Gray Hair: Distinguished or Pathetic?

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I have gray hair. I guess my hair is actually "peppered" with gray hairs. It's not too obvious unless you look, but they're there. And, Lord help me, I won't be able to control myself if someone takes a long look @ my head and starts a sentence with, "Oh my GOD! You have gray hair!"

So, let's hear it, ladies - care or don't care? Do you prefer one color, or does the idea of a peppered pate whet your whistle? And what about the gray streaks on the side of the head?

― David Raposa, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For what it's worth, I've had gray hairs since I was 7. Thankfully, they're only on my head.

― David Raposa, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you have gray hair around your temples like Reed Richards (Mr Fantastic), that's pretty cool. But then I ain't a lady, but I reckon girls like gray hair.

― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I check every so often to see if I have any new grey hairs. I am really hoping to turn all grey by the time I'm thirty.

― hans, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't mind the couple I have now.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gray is no good, it makes you look older.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One of my childhood friends was completly gray by the age of ten. We all thought he was cool. I wouldn't mind going gray overnight like that guy did in Twin Peaks (twin peaks:classic or dud?)

― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"That guy" was only Leland Palmer, one of the most important pivotal characters, jesus christ, some people.

― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

I would rather be grey that bald. However, it has to be all or nothing - the badger look just doesn't fly.

― Delme Jones, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Delme (above). His badger look doesn't fly. Meanwhile, I'm ten years older than him and have fewer grey hairs. What's that all about? My dad had a marvellous head of black hair into his fifties. Hope I'm just like him. But then he died of a brain haemorrhage at 54, so maybe not.

― Adam R, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As long as it's nice and thick (as opposed to wispy), gray hair is sex on toast.

― Michael Daddino, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not for me it's not. I know it's coming eventually (for me and future partners), but blech.

And oh good; another chance to gloat that I'll be 35 this year and not a single grey.

― Sean, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think people should be natural, and if grey hair( mine is silver), is it for me it stays! I have had it dyed, but it grows out so fast that I got tired of wasting money on it... I think that dark hair on an older person makes them look hardand older, unless your a kid. I love the natural look! :) Don't fret David, I'm sure you look great!

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 8 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

David.. I think salt & pepper hair is sexy on men... I've also seen quite a few women who have varying degrees of gray hair who looked fabulous.
I have recently decided to embrace my gray hair (woo hoo? maybe, who knew?!); I vow not to completely freak out and dye it again before all of the old dye grows out, just so I can see what I'm dealing with.
I was blessed with a big, thick, healthy head of hair that always looked okay, no matter what I did to it, so this new dry, wiry, kinky, half-gray/half-miscelaneous doll hair I now have has become my unhappy obsession, of late.
On a final note: I think the gray-heads threaten a lot of people, because it reminds them of their eventual aging, and death.

Can't stand ending on a high note,
diane
~peace in 3~

― diane jm, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

i think that grey hair on a man gives a distinguished/worldly look... :)

― jra, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a few gray hairs and I like them.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I have about 20 grey hairs - what I really hate about them is the fact that they are a totally different texture to the rest of my hair. They would be tolerable if they were long silky silver strands, but they are kinda wirey. I started cutting them, but now I am doing a semi-dye thing.

― marianna, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm getting greyer, I'll be going for the Wayne Coyne look soon

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

big fan of seeing the grey hairs pop up on me and my boy.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I have exactly one grey hair. It only appeared recently, and its appearance was greeted with great freaking out and running around the flat shouting and brandishing of scissors and tweezers and insisting that HSA pluck it out.

HSA is nicely salt and peppered. I think it makes him look distinguished, but then again, I would. Why is it so much more acceptible in a male than in a female? I don't know. SIgh. MM is right about the wirey-ness of them, which is very weird in my otherwise babyfine head.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the eyebrows that scare me. Not Kate's, mine. I almost poked my eye out with one particularly vicious one this morning.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why is it so much more acceptable in a male than in a female?"

We go bald, so we need all the hair advantages we can get.

― H., Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't actually *have* eyebrows so it would be very hard for you to be scared by them!

But then Saucy Lady on Sex & City got a grey PUBE and I felt better for having been so traumatised by my grey hair. (Singular.) (THank you.)

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I am about 20% grey with that number rapidly rising. My mother was completely grey by the time she was 16.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm in the same boat as Kate. I have exactly one right smack in the front of my head. I'm leaving it though.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I have any grey hairs.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(come on you fuckos, bring it on, bee-yatch)

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'd like to skip grey and go directly to snow-white.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever you do Kate, don't pluck it out - they grow back grey, only this time all curly and bent.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

what's with that anyways¿
the grey hairs being all bent and weird that is.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

because you damage the follicle when you pull the hair out which results in twisted hair.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

grey hair - good on others - depressing on yourself.

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Too late... actually, I think I cut it rather than plucking it, but still.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Experiment - pull out a non-grey hair and see if it goes wiry and bent. I think it's bollocks, personally.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, I'm lost, are you talking about your pubes?

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

people always say - "dont worry about your grey hair - i mean look at george clooney!" yeah right!

― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

it ain't Mark, I can spot the ones on my head where I pulled them out to begin with.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

*I* had a single grey hair on my head, Saucylady on SATC had a grey pube. My pubes are fine. (HSA's seem to be turning ginger, but that's another story.)

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I've gone a little grey at the temples, and a little thin on top. I know which one freaked me out the most...

― H., Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It's weird, sometimes I find hairs that are grey/white on the bottom (that I missed dying) that are growing back brown at the root.

Dud- when people reach over and pull out a grey hair without telling you.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

pull out a non-grey hair and see if it goes wiry and bent. I think it's bollocks, personally
okay, hair gets plucked out by accident all the time, but i don't seem to have noticed nearly the amount of weird/bent brown hairs as there are grey ones. it can't be from plucking it, i'm sure of that.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

gray hair, dud. But hard, esp. for guys to do much about. In the following pic, Bowie demonstrates how to do something about it well.

1. Have a lot of hair for your age. Or any age, for that matter.
2. Have been thought of as blond most of the time.
3. Pay a colorist to essentially paint your hair.
4. Pay the colorists a small fortune so that it's done right.
5. In return, receive hair a color that a 50-something year old man wouldn't ever have naturally, but that looks expensive, and therefore good, if not completely natural.

http://www.davidbowie.com/bin/images/html/berlin_september_2003.jpg

― Skottie, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Tha's not Bowie, that's Zoe Ball. Zoe Ball does "Magnum", to boot.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, shit. Zoe...Bowie...it's the speech rec. software screwing up again.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

This is funny, but it probably won't work...
http://www.geocities.com/area51/Lair/8288/hairjoe.jpg

― Skottie, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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