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Comparison 🔎 Are you going gray?

Do you color your hair?

  • I'm female, no gray here

    Votes: 3 6.4%

  • I'm female, gray but I don't care

    Votes: 2 4.3%

  • I'm female and I dye my hair

    Votes: 10 21.3%

  • I'm male, no gray here

    Votes: 8 17.0%

  • I'm male, gray but I don't care

    Votes: 14 29.8%

  • I'm male and I dye my hair

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I'm male and have gray on the temples like RJ

    Votes: 6 12.8%

  • I'm male and have no hair to dye like JNA

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Way do you hate American?

    Votes: 2 4.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Total voters
    47
  • Poll closed .
Ugh, yes I feel I have way to much gray hair for being almost 27. In reality I am still less than 5% gray, but since I have dark hair the grays show up really well. I have most of my gray in my temples, with a few gray hairs in the front. I do pull the one's that are really obvious. :not:
 
Female, no gray. Not sure what I'll do when it shows. My dad and I have the same hair color and his blended really well until suddenly he was ALL gray. There was a gray hair tipping point. I'm hoping for that because I don't want to color my hair.
 
I had my first gray hairs around 23-24 and started coloring by 30.

Two days ago the kid came out and said OMG Mom you've got a strip of white (my hair was still wet) and I said oh, don't worry about it, I have a hair appointment today.

When RJ came home I said, geez, Kid was trying to freak me out, saying I had a strip of white at my roots. He just gave me that look that means "No he wasn't trying to freak you out, you really do have a strip of white at the roots!". Sigh...

I'm thinking about maybe one more dye job in a few months and then just giving in...
 
Update: I'd say my gray hair percentage during the past 15 years has gradually increased to about 7-8%. Still in single digits. Still don't care.
 
Bubba said:
My dark black hair is about one-quarter gray now - doesn't bother me one bit. My blond-haired wife, on the other hand, is fanatical about pulling out every single white hair she gets.
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Only update since this post in 2011 is that I'm roughly half-gray now.
 
I've got a little salt in the hair, but I don't think it's highly noticeable. Then again I don't really care.
 
I appear to be getting gradually more and more blonde, which I thought was odd until it occurred to me that it will probably just gradually turn white. My beard (which I never allow to grow) has turned white.
 
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I have naturally occuring lighter-colored highlights, which are becoming the majority of my hair.

Some call these highlights gray hair :god:
 
My beard is now 80% grey/white. Right now my beard is gone and if I shave my sideburns high enough I only have a few white hairs in my head. My wife is making fun of me because I do now have one eyebrow starting to turn white and I'm getting some white ear and nose hair.
 
I am getting the salt and pepper look. I think if I go back to pictures of my dad at that age, he has the salt and pepper too.
 
100 percent grey or white, but hair stays there.
Wore a mustache for over forty years but it had to go about 10 years ago after the upper lip hair began to grow up my nose and look very funny.
 
I have light brown hair with just a few white hairs and you can’t tell unless you are up close and personal. I don’t color my hair.
 
Yes, but blonde hair hides it better than dark. I don't notice gra(e)y except during a haircut. The hair that falls on the cape is noticeably gray, which means, I'm blind to the gray when looking in the mirror.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
Yes, but blonde hair hides it better than dark. I don't notice gra(e)y except during a haircut. The hair that falls on the cape is noticeably gray, which means, I'm blind to the gray when looking in the mirror.
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This.

I'm nearly 47 and my hair has always been a light brown color so any grey doesn't really show up all that much. But even then, I've got a little bit of grey around the sides above my ears but that's really about it, and I keep the sides pretty short. I first started to notice some grey maybe 6 or 7 years ago but it hasn't really increased much since then. I credit my low-stress lifestyle! :rofl:

The only time it is really noticeable is when the grey hair lands on the black cape as I'm getting my hair cut at the barber shop. I was getting a trim one morning a few years ago and I looked down at the cape and there seemed to be a ton of grey laying on it. I figured that couldn't possibly be all mine and I sort of crossly called out the barber for not cleaning the cape properly after her last customer. She thought I was joking but quickly judged by the look on my face that I was serious and then she laughed and was like, "Dude! You're my first customer of the day and I just pulled this cape right out of the laundry!" :omg: :rofl:
 
I switched to semi-permanent coloring to reduce the line of grey - the semi-permanent slowly washes out and then suddenly I am grey lol

My colorist says I am about 30% grey but it feels much more than that
 
As a young man many years ago, I had dark brown hair with a mild "Eddie Munster" peak (actually a cowlick, but that's another story). As my hairline receded in my late 30s/early 40s, the peak formed a peninsula, which finally broke off to its own island by my early 50s. Now in my mid-60s, I'm bald on top and thin all around. I cut it with a zero guide, so its pretty tight to my scalp. I'd say about 2/3 gray, 1/3 my natural color.

I wear a goatee year round, but have been letting it grow into a full beard October through April(ish - if it gets hot early, I'll shave back to the goatee only). The goatee is about 90% white, with the dark brown concentrated on my chin, so that I have a Fu Manchu look, which I rather like. The rest of the beard is probably 65%-35% white/natural.

Of course, the supreme being is punishing me for any vanity I had in my youth, as she has compelled me to trim hair from my ears and nostrils on a pretty much daily basis.
 
When I have a beard it's pretty white/grey around my chin, in an annoyingly asymmetrical sort of way.

Clean shaven, there is one gray straggler I can see right at my hairline in the middle and just a couple in the hair above my sideburns. I turned 48 in August.
 
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