[Closed] Going grey on the sides......subtly ways to hide it.....i'm too young for this

Balding at 17, once you try you cant stop, go gracefully

Shave it all off.

Short back and sides, hair dye.. Just accept it's only grey hair and buy some new bike parts to cheer yourself up.

Grey is fine, I started at your age too but still only have the odd bit.

I'm now balding unevenly, that sucks and is bothering me more than i thought it would. Especially as i used to shave it off by choice in the past and now it'll be forced upon me

It doesn't hurt and you won't die of it.

MTFU Princess 🙂

Embrace it.. i'm still not quite grey ay 45, but started about your age.

Draw a c0ck and balls on your face. No one will notice your hair.

Or as I've done, just pretend it's not happening, la la la la la, this isn't happening, nope nope.

Some grey and balding at 28 here. I'm over it.

i started getting noticeable greys from my early 20s. Now 37 I'm decidedly 'salt and pepper' although my wife claims to like it.

Never did anything about it though because a) I am lazy, and b) when do you stop? Keep doing it forever? Do some big 'reveal' when you're 60 and go completely grey in one fell swoop?

It's fine, you just look distinguished.

The ladies love a bit of salt and pepper.
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And Salt N Pepa.
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Whatever you do, don't go and dye your hair. It's always obvious because the colour is too brown or black and never suits the person's age and complexion. Hair dye and wigs are the ultimate vanity, probably worse than personalised car number plates.

I lost my hair from age 21 and now what remains is grey, I don't mind it as I think it's a sign that you've been through life a bit.

Embrace it.
Like above, if you hide it now there's going to be a day when you can't for some reason and then the big reveal!
Or, everyone knows anyway and is laughing at you behind your back.

I'm 30 and the odd grey hair is starting to appear, mostly in the beard and eyebrows. It doesn't bother me, as long as I'm not going bald! 😯

Just accept it. Easy to say from me *flicks luxuriant non grey 55 yr old locks*

Dying will always look daft and unless you do it every week the roots will show

Went grey in mid 20s. Not sure it's genetic though apparently a distant relative went the same.

I just live with it. Distinguished.

Dying hair is just too obvious and fake, but generally would be too much faff for me.

40s now and others are going grey so I fit in more. It's never gone full on silver haired grey. Just streaks of grey. In summer it makes hair look fairer.

The good thing is not much history of going bald in the family. Growing hair isn't a problem.

If you're going bald though, shave it all off and go Picard.

Op should grow some big Trevor Boulder style sidies. Can't get much more distinguished than that.

I started at a similar age, 10 years on it seems to have it's ups & downs on the rate of change. Shorter is better though. I've noticed over the past 18 months it's spreading into the stubble, which was a bit of a shock!

I've got so much hair i'll never go bald thankfully 🙂

Embrace it, it's all you can do - dying it would look hilarious!

Dyeing, not dying.

Started going bald in my mid twenties. Shaved off what was left in my mid thirties. I also used to have a beard, that went at the same time as the hair. I grew it back recently, half of it's grey - so what.

Accept that it's you, worrying about it will do more harm than anything. If other people worry about it then that's their problem.

Whatever you do, don't go and dye your hair. It's always obvious because the colour is too brown or black

Reckon if I dyed my hair, I'd do it blue or something.

It's always obvious because the colour is too brown or black

globalti - Member 
Dyeing, not dying.

I suppose hair is already dead anyway 😀

advice from a 30-something greying baldy:

get a grip princess.

Dyeing, not dying.

Death by autocorrect in my case.

This forum gets more like GQ magazine every week!!!

You'll find going grey doesn't matter a jot if you wear one of these.

Enjoy the freedom.

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It's when you glance South and it's greying on the sides that you know the rot has truly set in.

As a confirmed baldy I'm putting this down as boastful trolling, oh, to have the opportunity to go grey

@genesiscore
Shall we compare which moisturiser regimes we're using after manscaping?

Shall we compare which moisturiser regimes we're using after manscaping?

Boysturiser.

MEh... just go grey. It's fine. Society has different attitudes towards men going grey compared to women so there's no societal reason to cover up. Unless you want to.

Er....What's manscaping???? To nervous to Google it!!!

Top tip: visit hairdresser for 'lo-lights' in a number of different shades which would ensure that the hair isn't a 'flat' colour. This would result in natural-looking locks.

Think yourself lucky you are maturing so early 😀

I used to colour my hair loads, then I started to go grey so I stopped - as said above, it'll look rubbish and sooner or later you'd have to Philip Schofield.

I can never understand why it might bother anybody (male) going grey. It's so far down the list on my concerns of appearance. But saying that, I wasn't an oil painting to start with. Maybe if you have a boyish face, then greying might bother you more.

Wait until you get fat and bald!

I wish baldness upon the grey whingers.

I wish baldness upon the grey whingers

I embrace my salt n pepper beard - it's eliminating the random gingerness. My greatest, my only hair accomplishment.

Why not go the full "Jimmy Carr" and bleach the hell out of your teeth too?

As others have said, let it go naturally, the number of young lads i work with that have £100 jeans and £50 haircuts, yet have a 40 inch waist. Control the things that actually matter.

Ive got the opposite problem action man suedehead full head of almost all dark hair. My son 30 years younger receding a fair bit. I was always slightly jealous of the grizzly beard some guys could grow in two days .Why did all art teachers have good hairy beards when i was at school

Just take a look at Rob Warner's beard in the picture on page 1. Hair dye is really hard and expensive to get right and Rob has not got it right! No one has just one shade in their hair and the area around the temples will need redoing every couple of weeks.
Embrace a it as it will only get worse/more distinguished depending on your point of view.

As others have said, let it go naturally, the number of young lads i work with that have £100 jeans and £50 haircuts, yet have a 40 inch waist. Control the things that actually matter

this ^ and even worse is the 40-50 year olds wearing the same ‘designer denim’ and having a love affair with the tanning salon and hair gel while being a pie eater.

i have a grey beard and whats left on top (very little) is grey/dark but i wouldn’t swap for a full head of hair and dressing like a corpulent visually unaware teen.

42, pretty grey and hair is starting to thin pretty badly. I have big ears and am not going to be an attractive baldy! Meh, what can you do.

Disappointed in Rob Warner of all people being so vain, his Grecian 2000 job is shocking. When he's on red bull TV and got a sweat on I always expect the dye to start running down his forehead

short back and sides, then you don't notice so much.

I'm getting more grey at the sides but the main problem is that those grey hairs aren't great 'quality' and their unruliness is the thing that looks old I think, so just keep them trimmed down.

What they said. If you have a bit of grey but look fit and trim, you'll look good regardless.

grey or bald would probably be an improvement on my unkempt mop to be fair....but as someone above said its so far down my list of priorities to even get a hair cut......

once a year job or weddings and funerals

ALthough maybe soon ill have to extend that to job seeking 😀

Dye it blue? Or green? Or just get over it?

Rachel

I started going grey at 15. By 19 I was full goth so dyeing it was [i]expected[/i] rather than accepted. By 28 I'd got it cut short but still the hair dye. By 30 I CBA any more

Now at 51, 95% grey but still got the coverage. Things could be worse

You could stick some of these bad boys on?

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Scuds nailed it.
I like my greyness just wish I could grow a pair of muttonchops.

become a baker, everyone will just think youve got flour in your hair. seriously though i wouldnt worry, in fact for a while i was thinking of dyeing my hair grey (thought i might look distinguished, but figured it would probably take a lot more than that) got pretty much every hair colour in my beard so im not that bothered about hair colour anymore. guy i work with is going grey at the sides too and he just gets a close shave over it, seems to hide it

Started going bald at 17 and have shaved my head once a week since. Really don't understand men being concerned over hair colour or losing hair. Nobody other than you actually cares or notices. Get a grip sweetheart :wink

I'd give (almost) anything to have a full head of hair and be going grey!

I wonder if the OP has got the message yet???????? 8)

wear the dog on your head.

Started going bald at 17 and have shaved my head once a week since. Really don't understand men being concerned over hair colour or losing hair. Nobody other than you actually cares or notices. Get a grip sweetheart :wink

Ginger or bald everyone notices.

You become 'that ginger' or 'that baldy'

I'm bald, grey and a bit ginger. It's a good job I'm still sexy underneath the middle-age [s]spread[/s] fat.*

* FULL HOUSE!

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