I'm 29 and starting getting a litter of gray hair right in the front of my hair. At first it didn't seem normal, my sister is 37 and has none, but maybe I'm just the unlucky one.
I got my first gray hair around 18. Very noticeable because my hair is really dark brown and my grays are more like white hair. Anyway, I'm now starting to get a lovely white streak right up front. I guess it might make me appear older than my years, which is helpful since I am currently a 20 year old high school teacher.
I am 37, and have been coloring my hair as long as I can remember. My hair is very dark, so it is extremely noticable. Thank goodness my sister is a talented and generous hairdresser!
Every female on my Mother's side of the family had great dark brown hair, until about age 19, then it starts going gray. She remembers her aunts talking about the "irish curse" our family females had. Mom gave in to it and was always mostly white haired in our memories, even at her 29th birthday party. My sister and I are fighting. With EVERYTHING we have.
My husband is ten years younger than I am, so gray is just not an option. It is bad enough to sometimes get referred to as his mother.
I hope there is a cure before my 13 year old niece gets to her upper teens.
Everyone in my family goes gray early. My Uncle had a full head of solid WHITE hair by the time he was in his early 30s. I was born with a lock of gray and have it ever since. Now I'm 31 and I notice more and more grays all the time. Of course, I'd rather have gray hair than no hair, so I'm still counting my blessings.
Yeah, I have them too. They're not that noticeable except to me. I do color with a more natural dye though. But since I'm ttc, I am not doing it currently.
Study Blames a Chain Reaction That Makes Hair Bleach Itself From the Inside Out By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Feb. 25, 2009 -- Scientists may have figured out why hair turns gray, and their finding may open the door to new anti-graying strategies.
New research shows that hair turns gray as a result of a chemical chain reaction that causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out.
The process starts when there is a dip in levels of an enzyme called catalase. That catalase shortfall means that the hydrogen peroxide that naturally occurs in hair can't be broken down. So hydrogen peroxide builds up in the hair, and because other enzymes that would repair hydrogen peroxide's damage are also in short supply, the hair goes gray.
Putting the brakes on that chemical chain reaction "could have great implications in the hair graying scenario in humans," write the researchers, who included Karin Schallreuter, a professor clinical and experimental dermatology at England's University of Bradford.
The study appears online in The FASEB Journal; the FASEB is the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
that.. would actually make sense. before i started coloring my hair i'd notice hairs that were still half brown were fading upwards before turning completely white
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I'm 31 and it seems that ever since I turned 30 everything went to crap. Over the past year and a half I've noticed that my hair is turning grey. I counted 13 grey hairs last time. I pluck them (maybe I shouldn't). Ugh, it's so frustrating because I have really, really dark hair. The worst part is that I found a grey hair in my eyebrow. That freaked me out.
i too have maybe 2 or 3 grey strands. i freaked out when my mum pointed them out to me, so i immediately googled it. i read that premature greying can be caused by lack of b vitamins. and i also remember reading a while ago that metformin causes a deficiency in b vitamin levels in the body. so i guess its the metformin causing the grey hairs????
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I don't have any grays at 16... but my boyfriend is getting streaks if silver strands (literaly, almost clumps) in his jet-black hair at 19. He says all the men in his family went completly white in their 20's lol but I think it is cute on him :3 It's just all in the genes.... sigh. My parents though can no longer complain about the 10 or so grays they have in their 40's now that he's here.
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