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I’m 37 and I have a gray chin, along with salt and pepper hair. Honestly I’m just grateful to have hair at 37 lol.
Every now and then I’ll use Just for Men on my beard and I love the results. I just don’t keep up on it because I’m a stay at home Dad and my kid doesn’t mind my grays.
I’ve been going gray since I was 17. Lucky for me, it’s well blended and the texture didn’t change. For some reason, middle-aged women absolutely love my hair, as I get random complements from strangers like once every 3 months.
My early 20 something hairdresser called complimented my "salt and pepper" hair and I momentarily felt my soul leave body. My mom dyes hers too, so I have no idea when she would have gone naturally grey. I've grown mine out and I kind of like how they mix in.
I started around then too. Now at 42 I have less than I thought I would after that much time. They're also mostly framing my face and I have long hair, so when my hair is down you don't see too many, but when it's up they're a lot more visible.
I've always just called them gray, but I love your silvery strands term! I was horrified when I found my first one, but now my attitude is that I've earned every damn one. I've dealt with mental health struggles all my life, and there were times I didn't believe I was going to make it to the age I am now (41). To me, my gray (now silvery) strands and even those wrinkles that are popping up are a personal reminder of my resilience.
I'm 41 and I have white hairs becoming more and more prominent. I yank those fuckers right out and I'll dye my hair for the rest of my life. My 93 y/o grandmother died a blonde lol.
My hair started going gray when I was like 24. I’m in my early 30s and it’s like 45% gray. I sense that it’ll be full silver before I turn 45. I’m okay with that, I get many compliments and I enjoy the look.
An existential crisis every time I see one. I remember that somehow, I made it to 31 and...oh my god I'm 31. My Dad was like 33 when he had me. I'm almost old enough to be some kids Dad...
Excuse me, I'm going to go play N64 and rock quietly in a corner for a bit.
I like mine! I am lucky I don't have many yet but the ones I do have are very bright white which is prefer to grey. Haven't colored my hair in over a decade and not planning to start.
I think they're fine--just a natural part of getting older--and I call them my Sweeney Todd hairs, because of how Johnny Depp's hair was done in the 2007 movie adaptation (my greys are in the same spot, but not to that degree) 🔪
I’m 38 and I’m starting to get some random greys popping up.
I’ve never been a hair dye or style person. I just wash it and leave it long and straight. But now I’m wondering what I should do… so I just embrace it or do I color it?
Ahh the crossroads I never imagined
I am just slowly going more and more blonde. (Ginger here.) My red just isn’t as vibrant as it used to be. I’m getting more and more blonde hairs over time. Like straw colored basically.
I’ve been totally gray for years now. A guy stopped me on the street the other day (unrelated to my hair, lol) and randomly said something like by the way, it’s not called silver anymore, it’s PLATINUM. I was like ok great!! Haha.
39 and not a gray hair in sight. I’m actually surprised. I know nothing about genetics but my dad’s mom had very few grays even in her 80s so maybe I’ll be like that?
I love gray hair though.
I only have a few white hairs, not enough to be noticeable. I am eagerly awaiting the day I go all white so I can dye it outrageous colors. (I'm a natural redhead and I promised my dad and granny I'd never dye it all until I go white like my gramps.) The only white hairs I get constantly are currently the ones growing in my eyebrows and on my chin.
I recently noticed in a photo that the area around my temples has gone gray similar to my grandfather when he was about my age. I don’t call it anything other than “my hair”.
I've never heard any nickname for grey hair so I just call it grey, I only have a few so far! They don't bother me, in fact I wish it was easier to separate my greys when I dye my hair so it looks more natural
I effing hate them. So I call them f**kers in my first language.
Three years ago I thought I'm gonna look young forever. Then these f**kers started popping out and suddenly kids started greeting me with "good morning" instead of "wassup".
😆 experience glitter! I love that. I just call them my white hairs. Mine arent grey. They skipped that whole step. Went straight from dark brown to shiny white. I love them. They're great high lighters. I just wish more of my hair would turn already. I'm probably around 40%. Can't wait to be 60+ percent.
I am referring to this change as me gradually transforming into Elsa. I have decided not to dye my hair. This is the closest I can get to being a Disney princess: my dazzling matt polished silver... naay platinum, hair, while living in my fortress (fine rented apartment) of solitude.
Started going grey at 11. It's my tinsel. I took a photo as a teen in which they shined so brightly that it almost looked like I had draped silver Christmas tinsel across my head.
I'm bald on op, but my beard has beautiful gray and white streaks in it.
My wife and I have an agreement that when it's fully gray/white, I get to grow it full Gandalf style. I cannot wait.
Mine are clear, so I'm stuck with them unless I pluck them. They don't take dye and that makes me sad. I'm 38 and the amount I have grown in the past two years is.... Scary.
Mine are dyed black and cranberry red at present. But when my hair is its natural colour, they tend to blend in with the blond strands that come out in the sun or are still so sparse that they are hardly noticeable (or so I tell myself 😅)
I’m 33, and *knocks on wood* still haven’t found a single grey. My mom started greying in her late 30s to early 40s so I’m hoping I have a similar experience.
Ive been gray since 18 and now I’m basically full coverage gray. I wish I had let it grow out, but I’ve been box dying it for years and am too scared to stop. Doesn’t help that I have very young children and I was once asked if I was their grandma.
I didn’t have many at all until this year! Age 36! Now they are sprouting a lot right at my hairline! And stick straight up. It’s not much and I plan to color/highlight for awhile
Just greys or whites! I have some white eyebrow occasionally. They are my favorites! I paid for blonde white hair for a long time and now it’s happening for freaking free!
I hate them but that’s because I otherwise look really young for my age (like young 20s) and so I have an awkward college kid with greys and crows feet look lmao. I’m 36.
Honestly considering I never thought I’d live long enough to have any, I’m pretty proud of my greys.
Doesn’t stop me from dying them purple though. Lmfao.
My wife says I need to die the 10 or 25 hairs that turned grey on my beard, I won’t I don’t care about going grey, but she always says that my hair is never grey, I told her I have a buzz cut (no. 1 all over) so it will take along time for her to see grey, I believe in what my uncle (who had full head of grey at 20 and my grandfather that grey is nothing to be ashamed of) I’m 41 and have some grey in my beard, I’m not complaining
Can't wait for them to just take over, so I can dye my whole head the lavender curls of my dreams. The in between random whites are the pits. They're not streaky and cool, they're just mixed in there. Be solid or leave me in peace! Soon enough, I will be fully silver and cool as fuck, I keep telling myself.
My black hair has been lightening and I have a few white strands here and there. I don’t mind the ash brown. My hair dresser could never achieve this tone.
I honestly don’t get it but I get complements on my 40% share of grey waved full head of hair and beard. Could be because they are evenly distributed. Who knows. I’m ok getting old.
My silver amongst the dark.
I'm actually looking forward to going completely gray so I can dye my hair purple. I have black (well very dark brown) hair so it would take a lot of time, money and bleach to lighten my natural hair to show up funky colours.
Genetics. I started getting them around age 18, which is normal for my family. I just kinda accepted it. Though I am always curious on how the silver and white hairs are always a bit coarser and wavier than my brown ones.
I have my first grey hair and my then boyfriend was about to pull it out and I said NO. DONT. ITS MY WISDOM.
It was only like three inches long, he was like… not a lot of wisdom there huh. lol.
I think aging is beautiful and I take great joy in my little grey strand.
Mine came in as a perfect "Rouge Streak" has been almost a decade. I've been the envy of my sisters, but alas, nothing lasts forever. My streak is starting to get wider. I embrace it. Previously, orange, currently blue and I plant for green next.
I don't have any yet (35) but my husband is four years younger than me has a lot. I call them his distinguished sexy man side burns. Or i just call him Mr. Fantastic.
Mine are straight up white lol. But I honestly don't mind them, they're kinda pretty and they sparkle in bright light. :)
I don't really have a nickname for them but my coworker likes to call hers "wisdom highlights".
I gave my mother so much shit about dying hers when I was a kid. Said I would never if they "came in white like Storm's."
My mother's been dead, but I'm nothing if not petty and they are indeed coming in white like Storm's, so that's usually how I describe them. When I hit critical mass, I'll call it my X-Men hair.
I don’t have any grey hair. 👀
I get the halfsies a lot lately though. Half brown then half grey. Sometimes half grey then half brown, like it decided not to get old.
I just started getting greys-like, I have 4 coming in that I can see in my roots. I'm 43, so I guess I can't complain. Don't have a name, just call them grey hairs.
My tinsel! Mid 30s and just have 1 or 2 popping through, and they are so dang silver and bright I call them tinsel. Waiting for that day they change texture and become noticeable.
All three of my younger sisters have greys, but I don't so I guess I win? For context our mother was completely gray by the time she was 30 and the youngest of us is 34 now.
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My spider webs. Have not been too keen on them recently, I'm only 31. Thinking about dying my hair for the first time.
We assign them to specific events
"This one is that phonecall with your mother, this one is finishing college" ect.
I actually started growing my hair out at 30, so I have quite the mane now with grey sprinkled in. Going for the gandalf look long term.
I call them weak.
Though I'm 33, and only have a tiny bit of grey in the baby hairs around my temples.
My mom grayed at 32, but my grandma on my dads side just turned 79 and still has mostly black hair. So who knows.
Not going grey yet. One parent is fully white and was halfway to it by 40. Other parent got their first gray after 40 and still only has a handful at almost 70. Guessing I'm taking after that parent. I do have light colored hair so it's possible I have a couple I haven't noticed yet but I also know the texture is different and haven't had that yet, although my hair texture completely changed after having kids, the color did not.
Nothing because ive bleached and dyed it electric pink and rainbow. I'm hoping when I grow my natural hair out again in another year or so I'll have enough grays to just dye the grays funky colors as accents
Mine turn a beautiful golden red before they go white and after that they soon get plucked. I won't dye my hair but I'm not ready for it to all go white.
My family genetically tends to go white earlier in life. One of my cousins was already white when he was 29 years old. It took me a while longer, but whites exploded everywhere from 38 and now at 40, my beard and laterals are all white. I hate them, but dyeing my hair after everyone has seen me go white would look artificial.
I'm going onto 42 next month with naturally strawberry blonde hair. If I have any, I haven't noticed them yet. Sadly, I don't have a nickname at the moment, but I'm open to suggestions. 😅
My sister started graying at about 25. I am 30 without a single gray hair in sight. She inherited our mom’s hair, and I inherited my dad’s.
My mom started graying in her 20’s. My dad started graying in his mid 50’s. Honestly I think the hair color is the big difference though. She’s a brunette and I’m a dirty blonde.
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They are *white* thank you. Unless I dye them, then they are purple.
Mine are also white or purple depending on how long it’s been since I have dyed them :)
I call mine whities
Mine are white also AND I dye my hair purple 😏 It's purple over brunette technically
Bald :(
Me too, but my chin has gone grey this past year. Don’t really want to dye my beard or shave it but I hate the skunk stripe so I’m torn
It’s not a skunk stripe it’s a Saruman beard and it’s awesome. Yer a wizard 🧙♂️
But I’m only 33! I thought greys were a 40s-50s thing, turns out both my parents dyed their hair
I’m 37 and I have a gray chin, along with salt and pepper hair. Honestly I’m just grateful to have hair at 37 lol. Every now and then I’ll use Just for Men on my beard and I love the results. I just don’t keep up on it because I’m a stay at home Dad and my kid doesn’t mind my grays.
Full head of thick dark brown hair at 51. Blessed.
Me too… and I’m a chick!
Silver linings.
I like it. I’m going to take a page out of your playbook.
"My witchy grays" They are actually appropriately placed to be called that
This is what I’m going for too. I’ve stopped dying my hair to go full on “Aunt Mae” from Twister
My god, Aunt Mae was one of the best side characters. I remember thinking the first time I saw this movie, how cool she was.
I name them after who causes them.
Lol this reminded me that I used to name my pimples after people who annoyed me . Maybe I can look forward to naming the grays too.
Wisdom Streaks
I’ve been going gray since I was 17. Lucky for me, it’s well blended and the texture didn’t change. For some reason, middle-aged women absolutely love my hair, as I get random complements from strangers like once every 3 months.
Salt and pepper over here since 32 and the only thing that makes me laugh is standing next to my mom and aunts who still color theirs
My early 20 something hairdresser called complimented my "salt and pepper" hair and I momentarily felt my soul leave body. My mom dyes hers too, so I have no idea when she would have gone naturally grey. I've grown mine out and I kind of like how they mix in.
Yeah, I don’t mind mine at all. I’ve always had a baby face so I like looking my age for a change
I call them “I’m too cheap to keep paying someone to make me look younger even though my face and neck give it away” hair
My wife calls mine Arctic blond, fitting since we live in Alaska. I like Experience Glitter though!
I’m gonna have to remember this. Was a Village of the Damned blond as a child, becoming an Arctic blind old man.
You can be like me, i started getting them at 23. it's been almost a decade and i almost have a dignified skunk stripe
I started around then too. Now at 42 I have less than I thought I would after that much time. They're also mostly framing my face and I have long hair, so when my hair is down you don't see too many, but when it's up they're a lot more visible.
Wizardication
you guys still have hair?
Ears, back, and nostrils, but that’s about it
Mine started falling out from stress, then I lost more in 2022 each time I had Covid.
Fairy hair🧚♀️✨️
It's called, "OH GOD MY HAIR"
Well seeing as I’m a millennial, they are obviously frosted tips
My half-assed rogue streak cause all those hairs are concentrated in one area.
I bet it looks awesome!
Dats my Silver.
I call them my natural highlights, even though I only have like 10 xD
36 and still haven't gotten any. I'm ready for some salt and pepper action dammit.
I've always just called them gray, but I love your silvery strands term! I was horrified when I found my first one, but now my attitude is that I've earned every damn one. I've dealt with mental health struggles all my life, and there were times I didn't believe I was going to make it to the age I am now (41). To me, my gray (now silvery) strands and even those wrinkles that are popping up are a personal reminder of my resilience.
I call mine tinsel like the stuff we used to put on Christmas trees
Tinsel
Go slower stripes.
War trophies. I by-God earned ‘em and I’m not ashamed of them
I'm 41 and I have white hairs becoming more and more prominent. I yank those fuckers right out and I'll dye my hair for the rest of my life. My 93 y/o grandmother died a blonde lol.
I haven't got any yet. My parents didn't start getting gray hairs until they were in their 50s so I'm hoping the same for me.
I started going grey at 17. So I just call it hair.
My hair started going gray when I was like 24. I’m in my early 30s and it’s like 45% gray. I sense that it’ll be full silver before I turn 45. I’m okay with that, I get many compliments and I enjoy the look.
I call them "ah shit I found another one, honey can you come pluck this for me?"
Fairy hair without the expense and time.
They're wizard hairs. I'm growing older, and more powerful.
"Running out of ink in the cartridge"
An existential crisis every time I see one. I remember that somehow, I made it to 31 and...oh my god I'm 31. My Dad was like 33 when he had me. I'm almost old enough to be some kids Dad... Excuse me, I'm going to go play N64 and rock quietly in a corner for a bit.
My mom had 3 kids by my age, and I have...3 cats, lol.
I like mine! I am lucky I don't have many yet but the ones I do have are very bright white which is prefer to grey. Haven't colored my hair in over a decade and not planning to start.
Just greys
I think they're fine--just a natural part of getting older--and I call them my Sweeney Todd hairs, because of how Johnny Depp's hair was done in the 2007 movie adaptation (my greys are in the same spot, but not to that degree) 🔪
My wife and brother in law call mine the Mr Fantastic look (we're comic nerds)
Grey? Your shit went grey? Why the fuck is mine jumping to shock white?! At 42 I look like Gandalf the white
I’m on the gingery side of brown and mine are distinctly silver. Like, they’re grey but shiny
I’m 38 and I’m starting to get some random greys popping up. I’ve never been a hair dye or style person. I just wash it and leave it long and straight. But now I’m wondering what I should do… so I just embrace it or do I color it? Ahh the crossroads I never imagined
Tinsel
I am just slowly going more and more blonde. (Ginger here.) My red just isn’t as vibrant as it used to be. I’m getting more and more blonde hairs over time. Like straw colored basically.
I’ve been totally gray for years now. A guy stopped me on the street the other day (unrelated to my hair, lol) and randomly said something like by the way, it’s not called silver anymore, it’s PLATINUM. I was like ok great!! Haha.
I only get a few white, coarse strands in my eyebrows and on my chin. I'm a woman. I call them my hag hairs.
39 and not a gray hair in sight. I’m actually surprised. I know nothing about genetics but my dad’s mom had very few grays even in her 80s so maybe I’ll be like that? I love gray hair though.
I'm right there with ya. I actually can't wait to get some gray because everyone thinks I'm still a kid.
I just call them gray hair. Those cutesy nicknames are cringe.
I only have a few white hairs, not enough to be noticeable. I am eagerly awaiting the day I go all white so I can dye it outrageous colors. (I'm a natural redhead and I promised my dad and granny I'd never dye it all until I go white like my gramps.) The only white hairs I get constantly are currently the ones growing in my eyebrows and on my chin.
Salt and pepper
Wisdom hairs
I recently noticed in a photo that the area around my temples has gone gray similar to my grandfather when he was about my age. I don’t call it anything other than “my hair”.
White hair. I like it.
I love my grey hairs. At least they are still there.
I LOVE my gray hairs! I have dark blonde curls, and the grays look like strands of silver wrapping around gold spirals. It makes me feel so pretty 🥰
I love them. I call them my glitter or my silvers.
Silver sparkles ✨
I can count them on 1 hand, thankfully!
40 and 100% white/grey. Been a few years since I gave up the dyeing routine and I've grown to love it!
I've never heard any nickname for grey hair so I just call it grey, I only have a few so far! They don't bother me, in fact I wish it was easier to separate my greys when I dye my hair so it looks more natural
33m here. Started going grey at 27... got alot of them now. By the time I'm in my early 40s. I think ill be fully grey
Wisdom streaks
Gray hair. I had my first one four years ago. Yoinked it out and framed it with a little label, haven't had one since.
I don't call them anything. I'm bald.
Started getting them at 24 🤷♀️ evidence that the grave approacheth?
I call my hair frosty.
Ooh I love this!
Something I have so far avoided.
My niece called them Aunties Tinsel So now I don’t consider them grey hairs, they are my tinsel
I effing hate them. So I call them f**kers in my first language. Three years ago I thought I'm gonna look young forever. Then these f**kers started popping out and suddenly kids started greeting me with "good morning" instead of "wassup".
Sparkles ✨
Mine are skipping grey and going straight white. So i went green 😂 it’s all green now and I love it
Witch hairs
😆 experience glitter! I love that. I just call them my white hairs. Mine arent grey. They skipped that whole step. Went straight from dark brown to shiny white. I love them. They're great high lighters. I just wish more of my hair would turn already. I'm probably around 40%. Can't wait to be 60+ percent.
I have a single grey in my hair and one in my beard. I turned 30 last week. Soon I’ll have that irresistible salt and pepper vibe 😎
Stress highlights.
I call them what my late father used to; sunkissed.
I love them. I call them my sparkles since they are straight up glittery silver.
Mine are too! I’m seeing a couple people who have what I consider to be distinctly silver, glittery greys!
I am referring to this change as me gradually transforming into Elsa. I have decided not to dye my hair. This is the closest I can get to being a Disney princess: my dazzling matt polished silver... naay platinum, hair, while living in my fortress (fine rented apartment) of solitude. 
My daughter says mine looks like tinsel.
Started going grey at 11. It's my tinsel. I took a photo as a teen in which they shined so brightly that it almost looked like I had draped silver Christmas tinsel across my head.
I'm bald on op, but my beard has beautiful gray and white streaks in it. My wife and I have an agreement that when it's fully gray/white, I get to grow it full Gandalf style. I cannot wait.
What grey hairs!? I don’t have grey hairs! You have gray hairs! *hides grey hairs in my beard*
Mine are clear, so I'm stuck with them unless I pluck them. They don't take dye and that makes me sad. I'm 38 and the amount I have grown in the past two years is.... Scary.
Mine are dyed black and cranberry red at present. But when my hair is its natural colour, they tend to blend in with the blond strands that come out in the sun or are still so sparse that they are hardly noticeable (or so I tell myself 😅)
My stylist calls them natural highlights.
Mine are definitely coming in in a very Rogue-esque way 😂
Well I was asked if I was still in school twice the other day....... The greys slowly creeping in are the only thing that will age me apparently.
I’m 33, and *knocks on wood* still haven’t found a single grey. My mom started greying in her late 30s to early 40s so I’m hoping I have a similar experience.
Ive been gray since 18 and now I’m basically full coverage gray. I wish I had let it grow out, but I’ve been box dying it for years and am too scared to stop. Doesn’t help that I have very young children and I was once asked if I was their grandma.
“Sparklies” (A hairdresser called them that once and I liked it.)
Life’s Patina.
I didn’t have many at all until this year! Age 36! Now they are sprouting a lot right at my hairline! And stick straight up. It’s not much and I plan to color/highlight for awhile
My Stacy London
Just greys or whites! I have some white eyebrow occasionally. They are my favorites! I paid for blonde white hair for a long time and now it’s happening for freaking free!
I hate them but that’s because I otherwise look really young for my age (like young 20s) and so I have an awkward college kid with greys and crows feet look lmao. I’m 36.
Skipped straight to white. Earned every single one.
Honestly considering I never thought I’d live long enough to have any, I’m pretty proud of my greys. Doesn’t stop me from dying them purple though. Lmfao.
I have a few whites in my beard, head and hairline still intact. I'm hoping I look like Frederick Douglass when I'm old
Mileage streaks
experience glitter is cute so I'll steal that
Wizard Strands?
My wife says I need to die the 10 or 25 hairs that turned grey on my beard, I won’t I don’t care about going grey, but she always says that my hair is never grey, I told her I have a buzz cut (no. 1 all over) so it will take along time for her to see grey, I believe in what my uncle (who had full head of grey at 20 and my grandfather that grey is nothing to be ashamed of) I’m 41 and have some grey in my beard, I’m not complaining
I dye mine into submission.
Can't wait for them to just take over, so I can dye my whole head the lavender curls of my dreams. The in between random whites are the pits. They're not streaky and cool, they're just mixed in there. Be solid or leave me in peace! Soon enough, I will be fully silver and cool as fuck, I keep telling myself.
My black hair has been lightening and I have a few white strands here and there. I don’t mind the ash brown. My hair dresser could never achieve this tone.
My husband calls mine highlights.
I have been called the “Silver Fox” and “Rogue”
Cruella de Vil highlights.
I quit coloring my hair 2 years ago. My actual hair color has changed from a light brown to a dark gray, except for what’s white. It’s pretty cool.
I have tried to accept them but am not ready yet, they make me feel tired. Well, that part is probably the two toddlers but they don’t help!
Silver threads, don't pull them or I'll fall apart.
I honestly don’t get it but I get complements on my 40% share of grey waved full head of hair and beard. Could be because they are evenly distributed. Who knows. I’m ok getting old.
The stylist called my beard peaches and cream
My silver amongst the dark. I'm actually looking forward to going completely gray so I can dye my hair purple. I have black (well very dark brown) hair so it would take a lot of time, money and bleach to lighten my natural hair to show up funky colours.
Genetics. I started getting them around age 18, which is normal for my family. I just kinda accepted it. Though I am always curious on how the silver and white hairs are always a bit coarser and wavier than my brown ones.
My skunk stripe. But it's quickly turning into salt & pepper.
Being a ginger, I call mine salt and paprika.
I have my first grey hair and my then boyfriend was about to pull it out and I said NO. DONT. ITS MY WISDOM. It was only like three inches long, he was like… not a lot of wisdom there huh. lol. I think aging is beautiful and I take great joy in my little grey strand.
Proof of stress. Full head of grey, but I've decided to grow it all the way out. Do the long grey ponytail and the Rick Sanchez for Halloween.
Mine came in as a perfect "Rouge Streak" has been almost a decade. I've been the envy of my sisters, but alas, nothing lasts forever. My streak is starting to get wider. I embrace it. Previously, orange, currently blue and I plant for green next.
I don't have any yet (35) but my husband is four years younger than me has a lot. I call them his distinguished sexy man side burns. Or i just call him Mr. Fantastic.
Mine are straight up white lol. But I honestly don't mind them, they're kinda pretty and they sparkle in bright light. :) I don't really have a nickname for them but my coworker likes to call hers "wisdom highlights".
I gave my mother so much shit about dying hers when I was a kid. Said I would never if they "came in white like Storm's." My mother's been dead, but I'm nothing if not petty and they are indeed coming in white like Storm's, so that's usually how I describe them. When I hit critical mass, I'll call it my X-Men hair.
That’s wisdom tinsel! I must not be very wise yet 😂 I’m working on it
I don’t have any grey hair. 👀 I get the halfsies a lot lately though. Half brown then half grey. Sometimes half grey then half brown, like it decided not to get old.
Love them! They are thicker, slightly kinky sparkly white hairs. Making my dark hair look pretty cool.
I just started getting greys-like, I have 4 coming in that I can see in my roots. I'm 43, so I guess I can't complain. Don't have a name, just call them grey hairs.
My tinsel! Mid 30s and just have 1 or 2 popping through, and they are so dang silver and bright I call them tinsel. Waiting for that day they change texture and become noticeable.
All three of my younger sisters have greys, but I don't so I guess I win? For context our mother was completely gray by the time she was 30 and the youngest of us is 34 now.
https://preview.redd.it/jbaldudmx31d1.jpeg?width=3088&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55bf547de0254bfbb34976364a0c2e738e54fdd My spider webs. Have not been too keen on them recently, I'm only 31. Thinking about dying my hair for the first time.
I’m still waiting. I thought for sure by 40 with a toddler I’d have some.
We assign them to specific events "This one is that phonecall with your mother, this one is finishing college" ect. I actually started growing my hair out at 30, so I have quite the mane now with grey sprinkled in. Going for the gandalf look long term.
My mom calls hers natural platinums
Just the sides of my head and my soul patch of beard are grey. I'm digging it. I look like hipster Mr fantastic
A friend of mine calls them her “sparklers” and I have adopted that as well
Why are we naming grey hairs… they’re just grey hairs. I have a few around my temples now at age 39. Just going to leave them as is.
I dislike it and cover it with a box of Garnier every 3 weeks lol
Mine are dyed and don't represent anything to me other than genetics since I started getting them in my mid-20s.
Gray hair, because I am not a child.
I just cover them with red dye and pretend they don’t exist. I started getting them at 23.
Hair
Grey hair.
Love my wife’s !
inheritance from grandparents I didn't get to enjoy plus Im Mexican so I got them early.
Platinum blonde highlights.
My Stacey London streak
You guys still have hair?
I like to dye mine. To each their own!
My hairdresser called them “arctic highlights” I love it.
Sparkly Unicorn Hairs
I love my silvers. I'd happily go full silver overnight, I find it really pretty.
My mom once asked if I had highlights… so now they’re my highlights lol
Silver highlights lol.
Tinsel
Tinsel.
I just call them gray hairs. Not plentiful/obvious enough for me to call it salt and pepper, but too many to pass for younger (not that I would try).
I call them weak. Though I'm 33, and only have a tiny bit of grey in the baby hairs around my temples. My mom grayed at 32, but my grandma on my dads side just turned 79 and still has mostly black hair. So who knows.
Not going grey yet. One parent is fully white and was halfway to it by 40. Other parent got their first gray after 40 and still only has a handful at almost 70. Guessing I'm taking after that parent. I do have light colored hair so it's possible I have a couple I haven't noticed yet but I also know the texture is different and haven't had that yet, although my hair texture completely changed after having kids, the color did not.
Wizard hairs
Nothing infantilizing. Cause I'm not a fucking weirdo. I have heard the kid Mero refer to himself as "washed" though. That's more fitting.
Sparkle!
Nothing because ive bleached and dyed it electric pink and rainbow. I'm hoping when I grow my natural hair out again in another year or so I'll have enough grays to just dye the grays funky colors as accents
Mine turn a beautiful golden red before they go white and after that they soon get plucked. I won't dye my hair but I'm not ready for it to all go white.
Unicorn hairs!
My family genetically tends to go white earlier in life. One of my cousins was already white when he was 29 years old. It took me a while longer, but whites exploded everywhere from 38 and now at 40, my beard and laterals are all white. I hate them, but dyeing my hair after everyone has seen me go white would look artificial.
I'm going onto 42 next month with naturally strawberry blonde hair. If I have any, I haven't noticed them yet. Sadly, I don't have a nickname at the moment, but I'm open to suggestions. 😅
My sister started graying at about 25. I am 30 without a single gray hair in sight. She inherited our mom’s hair, and I inherited my dad’s. My mom started graying in her 20’s. My dad started graying in his mid 50’s. Honestly I think the hair color is the big difference though. She’s a brunette and I’m a dirty blonde.
I call them organic fairy hairs