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First, I'm dropping the "Hyperdraake" from my name as it seems I'm the only Ethan here.
I'm just curious if any of you are actually looking forward to having grey hair. I noticed grey hairs on the sides of my head when I was 26 or so and I'm 29 now. I could probably count the grey hairs, but it appears that I may turn grey and I'm actually looking forward to it. I wasn't at first, but then I thought about how cool it looks. Have you ever seen William Lee of the Oak Ridge Boys (Funny... I always thought his name was Bill Golden)? He's got really long hair and a really long beard and moustache.
http://www.oakridgeboys.com/Pages/Oaks_photos.html
I've never grown a beard or moustache before. I think the most I've gone without shaving is about a week and it felt like I had ants crawling all over my face. My facial growth isn't particularly thick, so I don't know what it would look like. What I've seen of my facial hair shavings indicates that there's equal amounts of red and brown, though the hair on my head is about 95% brown, 4.9% red and .1% silver. :-)
Nope! Not with you on turning grey, Ethan, because it usually means
eventually getting sagging facial muscles, a nose growing madly off
in all directions, wrinkling - in general, looking more like Gabby
Hayes (Roy Rogers' side-kick before Pat Brady). If turning grey means
I get to keep or regain taught, finely sculpted facial features,
including a deftly-sized and shaped nose whose growth is terminated,
then I'll gladly accept the distinguishing benefits of "silver",
and later white, long, silken hair which ladies love to stroke.
OM
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Sorry, folks. "Taught" should have been "taut". My apologies.
OM
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i must agree with ottawa. . .i'm not looking forward ro it either. i've already got more than i am comfortable with and i'm 33. . .the gray hairs i have are a different texture than the rest of my hair (much more wirey).
yeah, i also must confer on the whole sagging facial muscles, wildly growing nose, and even braidable ear hair thing! it just isn't fun. man, i already spend more time shaving my ears, back and neck than i want!
yuck! oh to be 27 again!
I am. And I'm getting there, too, although you can't tell very well from this picture.
Wow... :) Yours does what mine was doing at one time...getting lighter at the ends from being in the sun. Do you not shave your face at all?
Haven't cut a whisker (other than splits) in about 3 years.
i have grey shoulder length hair (with thinning crown). i am wondering what other greyheads do to keep their grey hair from yellowing. i was and set my hair tow or three times a week. i use a mild setting solution and i also use rogaine which i worry might also contribute to discoloration. i'd appreciate any advise .
tom
I too worry about yellowing. I'm only 30, so I don't have any grey yet, but my mom's dad had a yucky yellow flat-top until he died. I think having a head of full long grey hair will be cool, but the whole yellow thing is scary.
Kilgore
Cigarette smoking turns silver hair yellow, and supposedly swimming can turn it green if you dunk yourself a lot and come up out of the water. In the direct sunlight it actually grows algae in your hair. Now look at Leslie Neilson's hair. Sure, it's not long, but it's a perfect color and shiny, too. I don't know what he does to it, but it looks like it's got good texture.
Swimming turns light hair (even blonde) green, but not from algae. It is from the chlorine.
Try using Clairol's SHIMMER LIGHTS shampoo. You can get it at most beauty supplies. It works great.
I'm 36 and about 80% grey. I started greying when I was 16... just very little behind my ears (not at the temples where it seems many people get their first greys). I colored my hair for many years - from the time I was 18 through my early 30's. I let it grow out natural a few times but did not feel like my natural salt & pepper hair was "me." But the last time I dyed it - about 2½ years ago - I didn't feel I looked right with dark hair, so I have let it go natural again (entailing a completely new growing-out process for length as well as color!) and now I look forward to my hair becoming completely white... which I'm sure it will be in about the next 7 - 10 years!
Ha! :) It used to make me mad to see grey hairs on my head because some of my friends when I was 26 and 27 were still in their teens. Since I lived a sheltered life under over-protective and strict parents in a town where the only school forbade long hair on males, living in the city around the kinds of people I never knew before was like an awakening for me... like a curiosity I had as a kid myself had finally been fulfilled. Now it doesn't bother nearly as much to have grey strands. Of course, now I don't see as many. Maybe I'll only get a few, then wish for grey hair I may never get.