How does your hair turn grey?

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Does anyone know?
Does it grow out of the root or can existing long hairs turn grey? Or both?
I've just seemed to have gone grey overnight. Finding long grey hairs as well as sprouting ones.
Is it stress related?

You stop producing the pigment that colours it as it grows when you get older. The hairs that are already coloured can't become grey.

Stress can't turn your hair grey.

I should have said that they start to grow white when the pigment is missing, not grey. The overall appearance is grey when the white hair is among your ordinary coloured hair.

Ok thanks! Just coincidence then. Another shitty thing to deal with!

Meh, it's not that shitty in the grand scheme of things. Just something different to get used to.

Being married. .
And having dc. .

One advantage ( to me ) is that it's much better to go blonde as the regrowth is much less noticeable. So I've gone from being a brunette to being the blonde I always wanted to be!

I have a (if I say so myself) ahem, lovely natural hair colour so have never dyed it. It's just wanky that I'll have to start doing that now

By paying the hairdresser to dye it that colour.

I bloody love my grey hair!

So to understand this, the really, really long ones have always been there and been that colour I've just never noticed them?

I think it is some kind of mineral or vitamin deficiency. Stress eats these up so you start running low on them and turn grey.

That would make sense as I have been Stressed. To. Fuck. for a while now as we have been dealing with an extremely sick baby for a few months. Healthy eating and normal life has gone out of the window. Fully expecting to age 10 years in the face too. Think colleagues will be shocked when I go back after my mat leave.

I have a (if I say so myself) ahem, lovely natural hair colour so have never dyed it. It's just wanky that I'll have to start doing that now

You don't have to.

I think I do. Personally. I want to hold onto some vestige of normality with everything else that's going on.
I always used to think I'd grey gracefully but I need to hold on to me at the moment when everything else is going to shit.
Fully understand the other POV though as I used to think that too.
Life changes.

I had two white hairs which had gone brown again at the root, only spotted this when I yanked them out. When I measured the hair, the colour seemed to restart at the time I really upped vitamins....biotin, niacin, vitamin c

you can have sudden grey due to stress yes - hope nothing awful has happened?

I was in accident and lost a lot of hair (fell out due to stress) but it grew back. Now I'm wondering, if your hair turns grey due to stress of something, will it start growing not-grey again...?

ooh cross post with Fendang - so maybe a stress hair colour change would correct itself? I mean, if vitamins can reverse it, then perhaps if the stressful incident is over, the body goes back to normal, the hair could go back to normal?

Obviously if you want to dye then absolutely you should do what you want, I just meant you shouldn't feel it is expected of you.

That would be great goldfish but think the stress is going to go on for a while

OP sorry to hear that.

to be honest, im not v grey at all..i kept the hairs to post on here, then lost them, they genuinley did go back to normal.

that said, im still getting overall greyer.

dont pull them out guys, you just end up with a pubey halo afer a few months

Excellent. A pubey halo effect!! Nice!

I found my first grey hair when I was 19. 19!

I think mine was down to genetics. My mother went grey at an early age. The grey ones seem to have a different texture to the normal ones as I'd love to go all over grey but I think it would look wiry. Kind of a female Einstein look (along with the moustache that getting older seems to bring Good times ).

The grey ones seem to have a different texture to the normal ones as I'd love to go all over grey but I think it would look wiry.

This confuses me, surely when they are dyed the texture doesn't change.