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To have freaked out yesterday at finding a grey hair?

78 replies

8DaysAWeek · 07/06/2018 09:02

I'll be 29 next month. Honestly there was a tear in my eye when I found it. Dramatic much?

How old were you when you found your first? What do I do with it?? Is it true if I pull it I'll get 10 more!?

I've never felt older than I do now.

OP posts:
MyOtherUsernameisaPun · 07/06/2018 09:03

I'm a year older than you and found my first few in the last couple of years. It's a terrible feeling! My advice is just dye them and then pretend they don't exist Grin

treeofhearts · 07/06/2018 09:03

I was 22. I now have about 10. I yank them out as soon as they appear.

scurryfunge · 07/06/2018 09:04

Started going grey at 19. I've dyed my hair on and off over the years but now I leave it alone. 51 now and very grey.

SensingWeakness · 07/06/2018 09:05

31 and none yet. My mum was well into her 40's before she started going grey so I'm hoping I follow her.

jamoncrumpets · 07/06/2018 09:05

Teaching turned me grey at 25.

dogzdinner · 07/06/2018 09:05

I was 18 😞

MrsJayy · 07/06/2018 09:06

I stopped dying my hair when I was pregnant had a few greyhairs I was 22 Shock

LifeBeginsAtGin · 07/06/2018 09:06

Someone keeps dropping grey hairs on my clothing. Then one fell on my keyboard the other day, bright as daylight on the black background. I don't know where they are coming from......

motheroreily · 07/06/2018 09:06

I think i was 25. I started dying my hair when I was 31. I didn't know how grey I now am until recently when I didn't dye my hair for 2 months Shock

Thehop · 07/06/2018 09:09

I went 60%grey by 25. It was a real shock but I’m 40 now so just dye it. Grey hair takes colour well so there is a bonus!

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 07/06/2018 09:09

Around 40. Been dying for about 5 years. Letting the highlights grow out and grey hairs appear. Don’t want to have to grow out a dramatic skunk stripe when I’m in my 60s. Anyway; Grey hair is a Thing now.

Buzzlightyearsbumchin · 07/06/2018 09:10

I was 17 when i found my first. I reckon, now I'm 38, if I stopped dying my hair I'd be more grey than anything else now.

BuntyCollocks · 07/06/2018 09:11

I was 17 or 18 I think. I’m really dark. I couldn’t care less, they can be covered up, and when I get enough (my greys are actually Snow White), I’m going to embrace it and have a glorious mane of white.

littlepeas · 07/06/2018 09:11

I was about the same age as you. It’s not a big deal really. I don’t think they multiply if you pull them out, but I’ve just left mine (blonde), would prob pull it out if they showed more.

justilou1 · 07/06/2018 09:11

46 - but it's not on my head. Blush

EBearhug · 07/06/2018 09:11

I was 20.

Seeline · 07/06/2018 09:13

I found my first just before my 50th. I am 'dark blonde' and have had highlights for years. I've never really looked before. I only found it because my hair is currently falling out in handfuls and I was trying to work out why. Low ferratin apparently. I am more worried abut the hair loss than the grey TBH.

KittyVonCatsworth · 07/06/2018 09:15

@justilou1 wtf?? I’m almost the same age as you...No one told me this would happen 😨

Sweatymoose · 07/06/2018 09:18

27 - big white wirey one and I cried. It wouldn't be so bad if my 60+ relatives were grey at all!

Merryoldgoat · 07/06/2018 09:20
  1. I’m 40 and am really quite grey - I tried growing it out but it made me look odd and unwell. I dye it at home quite easily.

And no, pulling it out will of course NOT mean two grow back. I actually met a hairdresser once who believed that guff.

Babdoc · 07/06/2018 09:23

One grey hair? Oh dear, OP. But somehow, life goes on...
PS Have you considered counselling?!

lemony7 · 07/06/2018 09:23

My meds turn my hair white Sad I had it cut yesterday and realised how bad it now is 😭

19lottie82 · 07/06/2018 09:24

I found my first @ 32. I’m
Now 36 and they are unstoppable.

OhDearMavis · 07/06/2018 09:25
  1. Very grey now esp at the front at 34
WatchoutDSisdriving · 07/06/2018 09:25

Yep YABU to freak over one grey hair!

I got my first at 16 and DS had one at 14.

Life goes on 😉

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