To whom this applies, when did you decide to embrace greying hair?

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1. at around 30, not many grey hairs yet but its just so much money and effort and for what?
   I would rather have grey hair and time and money to spare.

2. I’m 21, have few grey hair. Want them all to turn grey. My mother (45) is horrified by the idea lol

3. I never decided, this is my natural state? I just never did anything about them.

4. I love them and I have always loved them. I saw how beautiful they looked on my mother and I have her hair and know they look awesome on me too.

5. I embraced it a couple of years ago when I started noticing white hairs. It hasn’t embraced me, however. I saw women my age (early 50s) who went fully silver/white during the pandemic when salons were shut and they stopped dyeing their hair, and they all looked so lovely! And I’m here with my 10 or so white strands like… k.

6. I always thought grey hair was pretty. I’ve never dyed with the intention of covering grey.

7. As soon as they started to turn grey, around 20. So much so that I didn’t dye my grey strands. I love them so much!

8. I have a few grey hairs now. I have never coloured my hair, so once it all goes grey that’s the way it will stay.

9. I have none yet, but when they do arrive, they are welcome… Im 43 and decided many years ago that I prefer natural looks… Also when it comes to things like grey hair and wrinkles.

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11. When I was 16 my friend pulled 19 grey hairs out my head during spanish class lol. I didnt mind them then & I dont mind them now. I yank them out sometimes but just cause its satisfying. I kinda look forward to all silver or white hair someday.

12. 35 I paid a stylist to do a color correction (take care of old dye jobs) a few months later went in had a grey dye job done to match my natural colors from the roots and got a pixi cut. Over 10years and haven’t looked back.

13. I’m 32. Over the last year my grey hairs have come out, especially on the sides of my head. I can’t deal! I’m definitely not ready to embrace it at 32. I colour my hair every 4 – 6 weeks to hide the greys.

14. About 61.

    I saw my EX-MIL at a grandchilds birthday party. She was 92 and still coloring her hair dark brown. I was like, who does she think she is fooling.

    I decided to quit coloring mine before it was to the point of giving me a skunk stripe. Ironically, 5 years later, I still don’t have that much gray.

15. It started coming in noticeably around 33 or 34. I just didn’t feel like dealing with the time/money commitment of dying it. I’ve been wanting to lately but because of boredom, not wanting to cover the gray.

16. im 36, have extensions, and am about to go grey – i used to dye it dark so the grey hair really stood out at the first milimeters. now i have to use up all the dye i still have (which is several shades lighter), and then I’m letting it grow out as it pleases

17. Silly me that i think that i was the only one who have grey hair, at first was hard because everyone was mocking me about it, but now it doesn’t matter because I learn to love it.

18. I decided to embrace greying hair approximately fifteen years before I got my first grey.

    I knew that aging was…well, if not technically inevitable, at least preferable to the alternative of dying young. So I decided in my twenties to embrace it, both good and bad. Since I personally find grey hair attractive, I was actually delighted to find my first grey.

19. The bald patch/part. Have you ever seen when someone needs to do their roots and it just looks their balding down the middle of their head?

20. I’m in my mid 40s and starting to see some strands of silver. I’ve never dyed my hair so I am just going to keep doing that. My older sister (by 2 years) started going grey in her 20s and fought it for almost 20 years. After using box dye at the beginning of the pandemic she decided to just stop and let it grow out and looks phenomenal. Our mom also stopped dying during the pandemic and she has gorgeous silver so I am hoping mine looks as good.

21. I’ve earned every one of them that I have.

22. I started having gray hair in my twenties and just never felt I needed to cover them. My dad and grandparents never dyed their grays, so I have some pretty beautiful role models in that department.

23. I color my hair. The grey is not enough to look good but enough to be visible and annoying. Maybe I’ll let it go natural when there is a bit more grey, I think it will look better when there is more.

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25. I saw an old lady when i was really young, she was really posh and had a ballerina bun, all snow white, i loved it so much that i never “feared” it.

26. 36F the grays are more and more common now and I can’t be bothered to do anything about it anymore. I did discover that the one random neck hair that grows 3 inches overnight was gray and I was fine with it because it’s less noticable now.

27. I colored my hair pretty regularly, up until about 2-3 years ago. I realized the color wasn’t sufficiently covering the grey, it was actually highlighting it and making it more obvious. I’m just letting the greys take over and do their thing now. I hope it all turns completely white, like my great-grandma’s hair was.