My Hair is Grey

fraggle · Post by **fraggle** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:39 pm 0

I've got a few gray strands, but mainly around my chin.

I always said though that if I started to go bald, I'd shave my head. So, when I started to notice how much my hair was receding a few months back I did as promised and went the Jason Statham route.

hairy_pete · Post by **hairy_pete** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:03 pm 0

Zoot wrote:I looked in the mirror and was shocked to see that it was all grey.

When have you last cleaned it? Don't worry, it'll be reflective again in no time

Flojomojo · Post by **Flojomojo** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:14 pm 0

TFO wrote:Hair dye is your friend.

Ya think? It alwasy struck me as rather vain.

I'd rather look like Mr. Fantastic any day. That's where I'm headed now, but I'm not quite flexible enough. Yet.

Tri-ang · Post by **Tri-ang** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:49 pm 0

Munky wrote: I view baldness as a way of saving money on haircuts, so it doesn't worry me.

That's funny - it's the same reason I give to people when they ask me why I let my hair grow long (the money bit, not the baldness bit, obviously). However, it is already getting worrying when I brush the hair - is the amount that collects on the comb really replaced over the day

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Penguin · Post by **Penguin** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:23 pm 0

Well the grey/gray hair thing is mad.. seems to happen to people without warning, though I started getting some for the first time when I was doing a stressy job and it stopped after I quit the job, but that might be coincidence.

Who cares is what I say.

Every human seems to have a different aging process depending on genetics and lifestyle.

One thing IS for sure, older your body gets, you get less hair where you want it and more where you don't!

I found a grey chest hair last week but luckily a nice person pulled it out for me.. and I didn't even have to pay them!

Wibble · Post by **Wibble** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:26 pm 0

My beard is slowly turning white

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:40 pm 0

I have gray streaks in my petite goatee...

Marius · Post by **Marius** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:54 pm 0

I have a few grey hairs above and in my sideburns, but it doesn't really bother me that much. But if I start going bald I'd shave it all off in the blink of an eye, since I'm very comfortable with a hitlerjugend-look

Penguin · Post by **Penguin** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:58 pm 0

It worked for the Pope Marius!

TwistedScrote · Post by **TwistedScrote** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:07 pm 0

Got a bit of grey creeping in myself... doesn't really bother me. Also the hair is looking a little thin in places. I reckon I'm about 6-12 months from going the shaved head route. The only downside is because I'm a stocky bastard I'll look like a thug

Got some pure white hair in my goatee as well....

Sigh. Only been going grey for a year tho. Got a little time left..

Foozwah · Post by **Foozwah** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:58 am 0

I started going grey when I was 17.

Totally freaked me out at the time, so I dyed it for three or four years, but since I'm a pretty low maintenance kinda guy, I got sick of having to keep doing that regularly to stop the roots (fnarr, etc.) showing.

So when I was overseas on holiday in my early 20s I shaved it all off, and then just let it grow back au naturelle. I'm 38 now, and it's still not quite all grey. I kind of wish it was - I think all-white would look kinda cool, and preferable to the present odd mix!

Oddly, my beard remained totally brown until less than a year ago, when the first few stray greys appeared there too. In the months that followed though they've multiplied rapidly, I'd say it's about 1/3 grey too now. Trimmed down to goatee again, I think it looks alright.

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:13 am 0

Foozwah wrote:So when I was overseas on holiday in my early 20s I shaved it all off, and then just let it grow back au naturelle. I'm 38 now, and it's still not quite all grey. I kind of wish it was - I think all-white would look kinda cool, and preferable to the present odd mix!

So bleach it

I think there's something in the stress link - my dad's hair was practically jet black and went to about 30% grey in the space of about 3 weeks when his mum was ill (one of her 'friends' told her not to go to the doctor about her abdo pain, which turned out to be a tumour on the appendix which had nearly ruptured and killed her, but that's another story). After it was sorted out it slowly recovered a bit but now he's losing the fight rather

Stone

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:23 am 0

Stone wrote:I think there's something in the stress link

I'll buy into that one.....

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:25 pm 0

I've been grey for a good 10 years now, since my twenties and I quite like it to be honest

fig(i) Grey hair, yesterday

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:37 pm 0

I've been really, really unbelievably stressed for the last few months, and I've just started going grey (and I'm 25).

Of course, now I'm stressed about not being relaxed.

YakYak

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