The no-so-early grayFollow

So, this week, Mr. Ambrya and I had an episode in the kitchen that basically went like this:

Him: "Hold still--" *messes with my hair*
Me: "Huh? Why?"
*ploink*
"Ow! The fu[/black]ck--?"
"You had a gray."
"Oh, I did not, quit messing with me!"
"Sure you did, see?"
"Oh, fu[black]ck..."

That's the first "official" gray (by "official" I mean it wasn't a light-colored hair that COULD have been gray, or could have been just really light, which I sometimes have) that wasn't in my eyebrows.

V. annoying. I find myself envying the people who gray early, such as several of my friends, who started graying in their late teens or early 20s. Because when that happens, you can shrug it off as being a genetic thing, but when you DON'T come from a family that grays early, it means that you are, in fact, getting old.

*sigh*

I've got a few grays coming in the temples. Not enough to look distinguished; just enough to look ratty.

The GF has a widow's streak in her hair. I find it all kinds of sexy. Noticed it the first time I met her.

I found my first gray when I was 21 and I freaked out. I've found one every few years since. I'm 29 now.
Hopefully my mop will stick with this pattern till I'm at least 70.

I've always thought that widow's streaks are quite striking. I'm about as completely het as you can get, but the only woman who ever made me think that maybe, just maybe, I could at least take a turn at bat for the home team (most of it due to sheer strength of personality...she was just cool upon cool in absolutely everything she did) had a couple white streaks in a head full of pure black hair, and I just always found it to be very eye-catching.

Of course, I also find it striking in men to have dark hair with a couple streaks of white. I keep telling my husband if he wants to cover his gray, he'll have to go all black with just a couple streaks for me.

Wait til it starts on yer pubes.

It's not always a disaster though.

Like that elegant 'graying at the temples' effect, in a certain light, my pork sword now looks a little like Harrison Ford or George Clooney.

Ha, ha!
*points and laughs*

I'm 19, no worries here.

And when I get older? Yeah, I'm a sandy blonde, so no prob.

Yay ancestry!



now if only they made spf 99999999999999.9

Mr. Tare has grey hair - kind of salt and pepper - and he's only 33. I think it's super sexy.

I lub that man o' mine.

I had a grey hair when I was 15 years old. My barbor found it. I am 26 now and haven't found any others though. Wonder if the stress of school caused it lol?

Huh. I keep Mr. Winky cropped so close that there's really no way to tell.

A friend of mine in elementary school who started out with red hair started going grey in 4th grade, that was messed up. By the end of 6th grade he was most of the way there.

Mr. Ambrya started graying when he was in college. He's half-Asian, with the black hair that comes with his genetics, so the white really stands out in pictures from that time. After college, the grays actually decreased for about a decade, then started coming back. Now, at 42, he's about 30-35% gray, I would say, and they are scattered thoroughly enough throughout that the result is a kind of dark gunmetal-gray overall appearance, unless you're really close.

He keeps thinking he should dye it, but I talk him out of it, because I really can't imagine him being any sexier than he is right now. Same goes for his glasses...he keeps talking about laser surgery, but I don't know if I could handle the loss of the sexy specs.

My hair is so confused by genetics that I'm not sure what it would look like if I routinely didn't dye it espresso-brown. I started greying in my late teens, and I'm sure I have a few in there now, although I can't usually tell. I'm getting blonde and reddish streaks now because of the weather, so it might be time to pummel it with dye again.

DSD, do you make house calls?