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I'm going grey!!! I cannot believe it!!!

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Movingforward123 · 21/08/2012 14:52

I'm only 27, I didn't have any grey hairs, then I found one abs suddenly there are at least 3!!!

Is 27 a normal age for going grey??

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ALittleBitOfMagic · 21/08/2012 14:56

I was 22 :( 26 now and have to regularly do my roots . What is your natural hair colour?

Movingforward123 · 21/08/2012 15:04

Oh no!! It's dark brown Sad

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Shh2012 · 21/08/2012 15:19

I found my first grey hair or three around your age. By 36 I was 100% grey.

Movingforward123 · 21/08/2012 18:06

Nooooo!! How often do you dye your hair??

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WizardofOs · 21/08/2012 18:08

I was 20!!!! Am now 39 and have been dying it all that time. Recently found my first grey eyebrow hair.

AllOverIt · 21/08/2012 18:08

I was 22, now 35 and have to do my roots every 5 weeks...

It's not the end of the world. I'd rather go grey than bald... ( not that I mind that either, quite fond of DH's bald patch Wink)

Iwannamovenow · 21/08/2012 18:37

Wait till you find a grey pube Sad

PretzelTime · 21/08/2012 18:48

Iwannamovenow
Sorry but LOL. Is that worse than grey hair on the head?

Shh2012 · 21/08/2012 19:53

OP, I'm now 50 so I've been doing my roots every 5-6 weeks for the last 14 years...I dread to think how much it's cost me. I'm hopeless at doing it myself so I have it done by my hair stylist.
As for grey pubes although my first one didn't appear until about a year ago, and I've only got a few. God knows why the hair on the head loses it's colour so early for some of us, and the pubes take years to catch up, but yes grey pubes are worse!

PretzelTime · 21/08/2012 20:00

When you've got grey armpit hair, is that a sign of having truly reached an old age?

drjohnsonscat · 21/08/2012 20:05

I'm afraid that's perfectly normal. I had the same reaction - somehow I hadn't twigged that ageing would happen to me. I am now 43 and prob 40pc grey.

GwennieF · 21/08/2012 20:07

I was 16 - it was fairly gradual until I had DS (at 33), then it was as if somebody had flicked a switch - there is now a distinct line just below my shoulders where it changes from light brown to grey. I always wear my hair up so nobody sees it but me!

soupmaker · 21/08/2012 20:14

I'm grey. I love it. My granny and aunt have white hair. Both mum and dad have lovely grey hair. Like my mum I've got silver grey hair. I was very dark brown. Thankfully I went grey all over. I used to have a very short French crop as it was so easy to keep but have grown it to a shoulder length curly bob. All I do is wash and condition. I've never dyed it. Most folks seem to think I have dyed silver highlights! For once I've been lucky.

Danceswithdragons · 21/08/2012 21:20

I have very dark brown hair. I found my first grey hair in my mid-twenties, but now, in my late 40s I still have only a couple of grey hairs, just a sprinkling. I can get away with covering them with lowlights/highlights. No sign of any other body hair turning grey.
I think it is genetic. My Dad never went completely grey, even in his 70s.

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