<p>I have looked all over and haven’t been able to find anything like this —</p>
<p>As I age my hair is getting darker – I started life as an almost white blond and like most people my hair darkened as I got older. By my late teens my hair was a golden brown, which is where it stayed for a almost thirty years. I am now in my fifties and have noticed over the last couple years that my hair is darkened again, it almost a mid-brown now, but no gray or white! Not a single strand.</p>
<p>Strange thing, my oldest sister is now 59 and her hair is now almost chocolate brown with no gray and my brother who is 56 has almost black hair. However, my next sister (55) went completely gray in her thirties. We all started life with white-blond hair. I have two other sisters who always had dark hair (58 & 50) and they have now gone salt-and-pepper.</p>
<p>Do some people go dark instead of gray? Is a sign of a mysterious medical malady? Or am I just weird?</p>
<p>Not really. But I have been pretty gray since my thirties. Started dyeing it when someone oohed and aahed over my ‘lovely granddaughter’ (my daughter) in a store.</p>
<p>I started to turn grey when I got preggers…and it got worse from there!! Why are you even questioning it!!! Get on ur knees and thank the Gods!!..I’ve actually wondered when is it time to stop fighting mother nature…and let it go…My hairstylist agrees with me, that its against “my” nature to age early:) lol…so dye away.</p>
<p>I wish I had that problem!! going the opposite of gray? and ur complaining!! yikes:)</p>
<p>That happened to my mum and all of her brothers. They were all blond kids and young adults, and now my mum naturally is now has dark-brown hair (though no gray) and all of her brothers now have jet-black hair (all, again, no gray).</p>
<p>We all have weird hair though in my family. I was born with jet black hair and then it turned bleach blond when I was in elementary school, reddish in middle school, and now light brown.</p>
<p>I consider it an inalienable right to have hair the same color as my kids!</p>
<p>I started life as a white-blonde baby – and so did my babies! It darkens over the years, gets light in the sun. And the hairdresser has the magic wand to make it look blonder, younger, and sun streaked. </p>
<p>My hair has always been brown but has gotten much darker in recent years (late forties).
I started noticing gray hair in my thirties. I have never colored it. Older brother has black hair with lots of gray. Older sis. was always blonde and still is thanks to Miss Clairol. I’m hesistant to start coloring because if I start I feel I would never be able to stop!<br>
DH started life blond and is now salt and pepper.
One S has dark hair like me. Other S started blond but at 19 has now darkened to a med. brown.</p>
<p>It went that way for my Mom, too. She started as a strawberry blond. Got darker and darker until it is really a very dark brown. She finally started turning gray in her mid seventies. In a nice salt and pepper way. Unfortunately for me, I went from strawberry blond to ash blond then a light brown and then the gray starting showing making it a dishwater, ugh. So I dye it. I am not ready to look really old in business yet. Have not given it up for the recession either.</p>
<p>If I had started to go gray in my 50’s I would have let it. But not my 20’s. So now I’m stuck. And I’ve discovered that the older you get, the sooner you have to color again. I really, really wish I didn’t go gray until 50 or more.</p>
<p>I must say that going dark is disconcerting in its own way – I have this image of myself as have kind of dark blond hair and a look in the mirror and it’s like someone else is there- and I am not sure what my “colors” work for me anymore, so I have taken to just wearing whatever color I want, with some rather strange results.</p>
<p>My sister who went gray early always checks all three of us for signs of hair dye – hasn’t found any yet, but she keeps looking.</p>
<p>My aunt has this exact thing. She’s got a gorgeous head of thick, brown hair and she’s in her 60’s. She started off strawberry blond and it darkened over the years.</p>
<p>Is your hair thick too? I need to know exactly how much to hate you :)</p>
<p>You’re lucky, because my friend’s daughter has jet black hair and started graying in middle school. After lots of medical testing they decided it’s just an anomaly.</p>
<p>The related right I tell my daughters about is that they have the right to have the same hair color they had when they were little. D1 was very light blonde and now is dark blonde. D2 has red hair which, as we all know, often darkens over time. I’ve told them that if their hair darkens to a color they don’t like as they age, they know they have the coloring to pull off the lighter shades.</p>
<p>As for having gray hair in business - I’m with you there. I’m in my early 50s and a law firm partner. There aren’t a whole lot of female law firm partners much older than I am. Of the group of us between 50-55, I know exactly one woman who has let herself go gray, and she works from her home.</p>
<p>Helenbeck you better hate me a lot cause my hair is thick and I have a lot of it – but if it makes you feel any better it is frizzy to the max, not curly, just frizzy, so no matter what I do I always look like I just came in out of a wind storm.</p>
<p>Pale blonde child; red-haired teenager; white streak started at age 22; completely white by age 37 (when I stopped dying it); now white with fuchsia highlights at age 53 (I’m sitting here with dye in my hair right now, waiting for it to set as I eat breakfast).</p>
<p>dmd - White with fuschia highlights? I love it! My father’s hair went from brown to pure white at an early age too. It never thinned, and actually made him look very distinguished. He was regularly mistaken for Peter Graves and once even Lee Marvin (in which case he obliged the stewardess by signing an autograph for her). He’s been dead over 30 years now, and just a year or so ago my mother was walking barefoot in her basement (where she used to cut his hair) and one of those white straight hairs got imbedded in her toe. Weird!</p>
<p>Put me on the team that’s jealous of you thick-haired types complaining about color. My color is nice enough (med. blond, turning silver), and has a little bit of a wave to it, but too much ends up in the shower drain, and it’s already fine to begin with. Not noticeable by others, but alarming to me. Am guessing it’s age-related (I’m 47), but hope it slows down. My daughter’s old Barbie’s have thicker ponytails than me. Bah.</p>
<p>0-9 blonde (natural)
10-22 golden brown (natural)
23-25 pink (dont ask!)
26-48 brown to auburn (natural)
49-present much darker brown with more touches of gray every day (natural)</p>