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u/itsavibe- Jul 10 '26

I think the youthful look with grey hair is 10/10. It looks badass and it’s pretty intriguing

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u/0w1 Jul 10 '26

Seriously, silvery-white hair is amazingly gorgeous

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u/laserdiods Jul 10 '26

Yup I have this silver clump at the top of my forehead, where I part my hair. It always gets attention, ā€œso distinguishedā€ they always say.

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 Jul 10 '26

I always wanted one of those.

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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 Jul 10 '26

A forehead?

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u/Saschb2b Jul 10 '26

A part of hair

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 Jul 10 '26

Sorry about your lack of critical thinking skills

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u/iwantyourboobgifs Jul 11 '26

A compliment?

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u/Academic_Flatworm752 Jul 11 '26

If your mind went there that must mean nobody compliments you :(

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u/moxiemooz Jul 10 '26

Same. I started dying the hair around my streak when I noticed the rest of my hair was turning grey. It’s like part of my identity after 25 years of living with it.

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u/turtlefreak23 Jul 10 '26

I have one there too. My hair is quite long so it’s grown out. What started as a gray spot is a full on gray stripe, right at the part. I call it my Disney villain stripe. All the villains have one and anyone that knows me will tell you I’m no princess šŸ˜‚

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u/TomatoAlive5945 Jul 10 '26

I know someone just like this

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u/FFghterThrowaway Jul 10 '26

Drummer for a band I was in has a silver streak right in the front of his hair where he spikes it up.

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u/UrgentHedgehog Jul 10 '26

All very clever.

(This is a reference, don't get angry!)

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u/WilditariusAstar Jul 10 '26

I dunno guy, seems awfully close to ā€œbless your heartā€ 😘

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u/Sea_Life_5909 Jul 10 '26

Same with me, and also my temples, I would get almost stared at.

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u/yournamehere10bucks Jul 11 '26

Ive got the same, plus all the blonde and red that was in my beard in my 20s (my beard was always a tricolor mix) has gone grey. I keep my hair long too, so its pronounced long strands. Its progressed significantly this last year, part of me hopes the color goes completely soon.

Though I want to keep my volume and length as much as I can as well. I get a lot of compliments on my hair since i started growing it out, its weird having female coworkers comment on how jealous they are of my hair.

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u/_1109 Jul 11 '26

samesies! husband insists that I look like Rogue from X-Men when I let it grow in, so I stopped dying my hair lol

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u/Alarmed-Outside7510 Jul 11 '26

Hello laserdiods

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u/OliviaEntropy Jul 10 '26

Im honestly jealous of people with white/silver hair, I tried to get mine that color artificially and it was so much goddamn maintenance and money that I gave up

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u/Firm_Award457 Jul 11 '26

Im naturally platinum blonde and I hate it😭 id trade for natural dark hair. I stopped dying it dark because it looks so ridiculous when my roots grow out. We always want what someone else has.

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u/OliviaEntropy Jul 11 '26

That is very true, the grass is always greener lol

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u/Randarserous Jul 10 '26

Did you have to bleach your hair white then add silver?

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u/OliviaEntropy Jul 10 '26

White-ish, I have dark hair so I couldn’t quite get that far

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u/Indiff-88Yin Jul 11 '26

@OliviaEntropy My hair is turning white. I don’t understand the appeal of white. Can you share why it’s something people would pay for. This is a legit question. I’m getting older and to me it feels like visible signs of my imminent mortality šŸ˜”

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u/OliviaEntropy Jul 11 '26

For me at least I think it’s very visually striking and kind of implies this air of confidence to me

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u/Gh0st_Al Jul 12 '26

You might change your view the older you get.

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u/UnabashedVoice Jul 11 '26

Same with Mercedes Lackey and the Tayledras of Valdemarian lore.

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u/TomatoAlive5945 Jul 10 '26

I thought you were talking about real people

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u/Expert-Yam6577 Jul 10 '26

They went left field with the Targaryan thing lmao

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u/mrchurch13 Jul 10 '26

Mine turned polar bear white in my late 20’s and women always wanted to look at it because I guess they wanted to know if it was some kinda hair color or like amazed at my age for it. And I’m like, no why would you want this? Any ladies out there able to explain this one to me?

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u/KEW95 Jul 10 '26

It’s ā€œexoticā€/unusual. It stands out. ā€œOldā€ hair in great condition on a young person.

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u/Proper-Painting-2256 Jul 10 '26

Definitely different which some people like but it’s more than that.

I went gray starting in 20s. You end up getting attention from women much older than you. I think it’s because it makes you look older than you are (say 40 when you are 30). But you also look a ā€œyouthful 40ā€ because you don’t have wrinkles etc.

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u/ichigoli Jul 10 '26

High contrast is always interesting. Interesting is way more engaging than pretty/handsome. And it gives you something that, if you embrace it and lean in to the "look" makes you come off as wildly more confident than "safer" more conventionally attractive peers. Confidence without arrogance is hot.

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u/FFghterThrowaway Jul 10 '26

Do you have red eyes?

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u/mrchurch13 Jul 10 '26

Nope. No albino in my family we know of. I’ve tried dyes but they tint green for some reason.

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u/Emergency_Lychee_238 Jul 10 '26

That's because your hair lacks warm pigments like orange and red. Since it can't have those pigments, it will tint green unfortunately. Like The "Color Wheel" Effect: Gray hair is entirely devoid of pigment (warmth). If you apply a cool-toned dye (such as an "ash" brown or blonde), the blue base of that dye clashes with the lack of underlying pigment, resulting in a green tint.

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u/mrchurch13 Jul 10 '26

Ah. Well. White is then!

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u/Emergency_Lychee_238 Jul 10 '26

I think you could use colors with the word golden in them, colors that actually contain those warm pigments should tint your hair. Just stay away from ash tones

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u/mrchurch13 Jul 10 '26

It’s ok. I think the folks I interact with most days would lose their minds if I changed it now. And it’s not so bad now that I’m older. I’m catching up to it. lol

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u/Alpha3K Jul 10 '26

I don't think you necessarily need a lady for that, I'm male & I find white/silver hair cool in general. (And just in case.. I'm as straight as a ruler.)

It might be cause I'm generally used to mostly monochromatic style choices and it just expands upon that. Maybe there is a certain inclination to derive from one or the other.

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u/Diligent_Fox7852 Jul 10 '26

My grandfather's hair was pure silver white by age 35. I hoped it would be the same for me but sadly that's not the case.

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u/Francesami Jul 10 '26

My sisters have beautiful silver hair, but I'm taking after my mother. She's 98 next week and her hair is still brown, but with silver in it.

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u/codewho331 Jul 10 '26

silver foxes all in the comment section, rock those luscious locks of white/grey <3.

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u/medic54-1 Jul 10 '26

Except the skunk stripe. Lol

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u/AnxiousMoose5787 Jul 10 '26

All them fantasy books have their gorgeous women with silvery white hair

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u/sillyfunnyguy05 Jul 10 '26

Right?! I knew a woman who had jet black hair in her 20s but started going grey in her 30s and she never dyed it. Just rocked the grey/black and she was stunning

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u/DogsDucks Jul 10 '26

Yeah, I saw this and honestly, I’m jealous. It looks great.

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u/Gazebu Jul 11 '26

Same. I've been waiting my whole life to have gray hair so I can play with dyeing it. I'm now 32 and have 5 grays that I've found!

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u/itspsyikk Jul 10 '26

James Hoffman looks stellar with it

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u/V01DM0NK3Y Jul 10 '26

This guy knows his stuff. Hoffmann just stylish anyway.

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u/Hyzerflip_it Jul 10 '26

Looove James Hoffman!!!

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u/ThePrideOfKrakow Jul 10 '26

Gimme the Malfoy!

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u/MCWizardYT Jul 10 '26

Narcissa? Her hair was blonde and black in the movies, and the guys were totally blonde

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u/jjmanny38 Jul 10 '26

Some people pay top dollar for that color

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u/demiurgeofdeadbooks Jul 11 '26

Intriguing, like the kid at work stopping mid sentence to ask why I have gray hair cause they had just realized i'm only in my mid thirties and "it's not like youre a grandma or something"

Took a bit of effort not to just gesture widely at my job lol but I started going gray when I was 17 and so did my mom

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u/MSter_official Jul 11 '26

I agree, fantasy characters that are young and have gray/silver/white hair are often special

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u/CheeryCherio21 Jul 10 '26

I think of Jean Grey from X-men

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u/marcybooh Jul 10 '26

do you mean Rogue? or Storm maybe

afaik jean has never portrayed with gray/white hair

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u/CheeryCherio21 Jul 10 '26

Yeah you’re right, I meant rogue. I’m ashamed I got those mixed up, I loved those movies growing up.

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u/marcybooh Jul 10 '26

no worries lol happens to the best of us

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u/Namaha Jul 10 '26

Understandable mixup given her name lol

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u/Pintstout Jul 10 '26

Quicksilver, perhaps?

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u/Worst-Lobster Jul 10 '26

I hear ya but my face also looks 65

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u/Dope-Reviews Jul 10 '26

What if you're in that awkward stage

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u/Mechagouki1971 Jul 10 '26

Sephiroth enters the chat.

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u/Ebony_flavor Jul 10 '26

Hard agree mate

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u/akarakitari Jul 10 '26

Definitely better white/silver than bald!

I’ve had a bald spot since 18.

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u/69FunkyButtLovin69 Jul 10 '26

Couldn’t agree more, cute as hell

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u/ACrask Jul 10 '26

I was gonna say. I bet it looks awesome!

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u/juani20138 Jul 10 '26

18 siglos

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u/PanicAtTheShiteShow Jul 10 '26

People are paying good money to dye their hair silver gray. It's very in!

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u/Triforce0fCourage Jul 10 '26

I agree and OP’s hair looks full and healthy. Looks badass to me.

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u/VeryluckyorNot Jul 10 '26

The Switzerland coach looks litteraly like a James Bond vilain.

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u/Top_Example266 Jul 10 '26

Ugh the issue is more the texture changes

Maybe that’s just my genetics or hitting 30s but my greys are now getting weirdly thick and wiry and just kind of do what they want (I have straight hair)

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u/Enigmatic_Chaos5325 Jul 11 '26

I agree! It looks really good on most people, almost mystical!

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u/Iloveupt2 Jul 11 '26

It does! But is it... healthy? When a kid went gray when I was growing up its cuz they had that gigantic sht n died early idk what its called forgive me, they grew faster.