https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:49:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-556328 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:56:05 +0000 taylor 556328@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How and when you grey is totally genetic and you will inherit that just like hair color, eye color, height and every other physical aspect one has that has trickled down through the generations..:) </p> <p>Lyn* since you are still young I wouldn't worry too much...you are adorable and fresh...add some fun colorful streaks if it bothers you:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-556207 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:36:06 +0000 Elly 556207@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A good portion of my hair fell out because of medical issues--- when it grew back, there was a large portion that came in PURE WHITE. A couple of times a year I will be under stress, which in turn makes my medical stuff worse, my hair begins to fall out . . . and when it comes back a good portion of it comes in white. At 22, my white streak is noticeable enough to keep me from getting carded much so long as the place has good lighting. I have dark hair, so in the sun or bright lights the white is very noticeable, but I don't have enough yet that it is as noticeable in dim light or most pictures. I have no grey hair, only pure white. My hair is past my shoulders and the white has been there long enough to be white down the whole length. Oh, and I also have wrinkles . . . so Denise's theory is busted. In my case, I don't think it is genetic based on family members, either. Don't know how I got so lucky. </p> <p>But yeah, the hair pulling can cause follicular trauma and speed it along too! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555906 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:07:07 +0000 lyn* 555906@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Unfortunately, I cannot judge greyness by my parents (as I am adopted); so we'll just have to see, I guess!!!</p> <p>However, I have reason to believe it was an adoption within the family; so I may have the graces of the grey in my father's family - he didn't start to go grey until 60. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555879 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:53:12 +0000 taylor 555879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The carpet goes grey?? hu!! seriously?<br /> Lyn* You may not see grey hair for several more years. I had a few in my 30's and then they stopped. I am 54 and still only have a few. You WILL grey like one of your parents...how are mom and dad doing in that department?<br /> Also, try not to pull your hair...I have several clients who do this I had one client who while at MIT pulled all her eyelashes out! Stress </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555876 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:47:02 +0000 lyn* 555876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah, elisabeth ... I pull when I'm stressed. And I'm stressed a lot. I usually have a huge pile on the desk at the end of the exam!</p> <p>People have started placing me next to the trash can. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555874 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:36:02 +0000 Aziraphale 555874@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fruitful: read about it is more accurate. I'm pretty sure the article I read on the topic was written by the woman who wrote "Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy". She'd be older now, and from how she describes it, it ALL goes gray down there. Eep. </p> <p>I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, eh?</p> <p>lyn: there's a name for that condition, isn't there? Trichotillomania, or something like that? My cousin used to pull out hairs while she wasn't paying attention, and ended up with huge bald patches. It grew back, but still. It's probably a bit like compulsive nail-biting. I can't stand the feeling of teeth on fingernails, either, but lots of people do it all the time and find it somehow satisfying, and chew their nails right down to the quick. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555771 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 03:05:20 +0000 san 555771@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This whole conversation is cracking me up. Fruitful your first remark made me laugh out loud.<br /> A few greys or whites show up long before the whole hair color shows a big change so Lyn I'd say it might be a something new but it doesn't mean you are going grey anytime soon. You are so young and cute and I think a few white hairs would look striking on you. Plus it seems that women with very dark hair get the best silver white hair when the time comes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555763 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:40:17 +0000 Fruitful 555763@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Elisabeth, so you're saying lots of people share this condition? LOL. And that salon in LA - I don't know if that's funny or awesome! So you "heard" about it, right? ^_^ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555761 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:37:04 +0000 lyn* 555761@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I pull hair when I'm frustrated ... I have a huge bald spot actually. I'm growing out my hair to hide it. The hair is growing back, but slowly. I blame medicine.</p> <p>I plan to dye my hair funky colours when I get more whites, but right now, I say they're signs of wisdom </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555746 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:17:57 +0000 Aziraphale 555746@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aaaaiiieee! How can you ladies stand to pull them out? The idea of plucking a hair makes my spine crawl. :-)</p> <p>Lyn: there are worse things than white hair. Personally I'm a fan of graying temples, but if it's not your cuppa, then once the gray gets to be noticeable (which it won't, probably, until you're in your forties), colour it. No biggie. </p> <p>Fruitful: you know the saying, right? If a woman has gray in her curtains, she probably has it in her carpet, too. hee hee</p> <p>Anyway, I heard there's a salon in Los Angeles called "The Paint Box" for dealing with sub-equatorial gray hair. Only they dye the hair purple and hot pink and things like that. Apparently, it's very popular! Maybe it'll catch on across the globe. Secret punk hair colour. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555719 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:41:11 +0000 Fruitful 555719@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Manidipa, my Dad used to get me to pluck his white hairs too! With tweezers! And I got paid 1 cent per hair! ^_^</p> <p>Diana, my mum used to find the occasional "blond" hair on my head when I was little. Maybe they were actually white?</p> <p>Lyn, I started noticing white hairs when I was 23 and working stressful hours. I plucked for years. You have to use tweezers and 2 mirrors. There is no evidence that plucking makes more come. I'm intrigued that nutrition could make the pigment come back though; try it and tell us if it works! At 36 (and with my kids stressing me out) I've finally got too many to pluck. I just started colouring with henna and indigo. Messy and time-consuming but good for those who want to avoid conventional methods.</p> <p>I recently found a white hair elsewhere, and it wasn't my eyebrow. And yes, I am traumatised. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555546 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:35:26 +0000 lyn* 555546@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh; I assure you I know who this one would be named after. He's also the name I use for passwords on the computers at the hospital to remind myself how much I despise his guts. :p </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today/page/2#post-555477 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:25:28 +0000 Janet 555477@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Heh, my best friend started getting them in med school too, and she proceeded to name each one after the people she claimed were responsible for them! </p> <p>I don't think the first white hair on my head traumatized me nearly as much as the first white hair I found elsewhere. Yes, like Scarlet, I have a white eyebrow hair I have to keep plucking out too! </p> <p>Denise, I truly wish your theory were true, but I have no lack of wrinkles or gray hairs at my advanced age of 46. Sigh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-555289 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:58:43 +0000 Sylvie 555289@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>One white hair isn't so bad. I found my first one about 2 years ago and I currently have two deficient follicles. I just pluck them out. I'll probably keep plucking them until I have so many that it becomes a burden. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-555267 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:47:02 +0000 Jonesy 555267@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Congrats and welcome to the club! Nobody but you will notice a few here and there, I'm guessing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-555200 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:48:22 +0000 rae 555200@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Heh, heh, I always said I'd go all white, too. You'd look good with a shockingly white Storm 'do! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-555192 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:44:39 +0000 rute 555192@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>congrats! A have a few already! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-555182 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:15:42 +0000 ironkurtin 555182@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I saved my first one until it became clear it wasn't a rare, random fluke BUT MY FUTURE.</p> <p>You can always hilite like AG did! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-555124 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:20:28 +0000 Isabel 555124@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>DON'T PANIC !!!!! My sister got her first white hair in her early 20s. Then...she waited..and she waited....and she waited. You get the picture. She is in her late 40s with almost no white hair.</p> <p>I say do nothing. If you start to go a bit grayer than you want, you could always just use root touch up around the temples and forsake doing your whole head. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554998 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:55:35 +0000 rachylou 554998@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think I got my first one at 13 and then had another one about 7 years ago? Something like that. I want snow white hair, like the Girl with White Hair ballet - but with my genes, I'll get grey mixed with black. :p </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554990 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:41:23 +0000 Scarlet 554990@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have a white eyebrow hair--it's official because it's regrown twice. I think there might be one turning on the other side too. With your young, fresh face even if you have white hairs it won't age you. I wouldn't dye my hair over a couple. Lots of people get a few in there 20s, or even more than a few. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554972 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:00:07 +0000 goldenpig 554972@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cheer up Lyn! Grey hairs are a sign of wisdom! Patients prefer to see grey hairs--they feel more confident that you are experienced. So it's a sign that you are graduating and finally becoming a real doctor now! Perfect timing! </p> <p>I am starting to get more and more. I used to pluck the stray greys, but now it's getting to the point that I can't keep up. I may have to start coloring at some point but for now I'm not worrying about it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554964 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:43:45 +0000 CocoLion 554964@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm 53 and still have no visible grey hairs. But plenty of wrinkles. If you have grey hair young, it means you won't have too many wrinkles later in life. But if you have no grey hair, you will have more wrinkles. This is my very unscientific theory, but meant to make you feel better! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554946 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:28:26 +0000 Anonymous 554946@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lyn, I don't know if it's true and I posted this here once before, but a professional colorist told me that some of his clients who have started taking larger doesd of vitamin D (tablets, not sun) are finding that their hair is growing in darker and not grey. This is partly true with me. I've got grey areas with dark roots now. Of course it takes time to show itself. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554938 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:23:33 +0000 MsLuna 554938@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@Rae OMG!!! YES!!! Rogue has awesome hair!</p> <p>@lyn* Storm works too!</p> <p>AAAGH! Good to see fellow nerds here </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554886 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:37:53 +0000 Carole 554886@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Please don't pull out your hair! If I had started that years ago I would have nothing left by now. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554879 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:26:19 +0000 lyn* 554879@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOL; I figured I'd be like Storm in XMen; not Rouge, but either will work ... :p</p> <p>I always thought I would dye it all white before dying it funny colours we'll see.</p> <p>Thanks, ladies, as always </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554876 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 03:21:33 +0000 chewyspaghetti 554876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I found my first gray hair a few weeks ago, although I am still telling myself it was just stress. I yanked it out and told it not to come back! My hairdresser laughed at that. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554863 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:54:30 +0000 ManidipaM 554863@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ROTFL over Rae's "attack it with a Sharpie"!!!</p> <p>My mum had me yank out hers and her mum's (my grandma was NOT fond of this, it turned out; she'd just humour me when I was little rather than interfere with mum's parenting!). Me, I'm too chicken to tug at myself. I've lived with mine since I was 14 or so --- and I rather like that most of them make a little streak along one side of my head :-)</p> <p>Welcome to the club, Lyn! </p> <p>I'd check on my vitamins and micronutrients --- but you already know about that and the stress! Can you get hair mascara in your natural colour? It's surely too much to dye for one or two hairs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/omg-white-hair-first-one-today#post-554860 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:31:16 +0000 Anonymous 554860@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You can yank for a while if there are a very few. I wouldn't worry about it. You have a long way to go before you need to start coloring.</p> <p>I heard on the radio the other day that 20-somethings are putting grey streaks in their hair as a fashion statement. Things could be going my way! </p>