10 Myths You Should Never Believe About Gray Hair

7. Your lifestyle doesn’t impact when you’ll go gray

Your lifestyle impacts every aspect of your life. Hair color comes from a chemical process inside of us that involves hydrogen peroxide. Smoking has been directly linked to going permanently gray. So, if you’re worried about going gray, kick the cigarettes ASAP. Diet has also been associated with the graying process. A well-balanced diet can’t fix all of your gray hairs, but it might just stop more from showing up.

8. Stubborn grays only start growing at a certain age

Gray (or silver, or white) hair occurs because of loss of melanin (which is what blends together to create blonde, brown, and red hair). You can lose melanin at any age. That is why some men have salt and pepper hair in their late 20s and early 30s. You might have found your first gray hair well before your 30th birthday. A full head of gray hair just takes time to grow, but you were going gray well before then.

9. Covering gray hairs is high maintenance

You don’t have to shell out big bucks to touch up your grays, nor do you have dye your hair every month. Typically, to keep your hair fresh, you’re going to want to touch it up every 4 to 6 weeks. That might be frequent, but like we said, you can dye your grays at home! Many companies like Clairol, L’Oreal, and Garnier have at-home root touch-up products.

10. Dying your hair too often will make you go gray faster

Another thing your momma told you, right? Well, she might have said this to scare you from dying your hair too many times. There is no proof that excessively dying your hair can lead to going gray faster. “It hasn’t been proven that coloring strands effects graying,” WEN CEO Chaz Dean told Southern Living. “But constant color processing can cause hair to become brittle [and] dry.”

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