17 year old guy going grey!

LegacyUser

I am 17 and I've noticed I'm going grey. I am really embarresed because of it and people are starting to picking up on it. I am bullied at school over a few different issues and I am really strssed over being bullied and now my hair is going grey it's no help! I am only 17 why am I going grey?

Chuchoter

Loads of guys go grey at a young age, its just unlucky. Grab a box of dye and you're away, maybe go a whole new colour even.

kjl

go with it, the women love it

tenchi-fan

if dye works, colour it.

RIRI

OP don't stress about it. My husband is grey since he was 17 too and believe me women find it very attractive. I'm grey since I was about 16, we were very surprised when our son wasn't born grey to be honest!
If it's bothering you choose a colour as close to your natural colour as possible & dye it. Don't get down about it though... everyone will go either grey or bald at some stage

muboop1

I really wouldnt worry about it at all!

Plus, the others could be the same, it just might not be as obvious...

As in the darker and longer your hair the more obvious it will be, that is all!

Meh, dont stress, nobody cares!

whatsamsn

I have heard that a person will get gray hairs after they turn 18. A barber told me once. I know a guy who I went to school with. He is only 25 and gray. Big time. Its just the genes. But op, many a bald man has said they would rather be gray than bald.

Your 17. Are we only talking a few grays hairs? (which is natural) or a gray patch or something? Being 17 you might just be over-reacting. So we dont know what level :pac:

i-digress

Myself and my husband started going grey at seventeen, it's perfectly normal. I wouldn't worry. You'll get more grey as time goes on, but it happens gradually. My husband is twenty seven, and is hair is still ninety per cent black. Can't tell you about mine, because I dye it

It's perfectly normal. And look at the bright side. You'll never have that moment when you'r a decade or two older, see a grey hair and get down because you're getting older. Because you started going grey when you're young.

nimrodsson

As far as i rem, at 17, a saol a c'est la vie attitude just doesn't cut it. OP, i'd recommend that you get a few bob together and go to a really good hairdressers (maybe call them up and explain your embarrassment and see if they can fit you in after hours) and get a new hair cut and a subtle colouring. They will most likely give you tips on how to easily maintain it yourself. Things like this really effect your self confidence, particularly at that vital age of late teens - and since this can be easily rectified, then you may as well do just that. You may also consider cutting your hair really short - then the gray might not be notiable - and short hair cuts can look very well.

Beruthiel

IAMGOING GREYANDSAD wrote: »

I am only 17 why am I going grey?

It's a genetic thing.
I was still in primary school when a biatch of a nun pointed out my first grey hairs. As a 12 year old, she really upset me and I never forgot her cruelty.

I have 3 sisters, all of us started going grey in our early teens.
There are worst things that can happen to you and this is a very minor one.
It probably doesn't feel like that now, but trust me, it's nothing.

weiland79

I know two guy's that went grey at a young age one was 17 and the other started at 15!

They both have totally awesome nicknames ' The silver fox ' and 'Silverback' and they both have totally hot wifes.

You lucky sod you, just roll with it.

Hank_Jones

I started first going grey at about 14. Now, at 26, I have loads of grey hairs. I'm no silver fox, but the grey hair is quite noticeable.
If you have short hair, use gel in your hair. It will make the grey hair less noticeable.

I'd really just advise you to just not worry about it. If you dye your hair, it's just goin to grow back grey again anyway, plus you'll have to worry about your hair being the same colour as the colouring which your hair was dyed with.

Eventually you will realise that people don't really care about grey hairs, don't think anyone has said anything to me about grey hair in ages.
Wouldn't care if they did anyway.
My girlfriend really likes my long brown/grey hair anyway.

liah

It's actually surprising how common this "early onset graying" is in Ireland. Pretty much most of the people I met while I was there who were born and bred Irish had at least a gray or two, if not more, in their early 20's.

Never noticed it in other countries I've been in, except maybe the odd case here and there, but it's very common in Ireland! Think it's the same as people with dark features having loads of face/body freckles, it's quite unusual on a global standard, as it's generally fair-haired/light-eyed people who have them but in Ireland it's pretty normal.

In other words, it's totally 100% normal and honestly? I doubt people notice all that much anyway. You're grand!

magneticimpulse

my ex used to dye his "red hair" blonde. I didnt know he was a red head until I saw his childhood photos. He would never admit to me that he dyed it, but there was always a box of blonde hair dye in his bathroom.

There is nothing wrong with grey hair. If it makes you that uneasy,you can always dye it from a 10euro home dye kit and nobody will ever know. Its definitely not the worse thing in the world that can happen.

hellodolly

Grey hair is highly fahionable at the moment...George Lambe that did Big Brother's Little Brother has grey hair, Kelly Osborne has dyed her hair grey on purpose and put in blue and purple high-lights and it looks fab!

I started to go grey at 16. I'm almost completely grey now. I have to dye my hair every two weeks cos my hair grows so fast and am now considering going to the hairdressers and getting my hair bleached out to white/platinum so I wont have to get it dyed so often.

Grey hair on men is considered distingushed so it's actually an attribute. The bullies in school can go f#@k themselves...they're nothing more than a bunch of ignorant arseholes who need a bloody good kicking for themselves for their disgusting behaviour!:mad: MMAANNN!!! I HATE bullies!!!!!!! They suck!!!

iPlop

I started going grey when I was 16.I'm 32 now and my OH thinks It suits me ,she prefers the grey to the dark black hair I used to have.And to be honest most of the people I know think it looks much better:)