I am almost 26... and I found two little white (or gray) hairs in my beard...

[battleknight24]

I am not growing a beard, I've just been going for a few days without shaving... I'm in grad school right now.

Should I be worried? Is all my hair going to start graying in a few years? Or is it just stress?



Peace,

[MonkeyFunk]

1. I started getting gray hairs

about the same age.

[battleknight24]

3. So I'm doomed???

:cry:

[MonkeyFunk]

4. Pretty much

Life is just one long, slow inexorable march toward the grave.

[Fox Mulder]

2. I'd rather get gray hairs than thinning hair.

:cry:

Edit: My hair started thinning when I was 18 and I'll be 26 in April.

[lizerdbits]

24. Sounds like my dad

When he came back from his freshman year of college his friends asked him where his hair went. The whole top of his head was bald by about 25.

[PleadTheFirst]

5. I got my first gray hair in 8th grade.

Gray was very visible by high school, at least half in college, and I'm almost 100% gray/white now in my 30's.

Don't sweat it. :7

[GirlinContempt]

6. My ex was basically 75% grey by your age.

[IzaSparrow]

7. Be worried...

me at the start of grad school....


me at graduation....(sweet robe, yah, I know. You can hide snacks down those sleeves)




good luck!

[IzaSparrow]

8. haha...

j/k.
I dyed my hair (notice the bad job, photo #1) until about 23.

[buzzard]

13. What are you doing in grad school besides science of some sort.n/t

[IzaSparrow]

28. I looked at cutaneous water loss in hatchling develpment...

for my master's thesis.

Title: Development of skin structure and cutaneous water loss in nestling desert House Sparrows from Saudi Arabia

Abstract: The outer layer of the epidermis, the stratum corneum (SC), contains lipids and corneocytes, which together form layers that limit cutaneous water loss (CWL). We examined the development of structure of the SC and CWL in nestling House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) from Saudi Arabia. We measured CWL of nestlings, and characterized development of their epidermis using electron microscopy. We tested two antagonistic hypotheses, that CWL decreases as nestlings age, a response to increased thickness of SC, and an opposite idea that CWL increases as nestlings age even though the number of layers of the SC remains constant. CWL of nestling House Sparrows varied with developmental stages, in a nonlinear fashion, but not significantly so. CWL of nestlings averaged 7.31 +/- 1.5 g H2O/(m(2) h), whereas for adults it was 4.95 g/(m(2) h); adult CWL was 67.7% that of nestlings. We found that morphology of the SC did not change linearly with age, but seemed to vary with developmental stage. CWL decreased as the SC thickness increased and as the total thickness of the corneocytes increased. Further, we found that CWL decreased as the thickness of the extracellular space increased, number of corneocytes increased, and proportion of the SC that is extracellular space increased.



I can send you the full paper or my thesis, if you're really interested. Cheers!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear battleknight24!

I started pulling white hairs out of my head at age 20...

But I still had mostly dark hair at 40...

Now my hair is all silvery, and quite pretty!

Go with the flow sweetie...


:hi:

[qb]

10. Gray hair is sexy. Go with it.

My beard went gray before my hair, so maybe you've got a while. I think those little gray accents just add to your character. Be proud of it.

[zanne]

21. I think gray hair on a young man is cool.

Especially if it's all gray.

[Godhumor]

11. I'm 31 and none yet

But I have a number of friends in their mid20s who are almost all grey--just roll with it and accept that grey hair is "in" again thanks to people like Anderson Cooper and George Clooney.

[Connonym]

12. be carefuly, they mate while you're asleep and you know how fast hares reproduce....

my grandmother was completely white-haired by 30. My mom is 70 and has just a handful of grays. Biology is weird.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. You need to find out

who's been messing around in YOUR beard! :D

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Started showing up at 24

It was a moment when I realized that I was going to die someday.

It really kicked in when the children were teens.

At 49, it's about 50/50.

[Adsos Letter]

16. one or two gray hairs...?

Get back to me when half your hair is gone and what's left is gray...I'll feel more concern then... :D





:hi:

[LeftCoast]

17. Got my 1st silver hair when I was 17

Now I'm 37 (how in the hell did I get to be 37?! - That's for another thread though!). The hair at my temples/side is about 50/50 now. Starting to see lots of silver sprinkles on top too.

Anyway, it's not the end of the world and if you really hate it you can always dye it. :)

[Jamastiene]

18. My mother was totally gray by the time she was 22.

She had me when she was 21. I went totally gray by the time I was about 24. It runs in my family. We are neurotic though, so I don't know how to answer you about the stress. Hair dye? :shrug:

[radfringe]

19. just feed them some nice lettuce and carrots

[PRETZEL]

20. No big deal,

I too turned grey around that time. My little brother was completely grey by the time he was 20.

Get used to it. It's part of you.

[Blue_Tires]

22. lol...i posted a similar thread here about 4 years ago

when i was 27...I've had the random white hair now and then ever since I was about 10...

I started getting a few more that stayed when i was about 24...I thought it was just the stress of economic pressures while being unemployed (and later, the stress, depression and disillusionment of my job when i first did get employed)...

Now i'm about 5 percent white, with it creeping up a little each month...back when i first asked the lounge, i was hoping to find some kind of reversal, but it doesn't seem to matter as much as it once did...

[LanternWaste]

23. My gray started about your age also-

My gray started about your age also-- only in beard. And at 41, it's still confined to my beard for the most part, although I've got the odd strand or two of gray on my head of hair, but nothing really to speak of.

Just my own experience there...

[DS1]

25. I had them in my beard at that point

I think they went away though.

[BOSSHOG]

26. Chicks Dig It

Just wait till you go bald. Think Sean Connery.

[dembotoz]

27. you are just a puppy-don't worry-it only gets worse

Don't sweat the little stuff.
If it bothers you-shave the problem goes away.

[Bake]

29. You're DOOMED, I tell ya, DOOMED!

Once they start, those little gray buggers are relentless. I got three words for ya:

JUST. FOR. MEN.

:rofl:

Bake

[JBoy]

30. Join the Soul Patrol!

[electron_blue]

31. Erm, I started going gray at 24. In grad school.

Perhaps it goes with the territory? 20 yrs later and I'm just about totally gray. Meanwhile both my parents just went gray in the last 10 years. Not fair, I claim.

[TCJ70]

32. I'm 23 and balding...

...but that's been in the works since I was about 18. It's different for everyone.

[meegbear]

33. Be a Man, GIRL!

Deal with it!

[applegrove]

34. I started going grey in my early 20s. Very early 20s. It slowly but surely

progressed and at 40+ I am almost totally grey. I wouldn't worry about a few grey hairs. Especially in a beard. I had more than a few at your age.

[End Of The Road]

35. Pretty soon your eyesight will start to go bad

and you'll never notice those few gray hairs.

[av8rdave]

36. You're still young...trust me, there will be more!

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Wait til the grey hairs show up in the deep south. That's a real shocker.