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07 January 2008

i keep finding gray hairs! Fine by me. I hope I get a cool evil dragon-lady stripe.
Good for you! Gray hair rules.

/going silver at the temples
posted by jonmc 07 January | 14:40
Me too. And dye from a box isn't covering them. I'm going to have to start spending $80 a month to get it dyed professionally. Either that, or continue to be bothered by the sight of them in the mirror.
posted by amro 07 January | 14:43
Me too = finding gray hairs.

Not going gray at the temples. Yet.
posted by amro 07 January | 14:44
Well eventually you get to say "snow on the roof, fire in the stove," with a twinkle in your eye.

My hair went grey very quickly after having a kid. I am sure it wasn't connected, but still. You are as young/old as you act. Or so I keep telling myself as me an my walker make it to the end of the block and back.
posted by danf 07 January | 14:46
Mine are random and non-tempular as well, amro,

I'm not sure what to do, hairstyle wise.
posted by By the Grace of God 07 January | 14:49
I just found my first one yesterday. I don't mind the color, but it was coarse and sticky-outty, so it had to go. Glad I'm not alone, though.
posted by jrossi4r 07 January | 14:51
I love my grey hairs - I wish I had enough to be really noticed, but they're random too. I kind of feel that I've earned every one of them!
posted by mightshould 07 January | 15:02
Grey at the temples is wicked sexy. I keep telling my husband that, but he thinks I'm mocking him.

I don't know what I'm going to do about the grey. I don't think it transitions well on dirty blondes like myself. Just make it look dirtier.
posted by jrossi4r 07 January | 15:06
Grey at the temples is wicked sexy

I started going grey in my early twenties. None of my (all younger) siblings have anything like the amount of grey hair that I have. Bastards. I have recently discovered the odd grey eye brow. They are instantly removed.

posted by TheDonF 07 January | 15:11
I don't think it transitions well on dirty blondes like myself

At least it's probably not as noticeable on you as it is in my almost black hair. Plus my grays are not gray, they are white, according to my hairdresser. Which may look pretty someday. But not yet.
posted by amro 07 January | 15:13
I wear my (long, very dark) hair parted in the middle, and that's where all the gray is coming in. It doesn't look "cool evil dragon-lady stripe" to me, it looks like a damn skunk stripe. I feel like that cat in the Pepe le Pew cartoons. When I finally decide to stop dyeing it, I'm going to have to frost my hair while I let the gray grow in, because it'll look ridiculous.
posted by JanetLand 07 January | 15:14
That's it. Wigs for all. That will solve all our problems. I'm going to go with a black bob because I've always wanted to be Angelica Houston.

And TheDonF, forget about the eyebrows....have you checked your ears? And not just inside, on the outside too.
posted by jrossi4r 07 January | 15:24
The top of my head is still only slightly gray but my beard is mostly gray. Growing the beard makes me look about ten years older.
posted by octothorpe 07 January | 15:29
I found my first grey hair the day after my wedding. Looking in the mirror in the hotel I saw this thing, like a piece of wire, growing out of my head. That should have been a warning of things to come.
posted by essexjan 07 January | 15:29
Wait til you get the grey hair down there. *cry*
posted by headspace 07 January | 15:35
Oddly, my head went gray before down there. I always thought that the forbidden valley got shaded early. Guess I was wrong.
posted by jonmc 07 January | 15:38
I found a grey eyebrow hair last week. I am not going to dye my eyebrows. My first thought on finding the thing was, "OH CRAP, grey pubes won't be far behind this discovery." And I'm sure as heck not going to dye my pubes.

This may be the year I stop coloring my hair. I'm just sick of the upkeep. It seems like I'm constantly cutting and coloring (because I have very short hair.)

I've watched Casino Royale about five thousand times lately and I love Judi Dench's hair. I may just go that way with it. I don't care that I'm only 34. I'm just sick of coloring my hair.
posted by fluffy battle kitten 07 January | 15:52
My beard would grow in red/grey.

My pubes, since you asked (*smile*) have not changed.

My wife is as grey as I am, and no change below the belt, either (unless she is really really sneaky).
posted by danf 07 January | 16:22
I've been going grey for oh... fifteen years or so. Going slow, but it'll be all white, or close to, in less than ten years. If I'm anything like my mom and uncle who started greying at the same time as me, it's closer to six years.

Yes, my brows are grey.

Oh... and I'm TWENTY EIGHT.

It is not a happy thing. I've been doing grey-coverage since before I knew how to drive.

Semi-perm will not cover grey. Nor will shades lighter than your natural color.
I was, at one point, pale brown of the sort that would bleach out to strawberry blonde in summer. I dye several shades darker, and the grey is covered. Since I go red it looks a bit more vibrant, but there's so damn much of the grey now that it makes it look like I went to a pro and had highlights and lowlights and shit done.
posted by kellydamnit 07 January | 17:42
I've been lucky with my graying so far. I've got a widow's peak, and that's where they all have been coming in - slowly - over the last couple of years. I'm getting a great evil stripe in the front that will hopefully look really cool in a few years.

No gray pubes, but I'll let you guys know as soon as one turns up.
posted by item 07 January | 17:43
I have black hair and the occasional bright flaming coppery red one. If family is any indication, I'll start with the gray just before I start going bald. It'll be a race!
posted by casarkos 07 January | 18:08
I'm graying at the temples and beyond, yet.... a female coworker and I were talking about ages today and she was surprised that I was almost 46. She said she had me pegged for 41 max. That's kinda kewl.
posted by Doohickie 07 January | 19:05
The hair at my temples is pretty much all silver and the rest is quickly going salt 'n' pepa. No colour change in eyebrows or other places.
posted by deborah 08 January | 03:18
I had a male friend who got his first gray spot - not streak or temple-dash or anything cool - at 17. A big splat of gray on the back of his head it really looked kind of silly. And a girlfriend of mine revealed that her first gray streak showed up at 22. She was a tiny lass who looked seventeen otherwise so a blend of random grays in her nuttty dark brown just didn't work for her.
Mom lucked out and got a cool streak right in the bangs!

I don't think it transitions well on dirty blondes like myself. Just make it look dirtier.

I can see that, and before mom made friends with her nifty silver streak we tried all sorts of cover-ups. She's a golden blond, and most things out there won't cover and are simply designed to bleach. Also, gray hair can be resistant to haircolor, because to a decreased amount of melanin (this is also what makes them "coarse and sticky-outty" or generally wirery because they are so much drier than your other strands of hair). For the coarse here's hair treatments designed to soften gray hair, over here you get them in salons I'm sure you can find them in a drugstrore in the states. Or just go for something designed the fix dry hair. Color-wise on mom's gray we found that Loreal's "casting creme gloss" did the trick (oh shit I sound like an ad) as there are a few natural looking blonds so you can find a match, it sticks to grays, and most imprtant it does not stink like some hair dyes do. It washes out gradually. Then my mom grew to like the streak as it got wider and lands perfectly in her bangs so she quit dying it, which is all cool too. :)
posted by dabitch 08 January | 03:57
I may just go that way with it. I don't care that I'm only 34. I'm just sick of coloring my hair.


I dyed my hair gray for six months. I had a short perfect bob and bleached it white, and in the white we put a blue-gray and a a few darker streaks of silver gray. The upkeep was a pain in the ass (could only use blue or purple shampoo you all know the kind, right?) and I had to go do that gray rinse often to keep it looking "right" and semi-real. It was the perfect gray hair, because lets be honest, gray hair is cool. Just not if it takes you hours to get it in a salon.. which is why I gave up six months later and let the platinum stay platinum.
posted by dabitch 08 January | 04:03
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