In which I Procrastinate with Polls

[dolorous_ett]

Because I'm developing a grey streak, which on the whole I rather like. I was just wondering what other people's thoughts on the matter might be.
Poll Hair

Comments

[st_aurafina]

I started going salt and pepper when I was thirty, and now I'm forty one and mostly salt and pepper with two white wings over my temples. I think it looks awesome, especially when I've just had my hair buzzed really short - it definitely gives me an authority boost. I stopped colouring my hair before I turned thirty, and since then I've had much less eczema and my scalp is much healthier. (And my current hair cut - a number four all over with a number two on the sides - is only $10!) The only thing I don't like is that the grey hairs are a bit wiry in texture, and that make my eyebrows shaggy, so I do get them waxed and tweezed by a professional. I want to look neat and not fussy, and that's the best way, for me, anyway.

Basically, my hair is one of my best features. (This statement makes me laugh, because I actually have body issues for miles, but not about my hair. My hair is good.)

[dolorous_ett]

I think you sound like some sort of superhero in disguise, with your crop and dramatic streaks! Definitely a look to cultivate.

[tree_and_leaf]

My fiance is epically bitter about the fact that I have no grey hair and he has quite a few, though he's seven year younger. But it actually suits him, I think. (It's also not that surprising, given that his mum was entirely grey by 25).

[dolorous_ett]

My granny was pure white by 25, and by all accounts looked great. It's been good for me to have people like that in the family because instead of going "Alas! I have a grey streak coming at 40!" I think "Hooray! I have almost all coloured hair still at 40 - and that grey streak is sort of cool!"

Anyway, it's plainly not done too much harm to Lawyer's good looks, or you wouldn't have stuck by him *g*

[tree_and_leaf]

It's just as well, really, given that people prefer their vicars not to look like they just left school (though it hasn't stopped him getting ID when buying alcohol...)

[snorkackcatcher]

My grandad was pure white by 25 too, but that I think was due to some serious illness he did well to survive (at that time, pre-NHS -- double pneumonia, IIRC).

Mine looks like it has a scattering of grey to me, although to be fair I've been told otherwise, possibly charitably. I will doubtless consider dye when it's more than s scattering, in order to try not to be dismissed as totally past it.

[bookwormsarah]

Grey hair can be stunning. I found my first grey hair when I was 25ish, and have been finding them ever since. At the moment they are mostly under the top layer of hair, and just glint in the light occasionally. My mother sometimes has a rummage through and pulls them out - when I was at school she used to come up behind me when I was doing my homework and check for nits (we had several bad outbreaks at my primary school and I used to have very long hair), and now it's grey hair...

I used to dye my hair occasionally, and since finding my first grey hairs I haven't touched a bottle!

[dolorous_ett]

My mother went grey early, and it was thick and lush and looked great. Which is why I find it hard to get worked up about grey in myself - I know what's coming next for me and it's really nothing to get upset about (I have my mum's hair, though it is still brown).

I used to dye my hair occasionally, and since finding my first grey hairs I haven't touched a bottle!

One thing I'm finding really interesting about this poll is that nobody sees dyeing as a solution to grey hair - which isn't a bit what I expected. Pleased to hear it!

[pennswoods]

I don't like that they have a different texture from my non-grey hair. I've also noticed this is particularly salient when a plucked grey hair begins to grow in and is a different length from the surrounding hair and thus sticks out as if to say "Hey lookie here!"

[dolorous_ett]

My hair is coming in different textures as well, of late - but most of them aren't grey. Some actually seem darker than my usual colour. It's a huge irony that now dead-straight hair is actually admired, mine is now aquiring a bit more waviness (or at least you can see individual hairs giving it their best shot...)

[lareinenoire]

My husband has had grey hairs since he was 16 or thereabouts but he's liked it because it offsets his rather boyish face.

I found my first "grey" hair (I put it in quotations because all of mine have been pure white rather than grey) on the day that I finished submitting my applications for graduate school. I was a month away from my 21st birthday. Since then, I've found several random ones here and there. They always stick out (literally), so I've occasionally plucked them just to keep my hair from looking too messy. I don't mind the thought of grey hair--I just resent the fact that mine ends up looking like springs sticking out of my head.

[dolorous_ett]

I found my first "grey" hair (I put it in quotations because all of mine have been pure white rather than grey) on the day that I finished submitting my applications for graduate school.

That sounds all too typical of grad school - and the stress doesn't end there either, alas, alas...