got mine plucked out of the back of my head in february. actually, it wasn't so much grey as pure white, follicle and everything. FUCKING YIKES, and just when i was getting used to my natural colour and kind of liking it (i have a ginger patch at the front i discovered!).

the other day i inspected the top of my head and found five more, all curly and only about two and a half inches long. i am in denial.

*First* grey hair? I'm envious. I've had them for years. That's why I love hair dye.

you are only getting one NOW? You are very lucky! I started getting mine when I was about 20.

I think I got my first around 28 or so. I LOVE them!!! I can't wait for my head to be all salt & pepper! I think grey hair, salt & pepper hair, and white hair, is GORGEOUS!

N.

Hey, I'm younger than you, and I've had them since before I transitioned. It's more of a shiny silver or platinum than a grey, and it's actually kind of pretty; I wouldn't mind if my whole head went to that colour at once, though having a mix looks messy.

um. wait until you see mine, at wiscon.

Congratulations! Mine have finally started coming in too; apparently I'm going to have distinguished grey temples like my mother and stripey salt-and-pepper (or salt-and-nutmeg, given my coloring) eyebrows like my father. I was hoping for a streak, but I'll happily settle for this.

first?
ha!

i already look like the tranny reed richards.

I'll give you my sympathy, although I am secretly laughing uproariously! Mine started in my 20's, and I blame both that and the subsequent loss of hair to meeting my future inlaws!

Ooooo!

*ahem*

(I find grey hair extremely attractive.)

Mine are all pure white. I started getting them in my late 20's but never that many of them. I'm now 34 if that helps. I forget how old you are.

I found my first white hair when I was studying for my PhD comprehensives - so when I was 30 or 31. My white hairs are a completely different texture from my brown ones, and don't lie in the same direction. It's weird.

I don't actually know how much of my hair is white, because I've been doing the expensive-highlights thing for a couple of years. This doesn't cover up the white, but it makes it less noticeable because there's a whole range of colours from white to gold to auburn to brown - at least, that's the hairdresser theory.

I think I've had grey hairs for more years than I went without them. (I know it's time to go to the hairdresser when they start showing up again through the blond.)

They first started showing up in the oddest place - just behind my ears. Now, if I didn't get it coloured every few months, I'd probably be completely silver (or, as my hairdresser calls it, "Scandinavian blond") at the temples.

Congratulations. :-)

Next, they start growing out of odd spots on your body.

I suppose for me they marked a change in my life where I was... well different. It was something new and not something I could control anyway. I look at it like the leaves turning in autumn, which is the most beautiful part of a tree's cycle IMHO.

My dad was all white by the time he was 50. My mum was white/grey by 45. I still have colour at 50.

let's see... mwahhaahhaahhaa

Wow. I've had stray white hairs since I was 21, and have enough of them for other people to notice now at 31.