeningQuietly · 07/04/2020 21:48

springy
It will grow back.
And it will be all yours and gorgeous and you can choose not to dye it and people will admire it again
and you can snigger at the folks getting used to their own hair colour

springydaff · 07/04/2020 21:49

LQ I think I love you ♥️😭♥️

deste · 10/04/2020 21:39

Springy, my sister has the same problem after chemo. You can see her scalp.