S/O Good Hair: When did you get grey?

I have no idea really when it started graying. In my 20s, I guess. I really don't like my naturally ashy, mousy hair color with my pale skin and that's why I started coloring it in the first place. I've been many colors, but I like blonde best. I'm 44 now and have a ton of gray and it will be a long time before I'm ready to quit coloring it.

I'm in my forties and just starting to see some grey. I have dishwater blonde hair that I highlight back to the color of my youth when I actually saw the sun. For now the grey just blends with the rest of the variation.

Patter, I am 71 like your mom. My granddaughter is a hairdresser and does my hair and she only finds 5 or 6 gray hairs.
A couple of times a year she puts a few highlights in.
My oldest daughter, 48, has a lot of gray hair and colors it.
My middle daughter, 46, has no gray hair.
My youngest daughter, 38, has some gray and colors it.

I'm 38, and while I have some gray, it's not much. I've had the same 8-12 or so gray hairs for several years.

What bothers me more these days isn't the few stray grays, it's that my dark chocolate brown hair now looks like my toner is low. Overall, my hair looks faded, which gives me a worn down look.

I don't have the patience to spend much time or money at the stylist, so a couple times a year I'll put a box color on it to freshen/brighten it up. Otherwise, I'm too busy to notice. I have found keeping my hair shorter keeps my natural bounce, which combats the tired look some.

I started finding gray hairs in high school, and was significantly gray by the time I graduated from college. I've been coloring my hair since then (I'm 53.) I like the look of gray hair, but it isn't very attractive on me. I have very pale skin, and the gray is a shade that makes me look kind of sickly. I suppose eventually I'll stop the dark brown color, and start coloring something in white or silver that looks better with my skin than my natural gray.

I found my first grey hair when I was 25. i didn't start going noticeably grey until I was about 45, eight years ago. I've colored my hair since my early 30s because I liked to, but now I do it because I have to. I go every 4 weeks. If I would let it go natural, I think I would be all grey. My hair stylist has commented that it would be a nice silver grey, but I'm not ready to go there yet

No clue when I found my first gray. Maybe around 35? A co worker leaned across the table the pulled it from the middle of the top of my head! WTF?

I'm now almost 42, due with baby #2 in 3 weeks, and getting more and more white. Mine isn't going gray. It's going silver. I LOVE it! If it follows how my mom's did, I'm totally embracing it. Hers was gorgeous, long, salt and pepper with gray, white, dark brown. She lost it all to chemo and since it's grown back, it's mostly white with some gray mixed in.

Years ago, MIL told me, "You know, one day you're going to want to dye your hair to cover the gray. When people with hair your color go gray it just doesn't look good." I wanted to punch her! She's one who does FIREY red when her natural color is more brown. She is completely gray but in denial. Her hair looks obviously dyed from a bottle. No thanks.

DH asked me if I spilled something in my hair the other day. Apparently the sun was hitting it just right it was picking up all my strands of glitter. LOL

Oh, and I'm cheap. It's much easier to not dye it and let it go naturally gray or whatever it's going to do than to have to keep up on the dye jobs or home dyeing. Maybe once it's all changed I'll go for some crazy pink or purple or teal color. Until then, I'll live with whatever my hair decides to do. There are much bigger things in life for me to deal with.

I started going gray a few years ago, I'm 36 now. I had been dying my hair since before that anyway so I just keep doing that.

I have medium brown hair, but I have a patch/streak that was always blonde. Sometime in my early 40's that streak turned from blonde to grey. I started parting my hair on the other side, which pretty much covered it up. Then I got highlights for fun, and found that it helped the grey blend in, so that's where I am now.

I am closer and closer to being able to go natural with the grey (which is making inroads beyond the original erstwhile-blonde streak), but I'm not quite there yet.

I'm a natural red head & I started getting those really curly bright white hairs on my hairline part about 2 years ago, age 43. I just pluck them when I see them! I just started coloring my hair this year because my red seems to be getting dull with age. Luckily, I have a daughter who is a cosmetologist, so she keeps it looking nice.

I want to say that I was in my mid-30's when I really started seeing them popping up in my medium brown hair. I knew then already that I didn't have the money or the patience to keep it looking good if I started to color it, so I choose to embrace it and just roll with it. What bothered me more was how much it had thinned since my 20's.

Now that I'm almost 50, the front and top are significantly gray and that doesn't bother me, although some of mine is that weird wiry gray that wants to do its own thing all the time. I figure it's better to be gray than bald! LOL, the week after I had my DD (at 43) someone asked me if I was "mom or grandma." Eh, whatever. 

I have mother/daughter friends who are 85 and 60 respectively who both obviously color their hair, and it just doesn't look right. Really? By the time most people are 85, it's not very believable anymore that your hair is still totally, shockingly red. Just saying.

That phrase does not bother me. For me it's saying you're letting go of the maintenance to keep up a hair color.

I was 25 when the gray hairs were noticeable to me. I have a mixture of gray and white hairs that are very evident when I wear a pony tail. I need to dye my hair every 4 weeks, but I'm lazy. I cannot afford to go to a salon and spend hundreds of dollars. So I stick with the box stuff and it's good enough (if I was consistent!). I'm going to be completely white/gray by the time I'm 40. I don't want to be mistaken as a grandma while my youngest is in school. It happened a lot with my mom.

I'll be 51 in March. I have 2-3 strands that I have to dig to find. My mom is 70 and has very few.