first few grey hairs?

Sam Kade wrote: »

One of our teachers stopped midway through class one day and asked him are you going grey?

It's always good to see people altruistically electing to use their innate analytical prowess in the field of education.

I'm quite a fan of a guy with a splattering of grey. It's very distinguished looking. Sexy.

I'm have been through hell over the last few years in comparison to dad at when he was my age, so I'm delighted I've got a thick head of hair, that's jet black, because he was well on his way to going bald and grey at my age.

If it didn't happen over last the few years, it'll never happen (fingers crossed)

I've a feeling baldness, somehow missed my active gene pool.

I agree with others here, grey hair on a man is sexy

I am 42 and have a few on my head, not too many to be honest but I .am....eh....thin on top!
The grey hairs on my chest are like guitar strings....they grow thicker and faster than the rest.

I wouldn't mind having a full head of white hair and I've often thought about bleaching it but my hair is quite dark so I'd probably ruin it. It's such a pain that it takes so long for all the hair to change. It's not so bad for men because they start to look distinguished but it doesn't look so good on women. Mother Nature is a sexist biatch

Paddy Cow wrote: »

All the hairs grow white and it only looks grey when it's mixed with the natural hair. I was blown over when I first found this out!

Really? I didn't know that. Fun fact for the day!

If I start to get really grey when I'm older, I might try to get a hairdresser to lighten my hair in such a way that I can phase in the grey, rather than trying to cover it in dark dye for the rest of my life, or ending up in that weird growing-it-out phase.

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Going lighter is definitely the way to go. My mother has dark hair and never once dyed it until her greys really started to show. Someone convinced her to dye it and she loved it. She now is honey blond, she loves it and it really suits her! The regrowth isn't that noticeable which is a huge bonus.

I knew someone who had black hair and you could tell that she dyed it because the regrowth stood out a mile and looked awful. She had quite a lot of white in her hair, so the regrowth didn't have to be long for it to be noticeable.

When I get to the stage of choosing to go grey gracefully or cover it, I'll definitely be covering it but I'll start to go lighter than my own hair.

I'm rocking a natural badger streak look (or so I like to think :pac:) but you're right - lighter is the way to go if you want to dye it as your skin changes too and a stark contrast of dark dye will throw every wrinkle into sharp relief.

Muise... wrote: »

I'm rocking a natural badger streak look (or so I like to think :pac:) but you're right - lighter is the way to go if you want to dye it as your skin changes too and a stark contrast of dark dye will throw every wrinkle into sharp relief.

This is kinda off topic but I was totally shocked when my mother got her hair dyed. She was staunchly against dying your hair and any time me or my sisters did it we got the lecture about how our hair would fall out or "you look better with the hair God gave you" which resulted in this reaction :rolleyes:

It makes me wonder what beliefs I hold now that I will change when I get older. I don't believe in botox or lip injections or surgery as I think everyone ends up looking like a demented cat caught in a wind tunnel but I wonder if I will feel the same in the future.

I wish there was a way that we could mark posts so that we could come back to them in 30 years and see if we still felt the same