In our family, our parents have avoided any major hair issues. Mom's red hair is staying a rather mousy brown instead of going grey, so she's been dyeing it since her mid-30s, and Dad's hair has been very slowly going grey since his mid-40s (he's now 71, and it still is only about 60% white). However, all three of us kids have inherited our grandparents' hair--my sister started dyeing hers in her mid 20s, when she had a professional photo taken in which it looked like she frosted her hair, but it was the white hair that had been growing at her temples since her late teens. My brother had been developing the tonsure-style hair loss look before the alopecia he started to suffer from caused him to just chuck it all and shave the whole head when he was in his mid-30s. He's now 50, and still bald as a cueball, but if he ever grew his hair back, it'd probably be close to just the fringe on the back and sides of his head.

I had my first white hair when I was 16, and it just kept coming after that. It was never concentrated in any one area, like my sister's, but all over, making it look really mousy and dingy and me look much older. I prefer the dyed hair look!

It's the wrinkles that are distressing.

My eyelids are sagging. It's horrifying.

I have a few white hairs coming in. I'd love to go all silver-white, like my maternal grandmother. Then maybe dye it fun anime colors, depending on where I'm working at the time.

Say, has anyone here tried "bling strands"? [link] A friend of mine calls it "fairy hair" and does her and her kids hair with it every now and again. It looks kinda fun.

BOTOX. I shall shoot myself up with BOTOX.

So far, I'm avoiding wrinkles, but I'm sure they'll pop up once I finish losing my weight. I've got the waddle in my neck that I really hope will be mostly gone by the end of next year, but I know that the skin will still be hanging there.

White hair? Check. My hands looking more like my mom's every day? check.

They closed schools here. There have been mudslides down near the Schuylkill. HPF is home, in my office, writing her own version of fanfic. I'm very pleased at this development.

Bizarre cooking question for the hivemind: if I'm making suet dumplings but I don't have any suet, would I be better off substituting beef tallow, goose fat, or shortening?

Tallow is closer (it's just rendered shelf-stable suet), but goose fat sounds yummier anyway.

I have zero white or gray hair. Seriously. It's starting to freak me out slightly. Like, is there a wig in the attic going silver? WTF? My bro is almost entirely gray at 35 and I have NONE. Maybe he got it all.

I started going gray in high school. There is some seriously wonderful hair in the family, but in my generation I think only Sox's sister got it.