Temporary grey hair

[GoddesJourney]

I posted a thread (http://https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/archive/index.php/t-25973.html) about this over a decade ago.

I have developed a few permanent grey hairs since then, but I can see that I still do get grey hairs that go back to brunette. I found one yesterday and pulled it out by the root and took a few pictures on different backgrounds as proof. It is completely white on the end and then it goes back to brown.

I first discovered hairs like this when I was around maybe twenty and I had a years long on and off relationship with a bad person (yes, I learned my lesson). You could actually measure the months we were together and apart by my zebra hairs.

Anyway, am I the only one who gets these? They actually only turn this white color for hard times and go back to normal.

https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=40543&d=1583704561

[Nineteenbirds]

Wow, that's interesting. My early grays would always show up during times of stress. I was a manager in retail, and it was usually during a store-wide sale. I always pulled them out, though, so I don't know if they would have changed back. Now I have a permanent gray streak that I kind of like.

I always pluck the gray eyebrow hairs that have been appearing lately. The other day I pulled one that was half dark and half white. I'd never seen that before.

[trolleypup]

I posted a thread (http://https://forums.longhaircommunity.com/archive/index.php/t-25973.html) about this over a decade ago.

Anyway, am I the only one who gets these? They actually only turn this white color for hard times and go back to normal.
I've had some hairs waver between dark and silver and then either turn silver or revert to dark. Never in groups, random individual hairs.

[The Lizard Wife]

I haven't paid enough attention to know if mine directly correlate to stress (although I suspect mine don't), but I've found multiple of my grey hairs turning back to brown or repeatedly switching between brown and white on the same strand. Google suggested to me that this is fairly common in people who go grey early; mine first started in high school.

[Tinyponies]

I noticed a hair in the middle of my hairline that was silver and then reverted, but don’t know if there have been others. I’d never heard of such a thing before that :)

[SleepyTangles]

I had few silvers when I was anemic. After getting my iron back to normal, they disappeared.
Now I have an handful of sparklies, but I think these are "real", age-related gray hairs. My blood tests are ok at least :shrug:

[lapushka]

Some of these "things" can't make up their minds. ;) :lol:

[jane_marie]

I have several hairs like this in my brow. They start growing black then turn to complete white and then black again. They are a bit of a mystery to me. Perhaps they are stress related but I have always suspected that my diet might have more to do with it.

[GoddesJourney]

So a lot of us get them and no one knows why... huh.

[akurah]

So a lot of us get them and no one knows why... huh.

The follicle printer ran out of ink and your scalp was late on replacing the toner. :wink:

[ZoeZ]

The follicle printer ran out of ink and your scalp was late on replacing the toner. :wink:

Haaaa! And probably closer to the truth than we know!

I found one of these once. Interesting mystery.

[GoddesJourney]

Haaaa! And probably closer to the truth than we know!

I found one of these once. Interesting mystery.

I like that explanation.

This study (http://https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-stress-causes-gray-hair) apparently shows that stem cells producing pigment in hair follicles are permanently destroyed by noradrenaline. So either that isn't always true or that isn't the only hormone that causes stress related graying.

[ZoeZ]

I really wish my hair would go all grey - I would love light grey or white hair. Instead I have a really mousy brownish ash color that's neither this or that. I doubt I'll ever reach the lighter shades - my mother had dark salt and pepper in her 70's so it's genetic, I think. (I'm 65).

If anyone finds out the secret to turning off the toner, please let me know tout suite! :p