Grey Hair May Be A Thing Of The Past

I wish that they had a link to the full text of the article, but from the abstract, it doesn't look like the optimism is warranted. It still looks like it's pretty far from having a practical application. But did anybody else think that comment in the Daily Mail article was weird?? "Most Britons find their first gray hair by the age of 25"??!? What are they doing over there?

Uh huh...go ahead and start messing around with Wnt (known to be activated in a number of cancers) in melanocytes (the cell of origin for one of the most aggressive cancers in medicine: melanoma) for the sake of vanity.

"Most Britons find their first gray hair by the age of 25", eh?

I got my first gray hair (that I noticed, anyway) shortly after I turned 26. I'm Canadian, by the way.

I started going gray at 27. I'm from the U.S. Premature graying runs in my family. My mother was completely gray by the age of 35. I colored my hair until just last year but the grays were actually stubborn about picking up the color. It was a pain in the butt so I stopped doing it. I'm now 46 and almost entirely gray. It doesn't bother me. Every now and then some little chicklet hostess will give me the "senior menu" at a restaurant. I just laugh and say "give me the regular menu, please." I actually have no lines on my face, which is kind of ironic considering all the gray hair.

It took me a while to remember what my natural color was. I don't think it was anything I'd want to go back to.

Now its "naturally" turning white, and when it's evened out, I'll likely quit dying it.

My first grey hairs appeared quite late, only a couple of years ago. I also plan on letting the grey out when it's less patchy. What I'd really like to see is a product that could banish those laugh lines and turkey neck!

I got my first grey hair at 19. Early grey seems to run in the family. It wasn't until my 30s that it was more than a few hairs so I never bothered with it. Sadly, like The Nag, mine comes in patchy so from a distance it looks like I have mange. If it was all grey I'd consider letting it grow out but at 39 I'm not sure I'm ready for that anyway. So off to the salon this afternoon it is.

I went bald long before I had a change to go grey.

My grandmother didn't have a single gray hair on her entire head until she was over 70, and my dad still doesn't have one. I definitely don't have any. OTOH, we've all got other problems...

Citing The Daily Mail. Oh dear...

I found my first white hair when I was 21. My natural hair color was a medium reddish brown, so the white hair stood out. I just thought I was having a bad year, but 10 years later when I was reunited with my biological mother, I learned it was a hereditary thing: hers started turning white at 21, too, and my grandfather was completely white-haired by age 30.

I started coloring my hair in my 20s because I wanted to emphasize the red, and then I colored it because I had to. Finally, I got tired of putting carcinogenic chemicals on my hair once a month and let the natural roots grow out to shoulder length and then told the stylist to cut off everything that was dyed. I donated over 12" to Locks of Love. That was in May 2010.

I'm growing it back out and it is about half white, half dark brown (interesting that my natural hair color was getting darker through the dye), and people comment on it all the time (because I've stayed out of the sun, I don't look my age, so the white hair is unexpected), but sometimes it's to ask what I've had done to it and sometimes it's to ask why I don't color it!

It's healthier than it's been in years, which isn't really surprising.

There will be unforseen consequences, or possibly obvious consequences that people will ignore in place of vanity. Same old story.

I really don't care what I look like or what anyone else looks like. You think you are beautiful; clean the inside.