Are different areas of your hair going gray faster than others?

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May 11, 2008
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I have side patches of grey hair over my ears. Like Reed Richards.
A few hairs in the beard hair(noticeable when i have not shaved for 2 days.)

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MrSquished

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Jan 14, 2013
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Beard hairs have been getting gray for a few years now whilst the hair on me noggin is 99% not gray. Also chest hairs have a lot of gray in them.

42 years young.
 

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Oct 28, 1999
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My beard is really gray along my jaw line. Probably more gray than dark at this point. Lots of gray chest hair. Some gray in the nethers. Hell even graying nose hairs. I've got some light peppering along my temples on my head and some sprinkled in here and there, but nothing like my beard. Will be 40 later this month.
 

BD231

Lifer
Feb 26, 2001
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I have one gray hair on my beard, don't think I'll gray as I age I shoulda started by now if I was.
 
Dec 10, 2005
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Not so much: the gray hairs are popping up sporadically on the top of my head. It seems to be a race between hair turning gray and hair falling out: seems like the latter is winning.
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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Yeah my sides are way grayer than my hair on top of my head. I feel like Paulie from the Sopranos with my wings.
 

JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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My beard hair seems to be going gray at a faster rate than the rest of my hair.
I saw a grey hair and plucked it out.
but last inch or so at the root was black?
it was grey then turned black again?!?
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
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my head looks like J. J. Jameson
so much that i'm gonna start asking for pictures of spiderman.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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Last autumn I found one grey beard hair. Didnt bother me. Now I've got about 30. Bothers me not.

But the other day I found a grey chest hair and for some reason its making me upset. I dont know why.


( 38 )
 

fenrir

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My beard hair seems to be going gray at a faster rate than the rest of my hair.

It is genetics. I have an identical twin brother and we both have beards. We both have gray in our beards in the same spot. We have some gray on in our hair, but the beards went gray far quicker.
 

Platypus

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Apr 26, 2001
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My beard is very heavily white these days (not grey) but it's a result of vitiglio, which apparently I learned can happen to hair instead of skin. My beard is red, but large parts of it are pure white, it looks kinda wild but I like it.
 
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NetWareHead

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Aug 10, 2002
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Im going to look like Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos, no fricking joke. My sides are going gray and its way more pronounced than the rest of my hair. In my beard, the hair under my mouth on my chin is going gray. Actually, with the sides and chin gray, I have this cool 3 striped pattern than makes me look like a cat or some animal with fur colorations