OMG. WHITE HAIR. FIRST ONE. TODAY.

lyn*

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I was doing my hair this morning, then realized ... I had a white hair!!! So I yanked it out, right?

Yeah; apparently I'm getting whites around the temples. Damn you, medicine!!! *fist shake*

Any suggestions?

12 years ago

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modgrl

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I started getting them at 15. Smile at the passage of time and enjoy your dark hair while you have it.

12 years ago

MsLuna

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Colour it your natural colour? Let it stay white?

I'm getting the impression that since you're a med student that you're still in your 20's. There's this myth I learned growing up that if you pluck white hair more will come (LOL!) So I suggest colouring

12 years ago

Diana

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Um, I think I remember finding my first white hair when I was like 5. I'm serious. But they have not increased that much in frequency since then. Mine also are kind of zebra-y, meaning they sometimes turn back to black, so there's always the chance that yours will turn back too!

I do still pull out the ones that are in really obvious places, like on top of my head, but I probably shouldn't (i can get a little obsessive about it). I probably should be better about coloring my roots on a more frequent basis as it does prevent me from pulling out my hair.

12 years ago

Meredith1953

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And so it begins.... The first white hairs. I started getting them by the time I was 21.

12 years ago

Vicki

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Embrace it, color it or try one if those mascara-like wands of color they sell. You are young and have the attitude, so don't be concerned.

12 years ago

Transcona Shannon

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I started going grey at 22 - the grey/white hairs are stronger than your coloured strands due to the difference in melanin, so apparently you should NOT pull them out because as you get more white strands, if you keep pulling you end up with lifeless, fine hair (this is according to the receptionist at my stylist's salon).

12 years ago

DonnaF

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DD 18 started getting them when she was 13 or 14. She has a lot more now than I did when I was in my mid-20s. I was not gray enough to consider coloring until I was in my mid-forties, however. My hair grows EXCEPTIONALLY fast, and now that I am in my late fifties, I think I am more salt than pepper since the gray shows up pretty badly less than three weeks after coloring. Since I don't relish a chemical bath every three weeks, I am going to stop coloring this summer. If you just got your first gray hair just now, you probably have a ways to go before anyone else notices gray.

12 years ago

christieanne

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It happens to us all at various times - being a brunette, it is just more obvious - that said, don't start worrying or dying yet. It's a sign of wisdom my grandmother used to say.
Sometimes i obsess on my gray and no one else seems to notice

12 years ago

rae

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OOH! Ebrace it! Like Rogue from X-Men.

Or, attack it with a Sharpie. That's what we did when my friend found a patch of grays starting at work, before a client meeting.

12 years ago

Anonymous

Yep... I had them since I'm 16 or so... My grandma always told me not to pluck them, as many more will come to their funeral lol. I just dye them now, since it is no longer an isolated incident.

12 years ago

Jem

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Don't worry, it won't be your last... lol Don't worry, it will be a long time before you need to dye your hair,

12 years ago

nicoleb

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It's ok Lyn I started getting them too. ;_;

But since i started dying my hair myself every 6 weeks or so it's not really an issue.

Before that i just yanked them. Well i tried. Usually yanked about 6 or 7 perfectly innocent hairs before i successfully grabbing the offensive one.

12 years ago

Anonymous

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.

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!

12 years ago

ManidipaM

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ROTFL over Rae's "attack it with a Sharpie"!!!

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

Welcome to the club, Lyn!

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.

12 years ago

chewyspaghetti

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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.

12 years ago

lyn*

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LOL; I figured I'd be like Storm in XMen; not Rouge, but either will work ... :p

I always thought I would dye it all white before dying it funny colours we'll see.

Thanks, ladies, as always

12 years ago

Carole

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Please don't pull out your hair! If I had started that years ago I would have nothing left by now.

12 years ago

MsLuna

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@Rae OMG!!! YES!!! Rogue has awesome hair!

@lyn* Storm works too!

AAAGH! Good to see fellow nerds here

12 years ago

Joy

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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.

12 years ago

CocoLion

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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!

12 years ago

goldenpig

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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!

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.

12 years ago

Scarlet

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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.

12 years ago

rachylou

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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

12 years ago

Isabel

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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.

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.

12 years ago

ironkurtin

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I saved my first one until it became clear it wasn't a rare, random fluke BUT MY FUTURE.

You can always hilite like AG did!

12 years ago

rute

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congrats! A have a few already!

12 years ago

rae

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Heh, heh, I always said I'd go all white, too. You'd look good with a shockingly white Storm 'do!

12 years ago

Jonesy

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Congrats and welcome to the club! Nobody but you will notice a few here and there, I'm guessing.

12 years ago

Sylvie

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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.

12 years ago

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