I started getting a few in my late 20s, and now at 30 I’m seeing more and more. Still looks mostly brown from a distance, but up close you can really see them. Just wondering how it went for you guys did they come in slowly, or did it feel like they showed up all at once?
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I’m 34 and have none, most of my buddies have like say 10-25%
Some time during my early 20s. Salt and pepper now in my 36
Late 20’s – flecks of gray
Early 30’s – little patches of gray (and people started noticing) and a tiny bit of a receding hairline
Mid to late 30’s – about half gray and receding hairline seems to have paused
Best look? I get more compliments on my hair now than I did in my 20s, so I am thankful for every gray hair (literally and metaphorically).
I’m in my mid 40s and I’m just starting to notice the odd grey hair around my temples. Still not very much at the moment.
It’s going to be different for everybody. For me I saw my first ones show up in my early 30s. Now I’m 45 and I have pretty big grey streaks in the front but my hair is still mostly my original color everywhere else. If you look close you can find greys anywhere on my head but from some distance you can’t really tell except for the streaks.
I am 40 and have some above my ears which started appearing a few years ago.
I am not bothered by it
I’m 33 and basically full salt and pepper atm
In my teens then mostly gray by 30
They fell instead. Was pretty noticeable late 20s. Now (hitting 40), I got a grey patch in my beard. It just appeared.
I got a few in my early 30s. I haven’t seen a ton of progression and I’m 41 now
I have more grey in my beard than on my head.
Around 35. I’m 46 now and people often don’t notice unless they’re specifically looking.
30, and it’s been slow. I’m 43 and still just have a few
My very first grey was when I was maybe 10 years old. While that was just a random anomaly, I began seeing them consistently by high school. I was “salt and pepper” by my mid to late 20’s. Continued progressing during my 30’s along with the hairline receding. By 40’s I was mostly grey and I accepted my baldness fate and began my current hairstyle of clipping with no guard (so 000 length) and fairly often fully shaving it. Thankfully, my head isn’t shaped too wonky. LOL
31 first gray. It comes and goes I’m 32. I sometimes get one on my chin
I went bald before I went gray lmao
Around 19. By 30 I’ve already had less than 5% of black hair.
Everyone is different depending on genetics and environmental factors. First noticed a few grays around 40, maybe late 30s. It’s been a slow progression with still only a few here and there.
One or two by 35. About 10% grey now mostly on sides. I started dying it my natural dark brown.
If it keeps going grey I’ll let it go eventually.
Also silver in beard which I shave but looks kinda cool.
I shave my head for about 10 years now, so no idea if I have any grey hair. However, in my beard the first hairs are turning white, noticed that about a year or two ago.
Mid 20s– a few gray hairs
Late 30s- a few gray hairs
Got my first gray hairs at 17 and I’m salt and pepper at 32. It was a slowish progression until about 25 then I started going gray pretty fast. At least I’m lucky enough to still have a crazy thick, full head of hair lol. Just not dark anymore.
I started getting random white hairs at 18, 19. I will be 40 in October and still have primarily dark hair, but more than a little salt in the pepper. It’s been a very gradual thing, I’d guess in 5 years I’ll start going over the hump of more gray than brown.
13 got my first grey hairs
Late 20s temples started going
Mid 30s beard got some white hairs
Now early 40s my head greys have joined up around the back, my beard greys are grey patches and my body hair is starting to go grey!
Mid to late 20’s, in my 30’s predominantly gray, in my late 50’s now and mostly gray with some black still hanging around.
Mid 30s for my beard. I still don’t have any on my head.
There’s a lot of variation. New a guy with grey streaks by 18, completely grey by 25.
I think the real story is that no one actually cares about your grey hairs nearly as much as you do.
I’m lucky, only had a few since I was 45 ish, now it’s a very light sprinkling and the very tips of my sides.
I started in my late teens. Like 18-19 few grey hairs here and there. I’m now in my early 30s and I have more of them. They’re easier to see in my beard and my hair is looking lightly salted. I never really paid much attention to them. But my wife likes them so I guess that’s a bonus.
Hair? What’s that? I started balding at 25!
Few grays in high school. Salt and pepper by 32. Silver fox at 44.
Im 40 now and it’s mostly on my chin. I grew this beard in the first place to make me look older but now it’s REALLY making me look older.
First grey’s at 33
I started noticing greys at about 17 or 18. I have more now of course but it’s not that bad.
2 months ago, in my mustache + beard. I’m turning 39 very soon.
I saw one at first. I have blonde hairs in the mix so I figured it was like a “misfire” or something. “Very blonde” I thought? It was hard to tell with the backdrop given with the other hair there.
Over the last few months, it’s become undeniable. I have at least a dozen now. There’s no hiding it. No going back.
My gf has had full, long strands of gray since her mid-20s. It looks super hot. My speckled grays, though? I know girls like some S + P, but in the mirror, secretly, I’m like “fuck”. I accept it because it was always coming and I have no choice, so I can’t complain, but… you know, lol
Like 28
I don’t really care though
I hate when older people don’t leave youth for the young
I’m beginning to think there’s just one huge gray hair deep in my brain, and every weeks it sends out scouts to see if humanity’s still alive. That’s why (when I shave) I scream, “BACK! BACK, I SAY!!!”
I never noticed gray hairs until I started growing a beard in my 30s. Now I’m mid-40s and my head hair is still entirely the original color but my beard will be completely gray in a few years at this rate.
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Late 20s. I turned 33 yesterday and im salt and pepper now. I think a lot of it has to do with genetics. I have more Grey than my father in law who’s almost 60! My maternal grandfather has been thick white hair every picture ive ever seen of him as an adult. My mom is 58 and all white/Grey so I think i definitely got that side of my family’s genes.
Around 35 I went from having dark brown hair with red highlights on the sides and in my beard to those red highlights being replaced with grey hair. It seemed like it happened overnight. Also lined up perfectly with starting at my current job so I blame them for causing this.
I’m 42 and I have found a total of 4-5 white hairs over the years. The first two showed up on the same day when I turned 39. I was like damn, they wasted no time! Except after plucking them they didn’t come back white.
Same goes for beard hair. I’ve only had 3-4, and they don’t come back white when plucked.
Meanwhile I’m friends with two sisters who both had grey hair come in by their upper 20s. So a lot is going to boil down to genetics and individual health.
At 40 now. Gray on sides and getting saltier on top. Body hair everywhere is going gray the last couple of years. My beard only has a few grays. Seems like it will be the last to go!
Age 43, almost overnight, after I’d had Covid. My hair had always been about a 90/10 mix of light brown and red, and all of my red turned to grey on my head, while my beard turn completely white.
I’m 32 and have straight wingtips
Noticeable grey patches in my beard started around age 25. By 30 it was probably 40% grey, mostly in patches. At 38, it’s maybe 60%, but more evenly distributed, which blends the patches some.
Started noticing greys on my head around 34. There’s enough now that you can easily see it up close, but my hair color is light enough that you wouldn’t notice from across the room.
My boss at work is 45 and has zero grey hairs that I’ve noticed.
22 – First grey
Mid 20s flecks of greys on sides
Late 20s/30 Greys on sides and backs
early 30s less greys on sides and none on back
Mid 30s greys still on sides but less and flecks on beard….
I changed jobs around 30 which reduced my stress, now I eat healthier, sleep more and and relax which has helped the greys
It’s mostly genetics. I was completely bald like most folks in my family by my late 20s. I’m now completely grey and also bald.
Got them at 20-21 have some more in early 30s but nothing crazy.
beard is going substantially gray after 40 and buying a house and getting laid off. Stress sucks yo
I’ve been bald and shaving my head since my early 20s, so if the head hair went grey early, I didn’t notice. Grey chest hairs started in my late 30s, and I started getting some grey in my facial hair in my early 40s.
Even in my 20s, I’d have preferred a full head of grey hair to being bald. Though, perhaps it’s always easy to think the other side was better.
Y’all still have hair?!
I’m 38 now.
I’ve have 2 grey hairs 1 in each side burn for about a year.
The beard… Since about 35 I’ve slowly been getting more and more but still mostly only between my bottom lip and chin. Not super noticeable but the point of plucking is long gone.
It seems most of my friends my age are a lot greyer.
25 started going gray. Was salt & pepper at 40. Have a mop of white hair at 62
I’ve got 3 white hairs in my beard. Can’t speak for my head since I started balding and now shave.
I’m a few months away from 40 now, starting to get more noticeable but still quite a bit more of my originally dark brown hair. I think i started noticing it first at around 33 or so.
Late teens and I just owned it from day one.
37 and I’ve just started noticing the odd few on the hair in front of my ears.
Genuinely the night of my 18th birthday party. However, I am lucky enough for it to have progressed very slowly
Late 40s for me. Seems to be progressing fairly slowly. I’m a late bloomer
Late 20s- specks of white hair
30s-still black with some specks of white
38-40- grey hair and white beard
You guys have hair?
Gradual. Just a tiny bit more at a time, but over 20 years, it adds up!
I have a few for a few years now. maybe i was 30 when i got my first. then one or two noticable now and then at 33.
now i’m 35. you can see them i’d say i must be at <1% white
Had a few in my mid 20s and stayed at that until like 35 and then it felt like suddenly my temples were all gray over night.
Just let em grow. Who gives a shite. Mine are still working their way in.
Everyone is different man. You’re either one of the dudes that doesn’t care and gets grey or the other type of dude who freaks out and keeps dying his hair until he’s 60.
First one I think was 27 or 28?
Plucked it out and gave it to a witch. Have seen a handful since but it’s been years and I think it’s a relatively slow progression for me.
In college so 18-20 I noticed my first Grey hairs. At 35 I was pretty much salt and pepper. I’m 39 and have very little color left in my hair.
23 I had a few greys in my beard. 47 my beard is mostly white and some greys around my ears
Whenever I go to the barber. Grey hair everywhere!
I’m 47 and only now noticing the gray in my beard. I’ve been waiting for it for years, thinking I’d look distinguished with gray hair, but no, this blonde persists despite my protests
I’m 36 and the most I’ve noticed is just a random one in my beard here and there, maybe one every 5 years or so. I also have dirty blonde hair that’s a mix of blonde and brown so it’s possible that they were just very blonde hairs. I know people younger than me that have much greyer hair tho.
Don’t sweat it. It’s gonna happen to us all eventually. Dudes don’t care about your hair color and chicks dig the Brett Favre/Pierce Brosnan/George Clooney look. The more hung up someone is on their appearance, the faster it goes. I’m also the kind of guy that could care less about my appearance, I started shaving my head right outta high school so I would be comfortable with no hair when I inevitably lose it all.
Take it in stride and live care free. You’re still crushing it in life by just being here.
17 year old. First few greys. Mum’s mum was white at 24. Luckily I’ve got my Mum’s dad’s hair in that it’s thick and very much still there. Lots of people think I dye it silver and black.
Dunno. Blond guy, even darkish blonde, it’s goin’ ash-white not silver-gray. Hit around 56.
I just turned 44 and noticed I had some grey on the side a few weeks ago. Which is strange, because none of the males on either side of my family had grey hair.
When I was 14 at school. Was totally grey by mid-30’s.
Right about mid forties. Now I’m pretty silver at 50
When I was about 12 or 13. I have been noticeably grey since i was about 20, but it hasn’t progressed as quickly as I expected.
Started going grey at 18, was full salt and pepper by 25, current 48 and there is a whole lot more salt then pepper these days.
34 with no gray hair yet
16 for me, and my brother 2 years older than me had a full head of white hair by 25.
Turns out premature white hair is a sign of some autoimmune disorders – which tracks with my family’s genetics.
I’ve been getting them since my 20’s as well. It becomes very prominent when I let my hair grow out. While it’s possible for me to go fully once I hit my 40’s, I’ve made peace with this.
Started noticing in my late 20s and gradually got more.
I want to be a silver fox already goddammit.
Started going gray at 17. Got a crew cut in basic and kept it ever since. Right after I retired I let the beard and hair go a bit and WOW,was I salt and pepper.