Color Gray/White Hair?

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MsMediator

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What are your thoughts on youngish and middle-aged men and women coloring their gray/white hair in order to look younger?

I think a woman can still look youthful with graying hair for prospective marriage/dating purposes, assuming she takes care of herself. I actually think a woman can look sophisticated, as well as confident, with graying hair. I am open to guys with graying hair as well. I would not go for guys who have white hair since only much older guys have white hair, and I am not that age. However if a guy around my age has pure white hair I would not be opposed to it.

Curious to hear all opinions...from spouses, those in the dating pool, etc.
 

Magenta

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What are your thoughts on youngish and middle-aged men and women coloring their gray/white hair in order to look younger?

I think a woman can still look youthful with graying hair for prospective marriage/dating purposes, assuming she takes care of herself. I actually think a woman can look sophisticated, as well as confident, with graying hair. I am open to guys with graying hair as well. I would not go for guys who have white hair since only much older guys have white hair, and I am not that age. However if a guy around my age has pure white hair I would not be opposed to it.

Curious to hear all opinions...from spouses, those in the dating pool, etc.
My mother was completely white-haired in her twenties. She did not dye it.
By the time she had her last child in her early to mid-forties, when she was out
and about with my youngest sister, people thought she was her grandmother!

I think white hair looks stunning .:). Though hair dying has become so much more widespread.
 

Lanolin

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what about people with no hair

I dont know what hair has to do with marriage or dating, but for women its boob size probably and men bank account size lol
 

Lanolin

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Young people do NOT want to get married these days. If an old man is lookingfor a younger woman its more likely as some kind of playmate or someone he can control. Or his daughter.

Sorry I just think hair dye is so common these days that its not about looking younger its more about being colourful...people can dye their hair any colour and its just a fun thing to do. Its just easier if your hair is white or bleached or blonde, dark hair is harder to dye.
 

Lynx

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What are your thoughts on youngish and middle-aged men and women coloring their gray/white hair in order to look younger?

I think a woman can still look youthful with graying hair for prospective marriage/dating purposes, assuming she takes care of herself. I actually think a woman can look sophisticated, as well as confident, with graying hair. I am open to guys with graying hair as well. I would not go for guys who have white hair since only much older guys have white hair, and I am not that age. However if a guy around my age has pure white hair I would not be opposed to it.

Curious to hear all opinions...from spouses, those in the dating pool, etc.
If a girl rejects me because my hair is gray... Great! I dodged a bullet. No way do I want somebody that shallow.
 

notmyown

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What are your thoughts on youngish and middle-aged men and women coloring their gray/white hair in order to look younger?
wait, to look younger?? i hadn't heard of this, thanks for bringing it up!
 

notmyown

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My mother was completely white-haired in her twenties. She did not dye it.
By the time she had her last child in her early to mid-forties, when she was out
and about with my youngest sister, people thought she was her grandmother!

I think white hair looks stunning .:). Though hair dying has become so much more widespread.
my grandmother had totally white hair before she turned 30, too. i always thought it was the result of parenting my dad. :D
 

Cameron143

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my grandmother had totally white hair before she turned 30, too. i always thought it was the result of parenting my dad. :D
I figure your dad was still behaving within acceptable parameters if it only changed colors and was not also falling out.
 

notmyown

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I figure your dad was still behaving within acceptable parameters if it only changed colors and was not also falling out.
according to his older sister, he was a typical boy, and we all know what that means. ;)
 

Mem

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according to his older sister, he was a typical boy, and we all know what that means. ;)
That his mother's wooden spoon failed to stir the dust collection on his backside?
 

Cameron143

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That his mother's wooden spoon failed to stir the dust collection on his backside?
Nope. His mom used switches. But mostly it means he ate dirt, could make a pretend gun out of any stick, swallowed at least 10 things a pig wouldn't eat, and learned to practice medicine by applying dirt to open wounds.
 

Mem

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Nope. His mom used switches. But mostly it means he ate dirt, could make a pretend gun out of any stick, swallowed at least 10 things a pig wouldn't eat, and learned to practice medicine by applying dirt to open wounds.
The switches make all the difference in the typical boy growing into a typical man who is set in foolishness, and I say so even if the switches where only administered by a tongue lashing.
 

Cameron143

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The switches make all the difference in the typical boy growing into a typical man who is set in foolishness, and I say so even if the switches where only administered by a tongue lashing.
Agree. But there is nothing wrong with the board of education being applied to the seat of knowledge.
 

Magenta

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Agree. But there is nothing wrong with the board of education being applied to the seat of knowledge.
That has got to be one of the cleverest things I have seen you say and given
your propensity and ability to say clever things, that is really saying a lot LOL

:D
 

Magenta

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wait, to look younger?? i hadn't heard of this, thanks for bringing it up!
It is not just middle-aged men and women dying their hair white. Many young people
do, too, and for those with a lot of pigmentation in their hair, it takes a lot of work!


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Cameron143

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That has got to be one of the cleverest things I have seen you say and given
your propensity and ability to say clever things, that is really saying a lot LOL

:D
I wish I could take credit for it, but I heard it in a sermon by the late Adrian Rogers.