Lets talk about vanity

I have a question, is anyone here looking forward to having grey hair? How many already do, and how old were you when you got your first grey? Did it bother you? OK, that was more than "a" question, but I am curious. I am 21 in less than a year I have sprouted 4 grey hairs, my hair is black so they are really obvious. I am not a make up wearer, nor do I style my hair, I am a pony tail person, not very vain, but the greys bother me. I pull them out. How does everyone else feel? Talk about off topic. :D

I'm 35 years old. My age doesn't bother me a bit. I have no idea if I have grey hair because I color it every 6 weeks or so. What bothers me the most about getting older is that you have to work harder to maintain muscle tone. I HATE exercising and dieting, but I'm going to have to do it, because I go insane when my clothes start to fit too snugly.

Greys suck! I cant tell ya how many I have anymore, cause I quit counting a long time ago and started coloring to hide them. Even my hubby tells me when he sees them, and immediately takes me to get stuff to cover them. I started getting them when I was around 18, I think it is suppose to be genetic related or something... but not sure. Still 12 years later, yes I color to cover those things cause it drives me nuts. I am generally not a vain person, wear make up very very rarely just cause I dont like what it does to my skin, and occassionally style my hair, usually it is in a pony tail... but the greys do bother me ALOT, especially when my 13 year old daughter pics on me about it. :oops:

heh, my hair is always colored or shaved... gotta have fun with it while I got it right?

Dont pull those grey's....two will take it's place. Dont know how true that is but have allways been told that.
Well...being the old-fart that I am, I have plenty of them grey hairs. I dont remember my first grey hair but I would have to say it introduced itself around the age of 25 so about 18 years ago. The grey does not bother me at all, matter of fact I think it add's character.

the only place that i have grey hairs are in a couple of spots on my scalp where i have scars from an accident. luckily they are on the side and back of my head where they don't really show. every once in a while i pull up my hair and check to see if those nice patches of grey (actually more white i think) are still there, and yep, there they are. kinda weird really.

Grey hairs are much more acceptable on men than women, Ironhead. I like when men start to go grey around their temples - very distinguished. Sometimes grey hair can do wonders for a man - look at Richard Gere!

Hey now, lass . . . . (don't be dissin Connery)

he barely qualifies as having hair at all these days. :P

Mine are more colorless than grey. I have a friend, male, who can't wait to go grey. He wants to have a long grey beard, the narrow kind. Gotta love him. I keep pullin mine because they do't get long enough to lay down flat and since I wear my hair in a pony tail, they stick straight up and look pretty stupid. I know if I didn't pull them they would grow and lay down, but it would take forever and I would have these funny little strand sticking out of my head for months. My hair grows very slowly.

I am 14 and I have grey hair.

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I have a friend, male, who can't wait to go grey. He wants to have a long grey beard, the narrow kind.

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Well I never wanted to go grey, but I have allways wanted to be bald! But no chance of that, not a single person in my family that is bald. Always wanted to tattoo my head...lol

Forgot to mention about the beard, I think that is where the grey started. I'm pretty sure I noticed my first grey hair in my beard, which is now about 50% grey.

hey, despite the lessening of hair Mr, Connery is still a sexy, sexy man :)

i have always wanted to shave my head and tattoo my scalp either dark purple or dark blue. i hate having hair with a passion. if it was possible i would get rid of all of the hair on my body except for my eyelashes. eyelashes are the only form of hair that serves any purpose at all.

bah! keeps skinny guys like me warm!
I am one hairy dude lol

yeah well, being female i don't have enough body hair to serve the purpose of keeping me warm. i get to do stupid stuff like shave my legs so that hairy men will not find me repulsive. so i shun the hair! all of it!

lmao

I want to shave my head and put a really cool tattoo on it and I am a girl, the only reason I don't is that I work a conservative job and would have to buy a wig to cover it up wich is more money than its worth if I don't want hait anyway. I generally keep it dyed, but, again, my job prevents me form having the colors I want.

I've had grey hair since I was 15. I'm asian and female, so the white hair I have really stands out. I don't mind, in fact, it amuses me. It's a little scattered, but not too much (sadly, it doesn't streak together). I don't think it's genetic, I think it's stress related. I have about 6 or 7 white hairs that I know of. I never pull it, but it does startle me occasionally when it shows up in my hairbrush. I have really healthy hair, so the grey hair is acutally a brilliant white. Also, my inidividual hair strands are very thick, so I guess it stands out a little bit more I guess. I have just enough for it to accent in odd places, I guess. One of the white hairs is very short due to my recent haircut, and if I don't wet down my hair in the morning, the short hairs in the back will stand up and look really wild. The short white hair really stands out then.

I'd dye my hair different colors or something, but I love my natural jet black and wouldn't trade it. I would never want to be blonde though.

I'm 25 now, and I should take better care of my body and skin though.

I have a friend who started turning grey at the age of 12 (it's genetic). He's 23 or so now (I met him at the age of 20ish) and it's completely salt and pepper.

Hey mlededee, it could be worse. I have a couple of male friends who grow like 20 individual hairs on their chins. (They're brothers, 20 hairs to a chin). Neither one of them could manage a beard or a goatee if they tried. They both hate shaving, especially when there's just enough that it has to be cut off, or it looks really stupid. Although, most of the guys I know hate shaving anyway.

I new a guy in high school that had some genetic disorder... He was 17 but had salt and pepper hair, and looked to be about 45.
crazy world....

Yeah, genetics can be weird. My friend looks completely normal for his age, it's just the fact that his hair is all salt and pepper.

Grey hair, gottem. Can't stand em. They make me mad. So I color 'em.

And as much as I love tattoos, I don't think I could ever shave my head for one. I'm too much of a Leo.....I NEED my mane!

My husband has silver hairs, allot in his facial hair (goatee etc), I find it very attractive, no grays here though, I'm surprised. my parents went grey young, well we'll see
Rusty

I knew kids with grey hair in high school. There was one entire (large) Catholic family that each kid had a patch of white about 1" wide on the left side of the head, which was cool, kinda like a family brand, and one girl with jet black hair who had a wide section (3"?) in front go white, which was fabulous.

I'm 33 and got my first grey 2 years ago, and I pulled the first several greys I saw because they were coarser than the other hair and tended to stand on end, but then I realized I was going to end up with a bunch in back where I couldn't see them and look funny so I quit plucking. :) The grey doesn't really bother me at all, but I don't like coarse hair. I guess I should just be glad I haven't had chin hairs show up yet. :shock:

Like Ironhead said do not pull out or two will grow in.
Just cut them out.
I am not sure how many I have but I do know they all are in one place in the front right where my cowlick is.
I also dye my hair but not because of the grey.
Being that there really is nothing you can do to stop it no point in sweating it :)
That's my motto

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Originally Posted by Marla

I guess I should just be glad I haven't had chin hairs show up yet. :shock:

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it's not the chin hairs you gotta worry about so much. it's the curly black ones that grow outta moles.

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it's not the chin hairs you gotta worry about so much. it's the curly black ones that grow outta moles.

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lol

Let me see...
I noticed my first patch of grey hair right after I completed Marine Boot Camp years ago when I was 23 years old...and then I have noticed that my hair has gone almost all salt and pepper after this divorce I had....so I am almost all grey now at the age of 37...I guess its okay but if my hair grows too long it looks dry so I keep my hair cut short in a Marine whitewall so the grey is not too obvious...
EyelashViper

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Originally Posted by mlededee

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Originally Posted by Marla

I guess I should just be glad I haven't had chin hairs show up yet. :shock:

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it's not the chin hairs you gotta worry about so much. it's the curly black ones that grow outta moles.

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Ew. No, I have a couple of friends who could practically grow goatees if they didn't pluck. I'd rather have a mole hair or three. :shock: