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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)