To be this grey at 35?

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I started getting grey hair at around 21, and I have to regularly dye it now. It's depressing! My diet isn't amazing and I'm always a bit stressed, but feels like this is it now. I don't feel comfortable with it..is this a normal amount?

I have a friend who was 100% grey at 40

I am 42 and I have been going grey since I was 30, my natural colour is dark but my roots are completely white. I think it’s genetic, my mum is also white haired (not grey). The full length of my hair is grey now and the texture has changed completely. I still colour it but it only lasts 2 weeks and it’s a pain doing it so frequently.

I'm 42 and was more grey than you at 35. I just dye it every 4 weeks and use the spray in between.

The entire middle section of my hair is completely white. The whole way along my parting.

My bil and sil went grey at 19. Dh hasn't but he has a different mum.

I love your hair, I think grey is spectacular. You’re not me though, so if you’re unhappy, dye is your friend.

I'm 46 and pretty much totally grey.
Stopped dying my hair in January and just gonna grow my waves, long, wild and grey.

There is no 'normal', everyone is different.
In my family we get grey hair in our twenties. I am now 47 and I am completely grey (I am sure I was too 10 years ago, only I didn't know the extent of it because I was dying it).
A year ago I stopped dying my hair and embraced my grey hair.

Some other people hardly get any until they are in their fifties.

I’m 46 and I had similar, started going grey at 22, was probably similar to you at 35. Some people just go grey early, my mum started losing colour at 17 I think. I don’t have the patience for colour, actually now my natural colour looks quite good. What I have learned is that I’m looking better now than I ever will, when I look at photos from 10-15 years ago I think I look amazing, but at the time I was worried about looking old. So I’ve stopped worrying or trying to look younger, I’m trying to just embrace now.

Thanks everyone, it is what it is I guess. I'll try to accept it.

I am 61 and have almost no grey hair. Yay me. But what I have learned is that grey hair, as well as being often beautiful, is the absolute easiest and best sign of ageing. I would swap it in a second for any of the other aesthetic indignaties that have been visited upon me. Dye it (easy) or wear it with pride!

It’s normal if it’s in your genes.

I take NMN and I have noticed a lot of my grey hair is now coming in my natural colour.

Just dye it. Most people do. I haven’t a clue how grey I am as I have dyed my hair since I was at school.

I started going grey at 26 and at 39 I’m way more grey than this. I just dye my hair and pretend it isn’t happening 😂

I don't know your age but my DD is your sort of colour, very similar actually. She is mid 30s. She dyes it. She started going grey at maybe 30. She struggles with it as all her friends and her DP have full non grey heads of hair.

I started going grey at probably 45. I've embraced it now because I could not cope with the constant highlights, full head hair dye. I love my colour now but understand DD is not ready for that.

I've been grey since 15. Got the mallen streak at front. dyed it till I was about your age then decided to embrace the grey. Cos I'm not going to win and I was sick of constantly dying it.
Took a year or so to grow out the dyed bits but now I'm totally grey with a white streak! its not an easy step but the grey hair movement is really popular now.
DH refers to it as a mane! I love it and get a lot of positive comments on it.

As others have said, there's no normal op, my friend was totally grey at 30 (suited him!) my mum had no grey until over 50. Seems to vary so much.

There are more women that are grey than we realise. I know a few women who are grey pretty much all all over and they aren’t 40. Most women dye their hair at that age to cover it so it’s hard to tell, but yes, it’s definitely more common than you’d think.

I used to have have very dark brown hair and started going grey in my early twenties. About 10 or 11 years ago, I'm early fifties now, I decided to grow out the hair dye on the basis I could colour my hair again if I didn't like the natural colour. So liberating! No more colouring the root every couple of weeks. I have had so many compliments and it really suits my skin tone.

I’m 30 and my hair is probably 80% grey with a solid white streak in the front that makes regrowth really noticeable. I’ve been going grey since my teens.

Im 38 and grey i dont care either i like the look of it.
Grey cork screw curls.
If you dont like it keep dying it.
I stopped dying my hair years back shaved my head bald and let it go wild now its all natural bouncy and curly.

I have been going grey since I was 18 with the odd grey hair but at 26 it went into overdrive and I was colouring it every 4 weeks until last year and I got really unwell. I wasn't fit to go to the hairdressers or even colour it myself so I let it grow out. I'm now 47 and I'm completely grey. My hair has also changed texture and instead of being completely straight like it has been all my life, if I don't straighten it, it is curly and then goes frizzy. I'm going for the big chop next Thursday as it's annoying me now.

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Your hair is beautiful, what a colour! Love it

Does going grey prematurely also mean you’re ageing prematurely? Does going grey link to bodily ageing & shortening of telomeres?

OP love your hair, think you’re noticing more as you’re quite dark.

I started going grey in my 20’s. Had more than you in my 30’s.