Do You Color Your Grey Hair? Do You Like Grey Hair on Men?

[+ FreshFluff]

Hear, Hear. At last the voice of reason and discernment. I was losing hope.

 

Well, I think few of us are attracted to every guy, or even most guys, with grey hair (or big pecs or six pack abs or whatever turns us on). Salt and pepper is awesome, but on the list of things that attract me, it's well below non-physical characteristics.

 

BTW, I haven't earned my greys; they just came in regardless of how stressed I was. So I have no problem coloring them!

[Bargara Leatherboy]

When I really started to go grey, it was pretty even all over, so much so people where thinking I was highlighting.

 

Changed hairdresser who said they grey is aging you it has to go, so blonde still at 53, but when you pay top dollar it look amazing.

 

A younger man who is grey is hot !!!!

[+ Gar1eth]

I've been looking for a mirror like that! http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

 

 

http://cde.publimetro.e3.pe/ima/0/0/0/1/9/19454.jpg

 

 

This picture brought to mind ( in reverse) a short story we read in class when I was in junior high, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Four people in the winter of their life are given chance at water from the Fountain of Youth-- but are they really?

 

"...Yet, by a strange deception, owing to the duskiness of the

chamber, and the antique dresses which they still wore, the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, withered grandsires, ridiculously contending for the skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam."

 

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

What little I have left on my sides and back is salt and pepper. Still more dark I think than salt (barely)at a newly minted 53- my birthday was last week. What the top of my head is mostly is flesh tone. I went bald pretty early and it proceeded very quickly. It was thinning at 24. And the top was just fuzz although the sides were still pretty high by the time I was 28. And my beard is mostly white. If I had more hair on my head, there's a good chance I'd dye both my hair and beard. As it is, there's not really enough to mess with. Sigh!!

 

Gman

[+ FreshFluff]

 

http://cde.publimetro.e3.pe/ima/0/0/0/1/9/19454.jpg

 

Am I the only one who found this picture depressing?

[tyro]

Oh no. I did too. We (well, I) will never really know if the reflected man ever DID exist. I think I'm supposed to assume the older gent is seeing his younger self, but maybe he's really looking at his could-have-been self.

That's the sad part.

T

[Lookin]

It is kind of depressing. The photographer did a series of older folks confronting their younger selves in the mirror. Apparently he was going for 'poignant' or 'bittersweet' and I expect he told the models how he wanted them to appear in their poses. If you look at all the pictures, you can see some range of expressions, but wistful or longing seems fairly common.

 

If I were confronting my younger self in the mirror, I'd think I'd have some wistful moments, but not a lot. I really enjoyed most of my younger days, though there were a few stinkers in there too. I don't think I'd want to go back but I'm glad I was there. Presently, I'm more focused on having an enjoyable day today. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

 

 

http://eyecube.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/mister-six.jpg

[bigvalboy]

I suppose I should have found the series of pictures a little depressing, common sense says that I should have, but strangely enough I found them kind of endearing. I personally didn't see the sadness in the older person, but rather a certain contentment. I would imagine that part of that comes from the fact that I don't find the aging process as depressing as many people do. I am rather content with myself at this stage of my life.

 

Worrying about what might have been or what might be, is an anchor to the human spirit. No regrets...."regrets are a waste of time"

[Lookin]

Worrying about what might have been or what might be, is an anchor to the human spirit. No regrets...."regrets are a waste of time"

 

Can't confirm it but I think it was Diana Vreeland who said, 'The only thing I regret about my past is that there's so much of it.' My kinda gal! http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.png

[+ Gar1eth]

series of older folks confronting their younger selves in the mirror[/url]. Apparently he was going for 'poignant' or 'bittersweet' and I expect he told the models how he wanted them to appear in their poses. If you look at all the pictures, you can see some range of expressions, but wistful or longing seems fairly common.

 

If I were confronting my younger self in the mirror, I'd think I'd have some wistful moments, but not a lot. I really enjoyed most of my younger days, though there were a few stinkers in there too. I don't think I'd want to go back but I'm glad I was there. Presently, I'm more focused on having an enjoyable day today. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

 

 

http://eyecube.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/mister-six.jpg

 

 

This guy on the Six Flags Over America ads freaked me out- much like the Giant Burger King. I hope Six Flags has ditched him.

 

 

Gman

[mmk123]

I am in my mid 40's and have a little gray hair and am leaving it. A woman can color her hair until she is in her 90's and it still looks good because she will take the time and the money to have it done right. As another poster said a man will buy the cheap drugstore stuff and use that, which is why it always looks bad.

[bigvalboy]

Diana Vreeland[/url] who said, 'The only thing I regret about my past is that there's so much of it.' My kinda gal! http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/thumbsup.png

 

Thanks Lookin...I like this quote as well.

[Steven_Draker]

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more: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/104427285083768110/

[tyro]

Aw HELLZ YEAH!

Fresh...I think SD has found you some silver-haired foxes!

We can share. There's man enough there for the two of us.

T

[Phil_musc]

Well maybe, but not of those guys have seen the big four-oh, I'll wager. Give them all a few years and let's see what we think then.

But they are all hot and the grey hair has nothing to do with it either way.