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Original poster

First grey hair!

38 replies

Dancingfairy · 23/09/2017 12:51

At 28! Aibu in thinking this is really early? I feel like sobbing. It wasn't even a little one either it was very long and very white :( and I'm allergic to hair dye so isn't gonna be easy to cover but didn't think I would be dealing with this so soon :(

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Feellikehell · 23/09/2017 12:58

I got my first one at 12 Smile

MerryMarigold · 23/09/2017 13:02

I remember pulling out 11 white hairs on holiday when I was 13. I've been dying since 22 and have recently allowed mint hair to go natural. I'm about 70 per cent white at 44. It's easier/ more acceptable to do these days I think and with a funky style it looks great.

Gillian1980 · 23/09/2017 13:04

I started going grey at 19.... most people I know started at some stage of their twenties.
Not unusually young at all OP.

HeebieJeebies456 · 23/09/2017 13:05

Wait til you get your first grey pube!

I call mine Gandalf the Grey Grin Grin

chitofftheshovel · 23/09/2017 13:06

It won't just be the one, can you see the back of your head?

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Dancingfairy · 23/09/2017 13:08

It wasn't actually me who noticed it it was my sister. So there are potentially more! I wouldn't be able to go grey as I love having dark hair. Glad to know it's not young though my sis was shocked! And she's 30

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FlandersRocks · 23/09/2017 13:11

Really? I'm 31 and no grey at all yet (and I have very dark brown hair so will be very noticeable when it starts!)

I though grey 'usually' starts in early 40's and before that would be early?

OuchLegoHurts · 23/09/2017 13:12

Most of my friends with dark hair started going grey in their twenties.

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Dancingfairy · 23/09/2017 13:14

Agree Flanders think 20s is early!! Don't wanna have to start dying from now to hide me greys! BUT seems I will have to find a way to.

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LesleyGarrettsingsdontyouknow · 23/09/2017 13:14

I was 23. I know someone who found his first at 16.

BillSaysDoYourJob · 23/09/2017 13:26

I was 24! And I've got plenty now. If it really bothers you can you use natural/henna type dyes instead? Smile

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Dancingfairy · 23/09/2017 13:30

Will look into those thanks! And grey pube lol Grin didn't think of those!

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Hulababy · 23/09/2017 13:30

I found my first couple of grey hairs the summer - I'm 44. Just topped my highlights up but if they increase - as I am sure they will now - I'll need to have some form of root treatment too.

However, my mum started getting grey hairs around 19y, and my sister in her late 20s.

DH has had grey hair for well over a decade - so probably late 20s/early 30s.

Cornettoninja · 23/09/2017 13:31

Ah Flanders be careful with that - my hairs dark and I just thought the light was catching it Grin

Wasn't that much of a shock though, I'd had a grey pube in my late twenties. Something to do with hair removal means the trauma make sure them more common. I'm a lazy bint about my bikini line but I'm sure more people would notice if they slacked off for a bit!

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Dancingfairy · 23/09/2017 13:41

Kinda wish it was a pube. At least it's hidden and I can just shave it off!

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Subtlecheese · 23/09/2017 13:44

I am 42 I have badger stripes and they are too cool for you youngsters!

Uokbing · 23/09/2017 14:21

Meh, I got my first one at about 17. I'm 35 now and underneath the monthly nice and easy dye ritual I reckon I must be pretty much 100% grey now.

28 isn't particularly young.

havanesehope · 23/09/2017 14:36

Grey hair started at 18, been dying it for decades now Confused

gingerh4ir · 23/09/2017 14:55

but it is just one hair. doesn't mean you go grey. I had the odd one since my 20s. now in my 40s and still no more whites apart from the odd white ones. It may just be a single white one. it is long, so must have been there for years.

AlphaStation · 23/09/2017 14:59

There comes a point in your mid thirties or early fourties when you might dye your hair, then again in your fifties when you can't be bothered and skip it.

Annabelle4 · 23/09/2017 15:02

I noticed new eyebrow hairs were white at 30 Shock

Hair at temples quickly followed.

My mum and sisters were early 20's though.

Member984815 · 23/09/2017 15:04

Little sister had a grey rib from the time she was about 6 . That's all she had full length of her hair . She has no others now at 25 . I'm 10 years older no grey yet . Mother is 56 no grey either her own mam died at 75 had black hair with one or 2 full length grey ribs till the day she died. My other grandmother was fully grey I wonder which one I'll take after

thismumismad · 23/09/2017 15:08

I was 12 when I got my first and now 30 years later, I've stopped colouring my hair, got it cut really short to get rid of the coloured hair and am now rocking the more salt than pepper look.

GertiesEyebrow · 23/09/2017 15:18

Greying since 16. I'm now 38.
Decided I've had enough of dealing with roots and started growing it out at the beginning of the year. I like the pure white streaks at my temples and the platinum streaks at the front but I'm not sure about the salt and pepper (50/50) at the back. I'd say overall I'm about 70% white/grey. My non grey hair is an ashy brown. Luckily my badger stripe isn't too bad.
Grey is only another hair colour. Having grey hair doesn't suddenly make me 70 but even if it did, so what?

OddBoots · 23/09/2017 15:21

It is slightly younger than average, when I looked into it 30-35 was average but it was younger for smokers.

It must be alarming if you can't use dye and have a particular attachment to dark hair though, one of my friends couldn't dye her hair but could lighten it so went blonde to blend them in.