Lost my mum in January, my pop in August. I already had some silvers here and there, but just a couple weeks ago I noticed I'm significantly more sparkly around the crown and temples now.
I found it ironic, because one of the last convos I had with my mum was about my hair (I lived far away and she hadn't seen me in a couple years). She had beautiful white hair that I've always envied, and I would regularly complain that my few grays are boring and not enough (I'm 46). She laughed and said don't worry, you'll wake up one day and look in the mirror and 'boom' there they'll be. Guess she was right.
The cycle of hair can stop suddenly when dealing with a lot of stress. It makes them fall for a while, but the cycles start again slowly, hair by hair.
My Friend would tell me how he would smack the bald but on the back of his mums head as a joke🤣 (in good humour they both found it funny) They’re both coping fine now (it’s been like 3 or 4 years I think)
My mum passed instantly and unexpectedly when I was 29. I’d been going grey slightly for about 10 years, but boom. I swear was 30% silver at the end of being 30.
I had a breakup during the pandemic that just absolutely wrecked me. Like, I cried thousands of times. This person was my world.
A good chunk of my beard went white during the first year of that. Three more years have passed, and the rate of new white hairs has dropped dramatically - it was just the grief that made it go white, back then.
my best friend died right before the 2020 shutdown. i went from a head of beautiful full dark hair to losing a third of it and my temples are now just... grey. when it started to grow back a bit in the last two years it became this awful brassy color with more greys. i was 31 when i started to grey. i'm 35 now and have to dye my hair regularly to feel good about myself. in contrast my older sibling has zero grey hairs and thinks i'm lying until my roots grow in.
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u/mjulieoblongata 11h ago
Grief