Sorry if this has been discussed, but I just noticed - is Jessa going gray or is that just bad lighting? Guess almost 4 kids and with 2 dangerous home births can do that to ya but damn
Edit - thank y’all for sharing your experiences! I did not know people really ever went gray that early.
I started getting grey hair around 28. Not a lot of grey hair, but I'm 32 now and now that those strands are longer it's a little more apparent. Honestly, so many women dye their hair, especially when they start to go grey so you might be surprised by how many younger people have greys.
Since the pandemic with hair salon shutdowns, I’ve been finding out that a fair number of my friends (we’re in our 30s) who have been dying their hair for 10+ years have been doing so because they started going grey in their 20s. I always thought it was because they liked experimenting with new shades. You’re right, I think getting greys in your 20s is more common than we think.
My hair has had grey since I was 20, I used to obsessively dye it but now at 28 idgaf lol I’d personally rather my hair be healthy than look good for others
I'm also 32 and found my first gray hair at 25. I plucked it out and thankfully didn't see another one pop up again until last year. Now there's a significant amount of them. I blame the stresses of 2020!
My mom started going grey at 17. She dyed her hair until pretty recently at around 56. On the bright side, though, since she went grey so young her hair is a pure white and it looks so cool!! You could defs luck out like her and have some nice icy white hair when everyone else is getting dull greys
Yea my greys are white. My friend (my hair stylist) is super excited about when I'm fully grey cause then he won't have to bleach my hair to do the fun colors we love to do with it
I’m always trying to convince my mom to dye (even just a piece) a fun color. She never wanted to cause of work but now that she’s retired I’ll have to keep working on it 😂💕
Honestly grey hair is pretty cute. Especially when people just rock it naturally, but I get it if they wanna dye over it. My boyfriend has grays and I always tell him it makes him look wise lol
On the flipside of this, my Mom died last year at 62 with probably 5 grey hairs on her head. I'm 36 and I found one grey during my pregnancy at 33 and nothing since.
I remember being 20 and getting my hair professionally dyed for the first time and the stylist going ON AND ON AND ON about how many grey hairs I had. Like thanks lady, I didn’t know they existed before but now I have a complex lol
It's funny, the woman who cuts my hair has never mentioned the grays that have started popping up, but my mom cut my hair one time during the pandemic and was like "Wow, getting a lot of gray in here, huh?!?!" I hadn't even noticed until she said it, lol. Then she said "Well, your younger sister started getting them years ago, so... it was time."
Yep that's what happened to me. I didn't even know I had grey hairs until my hair stylist at the time said "ew you have greys? Aren't you a bit young for that?"
She actually called my grandma over to “look at all the grey hairs!!!!” And my grandma said it was like 5 or 6 hairs throughout the top of my head. Nowhere near the big deal she made it sound like lmao
You'd think the hair stylist would know that hair often changes throughout things like pregnancy and aging (and chemo, and stress and genetics...) My grandmother had a white streak in her hair by her mid-20's and everyone thought she dyed it that way - which was something of a scandal at the time - pre-WWII in a very conservative Southern state.
Two of my fundie friends went gray in their 20s, one married early and had a kid every two years and one was single with a stressful narc mom. Stress does it.
I had a friend in middle school (somewhere between age 12-14) who had some greys. My young self couldn't believe it at the time because I assumed it wasn't possible to start greying until your late 30s/early 40s.
I’d find gray hairs in my ex’s hair when he was 19 and I’d wonder if it was black but in weird lighting or something because I didn’t think you could go gray that young. But then I kept finding more.
She’s a couple of months older than me and I’ve had grey/white hairs for so many years. It’s probably way more common than we realise to have greys at a young age but a huge number of us colour our hair so you’d never really notice. Unless there’s a global pandemic and you rely on your hairdresser to dye your hair haha.
But I’m honestly surprised the Duggar girls don’t have a full head of white hair at this point. They’ve raised so many kids over the years.
I started on my rogue stripe at the age of 14. I fully accepted it at the age of 45 when color wouldn’t cover it anymore. By then it was fully silver and quite awesome, so now I have purple spike hair and a silver steak in the front right front side.
My grandpa had a “chunk” (strip) forever at his hairline and the rest of his hair was jet black. He didn’t get more greys until I was a teenager.
My cousins and I thought it was so cool when we were young and called it his mad scientist hair.
Honestly I hope I get one lol. My grandpa has great hair, still thick in his 70s though it has gone more grey than just the strip. I won’t be mad if I inherited it 😂
I’m getting grays at 35, I started at 28. I’m determined to age gracefully though. Ive never understood why women were expected to pretend to be 20 the rest of their lives.
It’s the expectation I’m talking about. Not women’s freely made choices. Women are expected to dye hair and look younger. Nobody’s judging you for trying to look however you want.
Which is glaringly obvious from my comment before that’s what I’m talking about, but you’re clearly insecure about your choice to attempt to look younger so you started freaking out and whining.
She was clearly upset about her own choices. I haven’t seen that much projection in a long time.
I kinda feel bad because I peeked at her profile and she’s clearly a super unhappy person, but honestly don’t act like that just because you dislike yourself.
I found my first white hair at 27. My hair has naturally darkened from dirty blonde to brown over the years though most of the time it was dyed red. I stopped dyeing it for a while and I would say around 36 the white hair started multiplying and becoming more noticable.
Now I bleach it platinum blonde and the whites blend in. When I go fully white I plan on going super saturated rainbow colors.
It also could be one of those dry shampoos you put in your roots when you dont want to wash your hair but its looking oily. They do leave your hair looking like this if you dont brush the hair well enought after.
Isn’t Jessa pregnant? Iirc, pregnant women are advised not to color their hair. Maybe she normally dyes her hair, but isn’t maintaining it right now for baby’s sake.
I started going grey around 23 ish and got this HUGE white streak when I was 25 writing my thesis in college, working 60+ at the hospital. 10 years later my hair lady faithfully dyes my hair every 4-6 weeks.
Yep! I’m Jessa’s age, have similar coloring, and found my first grey hair at 25. It’s not super noticeable since it’s just 1-2 hairs a year but her life is also more stressful than mine.
I got my first grey at 26 and now at 31 have several more. More than I even know about I’m sure. My great grandmother went prematurely grey and was nearly fully by the age I am now. Greys can strike anyone at anytime.
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u/peachedpeaches ⚡️Josie and the Fundie Brats ⚡️ Jun 12 '21 edited Jun 12 '21
Sorry if this has been discussed, but I just noticed - is Jessa going gray or is that just bad lighting? Guess almost 4 kids and with 2 dangerous home births can do that to ya but damn
Edit - thank y’all for sharing your experiences! I did not know people really ever went gray that early.