The gray has vanished from my hair.

Babs2u

Babs2u

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I was "dirty blonde" as a child. Gradually my hair darkened to a medium brown with a blond streak. Then some gray began to appear. I would say it was about 25-30% gray. Now the gray has disappeared!
According to my research this is not unusual. It could be caused by medication, supplements or reduction of stress. (Not likely for me). Not sure it will last. Just hope it isn't anything bad.
 

Itā€™s very interesting. I happen to like my silver greys so would be disappointed but this is actually good news. Whatever changes youā€™ve made recently whether food related or stress related etc., your body obviously likes.
Itā€™s news worthy for sure. Congratulations!!
I was dirty blonde as a child but had a lot of red in my hair and still do.

Do you colour your hair?
 

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Babs2u said:
I thought this was quite interesting. Apparently I am the only one.
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Sometimes it takes people a while to notice a new thread, and some threads escape my attention for 2-3 days, so I must not be good at navigating here.

It might be supplements, if you've added some. Decades ago, Linus Pauling and other doctors used to get on talk shows and promote supplements. One of them, not Pauling, but I forget which of the others, even stated the "formula" on which supplements to take to prevent graying.

Over the past 30 years, I've taken just about every supplement there is, but they didn't make my hair graually get darker.

However, when I got tired of looking at gray hair, I made sure it got dark overnight once, and every 3-4 weeks, it suddenly gets dark all over again, and not from supplements. :ROFLMAO:
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Itā€™s very interesting. I happen to like my silver greys so would be disappointed but this is actually good news. Whatever changes youā€™ve made recently whether food related or stress related etc., your body obviously likes.
Itā€™s news worthy for sure. Congratulations!!
I was dirty blonde as a child but had a lot of red in my hair and still do.

Do you colour your hair?
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I like gray and silver but that mouse color between brown and gray can look drab.
 
Years ago a relative who was a high power executive had a nervous breakdown overnight. He went from dark brown to pure white. A few months later he recovered from both.

My MIL had a significant dark streak in her hair after being in an accident. That wasnā€™t even her original colour. It looked good on her.
 
When my hair started turning grey lo these many years ago, it would do that. I'd get greyer and then the new hair coming in would be all black and then I'd get greyer and then..... Well, it was a cycle.

Now, I'm more grey than black, luckily it's a silverish-grey. But I'm still almost totally black at the nape of my neck and on the hairline on the sides. When I get a short haircut, it's really obvious and looks unnatural.
 
Mine used to be several shades of dark gray to white and now it's more light silver. I was losing hair when I began dying it lighter when roots turned white. It slowly got thicker once I stopped using dyes. I liked the multi-colored look better but it is what it is. I noticed my skin tone has changed along with my hair, The reddish/pinkish tone I had when younger has faded. Which that I am glad of as it looked terrible with light hair.
 
My mom had medium brown hair and from the time I was born, always had one 1/4 inch gray streak running from her widow's peak to her neck.

At some point after WWII ended, that streak just disappeared. I asked her what she used to get rid of it, but my dear mother, who was such a purist, stated that she awoke one morning and it was gone. She never used anything alien to her body at all.

So who knows? God works in mysterious ways.

A p.s. here; when she was a chorus girl, of course she did have to use stage make up when she was in a show. But, it disappeared like a whirlwind as soon as she was off stage.
 
My hair is grey in the back but front and sides stay light brown. I find when I shampoo my hair it is darker all over. I do not use hair tint anymore and it was in the 1980's that I stopped coloring it. It doesn't bother me about my hair turning more grey but then I am older and it is expected.

Actually the grey is more of a silver grey and I like it better than the lighter brown.
 
Blonde as a child, brown in adulthood. At age of 50's, it started growing in gray. At work in the OR, we always wore head coverings. One morning, in the locker room preparing for work, I was standing hatless at the sink under the fluorescent lights. A co-worker asked who colored my hair. I replied, "Kids, husband, this job." Everybody within earshot started laughing.

Little by little, it has become more gray, now almost completely. When I go to a hairdresser, I am always asked how it was achieved. Mother Nature. I like it.
 
jujube said:
When my hair started turning grey lo these many years ago, it would do that. I'd get greyer and then the new hair coming in would be all black and then I'd get greyer and then..... Well, it was a cycle.

Now, I'm more grey than black, luckily it's a silverish-grey. But I'm still almost totally black at the nape of my neck and on the hairline on the sides. When I get a short haircut, it's really obvious and looks unnatural.
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It sounds like your new growth is black.
 

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