[RD] Silver hair

[Kyriakos]

Note (I didn't originally think it was needed, but apparently it is) that this thread is not meant for shaming people with gray/white hair, nor about implicating them negatively in any way- including habits.

What do you think of silver-colored hair?
For the past year, mine have been getting there, and pretty rapidly
I actually like it. Also makes them look fuller, due to the color being closer to my skin color than coal black.
40s, what can you do ^^

 

[Narz]

I strongly dislike it but don't want to put chemicals in my hair and also it would be a chore to color it.

 

[sophie]

as with all things style and fashion, it entirely depends on the person, the style, and most of all the attitude with which it is worn

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I found it annoying at first. But then I figured, fine, I've never been someone to muck around with hair chemicals. I don't even use makeup. I guess it was going to happen sooner or later, and I do still get mistaken for someone younger than my actual years.

What's really odd is finding more of the red-tinted threads from my mother's side. I hadn't expected to find very many.

I'm still more blonde than not-blonde. Hopefully I still take after my dad. He didn't go completely grey until his late 70s/early 80s, and that could possibly have been accelerated by stress as COPD took its toll.

 

[Tee Kay]

In my early 30s and has a bunch but it's not really noticeable unless the lighting is just right (or wrong, as it were). It's certainly an unwelcome reminder of my inevitable decay and mortality, if it becomes more noticeable I might dye it, but if I do then I'd like to try different colours. Why go back to black if I'm going through the hassle of dyeing anyway?

 

[lymond]

Just starting to get a few strands of grey. Me no likey!

 

[warpus]

Is grey hair vs silver hair a difference in terminology depending on where you live? Are they the same thing? I really don't know that much about hair, but I'm considering calling my grey hairs silver, since it makes me feel more like a superhero of some sort, like a silver werewolf, and not just someone going through a midlife crisis.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Being bald is far better in every aspect, not issues with chemicals, combs or any other artifacts of dubious virility. And you can also use your head to blind your enemies:

 

[lymond]

Is grey hair vs silver hair a difference in terminology depending on where you live? Are they the same thing? I really don't know that much about hair, but I'm considering calling my grey hairs silver, since it makes me feel more like a superhero of some sort, like a silver werewolf, and not just someone going through a midlife crisis.

In Murica, I'd say both are used. Typically, grey is probably used more to describe oneself, but one might refer to someone or some folks as silver-haired.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Is grey hair vs silver hair a difference in terminology depending on where you live? Are they the same thing? I really don't know that much about hair, but I'm considering calling my grey hairs silver, since it makes me feel more like a superhero of some sort, like a silver werewolf, and not just someone going through a midlife crisis.

I think it comes from silver foxes.

 

[Gorbles]

Is grey hair vs silver hair a difference in terminology depending on where you live? Are they the same thing? I really don't know that much about hair, but I'm considering calling my grey hairs silver, since it makes me feel more like a superhero of some sort, like a silver werewolf, and not just someone going through a midlife crisis.

Grey tends to be reserved for the darker shades, with silver (before white) being used for the lighter shades of grey. There's an argument to be made that lighter hair catches the sun in different ways, that might have something to do with it.

 

[warpus]

Nice, I'm now officially going to be calling all my grey hairs silver. I had one last week that somehow escaped my attention until it was absurdly long, it was poking out of my chest like a super skinny alien, out of the top of my shirt, potentially dangerous to anyone getting too close to my chest for whatever reason. I cut it off with scissors and held a short ceremony

 

[Kyriakos]

Nice, I'm now officially going to be calling all my grey hairs silver. I had one last week that somehow escaped my attention until it was absurdly long, it was poking out of my chest like a super skinny alien, out of the top of my shirt, potentially dangerous to anyone getting too close to my chest for whatever reason. I cut it off with scissors and held a short ceremony

Personally I use it because "gray" has a negative connotation ^^
But some of my hair are more silver than gray. It's genetics, my father also had gray hair by his mid 40s.

@Thorgalaeg : Javid vs Joe Dalton?

 

[Angst]

[X] i don't care/it depends

the biggest problem with getting old isn't graying out, but the hair getting thin/whispy, and assorted male pattern baldness that makes it difficult to do much style with it.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Grey hair and MPB are the least of your problems as you age. They are just vanity issues. You should be planning for baseline readings of your PSA score for prostate cancer, a colonoscopy and an eye pressure check for creeping glaucoma.

 

[Kyriakos]

[X] i don't care/it depends

the biggest problem with getting old isn't graying out, but the hair getting thin/whispy, and assorted male pattern baldness that makes it difficult to do much style with it.

Do you even Max Ernst? ^^

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Personally I use it because "gray" has a negative connotation ^^
But some of my hair are more silver than gray. It's genetics, my father also had gray hair by his mid 40s.

@Thorgalaeg : Javid vs Joe Dalton?

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[JollyRoger]

Its just an aspect of my silver fox handsome devil zaddyishness

 

[Remorseless1]

When the hair started going grey, I really didn't think much about it.

Then grey hair started appearing in other places... now I look like an old Yeti.

 

[Kyriakos]

When the hair started going grey, I really didn't think much about it.

Then grey hair started appearing in other places... now I look like an old Yeti.

Body hair is supposed to become less with age, so your yeti days may be numbered - at least look forward to that, while keeping all else as positive as possible ^^