Grey Hair

It will not return. Start using that shampoo in color now.

Age is a bitch--embrace him!

[quote] Has anyone successfully had it return to semi normal after a stressful event?

I have.

I started going grey in my 20's. I tried to cover it for a decade or so but if you keep it up eventually eventually you're that guy who looks like he has shoe polish in his hair. In my forties every hair on my face except my eyebrows and most of what comprises a goatee went stark white. I almost wish the hair on my head would do the same. The drab steel gray it has become is as blah as fuck.

Grey looks great on some men.

Grecian formula!

[quote] I tried to cover it for a decade or so but if you keep it up eventually eventually you're that guy who looks like he has shoe polish in his hair.

Only if you're using cheap, drug store stuff and doing it yourself.

My partner looks better with some greys now, its like cool highlights.

I'm just staring to get a few (barely noticeable) on the sides, I won't mind getting it in my 30s.

I'm far more concerned about the future of the skin under my eyes. I'm increasingly convinced that by 50 (I'm nearing 30), I'll have to do some sort of minor to moderate cosmetic procedures. Its perfectly fine for now, but I already feel the skin getting too thin and It'll look horrible later on. I remember my grandmother having a similar trait, where as she got too old and sick, she looked liked a zombie under her eyes. I obviously won't be that bad for at least several decades, but my point is that its a trait that'll most show my age. For my hair? So far its a few greys and arguably a bit of receding hairline. Honestly on freshened days/fashion, I look mid-20s.

The grave can't be far off. Can I have your stuff, OP?

I started getting grey in my late 30's. By my 50's it was Phil Donahue grey. I have embraced it. My father was fully grey in his 50's. Embrace it. Men who color their hair look weird,. If you ask me. At least I have a full head of Irish men's hair. I'd rather this than bald(ing).

All the Irish men I know have male pattern baldness and you must be fucking ancient to be referencing Phil Donahue.

Don't think it'll go back, OP. I started going grey, well white, in my teens. By 30s over 50%. Dying needs to be done every 2-3 weeks. Most people I know have it now in their 30s-40s, however, I also know people who don't have any. It's more genetic than anything else. Better than being bald.

[quote]I tried to cover it for a decade or so but if you keep it up eventually eventually you're that guy who looks like he has shoe polish in his hair.

Not if you are a blonde of Northern European ancestry and don't try to cover all the grey (white) hair.

We had a 62-yr old coworker whose hair was completely white. It was thick and beautiful. He combed in low pompadour and swept the side back into a small duck tail. So many men were jealous of this man. His hair looked a bit like Sean Connery's in Hunt for Red October. We had 20-somethings with receding hairlines. He walked like a king among them.

I never knew straight men were so vain!

Some men look good with gray hair, yes, but usually only if they are already good looking and on the younger side, going gray early. White I have always found to be nasty and makes one look so old. I would rather be bald (or have a bald guy)

Just For Men Control GX

Covers the gray gradually. You have to use it often (every day or every other day for a couple of weeks) to achieve the look you want, but it works. It is a shampoo-in product. It's quite good. There is one product for darker hair and one for blond hair.

R15 is absolutely right! Many people say, "Oh, some men look good with gray hair." I reply saying, "Yes, some men. I'm not one of them."

R15. Except I don't want to be bald. I'll take the gray hair and use Just For Men Control GX.

I love my partner’s gray hair.

OP, was there a stressful event that you think made your hair go gray all at once?

You hear anecdotes about people’s hair going white overnight from grief but I always assumed that was an old wives’ tale.

OP and R20, could be worse, a friend of mine (we're in our 20's) was going through a really stressful month... he literally had half his hair fall out over the course of a week. He'd wake up and find his hair all over his pillows. It was a few years ago and it hasn't grown back.

My friend's sister is in her 40s and let herself go all white, not a good look for someone that young. Very few people can pull it off at that age. Even older it has to be a certain shade and facial type for it to look good. Dying is annoying, but going gray/white will age you or other people's perception of you.

[[R15]] You are right to a point. Hair is beautiful if it goes with the face and color. My co-worker had that. But he was the gray hair equivalent 24-year old Kate Middleton hair. Sometimes beautiful hair, cut and styled correctly stands on it own. Really!

Gray / White hair only looks good to me on really thick hair.

OP here, yes I have recently gone through a very stressful time and my hair is falling out and turned about 50% grey over the past 6 months or so. I am definitely going to try GX.

Wait'll your ovaries shrivel up.

After a certain age men should not color their hair. It looks ridiculous. Women can get away with it for longer.

I like that Paul Manafort looks totally ridiculous with his maroon shoe polish hair color.

Is Paul McCartney still coloring? It was OK for a while, but at 65, 66, 67 it becomes uncomfortable to look at.

[QUOTE] He combed in low pompadour and swept the side back into a small duck tail.

That is the most unsexy thing I've heard in a while.

I can assure you no one was jealous of that.

My hair grows in Grey, one hair at a time. Sometimes it looks blond but I know tomorrow it will be Grey again.

My hair is 'pewter'. It's not a bad look. Just let it happen: don't fight it. If you have grey hair, at least you still have your hair.

[quote]OP, was there a stressful event that you think made your hair go gray all at once?

It turned white after I saw a ghost.

Is it also normal for grey hair to be itchy when its growing in?

Consider taking something that promotes catalase. It declines as we age, which causes a buildup of hydrogen peroxide.

R34 sometime it can be coarser and straighter..maybe that's why?

My hair turned a really cool shade of silver. The black ladies lurve it!!

Oh for heaven's sake, OP, forget it. So you're going gray. And?

Dress doesn’t cause your hair to go grey. That’s a myth, OP. It’s genetic. You’re stuck.

R38 you are truly stupid. Do some research before you post your nonsense.

An alternative to coloring my (about 10%) gray hair with chemicals (and the potential for it to look unnatural), I use an onion juice mask 1-2 times a week. It stains the gray a light brown color, which is slightly lighter than my natural color. You can also use cassia, an herb that will turn gray a light to dark blond color (depending on how you prepare it).

My hair turned white overnight when I was 9 and the others kids started to call me "Snowball".

Black Strap Molasses and Royal Jelly turn it back for some people. You don't have to take them both or together.

[quote]Only if you're using cheap, drug store stuff and doing it yourself.

And if your hair is only an inch or two long you're at the salon getting your roots done twice a month to keep them from showing - and after 45 or so you still look like "that guy" who dyes his hair, even with a pro dye job (unless you were a natural blond).

Not true, R43. Not true at all!

OP - what is your natural colour? If it's light brown or blond, you could always go a few shades lighter. It blends the grey (Really they're white) strands well, and the outgrowth (darker roots) doesn't look as weird as light roots-darker hair.

It's dark brown unfortunately. I'm black Irish and don't look good as a blonde.

(22) I had a great head of dark curly/ wavy hair, thick and lustrous. After too many years of expensive professional dye jobs, I decided to go grey. This was after assuring that what was coming in was white as snow. If you have a youthful and relatively unlined face this really works. An excellent haircut helps also. Go for it. I had a haircut yesterday and the entire head of hair is now white with a few greys here and there. I get compliments all the time. Try something new, and it is free!

Wait till you go bald

I feel like grey hair is thick, coarse, and possibly hollow.

(48) I'm an adorable frau!

[quote] you are truly stupid. Do some research before you post your nonsense.

You were saying?

Per Wiki:

"The order in which graying happens is usually: nose hair, hair on the head, beard, body hair, eyebrows.[19]"

I got grey first in my body hair. Go figure. I have a few on my head but nothing obvious. Don’t know about nose or beard.

I know my hair looks dyed. I think I look worse with grey hair than dyed hair, but I know I ain’t fooling no one.

Yeah, R51... I was saying.

Your article literally says that stress can speed up the process of graying.

Nice try though.

I haven't read most of the posts on this thread, but as a woman I have to say that I have to dye it! When I got my first grey hair on my head in high school, my mother said to me, 'Oh grey hair looks so beautiful on a young face'. 'LIAR!' I shrieked at her while overturning the griddle she was using to make flapjacks. I've been dying it ever since. With that said, after my divorce when I left my ex-husband after he divorced me and married another woman. I decided to let my hair go grey. Between the divorce preceedings and my Chrome's disease (not diagnosed and turned out to be undiagnosed diverticulaitis) and work trouble (don't go there!!!) I decided to go natural, I stopped dying my hair, shaving everywhere and I mean EVERYWHERE! And I have to say I have never felt more liberated in my life. I recently left my apartment for the first time in a year (therapy via SKYP!!!) and went to the salon to get my hair trimmed and the lady at supercuts told me that not only should I cut my waste length hair but also dye it a 'prettier' color. 'How DARE You!' I shrieked at her, knocking over the bottles on her shelf as well as her hairstyling diploma stuck to the mirror before storming out. I am so proud of myself for doing that, something I wouldn't have been able to do before. So short story long (LOL!) let it go grey!

^ I have no words for this!

OP, leave your hair alone. Silver hair is hot, hot, hot.

The alternative is a lifetime of looking like Paul Manafort.

[quote]I feel like grey hair is thick, coarse, and possibly hollow.

Oddly, mine is the opposite. My hair was originally very tightly curled, extremely coarse and thick. The gray is is fine, brittle and loosely curled or wavy. My grey is also not an attractive color. I've gone from ash brown to ash. One thing has not changed. My hair soaks up product like a sponge: pomade, gel, spray - you name it, they all disappear. I might as well have just washed and combed it. By the end of the day it's a frizzy untamed mess.

R56 Is that you, Dawn Davenport?

[quote]Your article literally says that stress can speed up the process of graying.

It says that there’s no concrete evidence that stress causes gray hair. The end.

No, it says:

In short, scientists are beginning to gather clues that stress can hasten the graying process, but there is no scientific evidence demonstrating a cause-and-effect relationship.

So stress CAN cause you to start graying earlier, but there's no evidence that it will cause you to immediately go gray.

Which actually goes against what you said here:

[quote]Dress doesn’t cause your hair to go grey. That’s a myth, OP. It’s genetic. You’re stuck.

The end.

Girls, girls... you're both cunts!

I went an intermediate colour before I was completely gray. It was, technically, taupe and it looked fake but it wasn't. In some lights it looked as though my medium brown hair turned blond, and other times it looked like I'd put in a beige rinse. I'm not the sort who'd bother colouring his hair so this was galling. Looks better now that it has settled on gray

Natural sage rinse for grey hair. This works.

I started googling R52 suggestions. It's worth a shot.

Sunburn on the scalp renews

Regatta race. Sunscreen 50 SPF but not on scalp. Center part exposed. Later hit hair w/brush & screamed holy murder.about 5 days later, went from burn to tan. Those follicles were shocked into defending themselves by producing melanin. So as the parted hair grew in it, at first blondish but when it tanned it resumes to light brown natural color. So freakish to have that hair at ends natural color then you can see where melanin cell started dieing as reddish in color, eventually becoming grey then the roots returning. Now just expose greying scalp area with partings & let Sun do work. Problem solved. Try it.

Use that purple shampoo - at least it makes gray hair brighter.

Don’t say gray, say “silver“!

My black loosely colored hair started to go white when I was in my 20s - genetic. At one point it was just growing in one area, making me look like Mrs. Munster. It spread to other areas, always in patches. I color it medium ash brown with golden highlights. Need to touch up roots every two weeks. Highlights every six weeks.

It is so expensive, I have learned to do every other salon treatment myself. But, I can't get the color right on my own - there's patches on the back of my head now and I can't do the highlights.

Hair color AND highlights? It must be very expensive to be that vain.

My grey is only on the center part. If I part on the side there is no grey.

As the DL meme goes I always looked younger than my age until my hair begin to turn grey in my 40's. I tried coloring it using "Just for Men" but after a year it seemed to be getting thinner. It may have been natural aging but I thought the hair coloring was speeding it up. I keep it cut short because long wispy hair seems to look worse. The only upshot is I occasionally get senior citizen discounts without asking.

salt and pepper hair looks great on some guys..........but its usually the ones that would look great even with no hair...........in other words killer face and killer body.

Salt and Peppa's here

OP, grey hair does not reverse itself. Sorry. Try a grey reducing shampoo or get it professionally colored.

OP, you must talk to Robert about naturally colored hair after 50:

I started going grey in my teens, one by one. A lot more in my early 20's, was very self conscious about it. I colored it. Looking at pictures it looked like shoe polish. It's gotta be 15 years or more that I stopped coloring it, and I'm all grey/white at 47. Zero fucks. I get compliments all the time. I realize it's the first thing people look at, as I do have a good looking young unlined face. I still have a great thick head of hair. Funny I'd grow a beard when I was young to look older because of my baby face. OP, be comfortable in your own skin is my advice. It may work out well for you. Colored hair on a man gives off a self conscious vibe, not a manly in-charge vibe.

I've heard doctors say that sometimes it's caused by vitamin deficiencies, especially when occurring quickly (a period of months or a year or two and in a substantial amount not just a random few gray hairs). In these cases, sometimes even the eyelashes lose pigment. Need a full blood workup to check which if any vitamins might be deficient. Sometimes it's the B vitamins and iron, sometimes it's others. IF that's the cause, once corrected, the next new growth can return to the natural-colored state.