Gray hair cure? Scientists find root cause of discoloration

[merithyn]

My mom was so happy when she went "grey enough" that she could just ditch the dye and go white.

Myself, I don't midn the salt-and-pepper look, but I definitely have her hair.

Salt and pepper looks good on a man. On a woman, it just looks like she gave up.

[Admiral Yi]

I dunno.  That prematurely gray NYC Jewish intellectual woman look can be pretty nice.

[derspiess]

No clue who Yi is talking about, but Meri's right.  A few months ago I gave my wife shit for coloring her hair every 3 weeks, but when she told me to imagine her with graying hair I shut the hell up.

[The Larch]

Both my grandpas died with gorgeous manes of white hair. I got my first white hair at around the time other guys in high school started shaving. I guess I'll look dignified as hell in my old age.

[Viking]

Right now I'm thinking of a very cruel practical joke involving Mountain Gorillas.

[Caliga]

I still have a full head of brown hair, but grey is starting to show up in my goatee in the form of individual gray or even white hairs.  At this point I don't want them so I remove them individually. :thatsgay:

I don't get why dudes still fear baldness, though... just shave your head.  It's cool.

[Viking]

I don't get why dudes still fear baldness, though... just shave your head.  It's cool.

Proof of lack of virility.

[merithyn]

I dunno.  That prematurely gray NYC Jewish intellectual woman look can be pretty nice.

It can look good, but only if you happen to gray "just so". I don't. Instead of a beautiful streak of white flowing from my temples or the bangs area, I have this salt-and-pepper motley (more salt than pepper anymore) that rings my face and goes back about an inch or so. So, when you look at me head-on (if I haven't dyed my hair) I just look all gray and washed out.

Later, when I'm almost all gray or when the gray is more white, I think I'll be more comfortable letting it go. Right now, it's in this in-between, ugly kind of phase. And since my pride and joy has always been my hair, it's been particularly hard for me.

[Valmy]

Screw this aging with dignity shit.  Give me the magic hair stuff.

[Brazen]

I may be going grey, but I honestly can't tell for sure.

[merithyn]

I may be going grey, but I honestly can't tell for sure.

And this is why brunettes hate blondes.

[Malthus]

My mother when grey in her 20s.

The last straw for her was when my dad brought her lunch to her lab (they were both students at the time) and someone remarked how thoughtful it was for "her son to bring her lunch".

She's been colouring her hair ever since ... 

[HVC]

I don't get why dudes still fear baldness, though... just shave your head.  It's cool.

Proof of lack of virility.

bald men have higher levels of testosterone, for whatever that's worth.

[Valmy]

bald men have higher levels of testosterone, for whatever that's worth.

That makes no sense...why would having hair, which is associated with youth and a period of high testosterone levels, indicate low testosterone levels?

But something that happens when you get old, a period when you have lower testosterone levels, be associated with high testosterone levels?

I thought it was just a genetic oddity.

[CountDeMoney]

I thought it was just a genetic oddity.

It's a trait carried by your maternal side;  ergo, you use your grandfather on your mother's side as the guide to how your hair's going to go, not your own father.

Luckily, mine was a tough old Kraut that got his hair cut every Saturday like clockwork until he was 84.  Only chemo could kill those Teutonic locks.