As a mom, I often say I'm going gray due to LO's antics. However, I'm actually starting to find gray hairs, but not in the most obvious of places! For instance, I just found a gray (and really long) arm hair.
Out of curiosity, are you going gray? I added a poll with a separate question regarding your age. Multiple votes enabled.
112 votes
papaya / 10570 posts
I haven't found any grey hairs yet, but I am very fair so perhaps I just cant see them?
persimmon / 1461 posts
yep grey hairs all over my head - very dark brown hair with whites popping out. even more so as my hair grows back post partum!
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I've noticed another one in the front of my head as well as one in my eyebrow, of all places. That makes a grand total of 4 at age 40!
nectarine / 2834 posts
@FannyMae: I'm thinking that my dark hair fell out and only the grays stayed in my postpartum hair loss (only half kidding!). All of a sudden, I have so many grays!
pomelo / 5573 posts
So grey. I have so much grey in my hair and I hate it. My dad was fully grey by 25 so I guess I held out longer but if I go more than about 6 weeks between dyeing my hair it looks terrible.
persimmon / 1114 posts
So, so many! They are predominately at my temple (According to my hair stylist I have none in the back of my head). I hate them because not only are they grey, they are wirey, so they stick up and look like a frizzy mess.
pomegranate / 3392 posts
@bloved: mine too! The grays don't grow as long as the others, so they stick out. I'm going to look like Miss Frizzle... No sleek white hair in my future!
persimmon / 1461 posts
@Tidybee: NONE of the greys that I had previously have fallen out. WTF YOU GUYS?? all the new grey hairs that are coming in are curly. ughhhh!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Yep, I have a handful on the top of my head. I'm 31 and found my first the day before my 28th birthday.
persimmon / 1396 posts
I started going gray around 21. Thank God for hair dye! I can't imagine how bad it would look if it wasn't dyed. I have to redye every 4/5 weeks to keep it at bay.
grapefruit / 4584 posts
yup. I'm 32 and have one small spot on top of my head (maybe 5-10 hairs) that have been gray since my late 20's. Like others, the texture is very wirey. I trim them short so they don't stick out!
nectarine / 2987 posts
I have a few. I swear I got them when LO1 was in the NICU. I'm under 30.
grapefruit / 4045 posts
I have one odd hair just above my elbow. Its kind of thicker than the other hairs and I'm sure its grey. It looks white. Totally different from the other blonde body hair. Ugh. So freaking weird. I hope its just a pregnancy thing and won't return. I plucked it out as soon as I saw it.
eggplant / 11287 posts
I'm in my 20s and have a lot of gray. Not enough that someone walking down the street would notice it, but I pluck out at least 5 a day, usually more. A lot of my new baby hairs that are growing in after PP hair loss are gray.
ETA they're only on my head
pear / 1580 posts
My mom went gray early, so I am too. I'm in my mid-30s and I've got grays mostly on my head, but a few scattered elsewhere! I'm even developing that "Rogue" stripe on the side of my bangs. But yeah, I've got a lot of grays... Debating whether or not to dye!
pear / 1837 posts
Yes. A ton. But I've decided to embrace them and not dye it... My mom even called my hair salt and pepper, but I think that's a stretch.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I'm currentlu 31 and had DD shortly after I turned 30.
I definitely noticed more gray body hair post birth!
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
31 and the gray's are popping up like crazy! My sister is my colorist and she says without dye I'm probably 10-15% gray 
I blame my mom's family, they all gray early!
eggplant / 11824 posts
I've been going gray since my mid-20's. Color every 5 weeks takes care of that! It's totally annoying though, now in my mid-30's I have WAY more gray hair than my 50 year old husband 
like, seriously universe?
coconut / 8861 posts
I'm 36 and no gray hair here. I haven't highlighted my hair since 2011, so I'm dark brown these days.
nectarine / 2765 posts
None yet! I'm in my mid 30's and thankfully don't have any yet...*knock on wood*
pear / 1965 posts
Just on my head. I noticed my first grey hair around 23 yrs old. Not cool at all. I'm 32 now, just have a lot more.
pear / 1930 posts
No gray hairs yet. My mom didn't get her first until she was 60 and her mother not until 80!
kiwi / 706 posts
so grey! and I can't dye it now because I'm in my first trimester and I'm trying to make do with temporary color spray. I found my first grey when I was 9, and got so many when I was pregnant with my first. My dog went grey when my DD was born. Stress!
pomelo / 5791 posts
@bloved: same here!
Mine are predominantly at the top of my head, in my part (you know, where it's most visible). They come in much more coarse than my other hair, and stick straight up.
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
Getting greyer since 12 or so, definitely have grey in my eyebrows too
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