Brown hair is okay, so is white and so is grey, what I hate is having less and less of it everyday.

Funny thing is, my two younger brothers both have less hair (more of it's grey, too) than I have. I think it's probably worse, since they live in New York, with all that's been going on there.

Is there any evidence that stress gives you more grey hairs, or is that just a wive's tale?

Pondering, but not too hard,
Z-man

No scientific evidence, but In the period of EXTREME, INTENSE stress I went through a few years ago, it was a daily ritual to see how much grayer I had gotten overnight. Now I just don't tell, and if anyone else does, they're deer without a whistle. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15>

z-man, i'm pretty sure the correlation between stress and grey hair has been properly researched and verified. genetics plays its part too, as it does in everything else, but it's a factor like stress is.

now pass me the clairol, please.

Some guys shave their heads or get buzz cuts, while others spend thousands of dollars to grow their hair back, or buy rugs.
Whatever! My philosophy has always been"If it turns grey, it turns grey, and if it falls out, it falls out". And I'll cut it or not cut it to what is comfortable and/or what I feel like at the time.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Larry:

My philosophy has always been"If it turns grey, it turns grey, and if it falls out, it falls out". And I'll cut it or not cut it to what is comfortable and/or what I feel like at the time.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sounds like the philosophy of a guy with a full head of non-grey hair ... also, most guys don't actually lose hair, it just falls down through the decaying grey matter and out their ears and noses.

So that's where those hairs sticking out their ears and noses come from ... <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/laugh.gif" width=15 height=15>

Funny. I used to have thee same philosophy about grey hair (if it's grey, it's grey, so what? big deal ...) when I had a full head of highly pigmented hair. Then one day I looked in the mirror ... It wasn't even that it was so grey. Suddenly it was -- well -- dingy. Dull. That bothered me a lot more than the grey did, for some reason.

I've been turning my head different colors ever since.

Same here, Muffy. Gray as silver can be beautiful and brighten a face, like Arlo's. Dull is what I got, and suddenly I didn't look like me, anymore. Now, magically, I do again! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15>

Good one, Pamram. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif" width=15 height=15> Never thought about it that way, but I think you're onto something!

I wonder what Arlo shampoos with. Maybe we could ask him. Gray usually needs different shampoos to keep it silvery rather than dull or even yellowish. My mother, at 81, doesn't color hers anymore and hasn't for years, but she does use a shampoo specially for gray/white hair and it keeps it very nice.

I could always picture Arlo endorsing something like the the Volkswagon automobile.
(Even wonder if he ever turned the offer down)<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/confused.gif" width=15 height=22>

*but shampoo? Maybe we should leave that to Warren Beatty??? sp. ck...

We could all do like our grannies did and get out the Mrs. White's bluing--a little makes it shiny, a little too much and you get the little old blue-haired lady look. Hmmm. Think I'll stick with L'Oreal. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif" width=15 height=15>

So that's how the lady who ran the private school I went to in high school got her hair so blue... <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/laugh.gif" width=15 height=15><img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/laugh.gif" width=15 height=15>

LOL Cheryl.

Once I go mostly grey, I can certainly see using those rinses/dyes that enhance the grey. (Easy to say that now, of course, since I'm not there yet.) For now I continue at the "moslty around the temples" stage -- and will admit to having wondered if Arlo uses something special on his hair.

Yeah, L'Oreal is fine too. And I'm so glad they all finally came out with the new shades, since I can now find a color that approximates the one I got used to living with over the course of my life. My first time coloring it though, I went for platinum blonde. I had always wondered how it would look on me. Oddly enough, my IQ immediately dropped 50 points. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15>

I just find that the roots come in at the most inconvenient times, so I'm salt and pepper and getting saltier all the time. However, we'll see if I can keep that up if I need to look for a new job. Might have to color it then..I kind of hope not though.

I started going gray at 16, so it doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else. One thing I am trying to figure out is my 17 year old daughter. She came home the other day with some hair coloring. Went upstairs, came down a little while later asking "what do you think?" She had chosen a red shade. Now the part I can't figure out - she's a redhead to start with. Am I missing something here?