Grey

[azurelunatic]

Nephew has his first white hair. I discovered it at the mall when getting my glasses fixed. He's, what, five? He's getting it from my side of the family, probably, since my father had a generous sprinkling of white hairs by the time he'd graduated high school.

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[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

Hee. My mum, my sis, and most of the women on my mom's side of the family got grey hairs before they got out of high school. I my dad is in the mid-to-late-fifties, and is salt-and-peeper, mostly pepper. I have my dad's hair. Woohoo!

[azurelunatic]

My father's hair is now almost completely white. He's in his very late fifties now. His eyebrows are still mostly black... but that's about it.

I have no known biological relationship to my nephew; we're family only by my sisterlike friendship with his mom. The running joke, though, is that I supplied the other half of his genetic material.

[azurelunatic]

I wish I had my father's hair. Then it would be so much easier to make blue...

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

I had a white hair from about the age of 5... but then I didn't get any more until like 20. I have about 3 of them now. :)

[azurelunatic]

I only have a few, and I'm 22. I think my hair pigmentation comes from FatherSir's side of the family, and the pigmentation longevity comes from Mama's.

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[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Both sides of my family have fairly good pigmentation longevity. My mom is starting to get a few than she had, but not a lot, and she's 52. My great-aunt on my dad's side is 90, and she only has a few more than my mom. :) My grandfather on my mom's side did go fully white by 60 or so, but it was nice-looking. I wouldn't mind being all white either, except I think white hair doesn't hold dye all that well because of its change in texture and all that.

[azurelunatic]

No; my Aunt-Fayoumis found this out; you have to damage the hair before it'll hold dye. But, as I've got verrrry dark brown hair, I have to do just about the same to get a yicky shade of green when I'm trying for blue.

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[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Ah... yeah, me too. It's a btich. I envy people with nice, light, mousy brown hair... so much easier to dye over. Rawr.

[azurelunatic]

mmm, blondes.

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[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Heh, I have fake blonde streaks! Not for much longer, tho. I think I'm going to dye over them tonight with semi-permanent red, and then in a few weeks for DragonCon I am stripping my hair and dyeing it all blood red. Wheeeeeee...

Re: grey

[azurelunatic]

Myself, I'd say, without research, "Pfft!" to the suggestion, and call the growth hormones into question if, say, he started growing chest hair around now.

[azurelunatic]

And when you consider that Juliet was considered old enough to be getting married at 13, I'd say that, if anythng, childhood is extending. Adolescence hitting early is widely considered to be an effect of proper nutrition. The only reason it seems like white hairs are coming earlier is that they're supposed to go with maturity... when you consider that I'd have been a hopeless old maid, unmarried at age 22, with no children... heh, looking so young as I do, they'd be suspecting me of witchcraft.