Is it that unusual to be grey in 30s?

[Spanakopitas]

I've been getting grey hairs since I was 22. I'm just about to turn 32 now, I don't have that much still but I have got several strands of grey all over. My hair is very dark brown naturally too so it shows more.

Anyway a colleague has said to me on the shift in shock 'I can see grey hair at the back of your head!! Are you going grey?!"

I explained that I have been doing for the last 10 years. I feel a bit embarrassed that I was put on the spot. I dye it sometimes if I feel it's getting quite noticeable.

Is it that uncommon really? Maybe she thinks I'm younger than I am. Probably going to have many posts now from people saying they didn't get a single grey hair until they were 75!

Found my first white hair when I was 24 but didn't find anymore until I was about 26. I'm nearly 36 now and have quite a lot, but then so do most people I know who are my age 🤷‍♀️

I didn’t get any grey hairs until my 40’s and I always thought that was fairly late. Now at 47 I mostly have them at my temples but they’re slowly spreading around my hairline. I dye them myself so most people wouldn’t know they’re there.

That's it, isn't it really - why should we have to pretend something perfectly natural isn't happening?

I started going grey in my 20s. I seems to run I. The family, my dad was pretty much fully grey before he was 30.
I didnt have any until after the birth of my 1st child when I was 25 but they've come thick and fast since.

I'm now mid 30s and get quite a few greys. These were my roots before I went to the hairdressers last week.

28, got a grey stripe, embracing it!

Absolutely, my entire maternal side were all grey or bald by early 20s. A hairdresser pointed out by first grey hair about 22, but I’m blonde so it’s quite easy to hide.

I’ve got a ton of grey hair and I’m 23. Started going at 16.

I dye it but not because of the grey.

I've had greys since I was 18. They have been growing in a "cluster" so I decided to embrace them and I now leave them out of the dye and have a "distinguished" grey streak

I'm sure I spotted first grey in my 20s. Mid 30s now, I have quite a few greys now - too many to pluck, but my hair is probably less than 10% grey (I have a lot of hair!)

My husband has very very dark hair and has had greys since our 20s (early 30s now)

Think it's more unusual for v dark hair to turn grey early

*usual

I know a girl who was completely grey in her mid twenties - she had to dye it all the time. She had a very traumatic childhood - removed from her alcoholic mother/put in foster care, and I always wondered if the stress/trauma had something to do with it as I'd never seen it so bad so young.

I imagine a bit of grey is common in 30s though. I'm 36 and none yet but my 38 yo sister has quite a few strands.

I’m another brunette who found her first grey hair at 18. I have a few strands coming though now I’m mid 30’s, all over, not in any significant patches. Few enough that I can just pull them out when I spot them, not enough to embrace and let grow. I’m sure there’s a few in the back that I can’t see. I keep asking Dh to check for me but he never does!