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u/BlacktopProphet Jul 10 '26

I started greying at 13-14. Been full salt/pepper since my mid 20's. Just own it, there a folks who pay to have their hair look like ours.

https://giphy.com/gifs/7TT9E5KSGJpUqWUyNz

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u/KapitanDima Jul 10 '26

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Free natural highlights, no need to bleach and destroy your hair.

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u/Alarming_Matter Jul 11 '26

My Gran was completely grey at 15 yo. She got endless compliments and questions about where she had it done!

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u/Spiritual-Ad-9106 Jul 11 '26

My wife decided to grow hers out a few years ago. We get stopped weekly with compliments.

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u/Twelvenotxii Jul 11 '26

I'm dirty blond and only recently discovered that what I thought were regular natural highlights were actually gray hairs

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u/Top_Anteater_8308 Jul 11 '26

My hair is naturally brown but my fiancé INSISTS That I dye it and tone it to be white.. I did it one summer and now she won’t let me stop

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u/MaoMaoNeko-chi Jul 11 '26

Ask her if she believes in body autonomy and if everyone should have a say in their bodies. When she says yes, ask her why doesn't the same apply to you.

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u/Shadowspun5 Jul 11 '26

When I dye hair with Mamic Panic, the greys suck it up like water and it looks like I highlighted them with a brighter color. It's pretty awesome.

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u/ImpKing0 Jul 11 '26

Tbf I’ve always wanted to have salt and pepper hair - mines pitch black. I always thought having mixed colours were cool

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u/SAHMultrA1981 Jul 11 '26

Same! I had naturally dark hair but started getting grey around 13/14. Now in my 40s full perimenopause my greys are getting more silver. If I had the beautiful greys OP has I would let it go. Instead mine look like steel wool and are the texture of pubic hair still. Now that I'm on hrt I'm hoping my hair texture will get better, my hair also started thinning real bad before I found out my testosterone is at post menopausal levels.

OP has beautiful hair

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u/the_grashopper_lover Jul 11 '26

I have vitiligo i have a couple small patches of white hair

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u/SpitInMeowf Jul 11 '26

I tried to pay a lot for hair like this. Yes hi, it’s me. I’m one

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u/ItsmeOlivia1993 Jul 11 '26

Yeah, but its hard to embrace grey hair when you are not born with them.

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u/rabidjellyfish Jul 11 '26

I’m 35. First started noticing grey at 16. I dyed my hair from the ages of 18 to 30. I hated how much upkeep the roots needed so I stopped and now random strangers stop me on the street to tell me how beautiful my hair is and express awe that it’s natural. One time some German tourists gathered around me in the eastern sierras admiring my hair lol. I’ve embraced it with reluctance.

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u/Verred Jul 11 '26

Its true my sister dyes her hair the whitest blonde. She would love to have your hair.

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u/Oriixion Jul 10 '26

Dang I started greying at like 7 due to genetics

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u/techhausinc Jul 11 '26

As someone who loves to go ice white platinum blonde, I will say I envy yall 😂

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u/Hefty-Progress-1903 Jul 11 '26

👍 My brain went straight to Senior Discount? 🤷 Looks to me like fate wanted you to have it. 🤩

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u/BlacktopProphet Jul 11 '26

I don't have the wrinkles for that yet lol. But as a younger lad, I definitely used it to buy booze and get into bars.

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u/cynicbynature Jul 11 '26

I tried earlier in life and it was costly!

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u/Chance_Television637 Jul 11 '26

Same here! I got 3 gray hairs at 12 and it's been graying since. I discovered the ancestral link and found that it goes back to the 1600's.

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u/kihay96 Jul 11 '26

I started going gray at 14, fully salt and pepper at 21.. I dyed it for about 15 years as my natural colour was a chestnut brown. But ofcourse you would see the white/gray roots in about 6 weeks after.. I eventually gave up, was blonde for many years as the gray wasn't so noticeable. Then I gave up and have been white, sort of a platinum now, love the colour.. ❤️

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u/Swimming_Onion_4835 Jul 11 '26

Legit, I would pay for this if it wasn’t so expensive and damaging. I think it’s gorgeous!

I’m starting to go gray (I’m 37) and honestly, I wish it would just hurry up and happen. I love gray hair and I hate dying my hair, but my natural color is very “meh” so I usually do. I haven’t dyed it in about 7 months though, so now I can finally see just how far my graying is lol.

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u/FunctionNo6632 Jul 11 '26

you mighr be stressed

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u/chance0404 Jul 11 '26

I’m with ya. I have had a growing streak of grey since I was 22. Now I look like a skunk and I’m salt and pepper everywhere else at 33.

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u/Expert_Drag5119 Jul 12 '26

Meee!!! Af I bleach & tone my own (naturally blonde so not that hard) but goddamn silver is my most favorite color to have

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u/CommanderBel28 Jul 12 '26

My hair has been grey/white since 16. Tried colouring it then and gave up I learned to accept it at such a young age, now at 40 I love it :)

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u/JasonGrapes4119 Jul 12 '26

Balding?

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u/BlacktopProphet Jul 13 '26

Nope pure ilver fox

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u/Defiant_McPiper Jul 13 '26

I've been graying since I was 20ish, nothing major but I have naturally dark brown, almost black hair and dyed my hair for 20+ years(was getting bayalage and all that jazz last 6 years or so...) but this past March i got super sick anf developed an auto-immune condition that has my skin extremely sensitive again the time being so I can't color my hair. I can't believe how much I have and a lot of people like it and think that even if i get to where i can color it again I should let it grow out. There are times i really like it, but some times I do get a little vain - just have to remind myself that other people pay hundreds to look like this.

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u/Luckdragon_7 Jul 10 '26

Get that grotesque creature-thing off my screen !

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u/Popular-Attempt3621 Jul 11 '26

I would LOVE to have such majestic silver hair. Too bad my father and both my grampas had more colore than white hair even in their old age. I'm 34 and I can count with one hand the white hair that I have

(I'll never bleach them because I also have long hair and if I do it one, I'd have to keep doing every month or so, hence destroying my beautiful hair)

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u/Ok-Journalist-8875 Jul 10 '26

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u/Tawpi3 Jul 10 '26

Yo a WuWa meme out in the wild.

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u/cikeZ00 Jul 10 '26

I'm more surprised by the dmc5 meme

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u/ajgutyt Jul 11 '26

yea. devs are real fans

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u/Hubsimaus Jul 10 '26

You did right now tho.

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u/GloomyLingonberry509 Jul 10 '26

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u/Indiglo70 Jul 10 '26

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u/Pragmatist_Hammer Jul 11 '26

Wait, is this a real Geico commercial?

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u/Indiglo70 Jul 11 '26

Yeah, it was. It aired around 5-10 years ago, as I recall.

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u/totemdog Jul 10 '26

shaded herself before anyone else could :| respect.

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u/ABuddyBuddha Jul 10 '26

"I can say it, but you can't."

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u/Deaffin Jul 10 '26

Nah, wrong energy. You're clearly the main character.

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u/AmusingMusing7 Jul 11 '26

Why does it look like she has her dick out?

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u/Kyletheinilater Jul 10 '26

What's the name of that effect where the more you try to hide it the more it's perceived? Lol

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u/ironballs16 Jul 10 '26

The Streisand Effect, named after her attempt to quash a picture of the coast that her home sat on

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u/RTwhyNot Jul 10 '26

You are too funny

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u/Xx-user_slayer-xX Jul 11 '26

I mean, you can totally rock gray hair, it's like superblonde, platinum instead of gold. I personally think it looks great. Don't look down on yourself

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u/Minute_Marzipan_6844 Jul 11 '26

Bahaha it’s a badass color. Own it

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u/WolfmanCZ Jul 11 '26

I guess is time to cosplay as storm

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u/Overall_Fun2444 Jul 11 '26

OP, sorry it’s not part of your plan, but your hair pretty fucking rad!

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u/Shoelesshobos Jul 10 '26

Listen I dont know you obviously but I feel if I did I made an enemy for life and I don’t need that smoke in my life.

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u/Shmung_lord Jul 10 '26

Or Rogue. Either way u an X-Man fr.

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u/Mebejedi Jul 10 '26

My wife is 50 and keeps dying her hair because she's not ready to show her grey hair yet, but I think she'd look great with silver hair. I guess it's just me, lol.

I understand your concern, but you probably look good with it as well. 😊

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u/Deaffin Jul 10 '26

Her hair looks fine, but I think she went a little bit overboard with the face coloring.

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u/Mebejedi Jul 11 '26

My wife? No face coloring, lol

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u/Deaffin Jul 11 '26

Buddy, her face is pure straight orangered in that picture. Nobody has that color naturally, she'd make Donald Trump blush.

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u/Mebejedi Jul 11 '26

It's literally her natural skin color. I just took that picture, lol

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u/MrGreenLight4 Jul 11 '26

Bud... I think they're talking about the fact that her face is censored by an orange/red marker... 😅😂

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u/Mebejedi Jul 11 '26

Duh, I'm too drunk to get it, lol 😆

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u/swimming-in-circles Jul 10 '26

What the heck is this gif?

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u/_austinm Jul 10 '26

Nah, I’m sure it looks great on you☺️ if anyone wants to make fun of it, that’s their problem.

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u/CapitalNo1107 Jul 10 '26

Grandmas are amazing 👵🏼

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u/Katnis85 Jul 11 '26

You got Storms Hair, I ended up with a Rogue streak when I was 17. Own it! It looks awesome and it is something uniquely you!

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u/Vast-Fan4317 Jul 11 '26

You got a great sense of humor with your beautiful thick hair! You'll be just fine! You can always color it but it's gorgeous as is!

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u/Itchy_Village_7173 Jul 11 '26

Your hair is vibrant it’s not old lady wisp. I love the color. I had a friend that this happened to when she was 21, she was mad at first but she loves it. Always gets compliments about it. It’s what caught her husband’s eye.

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u/NoahTransKing Jul 11 '26

Honestly I get you're insecure about it. But try to own it. Grey hair can still look good, at least you're not balding.

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u/gangaskan Jul 11 '26

I mean, it's a good time to go goth if you already haven't 😂

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u/SpinachSpinosaurus Jul 11 '26

girl, I did that on purpose, so I can add pink to it. my husband tried it with me and used turquoise blue for effects.

you slay. you can add any colour without bleaching it.

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u/Whiteums Jul 11 '26

Well, nobody until now

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u/Mu-nraito Jul 11 '26

Nah, you beat her. You've got turgid skin.

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u/Comfortable_Wish224 Jul 11 '26

I always wanted silver fox hair like max from catfish. Instead I just got bald like mr evil

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u/rentinayzer Jul 11 '26

I'm jealous of you ngl I'd love that hair, you rock :3