A white hair where?
Every morning it’s the same ritual. I wake up, feed the dogs (I typed that three times and kept getting ‘gods’ – they really do run the place), start a load of laundry, wake the men folk, shower, then put in my contact lens so I can get ready for work.
Since I am as myopic as Mr. Magoo, I have to lean into the mirror really close to see as I put in my contacts. The other morning as I was still close enough to the glass to leave a small fog ring, I noticed something I hadn’t seen before… a white hair… in my eyebrow! That’s just wrong! On so many levels!
Women in my family might start graying young, but eyebrows are sacred! There should be no graying facial hair (above the nose) until well into our 60s or 70s, not before we even reach 50!
I found two more stinkin’ white hairs today. At least the affliction is bilateral and won’t leave one eyebrow lopsided when I JERK. THEM. OUT. with my tweezers!
It’s the beginning of the end…yuck. I’m beginning to understand why old ladies really do need to draw their eyebrows on. I can hardly wait….
[Tara R.] Half-Past… if I pluck them bald, I promise I won’t draw them back on so that I look perpetually surprised.
Having recently found my first gray hair (whose length suggested it sprouted abt when Sun was born) I can SO feel your pain!
So sorry!!
[Tara R.] Nola… those long ones scare me, cuz you know they have been there a long time, and NO ONE thought to tell you about it.
I totally thought you were going somewhere else with that “where”
I started getting strays (on my head!) just before my 30th bday. Luckily, they’re still strays. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to!
[Tara R.] April… anytime… I try to spread the love wherever I go.
I have a mass of gray hairs UNDER my dark hair on the sides. THANK goodness no one sees it. Or, maybe I’m in denial.
Quite honestly, I wouldn’t worry until your nose hairs start to gray . . . then you have two problems . . . your nose hairs are long enough for people to SEE that they are GRAY. Yikes . . .
[Tara R.] LaskiGal… I like that you are seeing the bright side of this. Nose hairs… still laughing.
awh sweetie,
you rock
you made me giggle. hope today is awesome. fingers still crossed for you. beany
[Tara R.] Beany… thanks, hon. I’ll let you know what happens.
laughing my guts out over laski’s nose hair comment!!!! LMBO!
:p
[Tara R.] Beany… I know women who do that, and usually pencil in their brows with an orange liner. Scary stuff.
There are definitely worse places to be finding — and plucking — gray hairs from. Here’s hoping you’ve plucked the last of the little devils for years and years to come.
[Tara R.] Patois… I was afraid to look anywhere else. Yeah, plucking in general was not my first choice of hair removal.
Oh darn. Hubby is already starting to gray…he’s 24. He says it’s my fault.
[Tara R.] Ashley… that’s what I tell my hubs too. His gray looks good, mine looks like a salon treatment gone bad.
it happens to the best of us. i found my first grey hairs at 14…once i started dying it, they didn’t come back. maybe try that?
[Tara R.] Zoeyj… been there, done that. They are sneaky little buggers and keep popping out in the most inopportune places. Perhaps a nice shade of purple would work?
We feel for you, Girl. Even if some of us aren’t there yet. (hehe) xoxo
[Tara R.] Karen… that hurt.
I figure I’ll just let the hair go natural (white all over). Hubs is a little younger than I am, and it will look like I have my own much younger boy toy…
The grays on my head seem to be really short, stick straight up, and hide until I’ve left the house and are in a situation where I can’t pluck them, like driving down the highway.
[Tara R.] Heather… I know what you mean. For some reason I can’t see them while I’m standing in front of my bathroom mirror, but they are obvious in the rearview in the car.
You are like two years behind me.. I noticed the gray eyebrows literally like two years ago. I almost passed the heck out when I saw them.. Just another sign that I am no spring chick anymore..LOL
[Tara R.] Kim… I feel your pain sista friend! Why do men look so good when they go gray, and we just look old?
I found one down below, in the netherlands…..and a few days ago I plucked out a long black hair FROM MY NECK.
I don’t know if it’s worse that I had it, or worse that I didn’t see it.
Went to a banquet, all dressed, made up, hair done…..should have curled THAT hair.
[Tara R.] Christy… yep, I can handle the gray hairs, the white hairs, but it’s the hairs that start showing up where they don’t belong that are the worst.
I’ve found more gray over the past year than I have in the previous years combined, but gray eyebrows??? I didn’t know THAT was going to happen. Bummer!!!
Enjoy your weekend!
[Tara R.] Angela… really, what’s with that? No one clued me in either. You have a great weekend too.
Ooooh, sorry. I started going grey at around 20 so I’m hopeless now. I actually use a q-tip to put hair dye in my eyebrows when I color my grey now.
[Tara R.] CableGirl… Q-tips? Brilliant! I knew you would come thru for me!
Oh man. I am only (almost)24 but I already have grey hairs that I’ve found here & there. Damn, getting old SUCKS.
[Tara R.] Heather… amen sista friend! It certainly does!
I can honestly say, that at 30 and 1/2 years old, I have not one whit of a grey hair….
Just sharing. I’m sweet like that.
[Tara R.] Xbox… damn you man! Just playin’. Your are sweet, and when you’re my age you still won’t have any grey hair, because you won’t have ANY. hahahahaha!
My beautiful head of hair started prematurely thinning when I turned 17. By the time I turned 30 the back of my head had a skin patch the size of my palm, and now, a few months before I turn 40, I can almost count the little stragglers on the top of my head. My sides are still nice and full, but that is no consolation. I have to wear a hat at the lake to keep from getting “scalp burn”. I have more hair on my chest and back than I do on my head. I’ve started shaving my earlobes and nostrils. My facial hair has started to show little white sprouts, as have my temples. And the people who cut my hair have started combing and trimming my eyebrows, and using the clippers halfway down my back.
I thought I’d chime in and have you and your commenters feel a little better about your “troubles”. The moral is, no matter how bad you think you have it, there’s someone else out there who’s got it worse. Having said that, I pity the poor sap who one-ups me. That’s gotta be one homely dude!
Cheerio!
[Tara R.] Mike… so sorry… so laughing really hard. My dad and brother started losing their hair in their teens too. My son, the one with the great head of blond hair, is understandably worried since he was told in science class that the baldness trait is passed through the mother. The poor kid has no chance.
I had beautiful red hair until weeks after my 2nd child was born. Then it all turned gray. Okay, so I’m being dramatic. I never noticed the grays moving in slowly because my hair would lighten to a strawberry blonde during the summers.
Now I’m having to consider coloring my hair just so people stop asking me where my daughter got her red hair from. Or maybe I’ll leave it alone and just answer “The postman” when people ask.
Welcome to the gray club.
[Tara R.] Nicole… I think I would go with the ‘postman’ quip… see what sort of reaction you get.
Do we have a secret handshake in this club?
I get my hair colored every four weeks and my eyebrows every 8 weeks…it’s just as much of my routine as brushing my teeth. At my age….the upper lip waxing is only about once a year…thank God!!
[Tara R.] Danielle… I wish the waxing torture was ONLY once a year.
That’s just so totally unfair! We women just don’t have an easy life!
[Tara R.] Stacey… you said it! No, fair!
If it makes you feel any better, I have this white and wiry hair that grows out of the left side of my chin that (at longest) has reached almost an inch and a half. Ok, there are actually two of them. I do my darndest to pluck but they grown back overnight. I’m 34. I have to wash the gray out of my hair regularly. My mom has zero gray. What is the deal with that? So, I guess what I’m saying is…I feel ya.
[Tara R.] SWC… {{group hugs}}… I think that I’m done re-coloring my hair. It’s just too much work, and I haven’t known what my true hair color is for years
As much as I hated Chemistry in school (so much that I’d rather pay a pool guy than learn how to do the chemicals myself!) I am 100% gung-ho for hair color!
To each his own, but I personally have no intentions of ever going gray. Hell, I haven’t even seen my real color since I was a senior in college!! (TTU Class of 94, baby!!)
hehehehehee!
[Tara R.] Ms. H… it’s getting to where now, it’s takes more and more frequent trips to the salon to keep up with the gray. I’m ready to throw in the smock and go natural.
biletral I like that.
[Tara R.] Arefe… I would hate to be lopsided and have to pull all the hair out of just one eyebrow.
What I want to know is what facial hair below the nose are you speaking of that is allowed to get gray? Glad your eyebrows will at least be even!
TTYS – Sniz
[Tara R.] Sniz… ideally, none! But, if I have to have nasty-ass hairs sticking out of my chin or lip, I’d rather those be gray, blonde, white, anything other than jet black.
You know…all this time, I’ve had no idea who Mr. Magoo was. I knew the name, but not the man. Now I do!
So off topic, I know.
[Tara R.] Maria… come to my place, prepare to be educated.
When you see one come out of your chin, I’ll bet you won’t think the eyebrow was so bad.
[Tara R.] Momo… chinny, chinny hairs are just plain scary!
Oh, yeah… been there, done that. For a few years.
And I have to agree wholeheartedly with Momo Fali….
Maureen
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[Tara R.] Maureen… it’s the slow torture of it all. Having to do recon to find the off color hair and either pull it out one at a time, or spend a boo-coo of money to cover it up. If all the hair would just turn and get it over with, I would be fine.
Haha, the comments and replies here are almost as good as the post itself!
Loved your burn to xbox!!
[Tara R.] Jen… xbox had it coming! I tell hubs the same thing when he gets all smug with me about his hair. But he has more gray than I do now… karma is a bitch.
Oh man, I would die. You know how I feel about eyebrows…they really are sacred. My advise, just tell peeps that you’re totally trying the new fad…eyebrow highlights
[Tara R.] Nikki… ooohh, girl, I like the way you think. Highlights, yeah, I like that!
Hmmm… yes. I’ve been there. Then I decided to call them “blonde”. I mean, come on — they’re so small who can tell whether they’re blonde or gray?
[Tara R.] Deb…. I also have to think that some women pay scads of money for ‘blonde’ highlights, and I got them for free. Gotta love that.