My first grey hair [Archive]

kasabian

08-01-2006, 02:10 AM

I'm pretty upset this morning. :frown:

I woke up today, and as I usually do, I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself. Just above my right sideburn, I noticed something glistening. At first I thought it was just the sun coming through the window. It wasn't. Then I thought it could be some paint that had gone on my hair. Until I realised that I haven't been near any paint for about 2 months. I got a pair of tweezers and plucked it out. Yep - it was a grey hair.

I shouldn't really be bothered right? Grey hair is just one of those things that will happen to us all eventually. Yea..true. But did I mention I'm only 24? :frown:

I'm not exagerrating when I say I'm really quite upset. I know I shouldn't be. There's far worse things in life. But I can't help it. My mum tried to reassure me by telling me it's just a one off, but I don't buy it. I'm convinced that in a couple months time, I'm going to be covered in greys. :frown:

TheChefs

08-01-2006, 02:37 AM

You could have been loosing your hair at 24, choose your poison and live with it.

kasabian

08-01-2006, 03:00 AM

You could have been loosing your hair at 24, choose your poison and live with it.

Cheers! Feel much better now.

AACJ

08-01-2006, 03:04 AM

I know some guys that are in their late 20's that are completely bald, I know others that have a full head of gray hair, then most have a nice full head of hair. At 39, I have a few grays myself but it's hardly noticable and I've had them for a number of years already.

All I can say is relax and have a beer. And mostly don't worry, your anxiety might give you more than gray hair.

MJB

08-01-2006, 03:09 AM

I had this grey patch of hair in the back of my head. Its no longer gray as I bald from the inside out. Now some people get this really good thick head of gray hair--Anderson Cooper for instance, and the world loves it. For me no such luck so I sahved it off with a crew cut. Easiest thing out there, No. two clipper cut. Don't have to worry about hair gels or combs. Just wash and go. Anyone, even yourself can do it. So on that note--I would recommend a crew cut.

MJB

SSLStudio

08-01-2006, 03:25 AM

IF it stays at one,, dont sweat it, I have one above the side burns aswell,
I have one at my pubes aswell now that was a SHOCKER ! the day I found out about that but since no one notices that im not too worried about it.(hope this doesnt fall into TMI ? :eek: )

I got full hair, and not going bald , I had some chemical perms in my teenage time lucky only a few. lets just keep it at I was with the Michael Jackson Era.

Right now I take a simple haircut short as possible, Im thinking of growing it long like I once had a pony tail aswell but now Id like the Samurai tail very long and up sky high. too much work..shaving already is an even of the day......

galopede

08-01-2006, 04:19 AM

I shouldn't worry about one grey one! my hair started falling out when i was 18. Pretty good bald patch by the time I hit thirty when what was left started turning grey!

There's now more bald patch than hair so I also go for the "British" haircut as the rest of Europe calls it, the very short or crew cut, the number 1! Far better than a rug!

I've had the same bottle of shampoo for over a year!

So forget it, it makes you look distinguished...

Gareth

Creslin

08-01-2006, 05:09 AM

When I was 19 my mother noticed several grey hairs. Now that I'm 36 I've got more grey hair than brown. I now have more grey than several people twice my age. That doesn't bother me. It's the big white skunk patch in the middle of my chest that bothers me. Go figure.

TomH

08-01-2006, 05:18 AM

Cheers! Feel much better now.

Don't worry, grey hair makes a man very attractive...:wink: :wink:

Thomas

Jim

08-01-2006, 05:42 AM

Better grey then gone! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

TheChefs

08-01-2006, 05:57 AM

Better grey then gone! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

You better start eating your words there! :D

When I was 19 my mother noticed several grey hairs. Now that I'm 36 I've got more grey hair than brown. I now have more grey than several people twice my age. That doesn't bother me. It's the big white skunk patch in the middle of my chest that bothers me. Go figure.

Your grey patch on chest can be easly taken care off, it's called wax :)

NMMB

08-01-2006, 06:38 AM

One of my little tricks that I use when something trivial is getting me down is to think of people who have it much worse - it reminds me not to complain about my insignificant problems. I noticed that my hairline was slowly moving back when I was about 22 (yeah, most of my hair is still there now - but the hairline is moving back slowly)... I was upset for a few minutes until I remembered a good friend from highschool who had lost most of his hair by the time he was 16 or 17... this makes the very mild recession of my hairline so insignificant that it doesn't bother me.

kasabian

08-01-2006, 08:00 AM

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Ok - I think I'm over it now (well maybe not totally) It was just the initial shock of seeing it I think. That's all. :eek: And before everyone here thinks I'm some vain, self-obsessed poser..... that's not really the case. I had spots during my late teens and early 20's. - Nothing too major, but enough to make me feel low and withdrawn. I just don't want another reason to feel like that again. :confused:

Growing old depresses me. :biggrin: Seriously, I mean it. I don't know what the psychological term is, but I do have a fear of getting old. Thinking about it used to affect me quite a lot. I can't see myself reaching 40 or 50. I always thought I'd die before I reach 40. My teenage years came and went like nobody's business, and the same is happening with my 20's. Before I know it, I'm gonna be 30 - and I haven't even done anything yet.

ehhh... I'm getting depressed just typing about it. I'm gonna go an watch some cartoons. :tongue_sm

mrob

08-01-2006, 08:37 AM

Kasabian,

I think we all can sympathize with you over finding your first grey hair--its a bit of a shock to the system, eh?

It also reminds you that you are indeed getting older--which is, by the way, far preferable to the alternative :biggrin: --and that you won't live forever. Again, a blow to your system but not at all a surprise, eh?

On a serious note, if you are a healthy man in your mid-20s, your being depressed over a grey hair should be a rather fleeting sort of feeling. Try not to obsess over things that really don't matter--like grey hairs (yup--more are on the way!)--and take stock of what you do have--hair.

And not having hair is not really a problem either--nothing quite so sad as a guy with a rug. What's the saying? "There's no such thing as a good toupee.":biggrin: Enjoy the greys and welcome to the club!

jnich67

08-01-2006, 11:06 AM

Wait and see what happens to your hair when you get married....:wink:

Jordan

mrob

08-01-2006, 11:10 AM

Hmmm. . .now that I'm married I can see what happened to my hair just fine. Its on my pillow in the morning, in the sink and tub after I shower. . .:tongue:

fuerein

08-01-2006, 11:32 AM

There was a guy I knew in HS, by the of his sophmore year he had practically no hair left on the top of his head, he had grown the back out into a pony tail (kinda the balding biker look), and the hair he had was either naturally a very white blonde or was completely white color grey.

JMT

08-01-2006, 11:33 AM

If you can sing you probably have a pretty good chance at American Idol:rolleyes:

blueguitar322

08-02-2006, 11:55 AM

I'm 23 and have had a few grey hairs for almost 10 years. But thankfully it's only around 10 or so. Still a pain to grab & pull them out when they get long.

geoff

08-02-2006, 12:24 PM

I always say any color as long as it's hair.

You guys that pull it out are nuts!

(My temples are quite grey and have been since my early 20's but who cares; still hair)

Creslin

08-02-2006, 05:20 PM

Your grey patch on chest can be easly taken care off, it's called wax :)

Then I would have a bare patch in the center of my chest :biggrin: . And since I'm one of these really hairy guys it just isn't feasable to do a complete wax, not to mention the pain involved.

Ashe

08-03-2006, 06:29 AM

You could have been loosing your hair at 24, choose your poison and live with it.Sure sure, rub it in!

I'm 28 and I have a spot on the back of my head where my hair is well.. how shall I say it.. "thin". I really don't mind actually since my hair in general is very short (only 3 of 4 mm's).

Even if I would lose part or all of my hair, I don't mind: as long as you take good care of the way you look and present yourself to the outside, nobody will talk "badly" about a bold head.

Getting gray isn't bad either: it's not as if your first steps in the professional life will all of a sudden vanish or that your aging will speed up.

All these things are just the way nature goes and a natural progress of "growing up", don't fight or feel bad about it: every person has something making him feel less secure to the outside world but the majority of them have all one thing in common: it could be alot worse and the outside world tends to not notice it most of the time (contrary to what the person in question thinks: to him everybody sees it because he's fixated on it).

TheChefs

08-03-2006, 06:44 AM

Sure sure, rub it in!

I'm 28 and I have a spot on the back of my head where my hair is well.. how shall I say it.. "thin". I really don't mind actually since my hair in general is very short (only 3 of 4 mm's).

Even if I would lose part or all of my hair, I don't mind: as long as you take good care of the way you look and present yourself to the outside, nobody will talk "badly" about a bold head.

Getting gray isn't bad either: it's not as if your first steps in the professional life will all of a sudden vanish or that your aging will speed up.

All these things are just the way nature goes and a natural progress of "growing up", don't fight or feel bad about it: every person has something making him feel less secure to the outside world but the majority of them have all one thing in common: it could be alot worse and the outside world tends to not notice it most of the time (contrary to what the person in question thinks: to him everybody sees it because he's fixated on it).

I'm not rubbing in, I've similar problem, except my hair line is receeding really bad and I'm the same age as you. I trim my hair as close as possible with clippers. I'm just glad that I go to gym and my body has a bit of baulk, if I was skinny it wouldn't look right.

Ashe

08-03-2006, 06:57 AM

Sounds like we do the exact same things! Going to the gym for quite some time as well.

By the way, forgot to add a smiley in my original post. :001_smile

Nick75

08-04-2006, 05:41 PM

:lol: :lol: :lol:

My teenage years came and went like nobody's business, and the same is happening with my 20's. Before I know it, I'm gonna be 30 - and I haven't even done anything yet.

ehhh... I'm getting depressed just typing about it. I'm gonna go an watch some cartoons. :tongue_sm

Your 30s are the best part of your youth..... Still young (:biggrin: ), but wiser and more confident than someone of 20. At 31 I've never felt better about myself appearance-wise. And the grey hair (as in a single hair!)...don't worry about it...I've had a couple of greyish-looking hairs near the fringe of my hair since I was about 25...and six years on they've never really got any worse...could be maybe just a few one-off hairs that somehow don't have any pigmentation, for reasons that may have nothing to do with going grey through ageing. Also, no-one else can tell I have them apart from me! So don't bother yourself worrying.

Mama Bear

08-04-2006, 06:28 PM

Grey hair is heriditary... you get it from your kids!

I found my first gray hair at 29 getting ready for a trade show in Las Vegas.... it upset me for the entire week... Now I wish I only had one! :w00t: I understand totally how you feel tho honey.. it is a sign of aging... Just make sure that you age well!!

Hugs,

Mama Bear

Scotto

08-05-2006, 02:37 AM

You know if you pull them out, ten more grow back, right? :eek:

SSLStudio

08-05-2006, 04:14 AM

You know if you pull them out, ten more grow back, right? :eek:

Dont know if you were joking or not but that pulling 1 getting 10 back is a fable a folklore nonsense ?

I read it in Age Erasers For men , got it at Amazon.com.
For me I dont age anymore since I started wetshaving well must be a defect or something I dont mind.. Ill keep on shaving.. :tongue: Poor Fusion users will they age 5 times as fast now? :lol:

Mycroft999

08-09-2006, 07:17 PM

Definitely don't get to stressed about grey hair, its a self defeating process.

A man was arrested in our city a few years ago for several counts of something pretty awful. In bond court that afternoon his hair was all black. When I fed him breakfast in his cell the next morning his hair was all white and I had not a bit of sympathy for him.

dustind

09-08-2006, 08:15 AM

mikey

09-08-2006, 11:49 AM

hello kasabian,

be glad your hair isn't starting to thin out at age 24, as mine did (i will probably have a chrome dome by the time i'm 40).

also, don't sweat the small stuff. of all the things in the world to be worrying about, grey hair and/or thinning hair is not one of them that should be high on your list.

on a side note, a month or so ago i grew my goatee out longer than i normally do and much to my horror i found five, yes 5, grey whiskers.

thanks,
mike

I'm pretty upset this morning. :frown:

I woke up today, and as I usually do, I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself. Just above my right sideburn, I noticed something glistening. At first I thought it was just the sun coming through the window. It wasn't. Then I thought it could be some paint that had gone on my hair. Until I realised that I haven't been near any paint for about 2 months. I got a pair of tweezers and plucked it out. Yep - it was a grey hair.

I shouldn't really be bothered right? Grey hair is just one of those things that will happen to us all eventually. Yea..true. But did I mention I'm only 24? :frown:

I'm not exagerrating when I say I'm really quite upset. I know I shouldn't be. There's far worse things in life. But I can't help it. My mum tried to reassure me by telling me it's just a one off, but I don't buy it. I'm convinced that in a couple months time, I'm going to be covered in greys. :frown:

Marcus83

09-08-2006, 09:38 PM

Mine turned gray ar 22, and turned loose shortly thereafter.

When I moved to the small town I live in now, I went to the local barber
one Saturday, and since I was the new guy, everybody was giving me the
once over. The owner was in that day and was quite a talker..

Anyway, when I got in the chair, I decided to have some fun, so when he
asked me if I just needed a light trim, I said in a loud voice, "That Depends"

When he asked, I said it depended on how much he charged for a trim.
By now everybody was leaning up in their chairs when he said "9 Dollars"
I thought they would all die when I looked shocked and asked him

" NINE DOLLARS!!! HOW MUCH OF THAT IS A FINDERS FEE? "

After eveybody finally stopped laughing, I was in like Flynn with the locals..
Great bunch of guys.... I now shave my head, but stop in on occasion.
We still laugh about that 1st time...