I'm barely legal to drink and I have my entire right side of my head covered in grey hair.
Well, not really. I color it every three weeks to cover it up. But I'm pretty sure my 50-year-old mom finds humor in it if I don't dye it. You see, I even have more grey hair than my mother
and my grandmother.
I can't remember when exactly it started. I'm assuming I wasn't born with
ice queen hair but at the same time, I've been coloring it since I was 12. My mother has barely any, and my grandmother just now started sprouting it - where is it coming from!?
I worked at a salon for three years so I got it professionally colored (for free, thankfully) so it was gentle on my hair and wallet. Now that I've gone off to college, I've sacrificed the luxury of this happening and now use box color. I'm worried this is going to hurt my already dry, thick hair.
Do you have premature grey hair? If you color a lot, what do you use to keep your hair healthy?
I'm barely legal to drink and I have my entire right side of my head covered in grey hair.
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I noticed my first gray hairs when I moved to England to live as a missionary...at age 23.
Yeah, I've had them since I was about 9. I think I figured that I have about 1/16th of my hair that is white, not gray. I don't dye it - too much effort and money.
I'm still a teenager but I occasionally find a few pure white strands through my normally very dark hair.
I never have a whole bunch of them, but it's always quite striking.
For me, it's due to stress. But there's always a percentage of people who go prematurely grey or white (at a young age)...it's a weird trick of genetics. Personally, I've always found grey and white beautiful. Especially on the young...because it's so very out of the ordinary, unique, compared to the masses.
flaunt it. shit, by the time you're sixty, you'll already be used to it.
I don't have any gray hair. I think my mom is just starting to get some of it. I'm not looking forward to those days.. I think I'll end up coloring my hair for the rest of my life once I see those first few grays..
i dont know whats wrong with me but I get blonde hairs. NOT white or gray! Oh and I have dark brown hair
so its so weird! i guess i have a pigment-lacking follicle?
I have the same hair, i was born with bright blonde hair, which grew to blonde, then dark blonde, then ash blonde, thjen ash..,.now gray...so i just dye it to bring out my eyes, but i kinda like it, i feel like a wizard....lol.
Everyone has grey hairs, some just have more than others. I have had noticible grey hair since I was about 10 or 11 and am pretty much fine with it either way. My mom is a stylist so she dyes my hair for me when the roots start to show.
just don't blow dry and iron your hair too much
i dye my hair but it looks very healthy natural.
I didn't get any grey hair until i was 32ish (last year). I still don't have that much and I don't color it. I am finally not getting carded.
I've heard of people having spots of grey hair.
Or like that infamous one cluster of grey hair that some ladies sport. (Including the woman on "What Not to Wear" in some Pantene commerical, I think?)
That's just weird... like, it might be a fashion statement if you chose to work it, but I just wonder why it's happening.
Im 17 and I've been told I have a lot of grey hair, mostly in the back. I don't know when it started, but I'm stressed alot. I dye it occasionally and use Garnier Frutis shampoo and conditioner to keep it soft..
@abcxunt@xanga - L-O-L
Quit dying your hair so much its harmful for your hair and damage it
Maybe you're just stressed out
I started having grey/white hair when I was around 9 years old, starting from the right side of my head. Not sure since when, it moved to the left side, 60% the back of my head is basically white and part of the side.
I've been dying since age 10 till now, (I'm 22) I have black and thick hair, I guess due to my years of dying, my hair is so damage and dry.
I try so many different kinds of shampoo, conditioner and hair treatment, cheap or expensive! And switch to a different brand very often, I found that switching brand helps a lot, cause if you keep on using the same shampoo & conditioner, your hair will get used to it, it helped but not a great deal.
I know the dying products has a lot of chemicals and some are harmful~ I read an article about a girl dying too much of her hair and eventually got cancer, not sure if this is really true but it did def. scare me!
So I'm trying not to dye my hair from now on! It's only been 3 months that I didn't dye my hair!! Not sure if I can accept it when all the white grow out~ But I will def. try to dye less, its bad for my hair & might be bad for my health!
There's a myth that you're thinking too much and putting your brain with too many worries...
It might be due to heredity....maybe you inherited a gene that wasn't showing in your mother and grandmother (like a recessive gene). And you got the dominant gene for the grey hair patches O_O? I dunno.
I know a man, he's in his 30's maybe 40's but all his hair was grey. I heard it started when he was younger (maybe 20's), someone who knew him said it was due to his genetics.
It might also be stress! When I get stressed out, these little grey hairs pop up at a certain section of my scalp. I look there whenever I get stressed out
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When I dye my hair, I usually use a moisturizing conditioner(Infusium23 Moisturizing conditioner) after I dye it along with the prepackaged conditioner. It keeps my hair soft, because normally after I dye it, it's rough and coarse X_X. I try not to wash my hair too much either.
my older brother has a patch of grey hair on the left, front side of his head; he's 27, but he's had the grey hair since he was 19. Â He doesn't dye it...actually, it gives him character (and looks pretty handsome on him). Â Just know that grey, as much as you might not like it, can be beautiful. Â : )
Since you don't seem comfortable with it, I'd go back to professional dyeing. Â That's the only way you can really be sure that your hair will turn out as you like it to. Â I dye my hair every month, and the chemical treatment is good for your hair, actually (it gets rid of the build up shampoo/conditioner/styling products leave in your hair). Â Since you're in college, I'm sure there is a salon around you that will reflect your income; even girls in college need a touch up once in a while! Â : )
quit stressin'. haha.
i have a few eccentric friends who would love to have pure white/gray hair.
Yea, I have few grey hairs.
Since I've dark brown hair, it can be obvious.
What's weird about it is the way the colour is: it might be dark at the root, and grey at the tip on some strands.
Weird.
I think it probably is stress. My best friend has grey hair,too. I think hers is brought on by stress since she's a lawyer and is always working late to meet crazy deadlines.
i think you should leave it :) you can totally rock it.
my younger sister has had gray hair since she was really little and these days she rocks the gray and I think it looks gorgeous. we're asian - so the contrast between her black and gray hair is pretty obvious. and no one else in our family has gray hair (my grandmother passed away at 70 with just a sprinkle of gray).
Dont you fret, im a dude 21 years old....you are beautiful!!! dont you forget that
I've had silver, white and grey hairs since I was six. They didn't stand out really until my hair darkened up a considerable amount(highschool) becuase I used to be well basically platinum blonde. Now that my hair is a dark brunnette/aburn color they show up more.
At 40, my mother has silver and white streaks along her temples (very pretty actually) that she's had going for about 8 years now give or take. Her mom (my nana) was the same way.