I’m with Signewt - have absolutely ZERO desire to take a sharp instrument to my throat so early in the morning EVERY day. As soon as I learned I could have a beard in the Navy I started one. Took a while before it started looking like anything, but they let it fill in and it did.

My hair is long, blonde with very few curly grays ones. My beard started out salt and pepper 20 years ago, not anymore. Fully gray, I think it's white, but my wife says "not like Santa Clause white". I'll be 64 early in May.

Right now, I'm looking rather scruffy in my opinion, so I think this Spring I will trim it back to 3/4" from about 12" now. Get rid of the ZZ Top look!

One advantage of the hair and beard, everyone recognizes me with a mask on.

I'm 59 no gray hair, beard is mostly white.
Saw streaks in the beard when I was in my late 40's...

I don't normally have a beard, grew one out this year and it came in nice (for me).

I vowed to keep it until covid is over.

Odd, no white scalp hair at all.

My beard was red and brown. The red hairs began to turn white in my early 30s. I'm 63 and am mostly white with a few brown hairs still holding strong.

I've had a beard/goatee since I was maybe 24 or 25, so like the last 15 years-ish. I'd say gray hairs started showing up in the mid-upper 30s, like 36 or 37.

I'm 53, I have had a longish beard for 14 years now. It's mostly white/gray now with some black/brown. Been like that for 8 years. Before it's was brown, black, and red. The red turned white, most of the brown turned gray and the black is mostly brown now, go figure.

I just trim it when it bugs me, or make it look less like a wild man. No coloring, just what it is naturally.



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I probably would not have noticed but my girlfriend pointed out a gray on my head when I was 27. Mustache/beard showed up about the same time. She was a nursing student at Baylor and was 22. Her opinion was that it was a protein deficiency.

It took me only a few seconds to figure out what she was alluding to.

My beard started to get some gray streaks in it in my early 40s, now it is almost completely white except for a few reddish-light brown streaks. The hair on my head started to go gray in my early 60s with more white at the temples now. It all started out pitch black.

I'm 67 and started growing my first beard about 3 months ago. Hair on my head is brown with no gray and from the point about even with the top of my ear it is white/light gray. I get people asking me if I dye my hair and the answer is no

My beard started getting gray like 45yo now at 52yo salt and pepper about 50/50. My beard started showing gray before my hair.

I have light brown hair (not quite blond). I started graying on my chest and em, lower. Than it went to my beard and hair. Beard is mostly white now.

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I started growing a beard in my early thirties. At that time, I already had some gray streaks. My girlfriend at the time told me how much she liked my salt & pepper coloring.

I’m in my mid-forties and have had varying lengths of beard from close to down past my sternum. Now that I have more gray, I tend to like to wear it a little closer and a little neater.

On a side note, I got a lot more female attention when my beard was longer. Some days I miss it.

I have had a beard since '68 or '69. The gray started showing up in my beard and hair in my early 50's, now in my mid 70's the beard is salt and pepper just like the my hair

I shaved my ‘stache at 21 when I joined the USAF. Stayed clean-shaven for the next 20 years; then at 42 when I retired, I grew a goatee first, then eventually let it fill in to a full beard. I want to say it had a little gray in in my mid-to-late 40’s, and now at 56 it’s about half gray, half brown-black. The hair on my head has gotten a little more gray in it the last 15 years or so, but still mostly at the temples. Several years ago I noticed gray chest hair. Then a couple years ago I noticed gray hairs “south of the border” —- that makes you feel old for sure!

I once had a seminar on Middle Eastern cultural awareness, and apparently in that culture, gray hair is viewed as proving someone worthy of respect, to the point that some Middle Eastern military officers would actually dye their hair gray to gain respect from perceived experience and wisdom. Also in that culture, older folks, even total strangers, are treated with respect and admiration simply due to their age.

I don’t mind my gray hair at all (even the gray short, curly ones ); I’m just happy to still have all my hair! My grandfather was bald, my father was mostly bald, and my brother was losing his hair before he passed 12 years ago. I’m still enjoying having my hair, so I wouldn’t care if it all went gray tomorrow!

Mine started about 18-19 years, I have been all gray- white since my ......

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