At what age did you start getting grey hairs?

At 27, in my case.

It's not normal for twentysomething dudes to be getting grey hair - that's weird. 🤔

I'm 62 & have started to get some grey hair on my sideburns.

I had some in my early 20s (barely even noticeable) but the number didn't really increase until late 30s when rapid greying started.

Just get some tweezers to pluck them off!

Just don't pluck non-gray hairs. Repeated hair plucking has been shown to cause graying/aging in experiments in mice.

npr.org

Is gray hair reversible? A new study digs into the root cause of aging scalps

A team of researchers from NYU spent two years plucking away mice hair to watch what happened when it grew back. They noticed a stem cell malfunction that may explain your silver strands.

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Answering the top question, I'm 54, and I have around 3 gray hairs. I haven't kept track, but I've had one of them for a while. So guessing maybe one new gray hair per year since around 51 or 52.

Have your friends start calling you whitey.

The PEDs Dathan gives me age me rather quickly. So 24?

I hate all of you.
I was 19 when I first started noticing a couple grey hairs. I counted over a dozen by the time I was 21.
Now 20 years later, I’m about 50% black/50% white hair. My mom’s side of the family goes grey really young; some cousins found a grey hair at like 14.

I noticed my first grey hairs when I was 15. By my 30s I had salt-and-pepper grey. Now 52 its 2/3rds grey.

I'm 40 now, had no grays at all until about 6 months ago, now they are coming in fast. It was list a switch went off.

normal.

I had a friend in HS that had a lot of gray. L20s it started for me.

Interesting article. The quote below suggests there is a wide range of greying patterns as expected, but seems skewed towards the older side, i.e., there’s probably many more folks below 45 with some grey than there are people over 65 with no grey. I’m also finding it difficult to believe that one in four people between 45 and 64 have no grey as the quote seems to imply.

“Overall, 74% of people between the ages of 45 and 65 years of age have at least a few silver strands, according to research from the National Institutes of Health.”

gray flecks on my sideburns by my late 30s-early 40s, a couple decades later maybe 10-20% gray hair all over

Yeah, obviously it’s normal. I think I first noticed gray hairs at 27. Four years later, the progression has been much slower than I expected. I have a few more every year, but nobody in their right mind would describe my hair as anything other than dark brown.

I honestly wish I was grayer already. Personally I like the look, and they balance out other aspects of my appearance to make me look my age.

My beard starting going grey in my 20s. I didn't notice it in my hair, but was starting to bald as well. Still had acne too, so felt way unfair.

beards seem start getting it by mid to late 30s for everybody. head is probably more normal at 40 and above.

I'm 65, fair-skinned blue-eyed female of mostly northern European ancestry, and I have no gray hairs that I'm aware of. My face has enough wrinkles to look 65 but my hair looks 35. Both of my parents went gray relatively late in life, but both had some gray by age 60.