What can be done about grey hairs ?
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Nick4441
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If you only have random grey hairs then use a level 2 dye..its not so agressive but still will colour all for about 2-3 months.
Better to have grey hair to colour than lose it. usually going grey is a sign you will lose it much slower..was in my case. My brother went bald 10 yrs earlier and he still has no grey in what he has left now. Mine went grey when he started losing his and I still have a good deal of my hair although its receding now which is why i'm on here....
Colouring it does not damage the hair or the roots (my trichologist told me that). It can possibly weaken the hair strand if you do it too often (aka some women who try a different colour every week).
Better to have grey hair to colour than lose it. usually going grey is a sign you will lose it much slower..was in my case. My brother went bald 10 yrs earlier and he still has no grey in what he has left now. Mine went grey when he started losing his and I still have a good deal of my hair although its receding now which is why i'm on here....
Colouring it does not damage the hair or the roots (my trichologist told me that). It can possibly weaken the hair strand if you do it too often (aka some women who try a different colour every week).
sphlanx2006
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Although 29 is too young to have grey hair, i have heard from many women that after 35, grey hair is very attractive for a man...i wish i have hair at 35, and i dont mind the color
sphlanx2006 said:Although 29 is too young to have grey hair, i have heard from many women that after 35, grey hair is very attractive for a man...i wish i have hair at 35, and i dont mind the color
Just to let everyone know, the average age for onset of graying is around age 34 +/- 9 years. So, if you are 25 or older and are genetically predisposed, the incidence of white hairs should not come as a surprise. In addition, just looking around, most balders/thinners start graying later in life because the DHT is attacking the follicles, not allowing pigment change to occur. If you are graying especially on the top of the head and upper temples, I would take that as a good sign.
mvpsoft
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Folligen has much more copper in it than Tricomin does. Some people claim that it has eliminated the gray hairs they have. Pickart, the inventor of both products, claims that copper does increase the uptake of whatever it is in the body that regulates melanin -- I forget the name of it, but you can see what he has to say in the forum at skinbio.com.
Melancor works for some people, but for some it tends to turn their hair reddish.
You can dye your hair, it's cheap and easy enough to do, but if you leave the dye in for too short a period it will not color all the gray hairs, and if you leave it in too long, it will turn your hair darker than the color on the box of dye.
Another option is Youth Hair or Grecian Formula. These are actually lead-based products but are safe as long as you don't ingest them. They work more slowly than dyes but last longer and won't change the color of your non-gray hair like dyes and Melancor can. They have an odor, however. The Youth Hair cream odor doesn't go away; the odor of their liquid product does go away after maybe half an hour.
Melancor works for some people, but for some it tends to turn their hair reddish.
You can dye your hair, it's cheap and easy enough to do, but if you leave the dye in for too short a period it will not color all the gray hairs, and if you leave it in too long, it will turn your hair darker than the color on the box of dye.
Another option is Youth Hair or Grecian Formula. These are actually lead-based products but are safe as long as you don't ingest them. They work more slowly than dyes but last longer and won't change the color of your non-gray hair like dyes and Melancor can. They have an odor, however. The Youth Hair cream odor doesn't go away; the odor of their liquid product does go away after maybe half an hour.
Jacob
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Some of the hair I've regrown with minoxidil is grey, well, white really, including one huge thick mother slap bang centre of my hair line. I swear it's the thickest healthiest hair I've ever seen. More power to it - yeah, I'd much rather be prematurely gray than thinning.
JustinM71
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Got to say that I'm 35, my hair on the sides and back is going white (not the usual grey colour) like crazy, and one of the young ladies at work said she loves it...makes me sexier (I've gotta watch that girl lol).sphlanx2006 said:
My uncle and grandad went completely white in their 30's - 40's so I guess I'm just following suit.
I'm going to end up looking pretty scary since my eyes are a penetrating blue colour already....psycho look here I come.
That is so true. Now that i think of it, I can't think of any old men who are bald AND white. I know many white's with a full head, and many balds with full color, on campus, on the bus, customers, TV, the folligen guy. I don't know of any counter examples.
dark_one said:sphlanx2006 said:Although 29 is too young to have grey hair, i have heard from many women that after 35, grey hair is very attractive for a man...i wish i have hair at 35, and i dont mind the color
Just to let everyone know, the average age for onset of graying is around age 34 +/- 9 years. So, if you are 25 or older and are genetically predisposed, the incidence of white hairs should not come as a surprise. In addition, just looking around, most balders/thinners start graying later in life because the DHT is attacking the follicles, not allowing pigment change to occur. If you are graying especially on the top of the head and upper temples, I would take that as a good sign.
bubka
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man i have gray hair all throughout, well its white, not a lot, but quite a few, cant really tell though unless you look at the hair after it gets cut close together with others... my eyebrows have some longer white ones that i have to trim... maybe a tad premature for 27
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Try 30-40 mg of zinc and and a B-100 Complex daily, plus a multvitamin. It's really done a number on my white hairs, I think. I have a bunch of gunk in my hair right now but I couldn't see any, and I can't remember the last time I lamented the fact I was going so white.
It could be anything I'm taking, but some Indian broad (native) I was chatting with told me to take pregnancy vitamins or something like that because of the extra folic acid, saying it worked for her. I just picked up some B-100 Complex pills instead, and took those and a multi daily, getting about 1.6 mg of folic acid. For you high rollers the Synergy Ultra 3 multi has 2.0 mg of folic acid daily. I've been taking a solid dose of folic acid for some months now (like 4+)....and well I guess the results are great! Until I came back here I had pretty much forgotten about my white hair.
It could be anything I'm taking, but some Indian broad (native) I was chatting with told me to take pregnancy vitamins or something like that because of the extra folic acid, saying it worked for her. I just picked up some B-100 Complex pills instead, and took those and a multi daily, getting about 1.6 mg of folic acid. For you high rollers the Synergy Ultra 3 multi has 2.0 mg of folic acid daily. I've been taking a solid dose of folic acid for some months now (like 4+)....and well I guess the results are great! Until I came back here I had pretty much forgotten about my white hair.