Have you come to accept your wrinkles and graying hair or are you fighting it with botox and hair dye?

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Lagrandesandra@reddit

Definitely fighting. As I have a toddler and I don't want her to be ashamed of her mum when she will be at school.

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Legal-Cry1270@reddit

Accepting it. It’s a badge of honor to have survived this long.

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Wide-Advertising-156@reddit

Unless my eyelids drop another 15%, I'm staying the way I am. I'm lucky that at 69 my hair is almost entirely still brown, even if my goatee is almost entirely gray.

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FrostingAndCakeBread@reddit

I even love plucking the hairs growing from my lady neck!

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3sclavamente@reddit

Was just telling a good friend a benefit of my perimenopause is my "goat hairs" are all mrs clause betty whites so now u cant see em!

As per the OP ? - I ADD wrinkles every day but im using a box of blonde today

But that is so i can add some pink or purple on top 🤘😎

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feebsncheeseoriginal@reddit

My grams used to call them goat hairs. We all got the goat hairs haahaa

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Accomplished_Will226@reddit

My chapstick turned liquid and melted right out of the tube in the car!

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notanothersmith38@reddit

Same here! My mom calls the one that grows on her chin a witch hair…. I have to own the fact that in my 40s, I now also have a witch hair.

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Ok-Reflection-6207@reddit

I absolutely hated it when I found a witch hair sticking out of my chin!!!

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When I was 20, I was "with" a 31 year old woman for a while. She had a few 1-plus inch hairs growing out of her aereola/nipple area, and it kind of "weirded me out" at first-- but I RAPIDLY learned to ADAPT!!

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morbidemadame@reddit

Your grandma is hilarious. Calling them goat hair from now on!

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Wilful_Fox@reddit

Witchy poo hairs here in Western Australia

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ThatGhoulAva@reddit

What do we call that random long white hair that grew, unnoticed, to super long lengths on the face that we stare at in abject horror ?

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feebsncheeseoriginal@reddit

Billy goat hairs apparently 😆😆

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ThatGhoulAva@reddit

:D:D :D

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GorillaMonsoonGirl@reddit

A girlfriend of mine called them “Billy goats gruff” hairs 🤣

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feebsncheeseoriginal@reddit

🙀 omg I love it!

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Expensive-Ad1609@reddit

No whey. I have no goat hairs.

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Sea_One_6500@reddit

I don't love finding them when looking in my car mirror though.

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MungoJennie@reddit

That’s what car tweezers are for!

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Sorry_Im_Trying@reddit

Which are sitting right next to the car chapstick

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ResumeFluffer@reddit

Those and crayons melt where i live.

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Sorry_Im_Trying@reddit

I'm sorry. I'm in MN, it does get hot in the summer (high 80's to high 90's). But things take a while to thaw out from our winters which are 8 months of the year and are below freezing. So the chapstick survives.

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adarkride@reddit

Which is adjacent to the Carbeque with it's delicious meats

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charredsound@reddit

Me, living in northern NY, pronouncing that as Car-beck.

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ResumeFluffer@reddit

My car IS a carbecue in the summer.

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adarkride@reddit

I've been telling you to either get some marinade or fix that AC

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Time_Celebration7051@reddit

That’s what I call them too! I leave tweezers in my car for this exact reason.

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Illustrious_Tap3171@reddit

Yup! Chapstick, eye glass wipes, and tweezers!

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GorillaMonsoonGirl@reddit

My mother told me a looooong time ago that the best light for plucking chin hairs will always be in the car.

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frecklefaerie@reddit

OMG I thought I was the only one.

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RapsodicalDisciple@reddit

I totally keep a tweezer kit in my wallet for this reason 🥲

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Sea_One_6500@reddit

Me too, now 🤣

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morbidemadame@reddit

That's cuz you don't have enough to shave... yet!

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ClownMeat1@reddit

It is tough having to learn quickly how to tame an afro in the ears.

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Nomadzord@reddit

That sentence sounds so gross for some reason. I’m going to check my wife’s lady neck for stray hairs tonight!

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Xx_SwordWords_xX@reddit

Our natural bodies are gross to you?

Who fucking cares.

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Nomadzord@reddit

No not at all, sorry if it sounded that way.

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PantstheOG@reddit

This I don’t love….the chin hairs are disrespectful like sir I just plucked you 5 mins ago why can I already feel a stub!

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EndangeredDemocracy@reddit

Ha. My wife loves plucking my ears. I have several black hairs that will poke out now and she's always checking to see if they've grown back yet.

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Plenty_Emphasis_1315@reddit

I’ve got a gray one!!

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Creepy_Push8629@reddit

Ugh my biggest problem is that i dig out the ones that aren't pluckable yet. So i get the hair but now I have a super red wound 100 times bigger than the bit of hair under the skin.

Help

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KikiWestcliffe@reddit

So satisfying when you pluck an extra long, thick hair.

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Ok_Guide4747@reddit

Ewww 🤢

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fns1981@reddit

I had mixed feelings about finding white chin hairs. They blend in better, but...I mean, wow.....

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jackytheripper1@reddit

Oh hell no, I paid $2000 for lifetime laser hair removal on face and neck. I'm not even going there

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DMmeDuckPics@reddit

I had my first chest hair this week!

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neonblackiscool@reddit

It’s quite satisfying

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jouhaan@reddit

This!

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SaltyAir-StarrySkies@reddit

It has always been my attitude that growing old is a privilege many are denied, so I'll be thankful for every wrinkle or line I get. I do colour my hair, but because it's what I like, not because of greys. I'm actually looking forward to when it's grey enough to stop colouring lol.

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ElleWinter@reddit

I agree! I can't wait to have enough grey hair to that it changes my colour. I think it looks cool. And I have no problem with hair dye. When I get grey hair I'll use toner maybe or purple shampoo.

I am trying ro fight aging as best I can with good nutrition, but I'm not going to inject or ingest chemicals or spend my retirement savings fighting it. I know someone who is only a few years older than me with terminal cancer (I think we probably all know someone who died young of cancer) and I am just happy to be here, enjoying each day I have been given with my husband and dogs and friends, wrinkles and all.

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GucciAviatrix@reddit

“Growing old is a privilege many are denied”

Every grey hair I find and every wrinkle I have from smiling so much are a badge of honor. Too many people I know died before they had a change to complain about their wrinkles or greys.

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Legal-Cry1270@reddit

No shame in hair coloring! Our generation helped normalize it in many places throughout this unicorn of a planet. We look how we look, because we’re all got-damn living legends! If you didn’t know already, you are a legend!

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Purple-Protagonist@reddit

I wasn't expecting to make it to 30, much less 40, and that's in the rear view too.

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ValuableAd3808@reddit

The fucking eyebrows that sprout in your forties is not okay. Like, four inch, white, thick-ass wires.

I’m accepting, but got damn

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Flimsy-Zucchini4462@reddit

Agree with this. Why fight it? I know see so many people with awful dye jobs and roots. I’d rather have more money in my pocket and not have to pay to change my appearance routinely.

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Formal-Cut-4923@reddit

Lolz I started getting gray hair at 18.

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FluffyButtSilkie@reddit

My sentiments exactly! Just turned 47 today!

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analogy_4_anything@reddit

Agreed. Although I did decide to do something about my thinning hair. I don’t mind having that silver fox look yet, but I’m not quite ready to commit to the Mr. Clean bald look.

(Luckily I’m a hyper responder to finestride and minoxidil so my hair looks way better than it did 4 months ago!)

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stephsco@reddit

Did you ease into minoxidil or go with a full daily dose? Do you see new growth? Exploring this myself.

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analogy_4_anything@reddit

I did the 2.5 treatment via Hims. Didn’t have to ramp up into anything and it seems to work very well. I also cut out my bad eating habits and my drinking/pot smoking, so that may have helped as well.

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stephsco@reddit

Thanks!

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skite456@reddit

Hell yeah! I’ve been through cancer twice and all the collateral that comes with it. Shocked I’m not fully grey at this point.

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Legal-Cry1270@reddit

Living Legend! It tracks!

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its-always-a-weka@reddit

Badger of honour!

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Legal-Cry1270@reddit

Badger lol

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Dboogy2197@reddit

This right here. I know at least a few of us never thought we would make it this far. We have seen some SHIT!! My kids barely believe the pre-internet insanity we got up too.

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Zsirhcz1981@reddit

I earned every one of them! Wear them with pride.

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Apprehensive-Pin518@reddit

Especially in these turbulent times.

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returnFutureVoid@reddit

I’ve been going grey since I was 22. Nothing new to me.

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Azulsacrado@reddit

I’m looking forward to the wizard phase of my life! Though the transition period from youthful to Gandalf does require some emotional acceptance. I don’t mind plucking the occasional ear lobe and various other “wtf, why there?!”hairs. I wouldn’t mind if my Dennie-Morgan lines chillaxed a bit so I could maybe not reach that post-Windu Palpatine look before my 60s. Otherwise, bring it on.

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morbidemadame@reddit

I'm starting my swamp witch era and it's glorious. Safe travel, wizard!

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BloodyEyeGames@reddit

Username kinda checks out?

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Azulsacrado@reddit

Well met and fruitful ventures, great lady of the swamp

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fargoLEVY13@reddit

Hell yeah, I enjoy showing my mileage.

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NachoOrdinary@reddit

Yeah it is. Love every wrinkle, roll, and gray.

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Sethatos@reddit

Yah same, the only people that seem to have a problem with it are my parents and their generation. They are always suggesting I try and do things to look younger.

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leaping_lions@reddit

Age changes every face it meets. I’m choosing to age the way I want to change.

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KaneNathaniel@reddit

Seriously? Why the fuck are "people" so damned hung up about aging? It's legit one of those things that is the way of life.

Would I prefer to appear as if I were 27 until the end of my days? Simple answer is: HELL YES! However, I'm a realist and regognize that aging IS part of life & getting older.

So, in short, fuck vanity & those that place their looks, and others above substance.

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NobleMofoKing@reddit

I've always enjoyed aging. I hate when people think I'm in my late 20s or 30s.

I wish I had wrinkles and more gray hair on my head/face.

I'm a masculine cis lesbian with short hair and facial hair.

Most of my gray hair is on my coochie lips. 😄

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ThePolemicist@reddit

OMG I'm learning so much from this thread.

We're all roughly the same age, and I'm floored that people have gray pubes. I had no idea. I mean, I only see mine and my husband's, but neither of us are gray down there. I just assumed, for women, that it stops growing in at some point, but I never thought it would go GRAY. Does that happen to everyone??? I'm going to be 43 this year and am wondering if that's in my future. I'm still mostly my natural hair color, though, too. Now I'm wondering what is normal and what is abnormal.

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kristosnikos@reddit

I have white or silver hair EVERYWHERE. My hair is streaked with silver, I have white hairs in my pubes, underarms, and half of my already thin eyebrows (due to over plucking in my teens and 20’s) are white. I do use an eyebrow mascara so it looks like I have eyebrows.

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ThePolemicist@reddit

Whoa. Armpit hair, too?! Sounds like the next decade will be interesting.

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kristosnikos@reddit

When I say everywhere, I mean everywhere.

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

I started going grey in high school and have had zero grey pubic hairs ever 🤷‍♂️

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CalmTheAngryVoice@reddit

I started getting a couple of greys down there in my mid 30's. In my early 40's now and have about 15 of them.

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anniemdi@reddit

Now I'm wondering what is normal and what is abnormal

I'm right around your age and I have no gray hair and no wrinkles. People were giving me children's menus in my 20s, asking me what grade I was entering while school shopping with my nieces and nephews in my 30s, and I get jaw dropping, "Holy, shits!" when I tell people I am nearing 50. You would think it's great but it kinda sucks.

I got presbyopia in my 20s though and am looking at multi-focal lenses and due to aging with a life-long disability have used a cane or walker for most of my adult life.

So gray hair? Wrinkles? It would only be catching up with my old-ass body.

But no idea if there even is a normal.

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NobleMofoKing@reddit

I'm half-joking but serious: maybe it's due to sexual stress.

My mom also had gray pubes before the hair on her head started to gray. She used to be very promiscuous (cheated on my dad for 20 years) with a high libido. I'm the same way... I cheat on women and have a high libido. So maybe the gray pubes indicate sexual stress. 😄

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Lol... this just made me think of that scene in the movie Waiting, when the bitchy waitress tries to show everyone why women don't play the "flashing game."

"It looks so...angry!"😂

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Sinead_0_rebellion@reddit

Right? I'm finally aging into my DGAF personality.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

This is the best comment I’ve seen on Reddit lol

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alegna12@reddit

Hair is naturally gray. I Botox the wrinkles though.

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Powerful-Bug3769@reddit

I haven’t colored my hair in 3 years and just use moisturizer. No botox or anything. I don’t smoke, rarely drink and stay out of the sun. Not coloring my hair anymore was a controversial decision amongst some of my friends but now that it’s done growing I like my natural hair.

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Loud-Strawberry8572@reddit

I've accepted them, though I do still dye my hair. It's not that I'm trying to cover my grey; it's that there's not enough of it to look cool yet and my natural colour sucks.

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Ok_Cupcake_290@reddit

I haven’t worn my natural hair colour since I was 14 years old. Why would I start now? Also, you can pry my Botox out of my cold dead hands.

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Rude_Parsnip306@reddit

I went with the gray - mine is very dramatic. I'm not that wrinkly yet, so aside from sunscreen and moisturizer, I haven't done anything. Unfortunately, I gained a lot of weight that I'm struggling to lose and that's been very difficult to accept.

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

No botox and no dye even though this week an old friend told me I look like David Crosby. Who died like 3+ years ago 😂😂😂

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Patient-Form2108@reddit

I don’t accept it. I used boxed dye for my hair about every 6 weeks or so. Simple eyeliner and lipstick. Personally, I hate it when people just let themselves go. Like why? Look your best and clean. And exercise. Like make an effort. Aging doesn’t mean you throw the towel in.

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1DietCokedUpChick@reddit

I touch up my roots every couple of months. I’m gonna fight it to the death. I haven’t gone the Botox route yet, but I don’t have many wrinkles.

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Fahlulah@reddit

I've just accepted it. I have gained and lost 70+ lbs and have extra skin around the middle. I have varicose veins now too so I just throw my hands in the air. If I ever find myself shopping for a new SO, they can either accept it or walk away. I'm in my 40s now and I own owning myself. My life has been what it has and I wouldn't go back to make changes and not be who I am today.

I do still dye my hair. That's more of a refreshing thing for myself and I also will do fun color adds.

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Smc_farrell@reddit

Accepting, I earned them all

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frooootloops@reddit

Au Naturale, baby. I earned this shit.

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stellaflora@reddit

No grays yet. But hell yes to a little Botox!

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PearlsandScotch@reddit

I’m accepting those but I think I’ll buy myself a boob lift in coming years.

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National-Somewhere26@reddit

I accept it yet my brother uses hair dye. You can not fight nature

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kermit-t-frogster@reddit

Fighting it, then giving up, then fighting again, etc.

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RevenueOld4357@reddit

Fully accept my gray hair and wrinkles. The only time I have the idea to color my hair is when I’m bored. Then I remember that growing out the color is rough and say nope, staying gray.

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PumpkinSpice2Nice@reddit

I don’t have grey hairs yet but my husband is white and grey since his late 20’s. I don’t have face wrinkles yet but my hands are a bit wrinkly.

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Accomplished_Will226@reddit

I tried being a Silver Sister. It took nearly 4 years to grow out all the hair dye. In the end I hated how it looked and I am now dying it eggplant purple. I rarely use makeup anymore but when I do I’m a Geller girl. Laugh lines are earned from laughing so no Botox for me.

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DachshundNursery@reddit

I'm fascinated by my aging body.

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FestiveArtCollective@reddit

Stretch, every day. Strength trainin at least twice a week. Cardio at least twice a week. Please, everybody! It will improve your quality of life and stop injuries drastically for these later years we are approaching.

I impore all of you.

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morbidemadame@reddit

I'm personally fascinated at how it will easily get hurt. Twisting a shoulder's muscle while brushing my teeth? Easy peasy.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Ugh, don't I know it. I once threw my back out from simply bending down to pick up a guitar cable. I was in some degree of pain for a month!

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

About 3 years ago, I woke up and my lower right side of my back into my hip area was in massive pain - almost felt like something was fractured/broken. It lasted 24/7 for 5 months before it finally went away. I'm not one to take OTC pain meds unless it's absolutely necessary...and for that time, I was eating acetaminophen like M&Ms. Then a year later came my gallstones/gallbladder removal...which is a story on its own LOL

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Oh crap, that sucks! What was the reason for your lower back and hip issue?

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

No clue...never went to have it checked out - just suffered through the pain. Had it went on much longer than it did, I was gearing myself up to give in and see a Dr. about it. Thankfully it didn't come to that point.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Whoa, I'm happy to hear that. Man, aging sucks sometimes.

Fellow guitarist here, btw!

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

Thanks...yeah most definitely.

Sweet! What kind of music/Guitars do you play?

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

I play hard rock with some progressive and cinematic elements thrown in. I'm inspired by film music, so I try to put some of that influence into the rock I make. Guitar-wise, my Music Man JP6 is my main one. It's an incredible instrument! I also play my older Greg Bennett custom. It's comparable to a PRS-SE. I'm also a bassist and play a Yamaha 5 string.

How about you?

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

I grew up on Hall & Oates, Huey Lewis, Journey, Foreigner, Joe Walsh, Gin Blossoms, Stone Temple Pilots, later in life I started getting into 80s-90s Rush and Alex Lifeson's Guitar work etc.... so those are my main influences. My current band, the frontman/Bassist is into Punk, Metal, some Emo and the Drummer (my brother) shares some of my influences along w/his own. So, we're a complete melting pot of influences but somehow it works. Guitar-wise, Super Stratocasters are my #1 (have to have my bridge Humbuckers LOL). I also love Telecasters and I miss the hell out of my Epiphone Les Paul Standard...hope to replace it one of these days! Currently, my main Guitars are a Fender Blacktop Floyd Rose Strat and a Projecaster made out of a Squier Bullet body and a cheap neck inspired by my dream Guitar since I was a kid. Both of them are equipped w/Guitar Fetish pups.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Nice! Those are great influences. Alex Lifeson is one of my biggest guitar heroes, too! I think Permanent Waves and Power Windows are their 80s albums I keep going back to. I love that you and your brother are rocking out in a band. I really wish I was in one, but family life is so busy.

That is a great collection of guitars! I love Strats with bridge humbuckers, too. Andy Timmons really makes those sound great. I'd love to see your Projecaster. Those are always unique!

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

Power Windows is definitely one of my favorites...Emotion Detector alone is worth the price of admission - such a beautiful song! And for me, the Guitar solo on that one is equal w/Limelight's. Alex is a powerhouse!

Here's a pic of my Projecaster! The humbucker is a Guitar Fetish Lil' Killer Hotrail.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Heck yeah, I love that song and his guitar work on it. Marathon is also one of my favorites on the album. I love how epic it gets!

I love that guitar! It reminds me of David Gilmour's black strat. How would you describe the sound the pick-ups give?

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MLDaffy@reddit

No doubt..I slept funny not long ago and did something to my leg to where I walked funny in pain for 3 days.

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ChickenBossChiefsFan@reddit

A free months ago I slept perfectly normally and somehow pulled my groin, still not sore how. Literally was so bad I couldn’t walk without holding onto a wall, need to see a doctor level of pain. I actually was afraid I might have a blood clot or something because it just hurt so much, and out of nowhere.

Doctor said nope, just pulled my groin. He hadn’t seen it happen from a nap before, but I guess my body is just cool like that.

After nearly a week of muscle relaxers, Advil, and alternating heat and cold, I was able to walk again. Miracle of miracles.

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Perry7609@reddit

I banged up my ankle once in my 30’s, which had happened before a few times. I thought “Okay, this stinks, but it should feel better in a few weeks time!”

It got better, but I still found it hurting at random times six months or even a year after the incident! I’d be bending down to pick something up at a store and my ankle would be throbbing in pain. I’d just be thinking “This isn’t how it’s supposed to work!”

In my 40s, it’s the same deal all over the place.

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round_is_funny@reddit

I was making the bed and smoothing the comforter by doing that wind-whipping motion. Came very close to losing my back. That was a new experience.

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morbidemadame@reddit

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Elcamina@reddit

Went to a concert on Monday and now my rotator cuff is super sore from waving my arm.

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lunaflect@reddit

I took my kid to a wave pool and jumped the waves for 20 minutes. My back was basically broken for four days afterwards. I had to call out of work.

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morbidemadame@reddit

That's what you get for staying up pass 9pm.

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cjthomp@reddit

Staying active and stretching will generally prevent that.

(Obviously lacking any specific underlying health issue)

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Zealousideal-Soil778@reddit

The other day I sneezed while my torso was twisted and I couldn't move for hours. Like, wtf?

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Skylineviewz@reddit

I go to the gym a lot and am happy to report that I am still making gains to this day. Then one night I woke up from a not great night of sleep and couldn’t move my head to the left. It was like that for a week before finally going back to normal and I’ve been terrified of sleeping wrong ever since

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DramaticErraticism@reddit

I think the vast majority of people do not believe they will actually age and get old. Seeing it happen, is a wild experience.

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Sausage_Queen_of_Chi@reddit

I love my new “highlights”. Thankfully I’m a ginger so I get white hairs and so far it just looks like I’m going blonde.

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ind3pend0nt@reddit

Y’all can afford Botox and hair dye in this economy?

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FestiveArtCollective@reddit

I wouldn't touch botox. But I do use an all natural permanent hair dye that you can use more than once because they keep the activator in a separate bottle and give you mixing tools. So, it ends up being quite cheap and pretty decent quality. I'm in an industry where showing my greys could backfire on me.

I will let them all go free once I retire, though!

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lucidspoon@reddit

My wife works with plastic surgeons, and a lot of her co-workers give each other Botox, since they can get it super cheap. I feel like she's one of the few that don't do it.

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gbroon@reddit

I have some ham in the back of the fridge I could maybe harvest botulinum toxin from if I decide to get the diy route.

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IgnisFulmineus@reddit

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SquatchoCamacho@reddit

These a sub for DIY botox, I'm not even kidding lmao not harvesting it yourself obviously, but injecting! I haven't gone through the top posts but I bet there's some good fails in there 🥴

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_sam_fox_@reddit

WHAT 😳

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sweet_pickles12@reddit

It’s unhinged

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SaccharineHuxley@reddit

Modern problems call for modern solutions

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VWBug5000@reddit

Dystopian futures require dystopian solutions

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Fun_Assignment3295@reddit

This made me laugh 🤣

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Lumpy_Branch_552@reddit

Botox is $106 where I live and lasts 3-6 months.

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BlackMile47@reddit

DINKS unite!

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May_of_Teck@reddit

Yeah I mean I don’t know how well I’m doing with acceptance, but I’m just slapping some spf on this shit.

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Obtuse-Angel@reddit

I’ve contemplated dying my hair with kool aid and see how that works with my grey. I can afford kool aid

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MyBestCuratedLife@reddit

This! It’s just too much to afford, you have to constantly maintain it. I have no doubt that some celebrities spend $50,000 on cosmetic injectables a year easy.

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seche314@reddit

It’s dirt cheap in Korea

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ThisElder_Millennial@reddit

No Rogaine for me; I just keep the beard trimmed to hide the grays and have adopted a really short haircut style so it's not as noticeable.

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Dantez9001@reddit

I shave my head, and have a beard. When the beard started turning gray, it bothered me, but only because it was just on one side. Now that it's evened out, I like it.

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NorthRoseGold@reddit

Yup

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Sausage_Queen_of_Chi@reddit

Even if I could, I have much better things I’d rather do with my time and money

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Jealous-Inspection11@reddit

I'm using neither, just plucking out any white hairs that stand out. You won't get me easily middle age!!!

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alizeia@reddit

Botox and hair dye all the way baby. Otherwise I'd be 38 looking 53

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Acrobatic-Hunt618@reddit

Botox makes you look like a freak. Just go to the gym and eat well. It’s all you can do

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Crowedsource@reddit

I'm accepting it completely.

I hate what dye does to my hair and I would never inject anything into my face or body out of vanity.

I did get a moisturizer with retinol, hyaluronic acid and collagen to help with the wrinkles, but I don't really have much in the way of wrinkles yet at age 45.

I think it's a privilege to grow old and I don't want to look young forever.

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Makelovenotrobots@reddit

You guys have hair?

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crimson-gh0st@reddit

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Am1AllowedToCry@reddit

I AM AWARE....!!!!

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Makelovenotrobots@reddit

George is my spirit animal.

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Mecha_Cthulhu@reddit

Right? I started balding in my 20’s and just cut it all off by 27. Such a shame, I had a glorious head of hair.

My beard is more gray than black now, so I guess I’m showing my age there. At least since I quit smoking in my 30’s my skin hasn’t aged much since then.

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Threetimes3@reddit

There's a lot of baldness in my family, so I told my wife early on that if I ever started to lose it, I was just going to buzz it all short.

Ends up I won the hair lottery, and still have a thick head of hair, not even receding at all yet. It sort of feels disrespectful to buzz it, so I keep it a good length.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

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Icy-Lawfulness-6868@reddit

Saw this face when I read this:

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Solintari@reddit

In some places

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Grizzle64@reddit

They make me look distinguished! (I tell myself /s)

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alehanjro2017@reddit

I'm embracing it except for the ear hair like WTF!?

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LatinBotPointTwo@reddit

I think poisoning and mutilating one's face just to create the fleeting illusion of youth is... a choice.

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soulmindbody@reddit

Acceptance all day mate!

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SaccharineHuxley@reddit

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I don’t give a shit

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thisisallme@reddit

Same. That’s one blessing of menopause (such I went through suddenly at 39)- the lack of fucks I give towards things that would have bothered me in the past is quite freeing

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snuffleupagus7@reddit

I wonder how that works! Like the biology behind it. I am deep in perimenopause and over the last year or so just give absolutely zero fucks and it is a good feeling. But I wonder why. Like does estrogen somehow make us want to be people-pleasers or care more about what people think?

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sunsetandporches@reddit

That is probably something. And I know that when I have to deal with a sweaty self and I am still bleeding plus skin sensitivities; there is no point in trying to take care of others because I need to take care of myself. It’s like forced self nurturing. I have to care for my sweaty, moist, sensitive, self.

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thisisallme@reddit

I don’t know! Do you follow justbeingmelani on IG? She’s hilarious. She posts videos for the We Do Not Care club, aimed at people in peri and menopause

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snuffleupagus7@reddit

I don't, but I'll look her up now!

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SaccharineHuxley@reddit

Freeing is the word!!!!

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AbeFromanSassageKing@reddit

At least I'm not covered in stupid tattoos and have a cigarette for a mother.

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Nostalgicdreams81@reddit

Mrs. Mac always cheers me up.

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PhoneJazz@reddit

I want to end up in an Old Lady House

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Horror-Technology591@reddit

Just not stuck in the stairs.

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SaccharineHuxley@reddit

Me too. She ALMOST makes me kinda want to start smoking again…. lol jk. For now.

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MCA2142@reddit

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curedbyink@reddit

That’s one of my favorite bloopers of all time. Mac couldn’t handle it when she said that.

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Apart-Consequence881@reddit

I'm 42 with minimal wrinkling and maybe no more than 20 strands of grays (Asian no raisin). I will go au naturelle as I age. Hair dyes are full of nasty toxins, and I don't trust Botox or any cosmetic surgeries. I also feel like it's being highly deceptive and narcissistic to use those anti-aging crap. I'm also the strongest I've ever been and still making gains in the gym.

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UnicornScientist803@reddit

Seriously the best thing about getting old. I love not giving a shit. It’s so freeing!

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SaccharineHuxley@reddit

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Damn right

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MessDifferent1374@reddit

The only right answer!!!!

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crazykitty123@reddit

Definitely accept. It would be EXHAUSTING to try and constantly keep it at bay!

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Emotional_Pay_8830@reddit

I couldn't afford either one if I wanted to. 🤣 Even if I could, I wouldn't. It feels like a badge of honor at this point.

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treeshh@reddit

Accepted! I love it 🥳 My hair almost has enough silver in it that the Magenta Manic Panic I bought will really pop!

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Dovelette@reddit

I don't accept my greying hair, I freaking LOVE it! I get stopped all the time to get comments on how cool it looks. Its mostly white with grey and blonde and light brown streaks. I'm 46, I stopped dying it after 30 years a few years ago, did some weird bleaching to help it grow out faster, and now get to feel a little smug when ppl ask if this is my natural hair. My whole life my natural hair was like a nasty dishwater color, like a dirty ash blonde or light ash brown. I didn't know how it would look when it grew out but I'm so happy. I also stopped straightening it and went full curly girl. I feel like a wild creature, it so suits me haha

As for Botox, don't have the money or the desire to go that route. But I also don't wear any makeup, not even tinted moisturizer...

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HobbyLvlMaterialist@reddit

Mostly accepting it but I have black hair with grays and the grays in my eyebrows drive me crazy so I touch them up with a little dye. I also go to gym more than ever.

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puma_pantss@reddit

Hair is salt and pepper.. beard is straight salt at this point. I'm 40 now. That said, I have a full head of hair down to my chin, so I consider myself blessed, and rock the gray.

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kylethemurphy@reddit

A buddy of mine is basically all Grey/white now with zero hair loss, I've got a receded hairline with just a bit of grey on my temples and chin. I don't know which is better but we're both cool with what we got. Also, both 40.

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puma_pantss@reddit

I guess it depends on your face build. I do not have the head for short hair. That said, some people can rock the bald(ing) look

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FreneticZen@reddit

I'm pepper up top, salt and pepper in my beard (when I grow it). Sideburns are straight up starting to go all Dr. Strange on me.

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Proud_Donut_1683@reddit

Beard is salt and ginger but I started noticing a thinning on the crown of my head so I just shaved mine off. Glad you are thankful for yours!

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puma_pantss@reddit

Smart move. I don't know too many people that can rock the Peter Boyle successfully.

Maybe Larry David.. but that's about it.

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Proud_Donut_1683@reddit

True! I ain’t that funny or rich, so… bye bye 😂😂

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puma_pantss@reddit

Well, not YET!

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Proud_Donut_1683@reddit

Preach!

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Colambler@reddit

Beard is also straight salt at this point.

Head has been shaved since about 27 for me unfortunately (hairline started receding at like 19!!).

I keep intending to start using moisturizer regularly. Dye seems way too much work

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againandagain22@reddit

Man, St Ives has an amazing moisturiser, at a really good price. It’s comes in a small tub and has collagen in it. It’s a very light moisturiser that doesn’t clog the skin.

Check it out online. St. Ives renewing moisturiser. Next to my toothbrush so i remember to use it most days.

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hallowdmachine@reddit

44 here. Beard is salt and paprika. Haven't seen many grays on my head yet.

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Confident_Win_5469@reddit

I haven't coloured my hair in 10 years, and wrinkles happen.

I don't have enough money to start worrying about natural aging. I do have to admit, I'm genetically lucky in the aging dept, and my mom and grand mom have always had a laissez faire idea of aging, it's seemed to be passed on.

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Practical-Shelter-88@reddit

If I could afford Botox, I’d be all over it.

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Competitive_Bid3847@reddit

I’m down with aging naturally….except for my hair. I do still get my hair colored. Not sure when I’ll give up that ghost.

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MonstersMamaX2@reddit

Saaaame. I can easily see myself in my 60's still going to a stylist. It's my one personal indulgence.

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Competitive_Bid3847@reddit

I think I’m just waiting to go gray enough that it becomes my new hair color. My mom just stopped coloring her hair last year when she was 69, and her new natural shade is a light grey with white “highlights”. She looks great!

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PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit

Same. I started going grey in my 20s. I like how my hair looks when it's dyed. And grey looks terrible on me. Washes out my already pale skin and makes me look much older. I'm in my 40s, not ready to look 60 yet, lol. My mom dyed her hair until the end of her life and always looked good. I will probably just follow her.

Botox and plastic surgery aren't for me but I don't judge anyone for using it. We should all age how we feel comfortable with, not how society tells us to. (Because there are just as many people who shame others for not "aging gracefully" as there are who shame others for "letting themselves go".

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BibFortunaCookie@reddit

If I had enough greys to look cool, I'd grow my hair out, but until then, I'm still dying it. Also, my chosen haircolor is vastly different than my natural color, so that's a factor as well.

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neonblackiscool@reddit

Until it’s silver white and down to my ass, I’m dying it. But I don’t really even have to right now! Blessed that way except a few creepers in front. I definitely get Botox and buy the stupid skincare things. I’m not giving up my fave yet.

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C0tt0nC4ndyM0uth@reddit

You’re so lucky about the greys! I started getting mine at 19. 💃

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neonblackiscool@reddit

My Asian friends went gray in HS! I think it’s more common for certain groups.

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pandorumriver24@reddit

I still color my hair bc it’s so patchy and not uniform grey/white that if I DONT color it it looks sort of sad and dirty

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catforbrains@reddit

This. I'm not graying attractively. It's like the saddest Greige of hair. I refuse to see sad Greige when I look in a mirror, so that's what dye is for.

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pandorumriver24@reddit

Twinsies lol. It bugs me

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catforbrains@reddit

Same. It really annoys me because I want to cut my hair short for summer, but then it's going to be a nightmare to cover the patchy Grey. Keeping it long lets me get away with putting off dying it more often.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Yeah the hair for women is tough. Us dudes it’s like we’re silverback gorillas

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syntax_sorceress@reddit

Or silver foxes.

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Squidflex@reddit

this term always makes me think of Jeff Goldblum.
he's one of those people that looks cooler as he gets older.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Yeah I’m getting that Clooney hair

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syntax_sorceress@reddit

Stop it. I'm hot enough here in this heatwave.

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StatementLazy1797@reddit

As a woman, my grey streaks make me feel like Sindel from Mortal Kombat and I’m okay with them.

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Competitive_Bid3847@reddit

I was envisioning Rogue from the X Men myself. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough grey to look that cool yet.

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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

I have one large grey patch so I dye everything but that so I have a semi natural skunk stripe.

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fannyalgerpack@reddit

This is my dream. Good job!

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Oh, I love that! It's like a middle-age mark of leveled up badassery.

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RoxyLA95@reddit

I call my husband silverback.

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crapatthethriftstore@reddit

I’m a woman but I’m going to use this term going forward 🤣

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csonnich@reddit

Majestic.

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Competitive_Bid3847@reddit

🤣 I think my husband would agree with you there!

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Junior_Fig_2274@reddit

I like the silver in mine! I have long, natural curls and the silver strands look so pretty among the brown ones, I think. 🤷‍♀️ I have zero desire to add chemicals to my hair and mess with it, but that’s just me.

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LakeExtreme7444@reddit

Same. I feel so vain about my hair, but I’m not willing to give it up to the grays just yet! Now my wrinkles?! Yeah, those are my badges of honor. My little brother died before he even saw 40, so I get to see him age through my reflection.

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CandidateNo2731@reddit

I also see aging as a badge of honor. My husband died at 35. It's truly a blessing to be able to age.

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LowInternet4726@reddit

Growing old is a private, not a trophy.

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AwkwardPersonality36@reddit

Commiserating with you, I lost my husband too, one month before his 38th birthday.

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CandidateNo2731@reddit

I'm sorry for your loss. It's not a fun club to be in.

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AwkwardPersonality36@reddit

Likewise 🤍

It's not, it's a weird one to be in. Your identity takes a dramatic turn and life is suddenly divided into wifed and widowed, even when you've moved on and partnered up again.

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gottarespondtothis@reddit

My greys do not grow uniformly. If they did I’d not have an issue with them. But I’m not cool with random patches lol.

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AwkwardPersonality36@reddit

This comment hit. My little brother died before 40 too and your comment made me feel sad for us both.

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GB715@reddit

I finally gave up the coloring. Going from brown to silver. It’s brutal. Cut my hair in a pixie and just had a trim. One more trim and it will be all me finally. Funny thing is, I grew it out during Covid and hated it.

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ThePolemicist@reddit

You guys, I must be lucky. I honestly didn't know people in our age were dyeing their hair to cover gray already. I've gotten a few gray hairs since I was about 25, but it's not very noticeable unless you go looking for them. They're increasing a bit, but I'd say I'm still about 99% my natural color and 1% white hairs. My brother, who is older than me, doesn't seem to have any gray. My husband has a bit of a salt and pepper thing going on, but he's still mostly his natural color.

At what age did you have to start dyeing?

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Competitive_Bid3847@reddit

Well, as soon as I moved out of my very conservative parents’ house at 17, I had a field day coloring my hair purple, pink, fire red, blue black, etc. Nowadays I stick with what my natural color would be.

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ThePolemicist@reddit

Oh yes, I dyed my hair for fun when I was young: red, pink, purple. It was an occasional thing, and I think the last time I did that was probably early 20s. I haven't used hair dye since. I guess I just didn't realize that a lot of people go gray at this age. I thought my husband was a little unusual with his salt and pepper hair.

The thing is, I have a parent who went very gray, and I have another who didn't. My dad is 73 and has lost a lot of his hair, but he's still not very gray. I've always wondered for my future which parent I might end up like. It always seemed a future thing to me. It wouldn't bother me to go gray. My mom totally rocks hers and always has. But now I'm wondering if I have the answer.

Dad (73). Mom (69). Me (42).

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surferrosa1985@reddit

Just turned 40, no grey. 1 or 2 maybe at times but nothing noticeable.

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cellrdoor2@reddit

I’m 45 and just have a few single white hairs that get up to all sorts of unauthorized maneuvers. My sister started getting white streaks at 16 though. She can dye her hair all sorts of fabulous colors more easily now so that’s a plus.

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Rebekah513@reddit

I’ve been graying since like 25 lol

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MyBestCuratedLife@reddit

I swear the day I had my daughter (I was 23) I started going grey. I am now 42 and if I didn’t die it I would 100% grey. Genetics are not in my favor lol.

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MyBestCuratedLife@reddit

I have to agree with this. I know a few women who have gone grey, some are a beautiful silver, but I still think it just ages them so much. That’s the one thing I’m not ready for.

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beemeeng@reddit

I've colored my hair for most of my life. I don't mind my few scattered Grey's. I do mind my ugly mousy dishwater natural brown hair.

I did recently transition from pink to copper, so way toned down?

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kjoyist@reddit

I did very subtle highlights to blend my grey and 10 units of Botox, each 2x per year, until last year. Now I’m like “meh, let it be”

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A_the_Buttercup@reddit

Hey, reddit twin! I'm also down with aging naturally as well, but have let my hair do whatever, too.

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TipsyBaker_@reddit

My hair is going in an interesting way. Far spaced individual strands are suddenly losing all pigment. It's not even gray, it's more translucent, and becoming more wire like. Little kids think it's fairy hair strands. Can't argue with that so it stays

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PuzzledKumquat@reddit

I don't have any wrinkles yet, but I am absolutely fighting against the gray hairs. I started graying in high school, which is when I started dyeing my hair. I refuse to stop until I'm 60.

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Meetat_midnight@reddit

I like Botox, I like my hair with highlights and all pretty, also do microblading for makeup. I have my nails done every month. I wear sunscreen 50, every day and foundation with sun protection too. I take magnesium, vitamins, smoothies with greens and seeds, testo gel, DHA … if I could afford I would do Botox more frequently instead of 2x year. Tons of aesthetic treatments to care for the skin. The only thing I am not into is hyaluronic filings, it looks swollen.

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ViolyntFemme@reddit

Accepting it. At 47 im the happiest i ever been in my life.

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-Cool_Ethan-@reddit

I am more handsome than I have ever been.

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NeverAppropriate@reddit

Get it, Brother!

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ladyzowy@reddit

Wrinkles?!? Hair dyes but feeling less inclined these days.

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NeverAppropriate@reddit

The older I look the better. I want to be able to act senile, while still being completely with it, as early as possible.

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ncpsycho@reddit

Embraced. Too many friends didn’t live long enough to get here, it’s silly to try and fight it.

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Reeko_Htown@reddit

I just remember to moisturize daily and apply sunscreen

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SanSanSankyuTaiyosan@reddit

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

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fiestybox246@reddit

Same. I’m just starting to get a few grays, but perimenopause is causing some thinning. That’s worse than gray.

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Impressive_Owl3903@reddit

I wouldn’t say I’ve fully accepted it yet, but I’m not ready for anything as invasive as Botox. Trying to maintain my skin as is with skincare and sunscreen.

I haven’t colored my hair in years and never did so to hide grays, but I’m thinking about some fun green and purple streaks to accentuate the silver that’s coming in on its own. The hair change I wasn’t prepared for was how it’s gotten thinner since perimenopause started.

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Anonymous_person13@reddit

Mine was starting to thin but stopped when I started estrogen for perimenopause, which was a bonus.

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fiestybox246@reddit

I’ve been using Grace & Stella hyaluronic acid serum in addition to my usual skincare routine. The Grace & Stella isn’t heavy like some I’ve tried.

I do a leave in conditioner spray and Verb ghost oil.

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nursepineapple@reddit

I’m actually really looking forward to my wig era. I’m going to have so much fun having completely different hair every other week.

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nothathappened@reddit

The thinning freaked me out. I take a lot of vitamins now and it’s helped so much!

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FeralTames@reddit

This and a real deal retinol will do wonders (it also helps with acne if you’re like me and still get pimples here n there for some god forsaken reason). Switch off with a vitamin C and hyaluronic acid serum every other nite, and do a weekly clay mask if ya wanna get real fancy pants. Also, and I can’t stress this enough, drink water. Lots of it.

Far as Botox, surgery, or hair dye, never, but I enjoy my greys.

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BigBabyWhale@reddit

Got my first gray freshman year of college.

Ah you think grayness is your ally? You merely adopted gray. I was born in it, molded by it.

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lolFortris@reddit

I've earned all my greys and smile lines!

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PantstheOG@reddit

I actually used to color my hair when I was younger, but I stopped when I noticed I had like 2 or 3 grays. I thought I would turn silver like my grandmother but nope here I am at 40 with a total of like 7 gray hairs. For sure never getting Botox. Let the wrinkles come in! I’m ready!

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Twograin@reddit

I’ve accepted it.

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Sourcererintheclouds@reddit

No grey hairs or wrinkles yet. Routinely get mistaken for at least a decade younger, but my teeth are a disaster and I spend several thousands of dollars every year doing my best to repair them and keep them from completely disintegrating. And my eyesight is terrible but I’ve worn glasses since I was 7 so no surprise. Also, everything hurts, so those are the trade offs to getting to look “young” a little while longer.

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itsnoteasybeinggr33n@reddit

Same, though my teeth are doing OK. I get regular checks, though, as my enamel is hypoplastic. My vision is terrible, but I've worn glasses since childhood. I have terrible hearing, but, once again, since childhood.

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svu_fan@reddit

Same on no wrinkles and no gray hairs. 40 in a few weeks. I have lots of natural blonde highlights now (haven’t colored hair in 15 years). I likely inherited the hair and delayed wrinkling from my dad’s side of the family. My paternal grandma never colored her hair, and she still had mostly original hair color well into her 80s. By the time she passed (creeping up on 100) she had salt & pepper hair, but mostly salt at that point. My dad and most of his sibs have had similar. Knock on wood.

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ironic-hat@reddit

Same here, 43. My parents didn’t start greying until they were in their late 60s, so I am banking on those genes. No wrinkles, but I had nasty oily skin in my teens and twenties and bad acne. So I guess in the end it was worth it….

Teeth are fine, but my mom was a hygienist and dental hygiene was preached in my home.

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TheDivine_MissN@reddit

Accepting the gray. I’ve got very Rogue-like streak forming so my stylist actually incorporated it into my last color.

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itsnoteasybeinggr33n@reddit

No greys for me, and my wrinkles are fairly minor. Considering how many issues I inherited, I'll take whatever good I can.

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sjp1980@reddit

Both.

I get a bit of botox but a lifetime of sunscreen has served me well.

I had major surgery a few years ago and leading up to that I was in a lot of pain for a while. I felt like it suddenly aged me and although that may or may not be true, it was something I started doing that made me feel better

I've dyed my hair since the sun-in spray days of the 1990s. I still dye it -although I gave up the sun in stound 1995 - but it isn't yet covering up any greys that I am aware of. Although perhaps saying that will guarantee i will get grey hair now!!

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TheGrapeSlushies@reddit

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Traditional_Rush_622@reddit

Totally acceptance. Botox looks bad and weird on everyone. I'd rather have the smile lines. I worked hard for those! And my hair turned a gorgeous silver, I would never ruin it with dye!

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Illustrious_Tap3171@reddit

I accept it, hair I constantly want to do something fun with but then my husband goes “remember the upkeep.” And I remember “oh yeah, f that”

I find people who fight aging weird, it’s natural progression of life, we grow, we age, we die.

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Dickrubin14094@reddit

The grays have been popping up for a few years. So far haven’t seen wrinkles yet, so I’ll go with that

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platypus_eyes@reddit

Had a younger lady call me a “silver fox”. That was five years ago and I’m still riding that high.

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Ill-Awareness8454@reddit

Same here. Women love it. Not certain why, but I have some theories.

I'll be completely silver haired in ten years, and I've earned every last strand. It's the boomers who were obsessed with youth and immortality.

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JDNB82@reddit

Not accepting, but not fighting back....yet

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b_rup_breaks@reddit

Straight al natural!

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Basic-Pair8908@reddit

You have wrinkles? I still get ID'd

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Fit_Vehicle_946@reddit

Accepting it- not liking it - but I have earned every grey hair and wrinkle

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seivad9@reddit

I still dye my hair black but I accept that i now have some grays under there. Actually can’t wait till I go fully gray so I can experiment with all the silver hair dyes. I’m kinda sad that the main lines I have are frown lines rather than smile lines. But that’s depression for you 😖

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InterBeard@reddit

Fam... STOP SOAP SHOWERING EVERY DAY. Your skin and hair need those natural oils.

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TheJoyOfDeath@reddit

I have a full head of grey hair apparently. They're mostly at the sides, I'm guessing,because I only see a few in the mirror. But whatever. I still have a massive thick mane of hair so wahey.

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kl1n60n3mp0r3r@reddit

lol. Fuck no! I earned all these mother fuckin wrinkles AMD this grey hair! I wear it proudly!

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Bigbigjeffy@reddit

Me too, I like my grey hair and the fact I have all my hair!

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AmbitionStrong5602@reddit

Graying and staying!

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PsionicKitten@reddit

I have a tiny bit of grey hair now, mostly in my beard. I shave it off because I've never liked facial hair before or after I got my grey hair. I have no noticeable wrinkles yet. I still look like I'm in my 20s.

Unfortunately, I've earned being "over the hill" yet people treat me like I'm so young that I haven't even been born yet. It's a badge of honor I've earned, but many don't acknowledge I have.

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Substantial_Leg6852@reddit

49 and still not going grey. A little surprised by that. Wouldn't really care if I did. I am the proper age for it.

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Flaky_Beginning_9271@reddit

I never liked my original hair color. The gray is arguably an upgrade. But since I’ve been dying it my whole life, I am still dying it now. Some of my wrinkles I don’t mind. Others I don’t like, and am getting treated with botox. I go to Peachy. They do a good job at a flat rate.

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BrvoChrlie@reddit

I’m embracing it. My beard is more salt than pepper now. It went first. The top is still original color with some white coming in gradually.

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m8k@reddit

It is what it is and I’m not hiding it

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sundancer2788@reddit

Hair dye yes, often multi colors, but no botox

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thisbitbytes@reddit

Being hot brought me nothing but trouble. I’ve been leaning hard into my swamp witch phase of life. 10/10 recommend.

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morbidemadame@reddit

48F and fully grey since 2 years. I should have done this before, my skin looks brighter and healthier thanks to all the light it brings in! As for wrinkles, I only have one and I'm sitting on it. That's what 30 years of daily SPF will do to you.

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

Your one wrinkle is on your ass?

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

You went gray at 2 years old?!

I'll see myself out... 🚪

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morbidemadame@reddit

Pardon my french!

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_MistyDawn@reddit

Cosigned on the SPF. Much cheaper than botox and lasers and all that other stuff.

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neonblackiscool@reddit

😂

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Total-Meringue-5437@reddit

Accepting it and loving it! I do love my facials though. Nothing crazy or chemical.

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PatriciasMartinis@reddit

My mom was a nurse and because of that I will never get Botox. All I can think is how little botulinum toxin it takes to kill someone. No thanks. I'll keep putting the retinol and vitamin c on my face until I'm.glazed like a doughnut. I don't have grey hairs yet, but I've never dyed my hair, so idk what to do about that when they arrive 😢

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IDigRollinRockBeer@reddit

No wrinkles. My hair started going grey when I was 16 I don’t give a fuck about that

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brent_von_kalamazoo@reddit

My hair is thankfully greying at a slow, slow rate. Except for my gd nose hairs.

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PercentageCreepy2653@reddit

I’ve always had black hair. Not dark brown. Black. I started getting grays only around my temples and I’ll never damned if I look like Lily Munster. Yup, I dye my hair. And whenever I need Botox, I’ll get that, too. It’s not for everyone but it’s for me and I’m completely fine with it, even if it’s not considered “aging gracefully.” I’m aging happily and that’s all I care about 🙂

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ahaeker@reddit

The only thing I do to my face is microblade my brows, I do dye my hair teal though, there's no telling how much grey I'd have if I didn't dye it.

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SirMayday1@reddit

Accepting. Oh, I'll make a show of bemoaning how much grayer I look after a haircut or whatnot, but I'm not about to spend money and jump through hoops to cover up the fact that I am the age I am. And, if I'm being honest, the odd gray streak in my wife's hair is kinda sexy. It projects a smidge of... gravitas?... without dominating her appearance.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

The last 9 years has aged me more than the prior decades.

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einat162@reddit

I'm having a hard time accepting my sun spots (it seem like they popped out one day, mid 30's), not so much wrinkles (that I noticed) and I'm fine, for now, with my gray hair (it bothers others to see it, to the point of asking, but not me). Maybe when it becomes whiter I will DIY fast dye/cream into a blond shade.

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Walternate_Reality@reddit

Some forehead lines I knew I was going to get eventually from furrowing. Grays I've been getting slowly over time and they've invaded my chest and nostrils I think they all emigrated from chin

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Cephalopod_Dropbear@reddit

I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. I’m still 18.

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HeyWhatsItToYa@reddit

I've been gifted with Paul Rudd Syndrome. While I can tell that I look older, I don't have grey hairs or wrinkles.

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Apart-Consequence881@reddit

I can kick my 18 year old self's ass with one hand tied behind my back. I was a scrawny weakling as a teen and young adult.

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Dakkin4@reddit

Old man strength is real! 💪🏻

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Horror-Technology591@reddit

It's still 2002, right?

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Background-Action-19@reddit

42, and I consider myself lucky to still have a full head of hair, no Grey yet

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xrelaht@reddit

Accepting both. Actually kinda wish I had more gray.

My thinning hair though...

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Dobeythedogg@reddit

I wish I could embrace the gray. It’s stupid to pay the money snd waste the time to get it colored. But I just am not ready to see me in the mirror without my dark brown hair.
I don’t do Botox but some serums and the like.

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slusmiles@reddit

I've accepted my graying hair but am botoxing the wrinkles.

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liziamnot@reddit

* Embracing ever wrinkle and grey hair.

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pupcakeonthelamb@reddit

I fought my graying hair for a while. Now that I’m finally letting it grow in it’s awesomely clustered and stands out from my natural black hair fantastically. Still rocking the long mohawk, but the new grays feel badass.

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JCarr110@reddit

I colored my beard a few times and didn't like it. The grey doesn't bother me anymore.

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missgiddy@reddit

Don’t come after me, but I don’t have any wrinkles yet. The silver hairs look cool (imo) in my dark hair so I’m keeping them. Ask me again in five years I might get shit done, I dunno.

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ResumeFluffer@reddit

My hair has always been too dark, so the fun colors were off limits. I go with arctic fox. It smells good and washes out over time. No damage to my natural color. Bright af on my greys. I'm not happy about my wrinkles, but I'm not fighting them any harder than usual. Moisturize after my showers. I haven't switched to a grown up brand, yet, though. I'm still using clinque.

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SlackerDS5@reddit

I dye. My grays crow in patches like me facial hair so it looks weird. Not completely dyed, just knock back the grays for an even appearance.

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Middle_Function2529@reddit

My natural blonde hair is turning white, just like my grandmother’s and my father’s. And I’m honestly loving it 😅

And really good skin care. No Botox.

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carradio81@reddit

Definitely dying my hair - I went grey super young. No botox for me, it is a toxin and freaks me out 😂 so far I look fine, unless I smile...... 😂

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DogOfSparta@reddit

Shit, my neurologist suggested Botox for my migraines and I was like no thanks for the same reason. My hair I started dying it when I was young. Now that I have started having grays my scalp is too sensitive to dye it. A couple years ago my husband told me he really liked my hair color. I told him thanks, it is my actual hair color. After 15 plus years married he didn’t even know what my natural hair color looked like. There was a lot of laughing from that one.

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kristosnikos@reddit

I started going gray in my 20’s but quit dyeing it at 33. I have a lot of lovely silver strands throughout my dark brown and I get complimented on it often.

No botox for me, though my wrinkles are only noticeable when I smile. I think my lifelong resting bitch face has done wonders for my skin.

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whatsmyname81@reddit

Same, I had noticeable grays by 31 and have seen the stats on how ageism affects women's careers, so I definitely color my hair. I don't really have wrinkles so botox hasn't been a consideration for me, but even if I did I don't think I'd be interested in it.

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Flippin-doo-da@reddit

If it helps, I’ve had 4 promotions since I stopped dying my hair. I’m a director now.

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whatsmyname81@reddit

Nah, I don't have any desire to stop. My hair looks like shit if I don't color it. It's not really even the grays, it's the fact that the rest of it is now some weird washed-out brown color that looks awful with my skin tone. My original color is black, and that's what color I keep it, because this is what I want to look like.

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round_is_funny@reddit

Thank you for this.

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Nomadzord@reddit

Hell yeah, that’s awesome!

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cjthomp@reddit

Ageism is also a big thing for dudes in (some) tech.

My hair isn't terribly gray, but my beard has pretty big patches (has for a decade), and I've considered darkening it for at least job interviews. I don't wanna, though :(

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Powerful_Leg8519@reddit

My boss told me recently that they just noticed that my hair was brown and grey. They thought I was getting blonde highlights for years.

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DramaticErraticism@reddit

We are all consuming micro plastics, hormones and god knows what other toxins, against our will. I feel pretty safe with the FDA tested and approved ones.

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Unusual_Plum_4630@reddit

Same but sadly hair dye is a toxin too 😭

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squidwardTalks@reddit

I started going grey at 16, so I'm full grey...I gave up coloring because I had to dye it every 3 weeks. Once I started getting called grandma when I picked up my 2yo from day care....I might be taking other actions.

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ksgar77@reddit

I also started greying young and have dyed my hair for years. Add to the equation that I married someone a couple years younger that has light hair and very few greys at this point. I don’t need people thinking I’m his mom!

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ZestycloseTiger9925@reddit

Hair color, yes. Botox, no.

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nfssmith@reddit

Many don’t make it this far, I’ll accept my aging with what grace I can.

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Colodagh@reddit

No wrinkles yet but I love my streaks of grey! I am not happy about the weird neck thing I have going on.

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moobileme@reddit

I have fashion colors as hair, but the white still shines through once my roots grow out... I just waited too long to be able to color my hair

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VIDEODREW2@reddit

I’m not cool with it, but considering how sensitive my skin is to ANY treatment, I’m too terrified to do Botox or fillers.

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donapepa@reddit

I am done with dyeing my hair. I decided this 3 weeks ago. Cancelled my subscription to Madison Reed. I am so sick of doing it and obsessing over every single 1/4” growth. I have booked an appointment with someone who specializes in gray hair transitions for next week. I know it will be hard for me but I can’t go back. I know I’ll love the end product

I get Botox in my 11’s twice a year. Not planning to do anything else. It is the time to age with grace and confidence ❤️

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SpiritedLoquat172@reddit

Accepting it. My husband suggested that I stop dyeing my hair since it was badly affecting my self-esteem. His words of encouragement and acceptance helped me to see ageing differently. I'm ok with getting wrinkles as it's normal. I also adore seeing the random strands of gray in my husband's hair. We are growing old together! 🥹

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dchikato@reddit

Accept and get my ass to the gym.

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YB9017@reddit

I’m fighting it with exercise and diet. I want Botox for my crows feet. But husband says he’s not a fan of the idea. That it turns into an expensive maintenance thing.

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dissemin8or@reddit

I wish my beard would hurry up and turn gray, do you have any idea how hard is it to dye thick dark brown hairs blue when they won’t bleach any lighter than blaze orange?

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Majestic-Joke461@reddit

No fillers or surgeries, just good cosmetics and skincare, and light hair dye

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Cold_Profession4132@reddit

Accepting it because I have to. I cant afford that stuff lol I feel like I WANT to embrace it, but am I? Or have I just accepted it's not something I can obtain 😂

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porchepilatesprincss@reddit

Never! Botox every 3 months, blonde every 6 weeks, no grey yet except one in my eyebrow (mid 40s)

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skipdot81@reddit

I have a grey streak at the front of my hair and I get a black streak dyed under it to highlight it

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horsenamedmayo@reddit

I stopped hair dye 3 years ago. I love my silver sparkled hair. I’ve never used Botox or any fillers. Aging is an experience not everyone gets to have, embrace it as it comes.

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AquaValentin@reddit

Accepting it. It’s better than being dead

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SinderHella13@reddit

I love this shit...mostly. I look my age but don't feel it. I have some fine lines and sagging. I dye my hair but I don't have any grey yet. I want a facial thread.

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Xerorei@reddit

Never had an issue with growing older. Proudly sport my gray.

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_chappell@reddit

Skincare & sunscreen!

These are a few months apart. I only have a few grey hairs but my skin was really struggling. Developed a hardcore skincare routine, started putting on sunscreen daily, and I even treat my neck and chest, along with the tops of my hands to prevent those areas from aging.

I don’t plan on going the hair dye or Botox route. Staying committed to skincare has been helpful enough so far.

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noisemakermarie@reddit

Just Botox and filler for now. Planning further work

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SnooGadgets7519@reddit

No hair color, and the only Botox is sporadically for TMJ therapy, no esthetics.

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elphaba00@reddit

I think everyone believes I color my hair, but I really don't. I've gotten to nearly 47 without a gray hair. I just say it's genetics. My parents turned gray later and so did my maternal grandmother.

I have a few wrinkles, but my main issue is that I just look so tired. Well, I may be, but I wish that my face looked a bit more "fresh." Makeup helps a bit.

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davwad2@reddit

I accepted it a long time ago. The money I haven't spent on dying my hair and beard the last 10-12 years has been useful elsewhere.

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AidesAcrossAmerica@reddit

My bear is long and white. A little kid at Home Depot (4-6) pointed me out to his dad and screamed "IT'S SANTA IT'S SANTA!!"

That made my freaking day, month and entire year!

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M_139@reddit

50/50 I'm staying away from botox but I'm all in on hair dye

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Fantastic_Low854@reddit

Hell no I'm not fighting it! I've been earning these things for years. I revel in it.

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Familiar_Trout@reddit

Accept mine, and accept and encourage my wife to accept hers too. Let’s age gracefully and, in particular, show full acceptance and love for the women in our lives to age. Our lives are so full of pressure and opinions, let’s collectively reject the idea that we’re reduced by aging; I enthusiastically choose my perimenopausal wife, every. Single. Day.

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Scary-Ad9646@reddit

I don't give a shit what people think.

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HallucinogenicFish@reddit

Botox yes, hair dye no. I love my white hair.

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Due_Description_3026@reddit

Same for me. Interesting that we seem to be in the minority of natural hair and use Botox.

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Intermittent_chaos86@reddit

In this economy??

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NorraVavare@reddit

Neither. I'm happily welcoming them. I have always looked much younger than I am. To the point of it causing problems in my adult life. How can I look like the local hedge witch when I dont look old enough to be my kid's mom? I'm 47 and finally have more than a little white at my temples. Looks suitably whitchy when up. As for wrinkles, I dont have enough to care.

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Important-Reach4548@reddit

I got bangs and call them my middle-class Botox. Rather put that Botox money in an index fund.

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bad_piglet@reddit

I was depressed when I figured out i was going bald, but now that I've been shaving my head, I actually like it. But it was really depressing for a couple of years. I wasted a bunch of money on stuff that would re-grow hair, none of it works, BTW. My wife has me going to the gym with her now and her trainer has been impressed with how much I can do after not doing said things for a while, and it's impressed and amazed me as well, so, I'll be the thick, short, fit, bald guy in a Metallica t shirt in my 40s. Life is good.

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dungotstinkonit@reddit

It's just not happening to me. Thank you genetics.

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retribution81@reddit

Botox because I have migraines, and silver all day.

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t00thgr1nd3r@reddit

I'm a wizard now. I love it.

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JustWow52@reddit

I'll be 60 on my next birthday, and I have very few gray hairstyles.

I should have a head full of them, all things considered.

At this point, I probably won't dye my hair when it does start to show gray.

Hell, if someone doesn't see my wrinkly face, they aren't going to see my hair and suddenly think I'm old.

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StNic54@reddit

Accepting the gray and white every time I get my hair cut. Not interesting in injecting anything into my face 😆

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

I don't have any gray. But neither does my 69 year old mother. We used to be blonde, but as we age, our hair gets mousier and mousier brown. It is what it is.

No Botox, but I do use a high grade retinol. And sunscreen.

I do think people sometimes people assume my spouse and I are closer in age than we are - he's nine years older. But he looks great for his age, so it's not that people think I'm older than I am, they just assume that he's younger than he is.

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chronicallyoverpackd@reddit

Little bit of Botox, little bit of root coverage. It just makes me feel better.

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oceansofmyancestors@reddit

Both. I’m not frantically covering up who I am, but I did botox for a year until I got sick of paying for it. I would do it again. I have highlighted my hair for 30 years so I will continue to do that, regardless of my grays. I would say that I’m maintaining the same beauty routines as I always have

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chucktownginger@reddit

I’m team fuck it, my beautiful wife is fighting it tooth and nail

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SanFransicko@reddit

My beard is red and I've got just a little gray sneaking in at the corners at 45. I think it'll be badass to have a red and gray beard in a few years.

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Fydron@reddit

I lost my hair when i was in my early 20s and as for gray beard and wrinkles i just don't care at all that my beard is half white.

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StunningShifts@reddit

I am spending all my excess mental power keeping my grey hair at my temple so I get a cool grey streak.

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miss_missy1981@reddit

Accepting it. No time or money to fight it.

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MyAvarice4@reddit

I’m not ready to go grey quite yet, but I’m doing the best I can to age gracefully and naturally otherwise. :)

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OutkastAtliens@reddit

Always accept who you are. Never fight it

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Professional_Mood823@reddit

I have accepted my balding on top of my head. I decided today that I am going to keep my hair buzzed short but grow out my beard.

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Professional_Bed_87@reddit

You can choose to look old, or you can choose to look weird. One thing’s for sure, you won’t look young.

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jlkb24@reddit

Don’t like the forehead wrinkles but that’s where they’re mostly at. I still have most of my hair without receding yet but it’s thinning. I haven’t had my natural color in around 10yrs but it’s currently pink.

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sharkyire@reddit

Started dyeing my hair purple last year. Other than that, all good in this old hood.

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Ohbilly902@reddit

Like my slow grey and wrinkles.

I just wish I wasn’t slowly going bald

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Medical-Purple@reddit

Accepted it. Only because I was one of the lucky few that had a white streak in high school....mine being in my beard

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SimilarRegret9731@reddit

I’m like fine wine, we don’t hide our age

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Putyourmoneyonme80@reddit

I stopped dying my hair a little over a year ago and I have zero regrets. I’m loving my greys and I have a LOT. I don’t use any Botox or fillers. I plan on growing old gracefully. I get a lot of sleep, drink a lot of water, and use sunscreen, and moisturize.

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therealjustjohn@reddit

Rocking my silver fox status.

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comradb0ne@reddit

My wife likes the "Mr.Fantastic" greying and no wrinkles just yet. Some people at work think I'm in my thirties

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Gishra@reddit

I just pluck the whites that show up on my head, the rest of my hair is still thick and black. Chin hair is all white but I've always shaved, so that takes care of that. No real wrinkles yet either, a few fine lines that aren't very noticeable. Not sure if I'll eventually dye my hair, but since nature seems to be going easy on me on the wrinkles I'll just let that run it's course.

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No-Championship-8677@reddit

I’ve dyed my hair since I was 15 and can’t imagine I’d stop doing that just to prove a point about accepting my age (as many fellow women have told me I should do 😂)

I hate needles so no Botox for me though.

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PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit

I hate when people try to shame you for dyeing your hair. They need to mind their own business. There are many ways to age and none are better than the others.

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No-Championship-8677@reddit

Yeah hearing it from other women is shitty. Thankfully I know I don’t need to justify my choices to anyone — just wish we could build each other up instead of tearing each other down.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

My wife has not started graying yet but she has a friend who started graying heavily early in her 30s and has a full head of gray hair. She doesn’t dye it out of principal.

My wife was like “more power to you, but when I start graying I’m coloring the shit out of it. I still want to look attractive!” Lol

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Beetso@reddit

She doesn't diet out of a school's head administrator? That's kind of odd.

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Merkela22@reddit

Jeez. I started going gray in high school,, have been fully gray for a few years now. I get compliments on it all the time. Gray hair can be attractive.

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Lumpy_Branch_552@reddit

Same, no one is going to tell me how I “should”have my hair.

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pilates_mama@reddit

I am with you, I dye it and will continue to but no Botox in sight. Too rich for my blood anyhow but i don't like how it looks tbh.

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FiguringItOutAsWeGo@reddit

Botox and hair dye for eternity!!!!

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ManateeFlamingo@reddit

Not dying my hair. I dont have the patience nor the dollars to keep that up.

Also partly watching my mom dye her hair every 6 weeks like clock work. She eventually learned how to mix it up and dye her own (which ,bravo), but it seemed to take hours to do!! We have thick hair.

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badmammajamma521@reddit

A little of both?

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MarksRabbitHole@reddit

Anyone here who thinks they're fooling anyone or doing themselves anything even resembling a long term favour by botoxing and frying their hair... don't. Trust.

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bagOfstops@reddit

Still fighting the fight

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Leather-Sky8583@reddit

I use Hair dye. I hated my natural colour (ash brown) and dyed it even before the grays started in.

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lurkylurkeroo@reddit

Still get my hair highlighted, because my natural colour is a flat mud brown, but i love the greys, and I think i look great. Mostly because I now don't care, which makes me more chill, which makes me look better.

But people are always shocked to find out I'm 42. Most people put me at 35-37. So something is working!

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EatLard@reddit

Not wrinkly yet, but started graying in my 20s. It isn’t worth fighting it.

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whereisbeezy@reddit

Accepting it is cheaper

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Too_reflective@reddit

The baldness has made the graying invisible, so .. win?

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cgriffin123@reddit

I started to get gray hair in my early 20’s.

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gregorychaos@reddit

Thinking about dyeing it completely grey to embrace my inner daddy

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Kailicat@reddit

No, and I'm not ashamed to own my vanity. I dye my hair. I use a red light mask. I'm all aboard the tretinoin train. I slather on the SK-II. I have copper hair down to my lower back. I haven't gone surgical, I don't need to yet. But I might, I don't know. I don't want to end up looking like that cat lady, but some botox here or there, maybe someday. I went grey at like 25, my hair would be Santa Claus white by now for sure. We get one body and one life, and l like putting the care and effort into my body and my face.

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NotAboutMeNotAboutU@reddit

I’m prescribed Botox for migraines, so I have a youthful forehead, and proudly earned creases on the rest of my face. I get my hair cut once a year, can’t imagine maintaining color. I’ll embrace silver hairs on my head, but I’ll be shaving any that appear south of my belly button.

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Potato-Engineer@reddit

I'm graying like Doctor Strange. It looks good on me.

(That said, I've considered dying my hair while doing interviews, because programming has a bit of ageism.)

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lauriehouse@reddit

This i don’t know, the ageism

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Potato-Engineer@reddit

The biggest part of it is the idea of a "rockstar" developer. They're 10 times as productive as anyone else, stay up late, and live and breathe code. They're pretty rare, but they're all young: sooner or later, we all just want some sleep.

Also, because programming is a relatively fast-changing profession, there's "the dinosaur." The guy who learned COBOL 30 years ago, and was forced to switch to Java or C++ or something when the COBOL jobs dried up, but refuses to learn the new language well -- they just write their new language like it's COBOL, ignoring all the new features the language has. (Bonus: 30 years ago, there was no concept of a "technical job track" -- either you went into management, or you weren't good enough. So the actually-good developers all became managers if they could.)

All in all, it's not hugely ageist, but there is an ageist bent to the profession.

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antsam9@reddit

In East Asian culture, you'll see a lot of old faces with jet black dyed hair. I think it looks goofy. That's how my mom and dad rolled.

I'm not going out like that. It's going to look good on me.

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cyberllama@reddit

I don't have that many wrinkles, couple of and my hair has gone almost entirely a lovely silvery colour. No grumbles on that at all. The fact my lips have disappeared and I'm growing jowls and the crumbling body,.however...

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LeafyCandy@reddit

No Botox, but I was dying it. Now that it's longer, I stopped not because I accept the grays but because it's freaking expensive once your hair is past your ears.

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BeneficialShame8408@reddit

I get Botox but leave my greys alone

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Feline_Fine3@reddit

Bring it all on! Up until a couple years ago, I had dyed my hair since I was 19. And then when I hit 37-ish, I started to notice a couple silver hairs growing in my roots. And I decided I was done dying my hair. I felt like I had earned it. I had a couple friends die when we were teenagers who didn’t get to grow old. I will wear my wrinkles and gray hair with pride!

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EmbarrassedPrompt697@reddit

Botox, filler, hair dye, Tretinoin cream, constant SPF, and 3 days a week at the gym or yoga. I’m fighting it all the way baby!!!

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scottyv99@reddit

Scars are just tattoos with better stories.

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AnonPlz123@reddit

Hair dye - yes; Botox - no.

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CanLate152@reddit

Never botoxed - but dying my hair for fun

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JDnChgo@reddit

My fellow gentle dudes - we can ALL tell when you're using Just for Men on your beards. Please stop, you're already handsome.

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neonblackiscool@reddit

It looks like the guy on the Captain Morgan bottle! So bad.

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JDnChgo@reddit

It's like a weird blue-black that once you see you can't un-see

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neonblackiscool@reddit

My bf has a box in cabinet it’s so embarrassing to even look at

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Ayuuun321@reddit

Nah, Botox is for the twenty year olds. I still look young. I don’t even wear foundation.

I like my grey hairs but those things are out of control. They just stick up whatever way they want to and I let them.

My body has so many problems and most of them are things old people can relate to, like osteoarthritis. On the outside I look like I’m 28, on the inside I’m 65 and my real age is in the middle.

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Neat_Guest_00@reddit

I have not accept the wrinkles but I’m also not fighting it. If that makes sense.

I don’t need to dye my hair (yet), but I’m saving for a really good light facelift when I turn between 50 and 55.

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YEMolly@reddit

Is it normal to get a face lift at that age?!? I’m 46 & Jesus Christ, I hope I’m not close to needing a face lift. I thought people who were 70+ got those (unless you’re in Hollywood & want to look like everyone else).

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neonblackiscool@reddit

Ya it’s pretty normal

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YEMolly@reddit

Maybe a regional thing. I’m not sure it’s common for people in the Deep South to get a face lift at 50.

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neonblackiscool@reddit

I think it’s normal out here on West Coast. I’m doing it at fifty or before! I like looking good. That one is expensive tho, so last item on list. I just like minor Botox and stuff now. I’m not a plastic surgery princess.

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DramaticErraticism@reddit

They say it's much better to get it while you're younger, so you can heal faster and it looks much more natural.

If you wait until 70, it's too late as your healing capacity is much lower and your skin is much worse. Either get it young or don't do it at all.

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AppropriateAmoeba406@reddit

I’m 47 and watching the clock. I’m planning a deep plane facelift. Whole hog. When the time comes. Probably in the next 7-10 years.

I’m also still dying my hair and getting Botox though, so I guess I’m an outlier here.

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neonblackiscool@reddit

No I want one too but not yet. Not that weird, just noting how good it can look. Deep Plane. I will wait until I need it tho!

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YEMolly@reddit

I assume some look good. But everyone I see with a face lift looks sooooo weird. All pulled back & cat-like. Just blatantly obvious.

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bloomdecay@reddit

A deep-plane facelift is a completely different beast. Lindsay Lohan almost certainly had one recently to correct years of hard living.

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YEMolly@reddit

Ohh okay. Didn’t know the difference. And yes, she actually looks good and not too scary or fake.

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YEMolly@reddit

I’ll die my hair until my deathbed. So I’m with you in that aspect. Ha

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ThePolemicist@reddit

What is your reasoning behind those choices?

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matterofplant411@reddit

My hair is still not grey and I’m 46. I dyed it blonde my entire life as I was a blonde kid. Stopped dying it in my early 40s and it turns out I have beautiful rich brown hair with natural blonde highlights. Hilarious I could have saved many thousands of dollars if I’d embraced it earlier.

But Botox makes me feel better so I still get that.

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Revolutionary-Yak-47@reddit

I've had mostly white hair since I was 25 so I'm dying it. If it ever finishes and goes white-white I will stop dying it burlt this streakiness sucks.

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lauriehouse@reddit

I have my grand mothers genes and still look 23

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larryjrich@reddit

Getting older physically doesn't bother me. It's the mental decline that scares me. I don't care if I get gray hair or wrinkles but I'm terrified of getting Alzheimer's like my grandmother or just seeing how elderly people decline and just acting weird or getting weird ideas.

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TopRamenGod@reddit

Hair dye, no? I accept the grey hairs, but don’t accept the receding hairline, so I have been using a hair treatment for over 2 years now. The results have been dramatic. Haven’t gotten all the hair back, but it has certainly improved to a noticeable degree.

As far as wrinkles, I accept what they are, but I’ve definitely kicked up my skin care routine to at least the basics of washing my face when I get up, and washing my face before I go to bed, and moisturizing after anytime I wash my face. This alone has made an amazing difference in the supposed age appearance. The lines are still there, and I’m fine with them being there, they just aren’t as stark as before when I was letting my face remain dry and oily.

So emotionally I accept the aging, but that doesn’t mean I have to let myself look my worst all the time. Self-care isn’t denial, lack of self-acceptance is.

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jennypenny78@reddit

I've taken to half-assing a skincare routine. I know it can't reverse what's already there but I can at least slow down it's progression. As for hair, I kept it natural for about 8 years, then finally decided to have fun with color. My current go-to is platinum lilac... So a silvery platinum color with a light purple overtone. I love it and as the greys keep coming in, the color itself, when I finally decide to grow it out, will blend right in!

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Atlas7-k@reddit

Better grey then gone

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PuzzleheadedStage426@reddit

Gray since high school not wrinkling yet at 40

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illatious@reddit

I tried botox 2, maybe 3 times mainly because my older sister was starting to offer it at her office so I got it for cost. I hated how I couldn't move my face like normal (which is the point, I know). I couldn't get over it, so no more. I'm fine with my big forehead wrinkles and little crows feet.

I still get highlights and occasionally dye my hair a crazy color, but that's what I've always done... You can see some of my grays. I don't really care though tbh.

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stykface@reddit

Fully accepting it. I am active (still play hockey twice a week after 30+ years), I eat healthy and I exercise so my body itself is still in good shape, but I do see my skin changing, my muscles not being as tight as they once were and hair changing color/thinning. I intend to age gracefully and naturally.

But I do pay attention and change a few personal manicure processes so I'm adjusting to what needs to be maintained. For instance, nose hairs are getting a little longer, so are my eye brow hairs so I'm treating those more.

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FionaGoodeEnough@reddit

I’ve been accepting individual grey hairs since my early 20s, but I am getting impatient for them to form into a fetching Rogue-style streak. I wear a massive amount of sunblock, so the wrinkles are just not there yet.

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Unhappy-Fox1017@reddit

Accepting it. I’ve never dyed my hair and don’t intend to start. I don’t mind my gray hair as much as I mind gravity taking a toll on my freaking face. BUT, I tell myself it’s a blessing to live into my 40’s and it’s a privilege that a lot of my old friends never had, because they died so young. So, I won’t ever do Botox or anything like that. I am how I am, and getting old means wrinkles, gray hair and saggy skin. It’s just life and I’m embracing it instead of trying to run from it.

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Ayanok@reddit

40 now, I had 0 gray in my beard 8 years ago. Now almost look like Santa, I attribute this due to stress from my children 😡

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vlazuvius@reddit

Oh, once I accepted my receding hairline a decade ago and got rid of my once glorious locks (the week my wife told me I had a “skullet”), it was clear none of this other stuff would phase me.

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etoiline@reddit

I cannot be bothered to do anything about the greys. I honestly think it's kind of cool to have streaks of silver at my temples. I do use a little moisturizer for my face, but that's more because I don't want skin cancer than to prevent wrinkles.

Who has time to spend on dying hair or the money to sit in a doctor's office while they stab you with needles? I'm finally at the point where I can decide what to do with my time and money without worrying about where my next meal or rent is coming from, and I'd much rather spend it on fun stuff than "fixing" something that isn't broken.

(But that's just me. I'm also too lazy to go somewhere and get blue streaks in my hair, so those of you who spend time on yourself, you go girl (gender neutral)!)

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Boring_3304@reddit

Accepting it. I'll never get botox but I do like to dye my hair, more for funsies than to cover gray hair though.

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Peterepeatmicpete@reddit

Acceptance

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eyelinerqueen83@reddit

Accept!

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genesimmonstongue415@reddit

To each their own.

But I Embrace it. I EARNED my grey hair & baby beer belly. (Well aware, this is easy for a man to do.)

Ladies: you look hot with grey hairs. Fuck what this dumbass-cesspool-People-magazine-society says.

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HomemadeJambalaya@reddit

I like my gray hairs. Right now there's a small handful and they are a beautiful silver color. My husband calls it "tinsel".

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HomemadeJambalaya@reddit

Gray hair is fine, mine is a nice glittery silver sparkle.

Wrinkles - I won't do Botox or surgery but I have spent probably thousands of dollars on anti-aging skincare and gadgets and masks and whatnot. I will not go quietly into that saggy wrinkly night.

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Budgiejen@reddit

I am not fighting.

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misskellycupcake@reddit

My colorist says I still don't have greys. Been dying it a completely different color than my natural since before COVID, just because it looks better with my completion. My mom started getting greys on her 20s but if I take after my dad on hair color then I have another 5 years before I get whites.

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DaveyJonesFannyPack@reddit

I earned this shit. Might as well flex it

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Late-Arrival-8669@reddit

Still dont have wrinkles oddly.

Grey hair, oh yeah, I sport it around.

Family talked me into dyeing it once, only lasted \~month or so. Too much work.

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Anonymous_person13@reddit

Honestly, dyeing hair is so much work. Dyed mine a couple of times but never kept it up more than a few months. It's also expensive! I'd love to rock some purple hair, but I'm just too lazy and would rather spend the money on something else.

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DramaticErraticism@reddit

Neither do I, my tip is to just have autism, so you have no facial expression and never get any wrinkles. Secret youth beauty tip!

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spamburger326@reddit

I embrace my grays

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skyHawk3613@reddit

Accepting it. My wife points out the wrinkles around my eyes and sun damage, but I just don’t care.

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RapsodicalDisciple@reddit

I'm working on accepting the wrinkles, but I don't have grey hair yet, and I'm looking forward to it when it finally comes, lol

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2diceMisplaced@reddit

I dyed my beard and my success in scoring second interviews after the initial screening has more than doubled.

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Knitsanity@reddit

Never done anything to my face except moisturizer and sunscreen. Never dyed my hair either. Too cheap and lazy.

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stephsco@reddit

I've been dying my hair since 15 for fun so I'm used to it. No wrinkles here, but I've got other problems... I definitely am feeling my age more. Doing my best to be active and build back some muscle!

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CatManDo206@reddit

Accept it Botox looks ugly and extremely unnatural to me. I just accept at least I have hair even though I have a lot of white hair

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Fluffy_Coyote_4226@reddit

No grey yet, I still dye it for funsies at home though. I Botox my 11's and have for years.

Reason #1 because I scrunch so hard I give myself headaches and #2 I'm so scared about age discrimination at work and I solely support 2 kids. I wake up at night and just worry about losing my job because women statistically start going downhill on income after 40s and I need to keep a roof over our heads. I don't date and don't really care about being pretty or cute I just want to stay relevant in my job. It's stupid.

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Fuckspez42@reddit

My father fought his greying hair with every product and remedy he could find.

I’ve never once dyed my hair, despite having been at least partially grey since my mid-30s, and I don’t plan to. If anything, I might consider dying it all grey just for consistency.

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rarselfaire2023@reddit

Wrinkles, idc, but I just don't like gray anything so I'll probably be dyeing. Rn I'm 45 and what little gray is there isn't very noticeable yet.

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ofTHEbattle@reddit

Shoot what wrinkles and gray hair? Seriously though, 41 with no wrinkles anywhere, I have some grays but the ones on the top of my head blend in quite well, the grays in my beard stand out like crazy! There's only a few of them though.

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flowerodell@reddit

Retinol for my lines and milkshake colored foam mousse to give my hair a tint of color.

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Jaded_Specialist1453@reddit

I’ve got a pretty cool white swatch of hair in the front. Looks pretty badass when pulled back. I’m 42 now but still get mistaken for 38 ish so I’m not too worried, lol. My husband (also 42) has started seeing some more wrinkles and more white hairs and is not too happy, lol, but I keep reminding him how sexy he looks and how he’s hotter now than when we were younger (he tells me the same, and we both actually mean it, haha) so I think he’s good.

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Jets237@reddit

Accepting it. Rock a mostly grey beard and it’s creating up further and further, hairs about 50/50

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brinazee@reddit

I'm too lazy for upkeep, only getting a hair cut once a year (and keeping it from heat to avoid split ends the rest of the rest. My stylist is amazing and it grows out really well.), so my hair has been greying for the past twenty years and it's now about 60-70% grey. I have a bit of a fat face, so I only have a hint of wrinkles, just one of the vertical lines between my brows.

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AlohaSmiles@reddit

My graying started with a white stripe in the middle at the front. I call it my evil stripe, I'm in my villain phase.

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_sam_fox_@reddit

Botox, a tiny bit of lip filler, and hair colour (but I do it myself). My skincare routine is super basic - cleanse/exfoliate/sunscreen - and I only wear makeup or style my hair if I'm going out, which is relatively rare.

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ZillaDroid@reddit

Not only accepting, but embracing. Every day I'm still here is another victory & I'm gunna be happy with it, no matter what it (& I) look like 🫶🏼

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The_Epoch@reddit

I've been grey since my 20s, its never been described as a bad thing

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AzureIceHime@reddit

Aging is a privilege and I plan to let everything be.

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be_loved_freak@reddit

I'll always dye my hair because I love playing with colors. No botox or surgery for me, though. But that doesn't mean I'm accepting wrinkles: there are so many things you can do to keep your skin happy like tretinoin & spf.

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jackytheripper1@reddit

Botox for migraines, added bonus of eyebrow Botox. No hair dye I let it grow in during the pandemic and I actually get compliments!

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Neat_Pineapple_7240@reddit

I’m welcoming the gray hairs. My mother is 80 and looks 50. I’m 47 and it shocks ppl when they find out. My wife and I don’t have kids , 1. life is awesome 2. I still feel like I’m 25 Starting to get some gray facial hair. Making me feel like an adult🤣

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Ok-Reflection-6207@reddit

Honestly, I was kind of excited when my daughter found some on my head, they weren’t where I could see them. They were on the back of my head and I think they blend into my hair because it’s kind of a strawberry blonde color with lots of colors if I look at it closely enough.. a majority of my friends have completely grey hair so if anything I felt like I was finally a part of my crew!!

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Ok-Reflection-6207@reddit

These are the hairs that she found throughout my hair, the placemat where we put the hairs down was dirty, obviously though. I’m surprised that we didn’t see/find any earlier. I always assumed gray hairs were super thick and I would feel a wiry presence in my hair, but that wasn’t the case for me.

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imadork1970@reddit

I started going grey when I hit 30, totally grey by 35. Fuck it.

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OutrageForSale@reddit

I look young. I grow a beard in the winter because it has grays in it.

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The_Twig_Snapper@reddit

Accepting it. Don’t care. Happiest I have ever been is when I stopped caring what men think about my body.

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Ilyaya@reddit

I'm 47 and have yet to find a single grey hair which seriously disappoints me because I spent way too much for years to be platinum blonde and all I want is silvery white hair.

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chrisobrien13@reddit

Laughing in male pattern baldness

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Lord_Wicki@reddit

I don't care about the wrinkles or the grays, I'm 44, and the grays are just starting to come into the sideburns and have been growing in on the facial hair for the last few years. I have dirty blonde hair, so it seems like a slow transition.

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doubleUdoubleUthree@reddit

I don’t dye my hair to cover greys. I dye my hair because I’m a young badass punk rocker. I’m sticking it to the man!!!😂

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bathwat3r@reddit

Botox no, hair dye yes. I just can’t do grays, I only get them here and there and honestly I feel unkempt when I don’t dye them. Hopefully one day I grow grays in a way that allows me to leave them be and be natural. I’ve seen some women who leave their natural gray hair and they look so pretty, I just look dirty. 🤣

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Calm-Tree-1369@reddit

Apparently I'm aging more slowly than the other people around here because I'm not really dealing with either one of those issues yet. I wouldn't really give a damn as long as my health is good, though.

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Redlady0227@reddit

Yes I have. My hair is turning a shiny ✨ snow white and so I just go ahead and even it out with the bleach

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Funandgeeky@reddit

The salt and pepper looking working for me.

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TastyIttyBittiTreat@reddit

I've been dying my hair since I was 16. It's not about the potential grey. If I start going white, I'll reassess.

Wrinkles are life experiences. I have no issues with it. Kinda like the stretch marks that came with every pregnancy.

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Jolly-Owl-7583@reddit

My wallet dictates what I accept. And what I am accepting of these days is looking rough AF.

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PokerbushPA@reddit

They're called "battle scars", thank you very much. Good day!

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rels83@reddit

I’ve been dying my hair since I was 18, but I’m starting to get highlights so the grey isn’t so noticeable when it grows out

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000solar@reddit

I'm aging like fine wine

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plantverdant@reddit

Accepting it. My sister got Botox and I hate how it looks but I told her she looks amazing. She does, I just don't want it for my face. She barely looks like family anymore.

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siderealsystem@reddit

In my 40s with neither yet... I know it's coming... I don't like thinking about it though.

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bivo979@reddit

I want my beard to turn white. Its 60% white. Ive been wanting this to happen for a while.

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jacobthellamer@reddit

What grey hair and wrinkles? Surely they are still a decade away..

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Feenixy@reddit

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Not Botox and dye, but moisturizer and razors.

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thus_spake_7ucky@reddit

Wait… Y’all still have hair??

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ZeldaHylia@reddit

I have never dyed my hair. I’ve had some grey since my early twenties . Doesn’t bother me. I don’t have wrinkles. I avoid the sun.. don’t smoke or drink. My skin looks good.

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Hot_Gas_8073@reddit

I'm old. I look my age. I've never used any thing beauty related like that, I don't even know how.

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katastrophyx@reddit

I rock the grey in my beard like a badge of honor.

I would never dye my hair.

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Starbreiz@reddit

Im 47 and literally have 0 wrinkles. Its weird. I'm hypermobile and on the wait list for an EDS specialist.

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Merickwise@reddit

🤔 botox 🤮, but hair dye sure nature took the natural color out I can put back whatever color I want now 😂

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Other_Ad_613@reddit

I started loosing my hair when I was 24ish so I made my piece with aging 20 years ago.

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ejcoop@reddit

Accepting without judging those who decide to do what makes them feel good.

My Mom died young and would have loved the opportunity for grays and wrinkles - that’s what grounds me.

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FeelTheWrath79@reddit

I’m ok with my hair. But I’m sad about my wrinkles. I got Botox once, and I’m considering it again.

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teriKatty@reddit

I just use lotion on my wrinkles. I don’t have any gray (if I do it’s less than 1% of my hair).

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taptaptippytoo@reddit

No hair dye or botox, but I'm starting to consider creams that people say reduce wrinkles or whatnot. I don't feel a need to look young, but I don't love constantly looking tired and vaguely infirm. I'm hoping a little "vibrance" can be brought back to these aging cheeks without having to absolutely cake them with makeup.

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Platt_Mallar@reddit

My beard is an awesome mix of black and gray. Like 50/50. My hair is still 95% black. Some of my chest hair is turning gray, so I figure I'll be a silver back before long.

When I was 16, I realized I had 1 bald AF grandpa and 1 silver fox grandpa. I decided I would accept what comes either way, like they did. Turns out I have most of my hair, and it's stayed black about 10 years longer than I expected.

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toejampotpourri@reddit

Rogain is my only hair go-to. The seas are rising in the front, and I'm forming a lake in the back. So far it's reversed some of the thinning. Been going grey long before hair loss, but my wife likes it. At some point I'll accept my fate.

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lookforfrogs@reddit

I haven't got either yet, not really. I'm 42 and people generally think I'm in my early or mid 30s. I have maybe a few greys here and there and only have a few creases on my forehead. My hands are what gives away my age the most, and I've accepted it. I plan to accept the other changes as they come as well.

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rosie705612@reddit

I'm enjoying it

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ohfrackthis@reddit

I'm fully off of dye . My hair is past my shoulder blades and salt and pepper. I get asked if I dyed my hair this way all of the time lol

It's wayyyy less maintenance than my dyed hair. If you have thick fast growing hair- dye is a gerbil wheel and money pit.

I have tried botox but I'm doing it half ass because I haven't gotten any in a few years.

I do use sunscreen religiously and wear hats due to melasma though.

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IvenaDarcy@reddit

I had grays since my 20’s but only a few now they are taking over. I tried to embrace it but it really does make one look older or at the very least like you aren’t into maintaining your looks at all. I found a way to highlight my hair so they blend in much better. It’s easier to maintain than constant dying and more affordable as well.

I have eleven lines and I do want to get Botox for them. Other than that no wrinkles yet. A few friends got Botox and they look great. I wouldn’t have known unless they told me. I just assumed they were happier than before the Botox so looked better lol

I think the above is an example of the influences around us. If you have a circle that isn’t much into appearances and fine not dying their hair or doing Botox then you might feel the same about those things? I don’t want to fight age and growing old cause we all will look old at some point but I also want to continue looking like I care and good for as long as possible, if not until I die :)

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pienofilling@reddit

I dye my grey hair but colours like pale purple, pink or rose gold. It used to be bold colours but I can't be arsed keeping up with the roots on the front half of my hair.

Honestly, even lots of grey hair looks better than dark hair with centimetre long roots shining through!

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Ube_Ape@reddit

Embracing it. My brother died of cancer at 38, so I’m fully welcoming my forties, gray hairs, wrinkles and aches.

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LadyHelaofGallifrey@reddit

I’m a natural redhead I started going silver in my late 20s wasn’t ready for it then still not accepting it and I just dipped my toes into the Botox pool I have to say it was soooo worth it! I’m just not ready to look my age I don’t feel like I’m in my mid 40s so I’m fighting gracefully as long as I can without looking like someone from the hunger games

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Gr00mpa@reddit

I love the grays that are coming in my beard and mustache.

Wrinkles? I don’t care.

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AgentOrange1717@reddit

I recently accepted my grey hair. Luckily I haven’t developed any real wrinkles yet, but when I do, I’ll let them come.

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faintly_nebulous@reddit

To everything there is a season. 🤷‍♀️

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Moist-Tomorrow-7022@reddit

I think so. I don't have many wrinkles, but I definitely see my forehead lines and crow's feet. I don't get bothered by it. And I got my first gray at 41 last year. I've plucked any I see, but now they are prolific and I just can't keep up anymore. So, I have left them alone and now I my hair is about 10% gray. Man, they show up fast!

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Lcky22@reddit

I get my hair colored but don’t mind the wrinkles. My hands got crepe papery but otherwise I don’t feel very wrinkly yet. I don’t notice them on other people our age, either. Just lots of gray beards and temples.

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mzshowers@reddit

I’m definitely dying my hair. I feel better with some color! I always enjoyed doing cool stuff to my hair and I don’t think age is going to change that.

No botox.. that stuff spooks me and I don’t need it. My family has some good genes when it comes to aging, so I am satisfied at this point and just hoping for the best.

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BananaBreadBetty@reddit

No, I’m too lazy to keep up with dyeing my hair and since it’s curly, it kinda hides the greys anyway. I have also seen my mother’s vanity over her appearance and aging really take a steep mental toll and I am trying to break that generational cycle because my maternal grandmother also had the tendency to be vain. I do sometimes look back at older pictures and mourn the passing of my youth, but I try not to make it everyone else’s problem.

But also? I’m almost forty fucking three and I’m already married. Who am I trying to fool?

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charcuterDude@reddit

I want to look as old as fucking possible so people stop rushing me in Trader Joe's. I'm old at heart. 🤣

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SusanxStrange@reddit

Mostly accept all of it but do get botox between the eyes because genetically im in for wicked double grand canyons there and I am not ready for it.

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aenflex@reddit

I don’t use injectables, but I do use sunscreen and tretinoin and other topicals.

And I dye my hair. I’ve tried grey and it looks like ass on me.

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PorkChopS8ndwiches@reddit

Tretinoin really works!

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rogue1206@reddit

This is my life. My husband I dying a small strip of his beard so he can look like Orson Welles but that’s it.

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PorkChopS8ndwiches@reddit

I’m a playful creative so, while I have grey strands, I also have blue, purple, and pink streaks in my hair. I’ve been getting Botox since I turned 40. Enough to look more refreshed, but not too much so that my face still moves naturally. I’ve also been a big fan of sunscreen from the time I was in middle school, so I think that’s really helped. I’m just aging the way I want to age. None of my business however anyone else wants to do it. Our bodies, our choices, right?

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schadenfrau@reddit

Accepting while seeing if small tweaks can show results. I have dyed my hair my whole adult life and have some pinks and purples in a peekaboo flash. I do probably have some grays in there because I have some white eyebrow hairs coming in. No Botox or fillers or anything “med” from the med spa. I did get one of those LED masks on sale so we’ll see what she does. The world gets me how it gets me, what I do to my looks these days is for myself.

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Expensive-Ad1609@reddit

42F. What wrinkles and grey hair? I have dynamic wrinkles, yes, but no static wrinkles as far as I'm aware.

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Imaginary_Attempt_82@reddit

My gray hairs don’t bother me but the fact that my hair is now mostly just brown not red bothers me to no end. So yep I get a gloss on it every few months to make it red again.

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BigDaddyUKW@reddit

Colored my beard for about five years. Let it go somewhat recently. I guess the answer is that I did but I don't anymore, and I surely don't judge anyone either way.

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singy_eaty_time@reddit

BOTOX AND DYE BABY.

But then again I’ve been dying my hair since the 7th grade. Aging or not, it's just what I like to do and there's no reason to stop now.

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QuietAggravating8195@reddit

42, no grey nor wrinkle. But I got high blood pressure, so there's that.

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No-Pianist9277@reddit

Accepting my grays, not too many wrinkles yet. The chin hairs gotta go as soon as I notice them, though.

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Nom-de-Clavier@reddit

At 47, I have a relatively unlined face thanks to lack of sun exposure, and only have a few grey hairs on my head (yay, genetics; my maternal grandmother had relatively little grey hair when she died at the age of 80); my beard, however, comes in about 75% grey. If I shave I instantly look 5-10 years younger.

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ChumleyEX@reddit

It's natural, so I accept it and don't want to look unnatural like how botox etc leave you looking.

I shave my head too.

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Character_Bend_5824@reddit

(Male) I was a blondish toddler, very boring brown as a child, then started going gray around 17. Tried various bad brown or bleached dye jobs. Never got it right until I discovered stronger bleach and toning. I had strikingly good looking platinum hair for so many years that a lot of people at work thought it was natural. It became an identity, born of a dysmorphia, and reinforced by constant praise. I really did experience peak hotness during this period. It was great! However, I felt like joining an exclusive club based on a lie. So I stopped. Lo and behold my natural color had progressed so far during that time that I now have stark white hair with hilights of light and medium brown. In certain lights, I really "am" a blond. That'll work!

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nelmski@reddit

I've got 2 gen x sisters fastly approaching 60. They are fighting so hard to be 20 - Botox, eye lifts, tummy tucks, ozempic. It seems exhausting and expensive. That's why I have vowed to embody my true form as a bog goblin! It's very satisfying to meet their friends and introduce myself as the youngest and then to point out the 13&15 year age gap! Then when the friend looks at me and then looks at them and looks back at me in confusion, I just wave my hand towards my sisters and say "oh, that's all fake, I'm the before and a constant reminder they're near the grave" then I cackle and disappear into a cloud of smoke!

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Intelligent_Part101@reddit

Ozempic is not some cosmetic fake thing like a plastic surgery. In overweight people, it changes metabolic and insulin response for the better. It is the first drug that really works to help people lose weight in a way that is not harmful to them. Being overweight is not just a "looks" issue. Fundamentally, it is a health issue, and I'm not going to throw shade on anyone who uses it to get healthier.

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Capital_Pin_3553@reddit

I’m here for it.

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OgreBane99@reddit

I started getting gray in my early 30s. I just accept it. Mostly on the sides of my head and beard, but I stay clean shaven with buzzed head so it's not obvious until my hair grows out.

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Ineedavodka2019@reddit

Hair dye for the win. I will not accept your ridicule and I will not judge your grey hair. No botox yet but I am thinking of a chemical peel.

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MinnieCastavets@reddit

I’m 42, I don’t have any gray hairs yet. My wrinkles are minimal, so far. But no, I’m not ready to accept them when they come! Not at all! I don’t know that I’ll do anything about them, though.

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NSFW_Milkshake@reddit

I wear them proudly. Earned every single one of them and they are directly proportional to the amount of F’s I give when young people look at them in a negative manner.

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AggravatingOkra1117@reddit

I'm dyeing my hair because the gray is a hot mess the way it's come in. Everything else I'm leaving alone, my laugh lines and crinkles are a lovely thing

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Sufficient_Video97@reddit

100% rock my gray and will NEVER get Botox because I would 100% be the person who has a bad reaction and who's face winds up half wonky!

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SoloMotorcycleRider@reddit

I'd rather age gracefully than look even worse with botox and hair dye.

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averageparrot@reddit

I think botox and hair dye are of the last generation. I don’t think ours cares that much about aging or sees it as a fault that needs to be covered up. I’m sure there are people our age out there who do these things, but in general, I don’t think either botox or hair dye are popular anymore.

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BlackMile47@reddit

Def depends where you live, because I'm in LA and it's alive and well.

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averageparrot@reddit

Lol, I would say LA is definitely a special case scenario. Good to know people are still aspiring to look fake in Tinseltown! 😄

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antibeingkilled@reddit

I fight the grays, can’t afford to fight the wrinkles lol

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Sinborn@reddit

I've accepted nothing because I stay out of the sun so no wrinkles yet, and I just have won the hair genetics lottery cause my hair hasn't greyed at all. My gf is pissed 😆

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Bubbalicia@reddit

I’ve been going gray since age 25 so dye for sure but not Botox. Still trying to avoid sun and use a good crows feet cream! (I am AFAB)

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actionlady80@reddit

I'll be on my deathbed getting these highlights touched up.

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pinkyepsilon@reddit

I wish my jawline was like it used to be…

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nothathappened@reddit

Embracing the grey. I’ve finally got a good vitamin thing going so my hair is thicker and not wiry looking. I don’t have very many wrinkles so far. TBD of I do anything later, I guess. But I’m fairly happy with aging.

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theLoDown@reddit

35f. DINK. Have died my hair for 15 years at this point. Not a gray hair found yet. I just prefer to be blonde now versus my natural mousey greige. I did Botox once. Right now though I'm focusing on my skincare and use a red/infrared light therapy mask and frownies to slow the wrinkle progression.

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MiniPantherMa@reddit

No Botox. Fighting it with moisturizers and hair dye.

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chibi75@reddit

I am who I am. I just use Oil of Olay facial moisturizer to help keep the wrinkles somewhat at bay, and the gray hairs I have are something I deal with. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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pterrible_ptarmigan@reddit

Dye, yes, at least until it's all changed over. But even then I like to do fashion/fun colors!

Botox and the like?

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Forsythia77@reddit

I have enough melanin that I consistently get told I look mid-30s instead of 48. My hair is purple. But also, my father didn't go gray until he was quite far along into his 70s, and I have his hair. So, no grays yet.

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nyXhcinPDX@reddit

I'm 40...greyish beard with most fully brown on my head....no botox or dyed hair ever for me.

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Intelligent_Part101@reddit

Grey hair if the hair is quite short doesn't look "the worst." On long hair it looks awful though because there is so much more of it. So in my opinion, guys can go gray but it is extremely aging on a woman, if typical hairstyles are worn.

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JeffTS@reddit

I've got the Paulie Walnuts hair coloring going on. My friends would mock me endlessly if I used hair dye. They can be pretty brutal but that's where I got my tough skin. Lol.

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kymilovechelle@reddit

Accepting and embracing it. No more highlights and no more worrying about wrinkles. I believe their rights of passage into aging. Like a fine wine.

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socialcommentary2000@reddit

I'm Spanish and Moroccan so I have the skin thing on lock, but my grays are making me look like some sort of Sephardi mystic from the Atlas mountains.

I'm cool with it.

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Psychological_Air455@reddit

nice ethnic combo btw. I used to live in Andalucia, and Morocco was my favorite trip I took. magical country over there, no wonder your skin is glowing ✨

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Lumpy_Branch_552@reddit

There is one wrinkle I fix in between my eyebrows with Botox. I also dye my hair

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KadiusDar@reddit

Accepted it before it Bagan years ago lol

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superdupermanda@reddit

I've been going gray since my mid 20s. I will keep on dyeing my hair until I get tired of it.

I'm very into skincare and slather myself in all sorts of goo with my 18374 step routine plus loads of sunscreen during the day. My mom is in her late 60s and passes for late 40s/early 50s - I hope to do the same, lol. We get asked if we are sisters a LOT. T_T

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Ippus_21@reddit

Idk what you're talking about. I don't have those things you speak of. De Nile's not just a river in Egypt, y'know.

Seriously, though, I have like 4-6 gray hairs at my temples - and my hair is too short to notice.

Plus idgaf how many wrinkles I get, I'm not paralyzing my facial muscles with botulinum toxin (like I could afford it anyway, lol).

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HangTheTJ@reddit

I’m taking pills to (hopefully) keep my hair from falling out, but other than that not doing anything

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oneway92307@reddit

I say age gracefully. We all age, none of us have a say in the matter, why hide it?

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giraffemoo@reddit

Accepting it. Fighting it looks dumb IMHO, like you're clinging to youth.

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LumberJack2008@reddit

Ya'll still have hair?

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CottaBird@reddit

I’ve accepted them. At 41, I still have long, thick hair down just below my bellybutton, but lots of grey streaks. As soon as it starts to thin on top, I’m going to cut it into a mega mullet as a last hurrah before I chop it all off.

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Tall_0rder@reddit

Used to pluck out my grey hairs when I was in my early 30s. Have come to terms with them now. May or may not be becoming Mr. Fantastic 😂

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BlackMile47@reddit

I've been dying and changing my hair since I was in high school, so that has nothing to do with aging. No idea if it's gray. I love botox and I get filler in my temples because I lost A LOT of volume in my face when I hit 40 and I didnt recognize myself. It's all done in a way that even my husband wouldnt know if he didnt know, because subtle is always the key.

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Wak3upHicks@reddit

my biggest irk is the psoriasis that I discovered on my scalp thanks to the receding hairline, but nothing can do about it so it is what it is

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Key_Zucchini9764@reddit

I accepted it a long time ago. Vanity has left the building.

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runningskirtsnmanis@reddit

I don't have any wrinkles and I dye my hair for fun, not because I want to cover greys.

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Several-Two-7173@reddit

I’ve been dying my hair way before I ever got a gray hair lol so I continue to do that and would absolutely be open to Botox or fillers when I feel that I need it

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tasukiko@reddit

I dye my hair but not so much for greys and just because I like this color better than my natural. I'm fighting wrinkles with creams so far. I may do a mini lift at some point in the future. The jowls are the worst. I am fine with the crows feet.

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THE_Lena@reddit

Been dyeing my hair since high school and I’m so tired of it. But I don’t want to live through the grow out phase. Send help. Lol

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scatteredwiring27@reddit

Not graying much just yet. I'd rather just be me, real, not cover anything up other than wearing a hat practically to limit UV exposure of my half-balding scalp...

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Kylynara@reddit

I've got good genes and haven't got it too bad in either case (My mom is 68 and still has her natural brown hair. Her older brother is 80 and bald, but the hair that's left is only salt & pepper). But I was also always raised with "You get older or you die." being the response to aging and yeah. I'm pretty good with it.

That said I sometimes dye my hair, but that's more about making it pink than covering grey.

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barbiegirl2381@reddit

I guess I just have very good genes. No grey and no wrinkles to speak of.

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ube1kenobi@reddit

Accepting it. Hair is not graying much so it's not a problem. If my hair does gray out, I'll color it with other colors since my hair is so dark and I don't need to bleach it lol

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nicvaykay@reddit

I started getting grays at 21. That's never really bothered me, but I am starting to debate getting a little Botox.

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dbzmah@reddit

It hasn't fully hit me yet, but I'm only 43, and just have gray in the beard where red used to be.

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AmethystBlitz3319@reddit

I’m going to be wrinkled and gray. I already have lots of gray hairs now and I’m okay with them.

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MyNameIsNot_Molly@reddit

I'm sure I'll get downloaded because this is Reddit, but I enjoy playing around with my appearance and that includes Botox and other cosmetic treatments. I don't do them because I'm terrified of looking "old" I personally like the changes they make to my skin and face (evening out my crooked eyebrows for example).

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Derfargin@reddit

I’m a guy and my wife said she would divorce me if I started dying my gray hairs.

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ThrowyMcThrowaway04@reddit

I'm okay with the wrinkles tho I barely have any. I'm panicked about grey hair though because I don't know what I'm going to do because I don't think I'd want to be constantly going to the salon to get it taken cared of.

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bedbathandbebored@reddit

My mum went grey in a fat strip and I can only hope I go that way. But if I go grey, at least I can finally stop using mascara. Lol

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KillerR0b0T@reddit

I could give a shit about either of those things if I could just get the self discipline to stop being a fat POS.

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bartropolis@reddit

You guys have hair?

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Crans10@reddit

No wrinkles to worry about but I pluck a few grey hairs but going bald earlier I don’t mind the grey hairs on my head so much they made it.

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Cerebral-Knievel-1@reddit

I earned every last one of them

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EliseV@reddit

No Botox, but hair dye and weight lifting. Although, I might be about ready to gray blend soon. 84' birthday here. I thought I was just an old millennial.

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Heisenberglund@reddit

I am who I am, and not stressing over things. A few greys, a few wrinkles. Gives me character.

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refuge9@reddit

I’m a dude that stays inside, so wrinkles are whatever. And I no longer have hair, so.. nothing to dye except a beard. XD

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Prelude9925@reddit

I’m accepting wholeheartedly because I still have hair.

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lurker512879@reddit

I'm accepting it, also I'm a guy, I have no time to spend correcting visual shit

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Swisiws@reddit

I like my salt and pepper. Wear it with pride.

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Ackapus@reddit

I was prepared for gray hairs and wrinkles. I was prepared for the thinning and receding hairline. Hell, I was even prepared for the ear and nose hair.

What I was not prepared for was beard growth that only ever gets long enough to be stabby and itchy, and never long enough to look intentional.

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DaughterisaDancer@reddit

Full acceptance!

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PetrolGator@reddit

Aging is a privilege not everyone gets. I’ll stick to taking care of myself and not hiding the fact imma gettin’ old.

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Confident_Catch8649@reddit

73 and still have all My hair. As long as its still on My head, I really don't care if its gray.

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anonymoose_2048@reddit

Yeah. I don’t really care. I am blonde and don’t really have any gray on the top of my head. However I have a ton in my beard. I like it.

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neutralliberty@reddit

my hair's been dyed and bleached into a combination that looks like a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich for so long I don't remember a time it wasn't and I'll keep doing it until i'm old, it's already grey in spots and if they're in the dark brown side they get to stay, I kinda like the little bit of sparkle they make it look like I've got. My hair started to go grey in my early 20's in spots, so who knows how much under the blonde and red is grey at this point.

I'd never do botox on my face or whatever, I got lucky with good genetics and don't have sun damage on my face even though I'm horrible about sunscreen. I can say i've definitely started giving my neck some side eye as I've been slowly losing weight over the last couple years and i feel like it's making me look older than I am.

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StuffNThingsK@reddit

Natural

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moonchylde@reddit

I'm pissed I inherited my mom's Never Go Grey Hair and my late paternal grandmother's round chubbiness. I looked like a teenager in my 20s.

And now I'm wishing my dark hair was a lighter color so I didn't have to bleach it if I want anything other than brown or black.

And I'm pretty sure my coworkers regularly forget I'm closer to 50 than 40. Well, genetics, living in PDX instead of Fresno, and wearing sunscreen.

Don't forget kiddos, if there's one piece of advice to take away from my rambling, it's always wear sunscreen.

https://ofwhiskeyandwords.com/wear-sunscreen-by-mary-schmich/

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don’t worry about the future, or worry, but know that worry is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind. The kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

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AnotherDarnedThing@reddit

I accept the wrinkles but some may say I am avoiding the graying hair: I shave my head. I do it because the degree of balding is pretty bad and my lady and I think I look better bald, not balding.

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Rhodin265@reddit

I’d rather save my Grim Reaper-fighting money for copays and less-processed foods.

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cwbyangl9@reddit

It's against my ethos of a xennial to care. As if.

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phdpinup@reddit

I dye my hair grey😅 but no Botox for me

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solscry@reddit

I’m 43 and have one gray hair that I pluck. I Botox regularly.

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No_Reporter2768@reddit

Don't pluck it! I believe there is some truth in that old wives tale - that you pluck one, more will grow back! I have substantially more gray hair in the areas where I pulled them out! I know science says different, but so does my head!

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solscry@reddit

Thank you dear Xennial. I’ve heard this too! I will leave it to blow in the wind! Lol

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No_Reporter2768@reddit

😂

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timidwildone@reddit

Just started letting some face-framing grays stick around (like my queen Stacy London), but still get my new growth colored elsewhere. No to botox!

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C0tt0nC4ndyM0uth@reddit

I haven’t seen my real hair color since I was 13, so I’m not stopping that now, however I haven’t done any Botox or anything. Not saying I wouldnt but I have way bigger problems in life right now than crows feet 🤣

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JoeSpic01@reddit

I find this question so funny. Can someone answer this question honestly... when you see someone with botox and lip fillers and fake eyes lashes and a plastic looking face do you really go "wow! Super hottie!!!!"? Genuinely asking. Also on the flip side are you seeing people with wrinkles or with grey/white hair and saying "wow they are hideous?". I feel safe asking my fellow xennials on this one as this is something I truly never understood.

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FloridaGirlMary@reddit

Not putting anything in my face but I will continue to dye my gray hair. It started changing when I was only 21 😞

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Willing_Actuary_4198@reddit

I'm just happy I still have hair

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gems1220@reddit

I dye my hair and using serums but not gonna go down the botox road

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ihateyou__people@reddit

I’m fighting it with denial. Does that count?

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Equivalent-Coat-7354@reddit

At 60 I don’t mind the facial wrinkles,they’re expressive. It’s the creases and loose skin on my neck that I think really age me.

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KingCarnivore@reddit

I don’t have wrinkles yet but I plan on getting a necklift when I’m around 50, people in my family get really jowly as they age and I don’t want those.

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JamesH_670@reddit

I’m still dying my hair black, but if I miss a few grey hairs here or there, I don’t care. I am wary of looking like those weather-faced boomers with jet black hair, so I’ve been using a lighter shade of black. But once my face starts getting a little too weathered, that’s probably when I’ll probably stop. But for now, I refuse to accept my age, even though I have a liver spot on my cheek!

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MandyWarHal@reddit

Black don't crack... After all those years of feeling like an outcast and less beautiful in comparison to my white friends, I'm now grinning at y'all like Sambo because my skin looks incredible compared to my friends' and I don't need Botox. My lips are also still full and this thick ass hair could thin out for years but I'd still have some.

I do have greys but I have to point them out to people because they're subtle.

I'm 48.

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alexseiji@reddit

Embracing it. I feel like I look fuckin cool with salt and pepper

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City_Of_Champs@reddit

I gave up long ago

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Sea_Marsupial_8322@reddit

I can’t bring myself to dye my hair yet. I haven’t dyed it at all since pre-Covid and it’s so healthy. The grays aren’t too noticeable so I just let it go. I just use a good moisturizer for the wrinkles.

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cptsears@reddit

I'm told it's attractive, so I'm embracing my black hair going all Salt and Peppa.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

Wrinkles around my lips simply appeared out of nowhere one day but I know I earned them from my inability to quit cigarettes. The most I do is spend $40 on oil cleanser and foaming cleanser, slap on some moisturizing gel and I’m done. It’s not Nozxema and Oxypads, or St Ides Apricot Scrub anymore. Mature skin care will cost money even if you don’t go for the thousand dollar lifts and shots.

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strandedsouth@reddit

And have more to keep up on? I’m not taking on Mother Nature. Plus, I always admired the laugh lines my mom and grandma had.

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After_Match_5165@reddit

I always knew I'd go grey pretty rapidly because of my parents, but what I didn't expect was the texture of my hair to change so much. It's always been annoying and not my best quality, but now it's unruly as helllll. But only the greys! I'm considering getting my hair coloured to allow for a more seamless transition, rather than getting the skunk line. But right now it's all natural and wild and like I look how I feel - feral and untethered.

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mshaversham@reddit

Cannot wait to become a crone.

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Sippi66@reddit

Embraced my white hair and will the wrinkles as well. I’m 59 and female and get compliments from young people and older people all the time on my hair color.

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MOSbangtan@reddit

Accepting the gray. Leaning hard into Botox and loving it.

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Malatesta721@reddit

I started Minox years ago to try and keep what I still have, The Ordinary sells some great affordable skincare products to combat those wrinkles! Never too early to start a skincare routine.

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Suluco87@reddit

Forced accepting, to broke to fix.

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NW_Forester@reddit

I trim ear and nose hairs and use lotion now. Other than that my routine is the same was when I was like 20.

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regg7880@reddit

Accepting the wrinkles, but not the grays (yet).

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Helo7606@reddit

I haven't cared about my age at all. I had friends who lost their shit when they turned 30. Beyond that I constantly get told I don't look my age. I don't care about the wrinkles or grey. I actually want my beard hair to go more grey faster. Lol

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shadygrove81@reddit

I’m hitting the skin care hard, tretinonin has been clutch. But I’m looking forward to the crone grey hair.

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joeynova532@reddit

The only graying I have an issue with is my gray chest hair. It just screams grandpa.

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Scruffersdad@reddit

No Botox, lots of hi-lites.

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EndangeredDemocracy@reddit

Acceptance. An employee of mine that's only a year younger does terrible box die on his beard. It's always gray around the outside. He's not fooling anyone with that shit.

Getting older sucks in many ways. But it's better than dying young.

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BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit

I pretend it’s not happening

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DramaticErraticism@reddit

I'm 43m and I love taking care of my skin and looking my best.

I regularly dye my own eyebrows, get a haircut and color, get botox, daily skin routine. I've also had some laser treatments here or there.

Some people don't care, more power to you if you don't! I do care and I like looking in the mirror and feeling like I'm looking the best I can with the tools available to me.

Fitness is also important to me, hoping to be fit and mobile, well into old age.

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poopy_poophead@reddit

What hair?

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Ill-Condition-5054@reddit

38 male. Full beard. Full head of hair. Just starting to see a few greys over the past year.

I’m am grateful everyday and will accept my fate as it comes 🙂

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ancilla1998@reddit

I'm 90% ok with everything. The only exceptions are the GIANT horizontal lines across my forehead, and the corners of my mouth. I have a very prominent brow ridge, so instead of the 11s between my eyes, it's three big-ass em-dashes across my whole forehead. As a teenager, I had impetigo in my armpits and on both sides of my mouth - not on my lips but just that little nook where they come together - and it left scars. So even though I'm generally a pleasant person, I have horrible RBF because I always look like I have a tiny frown.

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BellatrixTheWeird@reddit

Wear my Greys and wrinkles with pride, im looking to attract men my age not young bucks.

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albertkoholic@reddit

Just go with it. You’re not going to fool anyone

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Best-Investigator261@reddit

Accepted my 50%+ gray hair at age 40 and grew it out for a couple years. This was a couple years before the pandemic started.

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sbrooks84@reddit

Being able to age is a blessing. I wear my 2 grey hairs with pride

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Spaceboy779@reddit

Acceptance is cheaper

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chongax@reddit

Rolling with it. Im nothing special. Why do I care what you think about what I look like? Im fat. I have grey hair. Im balding. So what?

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Pure-Guard-3633@reddit

I love mine! But… I do always wear my hair nice and I wear lipstick and makeup. I still like to look nice.

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Ok_Percentage5157@reddit

Botox? Hair dye? Goodness, no.
Face moisturizer with spf? Yes, lol Also, more veges and lots of water intake.

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raalma3@reddit

Nope I just shave my head

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chronicenigma@reddit

At this point I know it's probably untrue.. but if you are trying to fight your age with Botox and hair dye.. you simply just don't love yourself... Love yourself at any age no matter what you look like.. Don't let society or others pressure you into what you should look like at a certain age.

Those things make you feel good.. you should investigate why they make you feel good.. we've all been trained so much by society and our surroundings that it's hard to get clarity on why we feel or do the things we do.

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meggiemeggie19@reddit

Accepted and love 💕

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HupetteGroulx@reddit

It infuriates me, but I accept it. Especially when I saw so many 20-somethings using botox already.

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RealisticAd2293@reddit

I welcome it all. My face has aged pretty well and I’ve been slowly going gray for about twenty years. I’ve earned my tinsel

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skolrageous@reddit

IT PUTS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN!

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Equal_Imagination300@reddit

Im blessed not to have wrinkles. A little grey, but it's me.

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Hermit_Ogg@reddit

I have absolutely no intention of fighting either wrinkles or grey hairs. Greying might even make me like my hair enough to stop using headscarves!

I can only hope I'll age as well as my mother. They look absolutely dashing at 70.

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That_70s_chick@reddit

So far the grays are few and far between and the wrinkles, I don’t really notice them much. If I put my face next to my 18 year old face, I would see, but day to day it isn’t a concern.

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IdioticEarnestness@reddit

Went bald in my mid 20s. I burn easily and hate sunscreen, so I started wearing wide brimmed hats and long sleeve shirt if I'm going to be outside for an extended period of time. I aggressively avoid the sun. Turns out, that's a great way to stay young looking. I'm in my late 40s and most of the time folks think I'm in my late 30s.

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twatcunthearya@reddit

I’m 40, stopped coloring at 35, but went prematurely grey in my early 20’s. I just said duck it and to be honest it’s been pretty freeing. No Botox but I wouldn’t mind a teeny tiny dab in my forehead…but I’ll never do it.

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cohuman@reddit

I want grey hair but people in my family don’t grey until way later in life. I have taken care of my skin since I was a teenager so not too my wrinkles yet. I get told I don’t look remotely close to my age regularly.

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Sharpshooter188@reddit

Accepted it. Some of my more well off friends have been getting minor plastic surgery and botox though.

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V0nH30n@reddit

I'm upset I haven't gotten my great hairs yet. My father was silver at my age! Silver! It was majestic

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LameSaucePanda@reddit

Fighting. Botox is so $$ though. I was doing it just for a brow lift but I stopped. But the hair is definitely touched up when gray starts coming out again

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

Nope. My gray chin blending to my salt/pepper temples is fine. Just happy I got mom’s other X chromosome genes. My forehead is more a fivehead now, but my older brother has had to rock the shaved head for like a decade.

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bluejane@reddit

I'm kind of excited to see what kind of grey I'm going to be. Will I turn into a wicked salt and pepper like my grandma? Will It turn like a bright white like my mom? Or maybe just retain most of the color like my dad? This is the part about getting older that's exciting

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blyzo@reddit

Hair? What hair?

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weaverider@reddit

I’ve been waiting most of my life for silver hair, I’m loving it. But I still look young enough to still get carded on occasion (gotta love that melanin). Wrinkles are hot, silver foxes are hot, would never try to disguise that (useless I’m dying my hair for fun reasons).

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RachelPalmer79@reddit

I’m letting nature take its course.

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Horace-Pinkerr@reddit

Accepting. I did use just for men when it first started graying but it started to look obvious and I gave up. My problem with the gray was it was only on the sides at first and it looked weird, once it started to spread more evenly I stopped caring. Wrinkles dont bother me and I dont even notice if I even have them. The receding hairline and beginning stages of balding sucks though. Always had a shaved head up until I got married, had a few years of glorious wavy hair before it started thinning. Should have enjoyed it in my younger years.

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carameldreamcake@reddit

I wouldn't do botox or cosmetic procedures, but I would absolutely dye my hair. Our society is ageist AF, especially toward women.

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NetFu@reddit

Everyone who's young thinks they can stop it.

Look at your father and your mother's father (for the insight into where your hair is going). That's where you are going. You can modify it by taking care of your body, not botox and hair dye, but you will end up looking like some form of those two people.

Speaking from experience.

Also, as a guy, realize hair doesn't stop growing. Everywhere. While you're busy looking at other parts of your body, your hair is growing on every part of your body you didn't even think to look at.

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Nanasweed@reddit

I’ve earned the wrinkles and gray hair.

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DrunkScarletSpider@reddit

The beard is doing gray partially, but nothing else. Even if I were vain, it's not worth the effort. Im over 40, shit happens.

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literanch@reddit

My hair has gotten to be salt and pepper. I don’t care at all — just as long as my hair doesn’t fall out.

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Ok-Somewhere-2325@reddit

My hair's been graying since high school. I've been rocking hair dry since bleaching my hair like all the cool kids, im not hiding from my Grey I just do my hair how every I want , right now, I look like a wizard because it's been like a year since I dyed my hair.

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Freakin_A@reddit

Some selective Botox in my forehead where my wrinkles were outpacing my age. Otherwise I don’t mind seeing the memories of all the smiles on my face.

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0rangeMarmalade@reddit

I enjoyed dying my hair before I went gray, but I've been letting the gray grow in naturally for a few years now. I don't have wrinkles yet, but I doubt I'll do anything about those when they do show up.

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Rebekah513@reddit

Botox and hair dye here 🤷🏼‍♀️

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smoke2957@reddit

I stopped dying my hair and just use the over the counter potions and elixers

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LoganJamesMusic@reddit

I have reluctantly accepted wrinkles, the thinning of my once thick head of hair (which started in my early - mid 20s). Now I have just enough hair on the top of my head that I can't do anything w/unless I wanna cosplay as Phil Collins circa 1980s (I don't) so I just cover it up w/a hat. The gray in my mustache/beard area, I usually take a trimmer every few days and just keep the stubble so it's not as noticeable.

I had already accepted my lack of looks early on in life, so I chalk up the aging process as just an extension. It is what it is...

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tallslim1960@reddit

Greying and balding.....no reason to fight it.

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Player-non-player@reddit

I earned them and proud of them.

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youcancallmet@reddit

I accept it and embrace it. I wish others would too…especially women. I’ve always been comfortable in my skin but the more women around me who alter their looks, the more insecure I become. I have no interest in dyeing my hair or getting extensive cosmetic treatments but I really hate the pressure and societal expectations. Comments from strangers about my hair, mostly men, are really starting to get to me.

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0rangeMarmalade@reddit

I would like to dye my hair until the grey is more evenly distributed (right now it's two giant stripes on my temples and nowhere else) but it's too expensive to maintain. It's not that I dislike the idea of going grey, I just don't like the current pattern/placement of grey.

Wrinkles haven't set in yet for me.

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rharper38@reddit

I went for a year with grey, but I had a child in kindergarten and someone called me a gramma and I didn't like that, so dyed it. I'd like to get the point where I kept the part around my face white and the rest colored, but I am not sure.

Skin . . . I'm just happy I haven't developed skin cancer yet.

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aboynamedsoo906@reddit

In the end, I always wanted to look like a wizard. Just about there

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jwnight55@reddit

Hell, my hair can't fall out fast enough. It's less I have to shave!

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Norgler@reddit

I tried hair dye once and decided it was dumb. I'll just look more wise with my gray hair.

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ItsbeenBroughton@reddit

Never cared before, don’t care now. Having children over the last few years has rapidly increased my grays and I am all for it. Finally looking more like a 40 year old man instead of a 30 year old kid

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Relevant_Call_2242@reddit

Embracing it!

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jaanku@reddit

I don’t have wrinkles or grays. I also don’t have kids so maybe that’s why

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Naive-Tune4632@reddit

I periodically dye my hairs, but I generally let it grow out gray for awhile first.

And wrinkles schmickles. Most of mine are from laughing and doing fun shit.

Peeps don't like it they can bite me! :)

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No-Wonder1139@reddit

Hasn't appeared on my head so I've just been shaving. I'd rather have wrinkles than Botox.

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scottwsx96@reddit

I’m embracing any grays/whites and wrinkles. I’m also male, so I know that’s probably the norm in any case.

I wanted to share my opinion for the ladies, though. I don’t care if you look your age and don’t dye your hair. If you want to, fine, but I absolutely don’t think you have to. Facial modifications on the other hand, including Botox, tend to actually be a negative for me. I think it makes people look really, really weird and I think it’s sad that it’s become so common.

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realoctopod@reddit

I don't give give two shits about it.

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PickledPixie83@reddit

I just like to dye my hair. I don’t dye it my natural color. I have been considering growing it out recently.

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ATXoxoxo@reddit

My hair hair is gritting gray and I wear it as a badge of honor. I don't want to pretend like I'm an immature young adult. I find it disingenious and silly to worry about all that.

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wvtarheel@reddit

I shaved my head when it started falling out and going grey. Haven't regretted it since

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EnoughPicture@reddit

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I embrace every grey hair, wrinkle and stretch mark. I earned them damn it!

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Sudo_Incognito@reddit

I mean aging is whatever, but you will have to pry my manic panic out of my cold dead hands.

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drowevil2@reddit

Accepting

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rat_returns@reddit

No wrinkles yet, I had gray hair since I was 20.

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Anitsirhc171@reddit

No grays, but I do have some 11’s that yes I zap with Botox because honestly? The rest of me looks about 30. Why should I reveal my inner abuela on the surface? Why? So people can abuse me in the workplace? Meh

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wiserTyou@reddit

Going gray and it doesn't bother me at all.

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Becoming_wilder@reddit

Totally fine with it. I think at some point having your “original” face is going to be so fucking rare that it will be treasured. All the stuff people do to themselves just looks odd and likely won’t age well.

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Possible-Landscape72@reddit

I’ve always loved gray hair and am excited to finally have some of my own. I wouldn’t dye it if you paid me. And Botox? Hell no. I don’t think that looks any younger at all. I don’t love my changing skin but I wouldn’t like the Botox look, either.

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_AffectedEagle_@reddit

I completely accept my wrinkles, because genetics blessed me with severe resting sad face, and I've had them since my late teens. I'm too poor and lazy for botox.

My grays - bah - I'm still plucking them out of my head and sometimes dye. I more hate that my hair is thinning vs that it's graying, so I try not to dye it to much.

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HappyAndYouKnow_It@reddit

Hair dye yes, Botox no. I don’t have that many wrinkles, but the beginning turkey neck and Angela Merkel jowls came as a bit of an unpleasant surprise

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AndrewInMN@reddit

I accept it. There’s quite a bit of gray on my temples but I no guard clipper buzz my head so that’s not at issue. I only have a few grays in my beard so far and I have been accused of dyeing it, which I don’t.

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Jealous-Ad-9819@reddit

The more I see older women with fillers, the more I find natural aging more beautiful. I dye my hair bc it’s long and I don’t know how I would grow it out now 😂.

A few units of Botox for the 11’s between my brows is all that I will do….

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mallanson22@reddit

Love that my red hair is now white, not loving that my back is growing a sweater. And my ears, smdh.

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Snugglebunny1983@reddit

I'm accepting them. I'd rather age gracefully and be myself than try to be someone I'm not with a bunch of artificial stuff.

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Livininthinair@reddit

I earned every last one of my gray hairs and wear them like a badge of honor.

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KThxBai_180@reddit

Radical acceptance. Took 3 years to grow out dye/transition to gray. The only thing I use to combat wrinkles is sunscreen. Ppl tell me I look 35, so I’ll take it :)

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David_Deckhim@reddit

Letting the hair do what it wants. And while not getting any Botox or cosmetic surgery, I am being diligent about lotioning my skin. Keeping it soft and supple for as long as I can!

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LadyVioletLuna@reddit

Acceptance equals peace. Reframing how I’m supposed to exist in society means no longer caring about the male/female gaze and grooming and dressing for myself.

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jbenze@reddit

My hair went grey at 17, by my late 20s it was falling out so I’ve just been shaving it.

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DrDew00@reddit

I don't have any wrinkles. Some hair and beard is turning gray, though. I just let it. It's fine.

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aubreypizza@reddit

IDGAF I’m a MF white haired witch now

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Important-Button-430@reddit

I’ve only had one grey hair and boy, that fucker was coarse and white! But yeah let it fly.

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Defiant_Employee6681@reddit

Never have I given less of a fuck x

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pickleranger@reddit

I don’t have grey hair yet (late gray runs in my family) but I’m accepting the wrinkles. And I don’t color my hair at all, so when the grey starts it will stay.

My husband is on the verge of becoming more salt than pepper….

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MightBBlueovrU@reddit

Laughs in male pattern baldness*

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Stock-Page-7078@reddit

I’m cool with the greying hair and so fortunate I have it all and it’s just changing colors. A lot of women dig it. I fight wrinkles with moisturizer and a skincare routine but not shit like Botox. Lucky to be a man in this regard, standards are different for us

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Individual-Schemes@reddit

Didn't we all get braces as kids? Don't we go to the gym? I don't see it as "vain" to care about your looks.

I've been maintaining as I age with Botox around the eyes and forehead and other treatments that tighten my neck and jaw.

Supplements are great for my hair. No issues there.

Supplements have also been fighting off my losing eyesight. If I take them regularly, my vision is great. When I backslide on taking them, shit gets blurry. - but then I just start taking them again and everything gets better again.

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asktell22@reddit

I earned it.

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KaiserSosai@reddit

They call it ‘aging gracefully’ for a reason.

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Visual-Zucchini-5544@reddit

Silver fox

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Dance2GoodbyeHorses@reddit

I am using hair dye but would never consider Botox. I don’t wear makeup either, never have. The hair dye makes me look 40, and I’m 48 so I’ll take it.

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F1owwo1F@reddit

Fully embraced.

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manofredearth@reddit

Greying hair? I fucking wish...

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autiess@reddit

Accepting it, mostly because I’m poor😂 things I actually need are expensive.

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

I earned each and every one of them. Plus, I have a kickass streak of gray that looks really cool.

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Logical-Layer9518@reddit

I’m dyeing my hair and spending too much money on skin care. I’m not ready to look like my mother.

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waterwitch602@reddit

I still dye my hair but it's blue. I haven't seen my natural hair since I was 15. When it gets too thin to bleach I'll probably go with wigs. It's always been more about fun than aging for me. As far as wrinkles I'm kind of fighting them? I use good products but have no interest in any sort of plastic surgery.

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OnlySezBeautiful@reddit

Accepted it at 32. Now at 46 my white hair gets tons of compliments. And I absolutely love it.

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Chele11713@reddit

Accepting it. "Oh, well, a touch of grey, kinda suits you anyway. That was all I had to say and it's alright..." 😁⚡️

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memyself143143@reddit

Accepted , love my grey hairs and my laugh lines !

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Jonnyflash80@reddit

Accept it. There's no need to be so insecure.

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guyako@reddit

Accepting it. Though I’d say I’m aging incredibly well. Many people assume I’m at least 5 years younger than I am, despite the bald head and gray in my beard.

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HappyCoconutty@reddit

I'm 42, and I've been using box dye since I was 33 cause I have jet black hair and it doesn't blend in well. I think majority of my greys are here cause of gut and malabsorption issues, they are mostly in the front and I even have a grey eyebrow hair (that I definitely pluck).

I have no wrinkles yet cause of melanin and daily tretinoin/sunscreen but I do look less refreshed when I don't sleep well. I have been fine accepting the tired look, cause it's the truth.

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COV3RTSM@reddit

One of the young guys at work called me greybeard the other day. If my knees weren’t shot and my back wasn’t sore I would have chased after him. My old man strength would have squashed him like a bug

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el_barto10@reddit

So far I’m embracing the gray hair but it’s still more blended in. There’s been a few pics recently where I didn’t like how gray my hair looked, but I also know I’m not willing to dye it every 4-6 weeks like some of my friends. I think also I’m going more silver than gray as there seems to be a metallic tone to the color.

I’ve been moisturizing since I was 14 so I’m doing ok with the wrinkles. Not loving the freckles/age spots tho.

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PineTreesAreMyJam@reddit

Accepting it. I don't have the time, money, or patience for things like botox and hair coloring.

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januscanary@reddit

I wanna be Omni-Man next Halloween as the salt and pepper mix is heading in the right direction

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vintage_seaturtle@reddit

Accepting it. I’ve had gray hair since high school. I also won’t color my hair cause it’s so dark already I don’t think they can get it without it looking fake color, or $$$ for upkeep. Wrinkles, ehh I have 11’s, but I’m told I look in my 20’s when I’m mid 40’s.

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CandidateNo2731@reddit

So far no wrinkles, but I have a ton of gray hair and I love it. I have no plans to hide my age.

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Park-Curious@reddit

My skin has certainly lost elasticity but I don’t really have wrinkles yet. My hair has been graying for like 10 years now, and I’ve dyed it back to my natural color like twice? (I’ve also done vibrant colors a couple times but not to cover grays.) TBH I like it without the gray and do think it makes me look a tiny bit younger, but it’s just not worth the hassle. It’s the crazy lady wiry hairs that go off to the sides when I wear my hair up that bother me.

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punkkitty312@reddit

I'm trans. I fight with it with estradiol and hair dye.

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notprescriptive@reddit

When I look in the mirror I sometimes see my dad's jowls -- I hate that. But the wrinkles and grey hair doesn't bother me.

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Workin-progress82@reddit

I’ve earned my gray hairs early from making fun of guys dyeing their hair when I was younger. Started going bald at 28. Without my salt and pepper beard, I’d just be a bald guy with bushy eyebrows 😂.

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logansvensson@reddit

My beard is almost all grey but my wife says she likes it. My hair is dark as fuck and my grandpa had awesome hair at age 80.

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Steelfury013@reddit

Thankfully I seem to be defying age so far, at least looks wise - hair is mostly still original colour and no wrinkles either, but when it comes I'll probably just sigh and accept it

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retepoteil@reddit

I went bald so I never have to worry about grey hair

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auditorydamage@reddit

I’ve earned every last wrinkle, scar, mole, freckle, and gray hair on my body, and I’m gonna carry them with gusto, godsdamnit.

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zignut66@reddit

Acceptance is my path. But I intend to stay fit as long as possible.

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jediphoenix1976@reddit

I accepted it all years ago; I've gone gray at the temples but no signs of a receding hairline, and I actually like the salt-n-pepper look of my beard. To be honest, I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I did back when I was in high school and college.

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TAckhouse1@reddit

My opinion: take care of your skin, embrace your grey. I use sunscreen religiously, moisturize, drink plenty of water and get ample sleep. It's helped me keep a youthful face into my 40s.

I think grey hair can look wonderful and sexy, you just need to "own" the look. I would also much rather have grey hair than badly dyed hair.

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FuckYouNotHappening@reddit

hair dye

What, dye my scalp?

I’m vain as fuck, but don’t have the money for upkeep, so it’s been an exercise in self-acceptance 🤷‍♂️

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enstillhet@reddit

Oh I don't care at all

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DescriptionSame4512@reddit

Started Botox at 35… 🤣

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Apart-Consequence881@reddit

I'm 42 with minimal wrinkling and maybe no more than 20 strands of grays (Asian no raisin). I will go au naturelle as I age. Hair dyes are full of nasty toxins, and I don't trust Botox or any cosmetic surgeries. I also feel like it's being highly deceptive and narcissistic to use those anti-aging crap.

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Spurlock14@reddit

If you’re at this age and are still worried about what others will think about a line on your face… you’re missing the point.

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Shane-O-Mac1@reddit

Don't forget balding.

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Chinchillagrl@reddit

On occasion I will use a color deposit conditioner to blend my greys, but only in I'm going to something special. I refuse to use Botox. It freaks me out. I'm cool with aging naturally.

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Proud-Towel96@reddit

Zero Fucks Given!! In fact I look and feel better now than I did 25 years ago.

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plated_lead@reddit

Love the grey hairs! The ones that abandon their post can get fucked.

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minicpst@reddit

Hair, yes. The grays bother me for now.

Botox, no. I’m not terribly wrinkly, and what I do have are honest to goodness laugh lines. I’m not erasing those jokes and happiness!

I wouldn’t mind having fewer sun spots, though.

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7399Jenelopy@reddit

I dye my hair because it's fun to make it red, or purple, or blue, been.... Not because it's going grey. I don't really notice the wrinkles. Freaking goat hairs though..... (Some that from someone else's comment.)

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Equivalent_Sir_2575@reddit

What are these "grey hairs and wrinkles" of which you speak??

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Funny_Equivalent7056@reddit

So far I’ve been safe from wrinkles (42/f with a chubby face) but if I did, I would just embrace them.

I color my hair but only 2-3 a year now. I don’t mind the grey for a little while, but I’m not ready to let it come in fully just yet.

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Spuriousantics@reddit

So far, I love my wrinkles and grey hair. Plus, accepting them frees up my money to do things I’d rather do…like buy groceries.

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_wednesday_76@reddit

i had surgery last summer and quit box dyeing shortly beforehand, been doing it 20+ years as my natural, pre-gray hair is almost black and the roots show up immediately. i'm just tired of keeping up with it and decided to try and stick with growing it out this time. i'm probably about a year and a half into growing it out and while previous times i freaked out and dyed it back, it's all gray now but the last couple of inches. i kind of love it.

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stumpy_chica@reddit

Accepting it. Fake makes you look like you're trying to hide something. I have nothing to hide.

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Molten_Plastic82@reddit

I’m lucky I don’t have any wrinkles yet, but I’m owning the grey hair and beard

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Pain_Bearer78@reddit

Oh…I’m definitely embracing ALL my aging! If my kids ever have kids of their own, I’m finna be a bad-ass granny!

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lady_wildes_banshee@reddit

Dying it, but I care less about the hair on my head than my very silver eyebrows ☹️ without a regular tint and some filling in, I look like a methhead.

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Gomdok_the_Short@reddit

Sometimes I pull out a grey hair because it sticks out, and sometimes I pull my face tight to remind myself what I looked like a few years ago, but that's about it.

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Bolo_Knee@reddit

The more you do the more you have to do. Wear sunscreen and a hat and you will look better that 80% of the people your age. Hair dye at most.

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HAWKWIND666@reddit

47 this month. Just a few grays in the beard of I let it grow. And my hair so thick it hurts so I shave my head regularly😆

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springsummerfall2016@reddit

I've accepted the wrinkles but I dye my hair.

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pardonmyass@reddit

The only thing I’ve refused to accept is my hair falling out.

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WackZebra@reddit

I've been dyeing my hair since I was a teenager. I have no plans to stop. I also have no plans to botox anytime.

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Professional_Pace544@reddit

I find myself caring less about wrinkles and grey hair. I was in the beauty industry for over a decade and kept up with my hair for a long time afterwards, but it’s just not worth the effort anymore

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ammonthenephite@reddit

I accept it. It's just not worth the hassle, especially with a beard that grows so fast and shows new grey in a day or 2. I may at some point do a hair transplant just as a treat to myself, since my balding is def noticeable but not terrible, but it's not something I feel is in any way necessary to feel good about myself, it would just help a bit with dating scene.

Wrinkles I don't give a shit about, and every intervention I've seen seems to leave people looking even worse later in life, so I have zero interest in that.

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prettybutdumb@reddit

I expect most men are like “hell no I am who I am!!”

Meanwhile women have a completely different expectation of how they age and appearance in general.

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Apple_stride@reddit

I keep my hair dyed bc I just look washed out if I let it go natural. I don’t do Botox or anything else though. I don’t think it’s a big deal either way. What matters is that you are happy with what you see in the mirror.

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WaywardMind@reddit

What is this "hair" regarding which you speak of dying? I have no memory of it anymore.

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pug_fugly_moe@reddit

Got a speeding ticket last week for the first time in over 15 years, and the cop said my hair is grey.

Asshole.

The temples, sure. But the rest is more pepper than salt.

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Vorpal_Bunny19@reddit

I’m still riding the wave of having a baby face and no grays. I’m actually kind of running into issues getting people to take me seriously about age related complaints. Even my GP that I’ve been seeing for 10 years acted shocked when I brought up the possibility of perimenopause… until I reminded her that I’ll be 47 in August, at which point she immediately ordered some lab work and got me on the wait list for a colonoscopy.

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FancyThought7696@reddit

I’m strangely not getting much gray hair at all (yet). I know the day will come, but I couldn’t care less.

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A_Thirsty_Pagan@reddit

No way, I have dreams of becoming a silver fox!

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lizeee@reddit

I’m blonde and constantly dying my hair various shades of pink or blonde. I have no idea if I’ve started to get grey, and frankly I never plan on finding out. As for Botox, fuck that.

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ColdShadowKaz@reddit

My hair dye is blue black so when I go grey it’s going to be fun blue hairs.

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round_is_funny@reddit

Graying but moisturizing like crazy. I will say that I feel proud of the life I've lives and my beautiful white hairs until someone asks me if I'm my toddlers grandparent. That's the only time I doubt myself.

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SergeantPsycho@reddit

Accepting it. I'm genetically predisposed to grating early, so I just roll with it.

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screamingcatfish@reddit

Embraced the gray. Although I have a bottle of hot pink temporary dye that's fun on the gray.

Plucking the chin hairs for no reason other than it's oddly satisfying.

Stopped worrying about the leg hair showing too. I don't look at other women's legs, so I bet they aren't looking at mine. The nice people at the pedicure place don't bat an eye at it either and I once went with full on winter sasquatch legs. I'll shave them if I feel like it, but I no longer feel obligated to do it.

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IceGoddessLumi@reddit

Aging gracefully as I have earned every frickin' wrinkle and line. I do dye my hair, but not for the sake of hiding my sparkly whites. It's bright blue, so not like I'm trying to pass that off as natural. LOL! Patiently waiting for the day when there's enough white to not have to bleach first before dyeing.

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FandomReferenceHere@reddit

43f. I looooove them. I don’t know how I escaped the “must look young forever” social brainwashing but I love my gray hairs. I love my new lil wrinkles I’m getting. Signs of a life lived.

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Sabbathius@reddit

Very much accepted it. Also I have better, more fun things to do with my money.

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ksigguy@reddit

I still have a baby face so I’m happy with the gray hairs haha.

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Autumn_Forest_Mist@reddit

I’m saving up for a future face lift. My grandpa and mom both had saggy cheeks / jowls so when it is my time I’m getting them lifted. Nothing extreme.

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AskMrScience@reddit

Mom got an eyelid lift (they were legit starting to obscure her vision), and Dad got his turkey-wattle neck "remediated". I'm sure I've inherited both, so it will be a fun time as I age into them.

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neonblackiscool@reddit

Ditto

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warricd28@reddit

Wait, you still have hair?

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CrabbyCatLady41@reddit

I’m just going with it. I colored my hair for fun from age 14 to about 37. When my dad died, I was 34 and this little gray streak grew. I never colored deliberately to cover it. When my brother died, I was 41 and I had a feeling I would sprout a ton of gray hair. I decided to quit coloring my hair for good, and now it’s about 50-50 salt & pepper. I like it.

As for wrinkles, I don’t have many. Being a thicker person means I have fat to keep my face plump. And I take good care of my skin, moisturize and use sunscreen, retinol products at night. At this point, what happens happens. I’m not going down an expensive rabbit hole trying to look young.

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ALX1074@reddit

Bring em on, no one gets out alive.

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Iridescent-Voidfish@reddit

Currently all about the natural aging. Stopped dying my hair to save money for a bit and found out I love the blond/grey combo I’m rocking right now.

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rebeccalamont@reddit

Currently plucking the gray out but riding with the wrinkles. 👀🫠

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manxram@reddit

I'm 41 and I have some sporadically growing on the front of my hairline (bangs area). I totally love them; my boyfriend constantly wants to pluck them 😄 I think they give me a softness that is offset by my tattoos and piercings.

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fraychef2@reddit

Wait, you guys still have hair?!

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RnR1977@reddit

I wish I had hair! Been shaving my head for 13 years!

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RoxyLA95@reddit

Fighting it for now. I’m not ashamed that I get Botox and dye my hair. It makes me feel better and I’m happier for it.

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misterlakatos@reddit

I started finding grays in my twenties. Fast forward to 2020 and my hair has rapidly grayed since then (the pandemic, life/work stress, etc). I drink far less, work out every other day and eat well, and feel healthy overall. My hair is definitely salt and pepper now, and it's more apparent after a haircut.

I finally learned to embrace it. 5-10 years ago that was not the case.

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bottleofgoop@reddit

I'm accepting my face but the rest of me is slowly getting covered in tattoos

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DG04511@reddit

I wish I had gray hair! I noticed my hair thinning in the front when I buzzed my head during the COVID lockdown. The sprinklers weren’t covering the full lawn. I’ve been shaving my head clean ever since. Balding is a condition, bald is a choice.

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hasturoid@reddit

I don’t have any wrinkles yet for some reason. I wish my hair would turn grey, I hate my natural hair color so I dye it.

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syntax_sorceress@reddit

No to botox etc but yes to hair dye.

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aloha78@reddit

I'm done with dying my hair, it grows too fast which makes maintenance expensive. Plus I'm hoping I achieve beautiful white hair like my grandmother had. No botox or procedures for me but best believe my skincare is on point :)

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elkniodaphs@reddit

I started graying at 13, so it was normalized for me waaay early, but I do like to have fun with colors when I can.

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vitalAscension@reddit

I’m ugly af no matter what so I’m just letting it ride

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Elevenyearstoomany@reddit

I dye my hair but I’ve always loved playing with my hair color. My favorite is fuchsia. Not doing Botox or anything. My “wtf lines” are well earned.

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Over_Ad_688@reddit

Don’t care anymore. Gave myself a buzz cut during Covid and never grew it back out since upkeep and getting ready to leave the house was so much easier. It let me drop the vanity.

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YouComfortableLiar@reddit

My SIL calls her gray hairs “wisdom highlights” and that’s what I’ve been going with!

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DasKittySmoosh@reddit

I colored my hair from middle school until I got married in 2021. In 2022 I stopped coloring. I used to be in the beauty industry and never wanted to fall victim to the same trap the little old ladies that would get their hair done in cosmetology school did with the white roots and jet black hair.

My skincare is an important routine, but I don't like the look that injections and fillers tend to lead to. SPF is the most important thing I wear every day.

I also wear comfortable footwear over stylish footwear and am more comfortable in shorts than I have been my whole life.

Aging is amazing and such a blessing.

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neanderthalman@reddit

I started out not giving a shit. It’s easy to not start.

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Egodram@reddit

The most truthful answer I can give is that I just lake the purple/teal/magenta/fire-engine-red hair more than I hate the grey, getting older doesn’t have to mean getting boring.

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elainegeorge@reddit

I’m still doing hair dye but will phase that out when I approach 50. You’ll never catch me with Botox. I’m just now starting to see fine lines after 2+ decades of SPF use.

Wear your sunscreen kids (including your neck and chest).

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

My bald-ass head would look pretty stupid with hair dye, so that's one thing I don't have to worry about. 😄

I've earned the increasing wrinkles and lines on my face, so I go about proudly.

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RoastQueefSandwiches@reddit

my sack has been wrinkly since day one. Im fine with it.

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AwkwardPersonality36@reddit

44, only a few strands of silver appear between my 6-week color appointments. I color my hair black, which is a few shades darker than my natural dark brown. I love silver, and all the women in my family (mom, aunts) are natural so I am definitely used to seeing it. I've already told my hair stylist that when I get to be 50% silver, I'm going to let it go natural. Right now, I dislike my natural color bc it pulls red, so I'll keep coloring it.

As for neurotoxins, I got botox regularly through my early 30's then stopped because it was too expensive. Haven't had any in a decade. Probably going to go for some soon though bc my crows feet are really starting to be pronounced and I feel like they make me look tired. I'll probably get it up until 60, then stop.

My partner is 12 years younger than me so I feel slightly pressured to remain youthful looking...even though he could care less and thinks it's all a waste of money and I don't need any of it. But I do. And it's what I think that matters.

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Employment-lawyer@reddit

I’m not fighting the wrinkles. Luckily I don’t have gray hair yet but would fight that!

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BigRonDongson@reddit

People with Botox look like clowns

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Vivid-Imagination-13@reddit

Fighting? Naw, just still dying my hair purple and blue and all the colors as I always have. If I turn a nice all-over gray, I'll rock it, but I'll never fully give up the colors. Botox is not my jam, but I did feel a flutter of unease in seeing the eye wrinkles I was sporting in a photo lately. That just had me resolving to do better in keeping up with my skincare routine.

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ProfessorOfLies@reddit

My gripe is my beard won't finish going grey. My mustache is still dark and it makes me look like I am frowning all the time

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Draveness1313@reddit

I don't have wrinkles, I have laugh lines. They show that I have enjoyed my life and I'm human.

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sleepy_potatoe_@reddit

Accepting it.

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Flat-While2521@reddit

I’m all natural, baby

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amazonhelpless@reddit

I’ll pull the stray hairs sprouting for strange spots on my body (outside of my earlobe, really?). I’m not stressing about greys, or wrinkles, or thinning, though.

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RustyGusset@reddit

I'm yet to see anyone with botox that doesn't look ridiculous. It also does nothing to hide a person's age, they just look like old people that have had vanity surgery.

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DigAlternative7707@reddit

Tretinoin .05% daily, moisturizer 2x day, sunscreen every morning.

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Efficient-Dingo-5775@reddit

Full acceptance. I actually got some gray highlights to balance out my natural gray streak and I think it actually looks better.

That being said I still use sun block and plenty of moisturizer. I'm 40 and wanna keep my good skin as long as I can. No botox needed

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DifferentTie8715@reddit

don't really have either yet. I experimented with botox a couple years ago, but it's so expensive and I really do have great skin anyway.

Started to see a tiny indent of an 11 forming that I wanted to keep from growing, but recent developments in politics have given me plenty more to visually disapprove of.

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Elated_Fox44@reddit

'81 baby here. I love the lack of fucks I give for some aspects of my life. But I don't "feel" old. My two hyperactive boys keep me busy bike riding, hiking, playing sports in the backyard, etc. so seeing the aging on my face feels out of place. I used to use Botox when I was doing administrative work for a Plastic & Reconstructive office. I paid just the cost of the botox. Now, I've moved on in my career and don't get the discounts. I use face tape at night as it's much cheaper and I still dye my hair. I'm sure I'll end up getting a facelift at some point, maybe 15-20 yrs from now. But seeing who I think I am in the mirror is comforting.

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Burlington-bloke@reddit

People are surprised when I tell them I'm in my 40s, they think I'm in my early 30s. I definitely have some fine lines and a few greying hairs. I have developed a turkey neck even though I'm very thin. Will Botox fix that?

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Not_a_werecat@reddit

I'm actually a little disappointed in my genetics. I've always loved the look of grey hair.

Unfortunately, my grandma had hardly any grey into her 80s and is only now mostly white at 99. My hair is almost identical to hers, so it's probably going to be a long while before I leave the salt and pepper stage.

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Allezgatta@reddit

I started going gray in my mid-20s and now my hair is mostly salt with a bit of pepper. I like it.

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Hagbard_Celine_1@reddit

As man I'm not fighting it. I control what I can stay in shape. I've never been the type to care about things like that. I don't wear jewelry and I've never dyed my hair and I'm not into fashion. My job also isn't tied to my appearance. I don't think there's anything wrong with men that do care about these things it's just not me personally. Imo gaining weight ages your appearance more than anything else.

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Clearlyawesome45@reddit

I have been coloring the greys, don’t mind the wrinkles!

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Winthefuturenow@reddit

I, unfortunately, am not aging blackwards so I don’t really have a choice.

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playtheukulele@reddit

Both. I do dye my hair but I leave some of my bright whites as a face frame to remind cocky MFers that I earned this plqtinum white stripe ;)

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seche314@reddit

Botox, yes, but I don’t dye my hair

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fewerifyouplease@reddit

So I have no grey hairs - my dad and grandad both died in their 70s with a full head of brown hair, and I have the same. But, I've dyed it since I was in my 20s because I don't like my natural colour, which feels like kind of a waste.

As for the wrinkles- my 11 from frowning (usually in puzzlement) and the creases from constant raising of one sarcastic eyebrow are so much part of me that I wouldn't know how to express myself without them

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exqvisitely@reddit

I'm trying to age gracefully, but I haven't embraced my very numerous silver strands yet. I still have my hair dyed regularly. I've never had Botox or fillers and don't plan to. The cost of maintenance/upkeep isn't worth it to me.

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Diligent_Accident775@reddit

I've now been completely bald for longer than I had hair

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darkuen@reddit

No wrinkles yet and I got my beard dyed on a whim for the first time two weeks ago at a salon while trying to kill some time while on vacation.

It looked ridiculous to me at first especially since it also colored the skin underneath for two days but I think it makes me look younger now, so depending on how long this lasts and the price of hair dye I might try it again in the future.

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notashot@reddit

You gotta lean into it. Everyone loses that fight.

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alanaisalive@reddit

I've given up on hair altogether. Mine is thinning from PCOS as well as turning grey, and I've never enjoyed brushing or styling my hair, so I just shave it all off a few times a year.

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meatpopsicle42@reddit

Bring it on.

There’s no sense living in denial and paying for it.

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ottermann@reddit

Gotta have hair for it to go grey

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HermioneMarch@reddit

I honestly don’t mind the way I look at all. The part of aging I am fighting like hell is the back pain and the slowing down that comes with that. I still want to go out dancing til midnight and on an all day hike . My mind says hell yes and my body says wtaf were you thinking?

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_R_A_@reddit

I started getting gray hairs in the 90s. But I still have my hair and that's what counts.

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BookofBryce@reddit

I'm really fortunate to have a decent head of hair, no grey, and a youthful look. I have noticed a little crow's feet next to my eyes, so I use a little moisturizer in the morning and at night.

When I was 22, people told me I'd be a lot like Dick Clark and always look young. So I'm hoping that in my 50s I might actually be attractive to women.

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snuffleupagus7@reddit

accepting it. I used to color my hair and get botox, but I haven't gotten botox in 2 years now, or colored my hair in 5+ years. I don't have a lot of grey, but I kind of like what I have, it's like natural highlights :D I don't mind grey hair, even if I had more of it, I like how it looks.

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PsychologicalGur4040@reddit

I went gray at 26. I don't care what color it turns as it long as it doesn't turn loose.

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Ok-Square7104@reddit

Just glad I still have hair

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

Still have my hair and skin. Not being cool and avoiding drugs and alcohol worked. 💀

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Bombay1234567890@reddit

I accept my slide into decrepitude as a cautionary tale to others. No, I just let the history be.

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GladosPrime@reddit

My beard is going patchy white but it looks cool😎

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Inspi@reddit

Slowly going grey in bursts since late teens. Didn't care then. Don't care now. Hell, actually embracing the salt-and-pepper look at 42.

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VerityLGreen@reddit

Decided to stop dyeing my hair this year. Still taking meds and supplements, to work on feeling my best, without worrying so much about how I look.

Sometimes though I break down and use eyebrow cream to cover those bright white tufts above my ears! 😌

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Rude_Masterpiece_239@reddit

Man here. 43. About 30% gray, but lighter hair so hard to tell. Full head of hair tho. Just rolling with it of course.

No botox, but I do take great care of my skin and body in general. Use a Nira laser and medical grade retinol daily. Sunblock too and lots of hats in the sun. In the next 3-5 years I'm going to do a few rounds of micro needling with PRP. Long term I'll likely have a few nips and tucks as I get into my late 50s/60s, assuming I make it that long.

Wife does botox 2xs a year. Just a little. She takes even better care of her skin, but puts in much more effort.

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content_great_gramma@reddit

My gray hair (inherited from my children LOL) and wrinkles were earned and are a badge of honor.

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HansVonHansen@reddit

I shave my head bald every week because of the receding hairline, but when it grows out I can tell how grey it’s become and I honestly don’t care, even if I’m still 42. I only keep a goatee and the grey on that actually looks good because it’s a square streak running down from lower lip to chin only one side. Definitely an endearing look.

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Arrow_King@reddit

I have the same number of wrinkles as when I was 20, and only a few grey whiskers that creep through when I haven’t shaved for a few days. I’ve won the genetics lottery in that sense (for now)!

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dreamyduskywing@reddit

It takes too much work to keep up with hair dye, so I have a natural salt & pepper look. I don’t like my wrinkles, but Botox looks worse, so that’s a no for me.

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TinyRandomLady@reddit

None of this ever bothered me. I want more grey/white hair! I want a natural streak!

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One-Earth9294@reddit

It's less about accepting it than it is the fact I won't let my insecurities cost me money.

Also I don't think I'm aging terribly, and grey isn't a bad look for me.

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midnight-dour@reddit

I feel like I am fast approaching the point where I just say, “Fuck it.” and shave my head (again). So, no, greys don’t bother me.

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scrninja1@reddit

Just rogain when I remember haha

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Cymbidium0@reddit

I would love to get my turkey neck taken care of, and if I ever have the means then I absolutely will, but I earned my laugh lines and crows feet. And funnily enough I love the gray that’s starting to come in. It’s like those shiny strands in my little pony tails.

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CSWorldChamp@reddit

Balding. That’s the one that I have trouble with.

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impeesa75@reddit

I occasionally dye my beard, but it’s just for fun, I don’t really mind going grey.

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Mrbackrubber@reddit

My hair has just started noticeably thinning. I'm now slinking it back to compensate. I don't care about the graying or wrinkling, just hoping my hair hold on lol.

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DrMcJedi@reddit

Let it ride. My hair will probably just go right to white at some point…one of the few advantages of being blonde. Wrinkles are just evidence you’ve been somewhere in your life…

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Briguy24@reddit

Who cares? I started greying in my 30’s. Big bald spot in my mid 40’s.

That was sped up by a prescription medication. But I feel better which is more important.

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UnrealizedLosses@reddit

Not fighting it, just disappointed lol. I don’t feel like I look…

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WitchWithTheMostCake@reddit

Accepting. I've upped my skincare game, and might get a peel this fall, but no needles for me! As for my hair, I'm done dyeing it for coverage. I'm not getting too many grays yet, but I'm curious to see how it grows in. I just add some occasional highlights and use a pink or purple color glaze like oVertone for fun.

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Taskerst@reddit

I don’t have much of either, and I’m thankful. That’s not a flex, it’s really the only area I’ve been blessed.

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frinkhutz@reddit

My beard has more salt than pepper. I'm into it.

No real wrinkles yet but I think I'm starting to see crow's feet.

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HowToNotMakeMoney@reddit

Nah. I’m good. No fuss.

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VashMM@reddit

I've been going grey since I was 20, I've been accepting it forever.

My mom started going grey in high school. Thanks for the genetics, Mom.

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sassyfontaine@reddit

Only thing worry about is sun damage

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Consistent_Stick_463@reddit

I figured I’d have cool Mr. Fantastic greying around my temples by now, but not a single grey yet.

Definitely going full silver fox once it happens, though.

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Cosforgestudio@reddit

Thankfully none yet, might be because I dont drink?

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sdlocsrf@reddit

Somehow managed to hit the grey hair lottery. Only just spotted my first grey this year at 44. Have 3 I just pluck, haha

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philouza_stein@reddit

I was raised by a single mom who imparted certain wisdoms upon me. One of which was skin care. I'm not crazy about it or anything but she pushed vitamin E oil since I was a teen. I didn't really get into using it consistently until my mid twenties but as far as wrinkles go, I'm in pretty good shape as a 40 year old.

The gray hairs have just started sprouting and I'm kinda excited about it. My face is pretty young looking so I think the distinguished salt and pepper look will do me well. I'm ready to embrace it.

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UStoJapan@reddit

Have five years of looking good with Botox traded off by an additional twenty years of me looking like a slowly melting candle? No thanks. I’ll accept my natural looks.

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JohnBrine@reddit

My beard went 90% gray white over the last two years. I shaved it and I got carded buying some beers.

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siddhananais@reddit

I still box dye my hair since I work in the tech industry for now and I’m already one of the very few women. I am about to start school again to become a therapist and will be going gray for that career. Not yet into my wrinkle season, so no Botox at least now for me.

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lickmybrian@reddit

My mustache is like 60-70% white .. completely bypassing grey and straight to white

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Horizontal_Bob@reddit

I’d rather be wrinkled and grey than look like a sun dried lizard

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badannbad@reddit

Full acceptance to the point that I want to go all silver or white at one point. And even if i wanted botox, I'm broke!

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damegloria@reddit

I can't afford botox. Haven't started going grey yet, at least.

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Scissorsguadalupe@reddit

Accepted, but I've been going gray since my mid 20s

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Acrobatic-Ad8158@reddit

The wrinkles aren't bothering me yet, but I definitely dye my hair. That being said though, I do low lights so although a lot is covered, not all of it is.

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RomanticDarkness@reddit

I was ready to dye my gray. I do some "modeling" on here and elsewhere and did a poll on my original account here with 1700 followers.

My average follower is in their 20s, but they voted 94% to leave my gray alone.

It's crazy that young people think graying hair on a man is hot.

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Tinselcat33@reddit

Botox, light fillers, tret, gua sha, microneedling, no need to dye yet but I will, barre classes, brow tint. I still look my age but a good version of it. I had a shit childhood and I perished myself to spoil myself about a decade ago. I live in a VHCOL city and the bulk of my peer group does these things. Some even more than me.

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Comprehensive-Ad3974@reddit

I like my patina

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Rough-Boot9086@reddit

I would probably be ok with how I aged if I didn't have to have chemo at 43 which aged me like ten years in 5 months....

Still not ready to jump to Botox

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1block@reddit

I never got more compliments than I did after I went gray, which is weird to me.

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joshua27usa@reddit

I have zero problems with my aging except these bags under my eyes and extra skin over my eyes. Not doing anything about it though.

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nileppeZym@reddit

The hair is silver, not gray, thank you very much

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nicky_suits@reddit

You guys have hair?!? Lucky.

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metalchick0325@reddit

I go get my hair cut and colored twice a year. No Botox or anything of the sort... will be 45 at the end of the year

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HeadlineBay@reddit

Dying my hair still but, like, not natural colours. The problem isn’t the grey, the problem is the lack of silly colours. Wrinkles are fine.

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valdantalion@reddit

I don't have to color my hair yet, but I'd love to get a solid silver streak

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LakeExtreme7444@reddit

My daughter (19) has had one of those since preschool! It started out as a small patch of jet black hair hidden within her light brown natural color, then when she turned 3 it went completely white/gray. There’s only like 25 strands in the entire patch, but it’s enough to notice when she has her hair up!

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under321cover@reddit

Accepting it. Hair is silver streaked (hair dye allergy). Don’t really have a ton of wrinkles but I will never do Botox.

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sorrymizzjackson@reddit

Same. Very, very allergic to hair dye. Maybe when it goes full grey I can do some manic panic or whatever non PPD dyes are out there by then and rock some cool colors.

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paleandsarcastic@reddit

Never going to do Botox or any of that crap. Not for me.

I do dye my hair…usually pink or purple, but not to cover the few white hairs I have. I just refuse to grow up.

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TryTwiceAsHard@reddit

No, I don't do anything about my wrinkles but I dye my hair. Gray silvery just doesn't look good on me.

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4luminate@reddit

after years of me saying her grey looks awesome, my wife finally stopped dying her hair. she gets compliments on it pretty regularly. it's the most awesome and dynamic grey...like, 51 shades of grey blending together in this fluid, ever-changing look.

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SensitiveArtist@reddit

My beard is turning white, and the remaining hair in my head is still reddish brown, but I started shaving my head since my hairline receded so much.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

Don't have an wrinkles yet. Graying hair is doing ok, I don't really have any on my head just some in my beard. I am ok with all of it. I don't want to afford controlling how I look.

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rantingpacifist@reddit

I still use Manic Panic and let my kids dye my hair. The greys just make it more fun.

Idgaf about looking old

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RonWill79@reddit

Never used either. Don’t get why people do it. I do find it hilarious that there was/is a trend of intentionally dying hair grey among younger people. They call it metallic. They for some reason want grey hair now but will be fighting natural greying in 10 years. 😂

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WoofLife-@reddit

I love grey hair with young faces and tried it back in 2006 or so. Now I'm pretty much all grey naturally and love it.

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_Grumps_@reddit

I've been nearly fully silver (not gray - silver) since my early 20s. Hair dye until I'm in early 50s, than a smooth transition (hopefully) to silver.

Wrinkles are there because I've lived a good life. They're badges of honor.

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tweedchemtrailblazer@reddit

Not for me. I’m fine with aging gracefully. My older brother, born in 77, dyes his hair pure blonde and has gotten liposuction. Which is fine, im not really judging. The problem is he lies about it. He’ll even bring it up and defend himself when no one said anything. It’s weird. He’s got a guilty conscience for sure.

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TuckHolladay@reddit

I like my grey hair. Now my beard is turning white, and I do not like that

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MiniTab@reddit

No. No, man. Sh*t, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

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nubbinsstar@reddit

My grays are white/ silver and have texture and is thicker than my normal hair. I love it. It’s like really highlights I didn’t have to pay for!!

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Xx_SwordWords_xX@reddit

Nope. I worked on my self-worrh and no longer attach it to my beauty, as determined by men and patriarchy. I'm free, and no longer a slave to the world dictating my value.

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CannedDuck1906@reddit

My skincare routine is pretty strict, so I've gotten lucky and have avoided wrinkles so far. I don't mind the grays because the women in my family have goregous gray and white hair. It's my curls I'm nervous about. I love my curly hair so much, and I really hope I don't lose my curl pattern. So far, I haven't, so fingers crossed.

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pncoecomm@reddit

What hair?

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Scrounger888@reddit

No wrinkles yet, but I still dye my hair for now because I went gray early and it's just a habit now.

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Far-Slice-3821@reddit

Dye for sure. I'm not graying, but the color faded from my hair into a dull lifeless blah.

Winkles are fine. I'm not going to start that losing battle.

I have contemplated lip fillers. I know plumping them will look stupid, but I do not like how they are slowly fading away.

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Dfiggsmeister@reddit

My beard went grey but my hair still remains brown. I’ve also got bald patches to the point where I shaved my head last summer. With the beard, I look 50s, without the beard, I look like I’m in my 20s. Make it make sense.

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Dream-Ambassador@reddit

Neither. I don’t have any grays yet and I take really good care of my skin.

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NorthRoseGold@reddit

Botox and dye, yes

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rorointhewoods@reddit

You can either look old or look weird. Those are your options. There’s no point in chasing your youth. I’d rather age gracefully.

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GuitarPlayingGuy71@reddit

Accept. It’s nature, it happens. And it looks wayyy better than all the fakeness.

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ItJustWontDo242@reddit

Nope. My hair is turning stark white just like my dads. Im happy to be a Targaryen.

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digitalgraffiti-ca@reddit

Botox, no

I dye my hair, but the white just makes it look like I have electric blue highlights on navy hair. In working with it, not against it

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stockvillain@reddit

Dude, I got my first gray hairs at 17. Came in a real cool streak on the left side, contrasted nicely with my dark hair. Nowadays, I've got the whole comic-grade Dr Strange streaks in my hair and beard, and I feel like a badass after a good hair & beard trim.

Wrinkles have never been a thing that bothered me, on myself or others. It's always struck me as odd that folks would inject botulinum toxin into the muscles of their face.

Oh well, whatevs. It's not my money they're spending.

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SuperDiscreetTrex@reddit

I'm definitely embracing it over here! I quite like my gray streaks :)

I get Botox for Migraines, so I do get some smoothing effects from that. I don't have an issue with people using it cosmetically, but it's not my personal preference.

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HawkeyeJosh2@reddit

Absolutely accepting it, though I’ve also always been lucky enough to look young for my age, so that helps.

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carry_the_way@reddit

"come to accept"?

I'm a Black man in his mid-40s. One out of every 18 people like me is incarcerated.

I'm alive, healthy, and I sleep in my own bed at night. I couldn't give a fuck about wrinkles and gray hair.

Whenever anyone asks me how I'm doing, I say the same thing:

"Sky's blue, water's wet; cops ain't shot me yet."

Shallow bullshit like worrying about wrinkles or grey hair is shit other people have time for. I've got sons to raise and a dissertation to write.

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Merkela22@reddit

Started going gray in HS. Stopped dying it years ago. Almost all gray now. No wrinkles really except when I laugh!

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Josephthebear@reddit

Considering my hair is slowly disappearing I welcome the gray

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

I’m not fighting aging at all. Getting a nice patina if I do say so myself.

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po_ta_toes_80@reddit

Hair? What's that?

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thechristoph@reddit

I don’t know if this is a redhead trait but I’m not going gray. 45 years old today and I have a head full of long, luxurious coppery-auburn locks. My beard is turning white though. Just on my chin.

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akerasi@reddit

Never cared about my wrinkles, and I look forward to my hair fully transitioning to white.

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ilovepi314159265@reddit

Not dying my hair, but staying consistent with my skincare routine and planning on a small amount of botox

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HotDogPantsX@reddit

The universe favors entropy. Let them come. To fight is pure vanity.

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ChromeDestiny@reddit

Accepting it, my hair's thinning but so far not graying much. I bet if I grew out a beard that might have the odd white or grey patch. I got some skin treatment stuff from the spa on a cruise I went on but you won't see me getting any botox.

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BoltsGuy02@reddit

Botox no, hair dye for a bit longer. I started going grey at 16 its more of a routine now

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Smooth_Ad2778@reddit

I was 21. I can't imagine not dying my hair.

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BoltsGuy02@reddit

Makes sense. I like my stylist too. It’s a fun hour with the banter, the shampooing, head massage and it kinda peps me up when it’s all cleaned up

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RTMSner@reddit

I don't worry about it much.

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Flaky-Wallaby5382@reddit

Acceptance and women dig the salt and pepper

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omgforeal@reddit

Botox isn’t in the budget right now but I have used it and I will again. Okay with the gray and have no plans for in other “work” to be done.

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Hell_of_a_Caucasian@reddit

Can we please be the generation that lets our hair get gray and embraces our aging? I’d love to see one last headline - millenials (Xennials) are killing the box dye and Botox industries.

By all means, use sun screen and lotion and whatever to take care of your skin, but it’s ok to look forty. My kids give me wrinkles, and I love them for it.

I don’t want to have that jet black hair when I’m sixty or look like I’m trying to look like a GI Joe.

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Forestghostsgalore@reddit

As a stoner of 25 years, I got Botox once on my ‘crows feet’ and I swear that a day later, it’s was the first time I saw my eyes open in pictures in ages. Prolly won’t continue but it’s been a fun ride.

Love my witchy gray and white streaks

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Loud-Percentage-3174@reddit

I assure you, those are not the only two options.

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alsoaprettybigdeal@reddit

Fighting it… gracefully. I get highlight but some are so blond they’re almost white to blend in the greys. I got my Botox yesterday, but only between my eyebrows and I get it in my maseters because it helps me not grind my teeth.

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casapantalones@reddit

Hair dye no. Botox and fillers no.

Tretinoin and sunscreen and staying healthy and active yes.

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AndroidNumber137@reddit

I'm Asian so my grey hair finally is getting folks thinking I'm my actual age instead of guessing that I'm 10 years younger.

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daphuqijusee@reddit

No to the botox/fillers and stuff like that but I do dye my hair.

Not because I don't like my platinum streaks, it's just that there is no pattern to them AT ALL. They're growing in patchy and uneven, so I'm dying it until it sorts itself out. Basically I'm waiting till I'm properly platinum before I wear it natural. Because at the moment I feel like young boys going through puberty with a patchy beard, except it's patchy platinums...

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Dad3mass@reddit

I don’t have too many wrinkles but I don’t have too many issues with them when I do get them. Better than the alternative, and I’m not big on putting stuff in my face I don’t need. On the other hand, I do moisturize and use retinoids and have always used sunscreen since I was a kid and never tanned or smoked, as opposed to my parents at the same age who smoked, drank like crazy, never used sunscreen, tanned , and never hydrated or had a skin care regimen and comparatively at this same age looked like leather bags. They are now in their 80s having issues with eyelids drooping so much it is affecting their vision. I hope to avoid that. I also see how they dyed (and continue to dye) their hair and it’s not fooling anyone, so I’m just embracing the salt and pepper. I’m a physician so no one wants a young doctor anyways, middle aged is right what people want.

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Otherwise_Gear_5136@reddit

Covid forced it and I then realized I don't give a shit about gray hair or wrinkles.

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SemicolonGuitars@reddit

What hair?

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Dry-Astronaut-8640@reddit

Yup, accepting it, but I’m also a 45 year old male and genetics have been kind to me.

I have a touch of gray in my hair, but as long as I keep it short it’s not too prevalent. Wrinkles are pretty minimal on my face too.

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TheDangDeal@reddit

There is only one way to look this good for this age, and that is to first look your age.

Own it. You earned it. In the parlance of our times…don’t be a poser!

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Bors713@reddit

I love my signs of age. My wife still can’t accept the tinsel in her hair.

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PopcornSurgeon@reddit

Neither. I have pink hair, I don’t think that counts as fighting or hiding what’s happening as far as graying, it’s just something I find fun. My face is my face, unaltered by science and doing whatever it is going to do.

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love_is_an_action@reddit

The more bald and wrinkled I get, the more attention I get from pretty people.

I don’t get it, but I am not gonna Botox myself out of this completelyunearned but much appreciated bounty.

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FishermanPale5734@reddit

I go to the gym to stay in shape, eat... decently, and that's good enough for me. I was never the most handsome guy around, so I have already come to accept my physical image isn't perfect. I don't try to hide the Grey sneaking in, or fill in wrinkles. This is who I am. And I do take a certain amount of pride in the fact that even with Grey hairs and wrinkles I am in better shape than most of the younger folks I work with.

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SLPNerdLady@reddit

I started grating really young - like 17. I gave up on coloring about 3 years ago and it’s finally grown out to where it’s a relatively uniform color and I don’t look like I tried to go reverse ombre. I’m happy with it. I want to post before and after pics, but don’t have any that don’t have my face.

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TraditionalTackle1@reddit

Im 44 and almost completely gray and im fine with that.

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alwaystheocean@reddit

I started going grey in my 20s when I got incredibly sick, and haven't dyed my hair since. I love how it looks. It's a swirl of brown and white that feels hard won.

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

My strands are bright shiny white. I’m gonna look like a fucking fairy and I’m embracing it

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Pulp_Ficti0n@reddit

People with dye jobs and combovers are losahs

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HMTMKMKM95@reddit

Attempting to age like fine wine here. I've been aiming for 'silver haired fox'. It's more salt and pepper, and kind of thinning, but I'll see where it goes. I'vr got the right attitude for me, though!

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Odd_Support_3600@reddit

Dye yea, Botox no

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suzysleep@reddit

I think it’s important to age gracefully bc sometimes the hair dye and Botox make people look too harsh as they age.

A lot of times I see older men who still dye their hair jet black and it just looks so much worse than if they let their hair grey naturally.

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Shirkaday@reddit

Trying to keep it less noticeable by keeping the hair short. I moisturize sometimes, but not consistently at all.

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EndQuick418@reddit

I am who I am. Period.

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Unit_79@reddit

Jesus Christ. Fuck Botox and all that plastic surgery shit. You will never end up looking younger. In the long run, it always looks worse. Only way to age gracefully is to live healthy. (I do not live a healthy lifestyle. I just know that’s the only way to do it.)

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neonblackiscool@reddit

You can do both things.

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ArwenEmerson@reddit

I dye my hair some, but that's just because I like the color. Grays don't color as easily. I'm accepting all the changes recently.

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ToughOk4114@reddit

Accepting. I have teenage daughters and I want to set a more body positive example for them than my mom did for me. They already have worlds more self-esteem and confidence than I ever did growing up because I wear the bikini to the pool even though I have cellulite and stretch marks, I eat the pizza with them at basketball games, and will leave the house without makeup even if it makes me a bit self conscious. I’d be lying if I said it was easy though because I feel like everyone around me is getting procedures done and look way younger than me but I have healthy happy girls so it’s worth it!

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umbermoth@reddit

Who the fuck has money for Botox when I’ve got to put avocado toast on the table?

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brattyginger83@reddit

I can't afford botox or hair dye so I'm like, meh

My saggy boobs however are getting to me pretty hardcore.

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non_clever_username@reddit

I’m nearly completely gray at this point and lots of people have seen me that way over the last decade. It would be pretty jarring and obvious if I suddenly turned up with no grays…lol.

I think that ship has sailed.

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mistypee@reddit

I have no wrinkles yet, and I will never use any injectables. I have done laser treatments to reduce sun spots on my face and hands though.

I've been dyeing my hair since I was 12. Grey is just another colour for me to play with.

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Maia_Azure@reddit

I don’t have any wrinkles. Not even Laugh lines. . No gray hair either, I’ve been looking.

I have always dyed my hair with highlights so nothing is changing. I’ll continue to highlight my hair until I guess it changes from dark blonde to fully gray. Then I’ll dye my hair for a bit. Though I’d like silver for a bit, maybe if I make it to 70.

Things I hate: those pubes that sprout on my face. I get them zapped.

My knee pain.

Feeling tired and not having a house, or money, or feel accomplished in life.

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LeakyBumbershoot@reddit

Gray accepted. I don’t even want to talk about wrinkles!

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C_est_la_vie9707@reddit

I don't need to dye my hair yet but hell yes on Botox. I'm going down swinging.

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rttnmnna@reddit

I'm too lazy/ cheap for any of that. I have barely even worn makeup In years.

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Accomplished-Key-408@reddit

I drink the blood of Gen Z and Gen Alpha and have neither.

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Bard_Bomber@reddit

Woman here with dark hair. I’m fascinated by my white hairs, and I’m waiting for the majority of my hair to turn white so I can finally have some fun temporary hair colour, like teal or hot pink.

I’ve certainly got the wrinkles, but they don’t bother me. I am bothered by my increasingly saggy turkey neck.

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thatsaniner@reddit

I let me gray grow out during the pandemic so I could do it without people seeing my roots. I don’t always love it but it is easier and I get nice comments on my salt and pepper.

Botox is not for me but no judgement on loyalists.

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GuiltyOutcome140@reddit

I am watching my parent spend thousands and thousands of dollars per year sandblasting and cutting away whatever signs of age they can. I don't want to be that way.

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Decimonster@reddit

I'm mostly graying on the sides, so I'm letting it ride and I'll just rock the Bride of Frankenstein look.

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cosp85classic@reddit

I'm told I still look younger than I am, so I accepted what little is starting to show. The only real gray is in my goatee. A few stary gray hairs here and there on my head.

As for wrinkles I see them more than others, so that must buy some vanity kicking in that I didn't have as a teen.

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murderedby_geese@reddit

I literally do nothing other than needed grooming. I have accepted this for most my life.

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yespls@reddit

I've been dyeing my hair since I was 14, I don't see why I should stop now\~

I was very excited to see a few greys poke their way out, my mother had beautiful silver hair and I am hoping I take after her.

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2cat007@reddit

I don’t have grey hair yet, I’m only 28, but I’ll accept it. It’s apart of getting old and that’s ok.

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Starwarsandbacon@reddit

Shit, I started going gray in my 20s. Acceptance is life.

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Hungry_Reading6475@reddit

I’m fighting the gray, I’m a very dark brunette, those suckers really show! I don’t care about the wrinkles, although they haven’t really shown up yet either.

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bananachow@reddit

I lucked out and I’m aging in reverse. I dropped 70lbs and look better now than I did in my 20s and 30s. I don’t have a wrinkles problem because I’m too pale and I’ve always stayed out of the sun, I drink a ton of water, I don’t have kids and my RBF doesn’t translate to a lot of smiling.

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jjmawaken@reddit

I'm fine with the white hair in my beard and at my temples, my wife likes it... not as happy about it thinning on top. Also, I'm not very wrinkly yet.

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Altruistic_Reveal_51@reddit

My hair has had a grey streak since 2006 - I gave up that fight a long time ago. Sticking to water and sunscreen right now for skincare - don’t know if I will reach a point where Botox becomes attractive. My mother aged very gracefully by staying natural with her hair and skin and sometimes I think it just looks better than trying to take extreme steps to reverse the effect of aging.

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ninaandamonkey@reddit

Wrinkles and pink hair dye.

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Top-Telephone9013@reddit

Been accepting them since my 20's

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Flippin-doo-da@reddit

I’m accepting it. I haven’t dyed my hair in over 8 years. I’ll get facials or chemical peels but no Botox or fillers for me. I just like having healthy looking skin.

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lalalaicanthereyou@reddit

In the look old vs look weird choice as I age, I'll just look old. Fighting it looks good for now, but gets iffy once you hit 60ish. Maybe I'll change my mind later.

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chunkytapioca@reddit

I tried to like it, but I'm just not old enough to have gray hair. Maybe I'll surrender to it when I'm 80. For now I'm touching up my grays.

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SuccotashMonkey867@reddit

My beard is very grey, pushing into white. My long hair was thinning, so I shaved it all off. My eyebrows are starting to get a couple crazy guys. I'm embracing it

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Festygrrl@reddit

I’ve surprisingly only got about three grey hairs. I get botox for medical reasons and one of the bonuses is it keeps my wrinkles at bay. If I didn’t have ramsey hunt syndrome, I would have wrinkles and tbh Im ok with it, cause i cannot afford botox every three months on my disability pension.

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slippedintherain@reddit

I dye my hair but I’ve been dyeing it since I was 13 so it’s normal for me to change my hair color on a whim. I’m super pale and I feel like I’d be totally washed out if I went grey. I get what my esthetician calls a “baby” dose of Botox. I always had forehead wrinkles even when I was younger and I wore bangs most of my life to hide them. I like that Botox gives me the confidence to show my whole face now. I may do microneedling in the future. Don’t know if I’ll ever do a full facelift as I don’t really want surgery but I will probably have to have my eyelids lifted at some point in the future because droopy eyelids run in my family and at a certain point it starts interfering with your vision.

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thepatientwaiting@reddit

Hair dye yes. The grays used to not bother me but they are taking over my natural color. Spent $50 at Sally Beauty and have enough dye to last a few years.

I thought about Botox but don't like the long term maintenance aspect plus it's unaffordable right now. I have pretty great skin but don't like the 11's in my brow. Reminds me of my grandma.

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HamsterMachete@reddit

Accepting it. I am leaning into it. No hair dye for this guy :)

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Zealousideal-Web5346@reddit

Let it go. My hair is still brown but if I try to grow a beard it's solid white

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itallsucks80@reddit

I think it’s normal to try and manage it at first in the early signs and can get away with for a while. But in reality, it’s a lot to keep up with and doesn’t look right as time goes on. Rock what ya got and keep it real.

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uniquecleverusername@reddit

I'm far too tired to fight all the things.

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Danktizzle@reddit

Botox seeps into your brain

Why would you ever do that? For fucking vanity?

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MarionberryWitty532@reddit

Blonde and no gray yet. I do my own Botox.

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Grouchy-Substance190@reddit

No hair on the top of the dome anymore and there are some gray patches in the beard. Not trying to stay in my 20s forever, I am doing my best to stay in the best shape possible not only to look good but for quality of life in the ending years.

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freelancefrank@reddit

What hair?

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ElsieBeing@reddit

I'm enjoying the hair going gray because I can dye it pastel colors with less effort. And I'm using a little Botox to "soften" the lines. There's a middle ground, and I'm on it.

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Independent-Lie-7374@reddit

I admit to Botox, profhilo and radiesse. But the key word is natural, rested. Not Lauren Sanchez Bezos and the plastic people who went to the wedding

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AmItheonlySaneperson@reddit

I’m just mad I’m getting wrinkles and still get acne

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imnottheoneipromise@reddit

I don’t have wrinkles as of yet (I use tretinoin and as a very pale white girl I learned at an early age to keep sunscreen slathered on on a permanent basis lol) but the gray hair is there. Huge patch right up front. I hate it and I dye it but I’m also lazy and go quite a while between.

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just_a_guy_ok@reddit

No never Botox but I’ve had a bleach blonde/salt and pepper grey mowhawk for a while now. This isn’t to hide the grey, it’s just the look.

I was a goth teenager, I always went either black or red w my hair. I never did bleach blonde until a couple of years ago after having natural hair for ages. It’s fun. No one takes me seriously and that suits me.

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Pleasant_Expert_1990@reddit

I dye my beard for job interviews. It used to be a glorious red but is now almost completely grey. My head is good though. Just a few new greys on the temples and front. I think it will grey up nicely.

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cjandstuff@reddit

As David the Gnome taught me back in the day, wrinkles are a sign that you smiled and laughed a lot.

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thenamewastaken@reddit

Don't have wrinkles yet. I'm gonna accept them, though. I am patiently waiting for my hair to go gray so I can dye it all kinds of fun colors without having to bleach it first.

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Ghosts_of_the_maze@reddit

I take a pill to hang onto some of my hair, but that’s the extent of my gender affirming care as a dude.

Look, I’ve got a big round head, can’t really grow a beard and would look like Charlie Brown if I lost all my hair so it is what it is. But no dye. Barely starting to go grey in my 40’s.

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WickedKoala@reddit

Hair dye looks way worse at our ages than going natural. It's always so obvious no matter how well done.

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Chickenbrik@reddit

I went bald at 22 gray and wrinkles are nothing compared to losing your hair when your young, especially since I had long hair for 12 years of my life up to the point I had to let it go

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5pens@reddit

Accepting it for the most part, but also trying to prevent with moisturizer and sun care. I only have a few, mostly unnoticeable, grays. I work with a girl who is 26 and already talking about botox to prevent wrinkles. 🙄

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ah_rosencrantz@reddit

What hair?

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Manofmanyhats19@reddit

You can’t fight time. Just own it. I’m hoping to turn into the stereotypical sweet old man down the street eventually.

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theimperfexionist@reddit

I embraced the grey for a couple of years, it was fun! Then I lost some weight and got wrinkles as well which made me feel 100 years old. Started hair dye and botox again and literally yesterday a coworker asked me how I'm aging in reverse, lol

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Writerhaha@reddit

You kidding me?

I’m getting a little salt pepper in the beard and the Reed Richards temple grey, I LOVE IT.

Bit of balding at the top isn’t my favorite but it’s all good.

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toooldforthisshittt@reddit

Y'all still have hair?

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gemstone3750@reddit

every 6 weeks I'm at the hairdresser. I REFUSE to go gray now. maybe in like 10 yrs but not in my 40s. I budget it in every month, I'm not giving it up.

But botox? noppe not injecting myself with anything, I deal with wrinkles

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lqxpl@reddit

I won't say I'm aging gracefully, but I'm not fighting it either. Too busy trying to keep all these spinning plates from falling down. :-D

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Senemish@reddit

I've been graying and balding since my mid-late 20s. I thought at the time that having to fight it for what could be 50+ years would be tiring so I just let it go. Being that my "hair style" amounts to me shaving it all off once a month, it just makes the job easier.

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olduglysweater@reddit

Luckily my grey isn't that bad, but stress really does show on your skin

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mattynapps@reddit

Im child free I think that has prevented the wrinkles. The gray in my beard is fine, I don't even mind it on my head. But the balding is why I razor my whole head a couple times a week.

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the_eleventh_flower@reddit

Lol 50/50. I've been dyeing my hair forever, should've been born a redhead. Bought a bunch of boxes on sale and when I run out, might call it then. Botox ....nah.

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Geri-psychiatrist-RI@reddit

What hair?

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BigBoxOfGooglyEyes@reddit

I've been saying for years that when I go gray I'm going to start dying my hair wild colors, but here I am in my mid-40s and I still only have like 5 gray hairs. Wrinkles are a different story that I don't really give a shit about.

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OnlyAd4210@reddit

Buddy I've been going grey since age 25. Genetics.

However I've still got a full head of hair that grows like a weed. Just like my damn dad.

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Elcamina@reddit

Accepted the greys, wrinkles are only starting and not too bad. I think I might need an eye lift at some point as I already find myself having to raise my eyebrows to see better due to them being deep set.

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shibasurf@reddit

Both since my mid 20's.

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twobootsranch@reddit

Started losing my hair in my 30s. Gray would be fine.

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Hattkake@reddit

Each wrinkle and grey hair I have earned. Growing older is not guaranteed, it is a privilege.

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suspiciousyeti@reddit

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PastorInDelaware@reddit

The gray in my beard is coming along nicely; I’d prefer more in my hair.

The thing that has surprised me at 41 is the depth of my crow’s feet. Looks like that bird got to stompin on my eyes.

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trail_of_life@reddit

I let myself go fully silver and have never gotten so much attention from men (and women) in my life. It’s kinda wild. My husband thinks it’s less the hair and more my comfort and confidence with who I am, but he also thinks the hair is very hot😂

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Purple-flying-dog@reddit

Accepting the wrinkles mostly, though I do use decent face creams. Hair, I still dye. I’m waiting for it to be more gray so I can dye it fun colors without bleaching.

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Scared-Ideal-1483@reddit

Accepting my gray hair was easy as my beard is amazing.

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al_brownie@reddit

Finally stopped coloring my hair two years ago. It took awhile to grow out but it’s great. I got Botox twice right before I turned 40 and I didn’t really like it so never did it again 🤷🏻‍♀️

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bell83@reddit

I found my first grey when I was 22, and started going bald around the same time.

Long past the point of caring.

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Guitargirl81@reddit

44f. So far I'm ok with some of the greys poking through. But yes, I've had some botox so that I don't looked so pissed off all the time.

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MessDifferent1374@reddit

I’m so interested to see the retirement homes in 30 years. What will our botoxed comrades look like? Do injectables stretch out the skin and once they stop the process they’re left with saggy skin, like my titties after breastfeeding? There’s not to be some side effects to this, I assume.

I am affected by seeing my face slowly change, I am not immune and it’s a daily thought. But, I charge forward. I choose to think about my elders and how impactful they are to me. I choose to reframe aging in my mind. If aging isn’t the human goal, what is? Love and connection, of course but in a life or death way, animalistic ally speaking the goal is to stay alive. With that comes so much good and we focus on the way our bodies age……just the same as every other human in this world?!!! What a waste of energy. I try to be mindful that I’m lucky to be able to think this way. While I have thoughts that my peers are more attractive than I am and will be even more so since they don’t age and I do as we move into this very obvious aging period of our lives, 45-55, I’m mostly proud that social norms do not effect how I live my life. They might effect my mood or thoughts, but I’m not allowing them to change me. I’d rather fight that shitty brainwashed thinking than adhere to it and spend hundreds on trying to remain in the past.

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Lafnear@reddit

I've been going gray since I was a teenager so it doesn't bother me too much.

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Lonely_North_8436@reddit

I use a lot of creams and face masks for my aging face. I also look at laser treatments and fantasies about having the money for them haha The hair can go grey, dye is too much work.

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YEMolly@reddit

Do the laser treatments hurt? Do they work pretty well?

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Lonely_North_8436@reddit

From before and after pictures it looks like they work. I’ve never done them though.

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bananabastard@reddit

The only thing I'm focused on maintaining is my function.

Strength, speed, power, and flexibility.

Also, at 43, I'm still not balding or graying yet.

I do have prominent "11s" between my eyebrows, and I can see other frown lines that aren't visible yet, but they're in my future.

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BlackLioConvoy@reddit

I use aminos and collagen. Otherwise let it happen.

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dorkigoddess@reddit

At 43, years of avoiding sunlight have kept me pretty wrinkle free, so I'm not tempted by Botox. As far as the gray hair goes... Well, I will accept it when it comes in all at once. Right now it's a straggler here and a straggler there and I am not a fan. But that morning that I wake up and I have a skunk stripe across my head, I'm firing my hair dresser. :-P

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

I was an early gray person. At 18 I had my first gray hair. By 22 I was dying it regularly to hide the grays. At first with highlights then with a full dye.

3 years ago, I decided fuck it. This is me. Stopped dying. It took a year but now I have practically a full head of white hair!

What’s funny is that the way my hair looks every time I go to get a cut my stylist shows everyone my hair because it’s what a lot of people ask for!

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Spare-Way7104@reddit

My chin is grey. I’ve embraced it.

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Dee_Buttersnaps@reddit

No wrinkles yet, just lines on my forehead that are thankfully covered by my bangs. I used retinol, will never use injectibles. Grays are coming in all over and not that noticeable. I'm very low maintenance to begin with, I can't imagine putting in the effort to keep up with coloring my hair.

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Hectate@reddit

Au natural, baby!

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detectiveriggsboson@reddit

I earned this

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SomewhereLive5921@reddit

I’m greying. About 20% on my head, and 40% on my beard. Not everyone is lucky enough to get to our age. Still have a full head of hair. I will not dye it. When I do go grey, I’m hoping it will be like my dad, who had a beautiful head of grey hair (much younger than me, but who’s counting?). I’ve been lucky with wrinkles so far, but I won’t do anything about them either

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asstyrant@reddit

Acceptance -- I'm old and I don't give a flying fuck.

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Electrical-Dig8570@reddit

Ive been a fairly ugly man for most of my life, but now I’m leaning into the “distinguished” and “seasoned” terminology.

Nice part about not having good looks is that time can’t take ‘em away!

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Burquenobueno@reddit

To quote Mick Foley: "Luckily, I wasn't that great looking to begin with."

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Sal_Paradise81@reddit

I feel like I was born about 65 or so and I’ve just been growing into my age this whole time

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ChefGreyBeard@reddit

I look like Santa, and that is okay.

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uncctf@reddit

I wish I was just going gray; my hairline is beating a hasty retreat over the last year or two. I’ve got some gray creeping into my sideburns - not Paulie Walnuts levels, just a few here and there.

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dabeeman@reddit

don’t have either

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Important_silence@reddit

What wrinkles? What gray hair?

Once the signs of aging do show up, I don’t see myself being upset about it.

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no_clever_name_yet@reddit

Hair, I’ve gotten lucky. I’m fat, so NO WRINKLES! 😂

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MyFaceSaysItsSugar@reddit

Are you me? People don’t think I’m old enough to have a PhD or a grandmother who turned 100. I’m fat and only get the occasional single weird coarse white hair that gets yanked.

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Important_silence@reddit

Me neither. Once the signs of aging do show up, I don’t think I’d be upset about it.

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bansheesho@reddit

Well, I accepted male pattern baldness decades ago. Just shave it. I do reasonable things to keep my skin healthy like lotion and moisturizer and use sunscreen. I try to keep the crazy nose and ear and eyebrow hairs trimmed and the rest of the hair trimmed to a reasonable length. I maintain a healthy amount of cardio exercise and active lifestyle.

But cosmetic procedures. Nah. I'll just do it gracefully.

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washingtonandmead@reddit

Only thing not working for me is the aches and pains. And once I hit 40 it was like things just stopped digesting. I’d eat and it felt like it would sit.

But the rest of it, 🤷🏼‍♂️, only time I see myself is in the mirror so I’ll just keep imagining I look like I did when I was 22

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nnulll@reddit

Botox and hair dye just make you look even older

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lacosaknitstra@reddit

Definitely have the wrinkles, but I’m disappointed I only have a handful of white hairs. I was really hoping to be full on salt & pepper by now.

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Zealousideal_Put5666@reddit

No botox, but yes im getting highlights, it's not so much the grays, but the crappy underlying color that I'm trying to deal with

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harbinger06@reddit

Right now I’m just going with it. Haven’t colored my hair since 2019. My makeup foundation was discontinued around then as well, and I haven’t found a replacement. Stopped looking really. So I rarely wear makeup, and I don’t color my hair. I just use moisturizer with sunscreen.

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Bipolar-Burrito@reddit

I’ve been going gray since 30. I’m cool with the gray. I have been leaving treats out, a kennel, food dish, you name it. Hoping my hairline comes home soon.

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tgrofire@reddit

I've been going gray since my early 20s and been a silver fox since about 35. It was really fun when my face still looked young as it would confuse and surprise people. Men would tell me they were into it and women would tell me they were inspired to go great themselves. Now, at 43, im looking a little more haggard overall and its not as cute. I've dyed it purple a few times and that was fun! Now im trying to embrace the aging process as my face slowly falls into my neck.

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2017lg6@reddit

Accepting happened automatically

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Kade7596@reddit

I've lived at least 90% of my life indoors, so wrinkles aren't happening yet and I have good hair genes from both mom and dad. Little bit of gray in my beard when that grows out, though 🤔

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IceManYurt@reddit

I've earned all of it through a series of once in a lifetime events that has left my bank account in a state where I can't afford any of that.

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Natural-Honeydew5950@reddit

Fighting it. Going to the hair salon makes me feel great. I get my roots touched up every 6 weeks or so. I do Botox maybe twice a year.

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Excellent-Point3722@reddit

I use Botox but I’m letting my hair get long and grey because my dream has always been to look like an immortal witch. The grey is coming in very pretty and silver so it looks like I’ll be living the dream soon enough.

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LReber722@reddit

I only have a few wrinkles and no grey hair yet. When that time comes, I'm probably just going to let it go. My friend blends her greys in with highlights so I might go that route if it bothers me too much. I probably won't though because I tried dying my hair when I was younger and I hated the upkeep.

Overall though I'm not too worried about it. My daughter teases me about my crows feet and smile lines but I wear those like a badge of honor. There's a quote that I like that says "I'd rather see my face ageing than a face that doesn't belong to me at all". My husband still thinks I'm beautiful so that's all that matters to me.

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BibFortunaCookie@reddit

I get my hair done regularly, but I dont fuck with my face.

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No_Reporter2768@reddit

I found my first gray hair at 24, so yes I dye my hair with no shame. I don't love my wrinkles, or accept them, but there's no way I'm injecting junk into my face to get rid of them.

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BananaPants430@reddit

Acceptance. Can't afford Botox or regular hair coloring. Also, my aunt dyed her hair for decades until in her early 60s it suddenly stopped taking dye at all, and it was a very abrupt change that visibly aged her overnight - I'd like to avoid that kind of thing.

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rekt_ralf@reddit

My beard hairs are going straight from dark brown to white. I’m just sort of rolling with it.

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ghostygirl79@reddit

F no, I'm gonna fight it til the day I die lol.

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Defiant_Cookie_4963@reddit

I decided to stop dyeing my fair when I turned 40. Still in the awkward grow out stage but I have the coolest big gray streak like a skunk stripe and it’s so fantastic! I want it to grow faster!

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OldPyjama@reddit

Hair? What hair?

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gaslightindustries@reddit

I started going gray in my 20s, I'm fine with it

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MassOrnament@reddit

I've earned the greys. Won't subject myself to needles unless it's required * shudder *

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thecicilala@reddit

Accepting.

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boulderama@reddit

My grey hair got worse ever since I had kids in my mid 30’s. Now 2/3 of my beard is white. Hair is salt and pepper. Mostly pepper for now. Had no grey body hair and now it’s starting to creep down my body.

No wrinkles thankfully. Slow aging genes holding on strong. I shave my head and beard and look 7 years younger.

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Sinead_0_rebellion@reddit

I found my first grey at 21. I've always felt good about aging. Now at 43 I have a streak of grey and more and more coming in around my face all the time. I dye my hair with streaks of purple but leave out the grey so it still shows. I love it.

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cyberfx1024@reddit

So I have known that ever since I was a teenager that I would have a full head of grey/white hair because it runs in my family. My father and his oldest sister had nothing but white hair, his younger sister was a mix of red/white, heck my cousin had a full head of grey hair by the time she turned 30. So that being said it is very common on my father's side of the family to have grey hair early on in life.

So my first grey/white hair started popping up when I was 19, so I just took it in style. Now I am 41 and the sides of my hair are salt and pepperish which makes me look old AF. So I have resorted back to getting my haircut to every 2 weeks like I did in the Marines which means a medium fade with a razor shave on the side just to hide the grey.
My wife likes for me to keep it short because she says "it makes you look younger" while I get more compliments with my grey hair out on the side from everyday people

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gyrlonfilm6@reddit

I don't have wrinkles (my mom is very young looking and it looks like I am going in the same direction), but I am letting my grey come in naturally. I like a little salt and pepper look. It's still barely noticeable. Though I think later I will be one of those proverbial blue haired old ladies.

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Epicardiectomist@reddit

I may not particularly like what's happening physically as I age, but I refuse to fight it. The pursuit of youth makes people look and behave weird.

I'd rather turn the fight inward and spend that time fighting off becoming a bitter old curmudgeon.

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Bright_Client_1256@reddit

I just dyed my hair too 😁

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epithet_grey@reddit

I colored my hair for years, somewhat because I work in an industry where women generally tend to do all the things (hair/nails/full face/cosmetic surgery/ designer everything), but partly because I liked coloring my hair (red ombré? Yes pls). I backed off on makeup during COVID. Then this spring, I cared for my dad in hospice for months before he passed away and just stopped caring what I looked like for a while.

I’m growing out the gray now and so far I am fine with it. Not much in the way of wrinkles yet because I’ve been good about skincare and sunscreen, and also hi genetics.

I’m just happy to be here in a body that does what I need it to most of the time, honestly.

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IndependentLove2292@reddit

Y'all have hair?

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animus218@reddit

I went gray in my 20s, and I'm too fat for wrinkles. But, working on that, so when they come, I'm owning all of it.

Part of me wants to be that chic and polished older woman, but in reality, I'm going to be barefoot in the yard, and if our town had kids, they'd all think I was a witch.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

My hair is like 75/25 salt to pepper. But I have a thick full head of it so that’s great. My facial hair is almost entirely white at this point.

I’m actually fairly wrinkle free. I take pretty good care of my skin, never smoked, don’t generally get overexposed to the sun. So I’m pretty good.

I don’t have any desire to color my hair (though I did once out of curiosity and it de-aged me by like 20 years). I have a single line that runs cockeyed across my forehead that I don’t like, so I’ve been thinking about taking care of that with Botox and/or fillers. Not because it makes me look old but because it looks weird.

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sleepy_unicorn40@reddit

No wrinkles yet... But when I do get them no Botox. My friend just did it and she ended up allergic and her face was so puffy and red for days! Not going to chance that.

My silver hair is coming in really cool and I love that it's so different from my dark brown hair.

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No_oNerdy@reddit

Acceptance. I have earned my gray hair and wrinkles. I want to age with grace and find beauty in what popular culture dubs as “flaws”.

To each their own though. If Botox/fillers, and hair dye make you happy? Own it and run free!

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mlo9109@reddit

Accepting it. Not doing so gets sad at a certain point. My mom (75) still colors her hair. She has a full head of brown hair despite her 10 other siblings long having gone grey. I joke that we're going to be coloring her hair in her casket someday. I don't want that for myself. Her hair, her choice, but I personally don't want the subject of conversation at my funeral to be the color of my hair.

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unlovelyladybartleby@reddit

I love my grey hair and dying it interesting colours, so I've been fighting with little strips of foil, trying to save the grey from the purple

Fuck botox. I'm not spending more than my car is worth to shoot my face full of the stuff I'm busy preventing with my pressure canner

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jupiterwizard@reddit

So far accepting it!

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mysfwaccount84@reddit

No wrinkles yet, but I've noticed some salt creeping into my beard.

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TheRealExactO@reddit

Silver back! (Salt an pepper right now, but it's comin)

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cdizzle6@reddit

My hair’s been gone since like 2005. I get age guesses anywhere from 35-55.

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too_old_to_be_clever@reddit

I ran outside for 20 years. Wrinkles are my thing.

I'm also a blonde guy and still naturally blonde. But if I start to bald...I'm shaving it.

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salamanderinacan@reddit

I'm an engineer. It's not a profession where looking young (aka inexperienced) is beneficial.

No hair dye, no makeup, tell the interns about interesting catastrophic failures that happened when they were in kindergarten.

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Truth_Seeker963@reddit

Fully accepted. I’m not injecting toxins or fillers into my body or applying chemicals to my head for aesthetic purposes.

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neodraykl@reddit

I'll let you know when it happens.

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cloudshaper@reddit

I love my gray hair, and am mostly OK with wrinkles thus far. I've been looking into botox, but more for controlling tension headaches.

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higglesworth@reddit

Can’t wait for the beard to get more gray. Then I can move to the gulf coast, buy a boat, and be a salty sea captain

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daabbot@reddit

My beard looks weird with grey and black hair. I dye it when I grow it out.

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Strict-Square456@reddit

A little just for men here and there and some basic skin care routines.

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threebeansalads@reddit

Just hair dye but it doesn’t cover my sparkles .. just blends shit together better. Wrinkles are gonna be au natural. I refuse to inject anything ever

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Jenn31709@reddit

My hair started going grey at 13 and I'm lucky that my mom let me dye it. My grandma was snow white by the time she was 21 and my parents were both fully grey in their early 40s.

But I gave up on dyeing my hair about 10 years ago and I've never tried botox. I'm aging ... well not gracefully, but without intervention. L

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weltvonalex@reddit

I do not care about those, what really sucks are the eyes that shitty presbyopia.

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smile_saurus@reddit

Mid 40s, don't quite have those things yet aside from 2 silver hairs on my head. But I gotta say: I want a whole head of silvery hair!

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JustAGreenDreamer@reddit

ACCEPT

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Hesmec@reddit

I’m leaning into it. I haven’t dyed my hair in months and the grey is real. It kind of adds character though. 🤷‍♀️

I do visit aestheticians when I find a deal on Groupon. I’ve done some topical treatments (chemical peel most recently) but refuse to inject anything in my face in the name of elusive “beauty.” I have smile lines around my eyes and a few fine lines, but my skin is oily and it has served me well re: wrinkles.

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JDz84@reddit

I dye my hair a couple times a year with highlights to try to blend the grays in a little… I’d love to eventually just lean into it as it becomes more gray, though.

Nothing for my skin other than my normal routine (washing with cetaphil, using ponds moisturizer and a cerave cream before bed).

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Throw-away17465@reddit

No botox, but gripping to the dye bottle for dear life

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cathode-raygun@reddit

I'm a middle aged gay man, I dye my beard and shave my balding head. I'd go with fillers for the corners of my eyes if I could, I've just been lazy.

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ModernDay_RandyMarsh@reddit

I dye it myself when it gets really gray. Mine only gets gray in certain areas and started in my 20s.

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YEMolly@reddit

Accepting my wrinkles (no Botox). Not accepting the gray hair though. I don’t have a ton thankfully, but I do have some, & have recently started dying my roots.

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OpportunityTop5274@reddit

Botox and I am the last hold out of my friend group without grey hairs!

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obsequyofeden@reddit

Considering I used to dye my hair grey, I will gladly accept it when it naturally comes. But that’s not happening too fast. I don’t love the wrinkles that I have, but I won’t do filler or Botox. I think there’s going to be a LOT of filler regret in the next 10 years.

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Arderis1@reddit

I'm 44. I've never dyed my hair, and I've only worn makeup twice in the last 25 years. I'm not about to start either of those things now.

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FigNewton555@reddit

So far only gray is a bit through the stubble.

Wrinkles aren’t bad yet but no way will I touch Botox as they come.

Woah to god I could do something about the bags under my eyes tho that shit is the worst and one of the main reasons I stick to glasses over contacts

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psilosophist@reddit

I'm leaning into my crazy old guy phase, I've decided that since I'm a bit of a genetic freak (I have blue eyes and a very full head of hair, and I'm nearing 50) I'd just lean it to it, so while other dudes are hiding their bald spots under bald caps I'm over here hair farming and letting my hair grow out, I have naturally curly hair so I'm letting it grow out, with lots of gray in there.

I've never had much in terms of positive self image or vanity so caring about wrinkles and gray hair has always felt like a waste of time.

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TheBr0fessor@reddit

"I'm something of a genetic freak, myself."

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

My shit is salt n pepper and it’s glorious.

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Few_Internet9205@reddit

I did a semi-gloss on my hair to semi cover grays for about a year and a half. Then I noticed myself critiquing the roots and feeling bound to schedule another appt. So I decided to stop and also immersed myself in photos and media of beautiful gray hairs and feel better about my grays now. Actually looking forward to my biggest streak growing all the way in.

For wrinkles, we have way better basic skin care than the boomers did at this age so I feel fine about what’s showing up, overall my skin is way healthier than my cystic acne self as a teen and young adult so I’m not mad about it.

For other beauty stuff nobody asked about I’m doing electrolysis for chin and neck hairs and besides the pain I’m so happy with it! It had got to point where I would have full chin hair clump again two days after thorough plucking and I did not like it.

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eastewart@reddit

The graying and wrinkles don’t bother me. The thinning hair bums me out a little and I’m trying my best to preserve what’s left without breaking the bank. Other than that, I embrace the aging process!

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upnytonc@reddit

Hair dye for me. I really don’t have much grey, I just like to change up my hair color. Thought about Botox but there are way more cons than pros with it on my opinion. I use a lot of moisturizer and serums. I think I look good for my age of 47. But who knows maybe I look like an old hag. 😆

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Expensive-Day-3551@reddit

Accepting my hair. when it gets more grey I am excited about dyeing the grey a cool color since my hair is normally dark and I can’t do funky dye without bleaching, and I never wanted to do bleach. I did a little forehead Botox twice, not sure if I will do again or not. I always wear sunglasses outdoors so I haven’t gotten any crows feet yet.

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tobi319@reddit

They are sparkles and malign lines thank you very much!

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SaveusJebus@reddit

I only have a couple of greys and won't be worrying about it when it does increase. Wrinkles... IDGAF.

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PengwinPears@reddit

I get Botox for migraines and I have to admit my vain side does like that it cuts the wrinkles on my (somewhat larger) forehead.

Don't have gray hair yet but when it comes in more I'll probably keep it dyed a funky color.

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shrimp-and-potatoes@reddit

I am too lazy to do anything about it.

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bcentsale@reddit

I went bald before I ever went gray. I've been shaving it since I was 27.

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Krymestone@reddit

As Kenny Loggins once sang, “Don’t fight it.”

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Mondoweft@reddit

Getting the wrinkles, but not the grey hair. I think I would prefer it the other way around.

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FluffySpell@reddit

I honestly don't really have all that many wrinkles. The gray hairs? I will color over those until I die. I do vivid colors in my hair like I had always dreamed of having when I was younger and now that I have adult money I can have it look really nice. I think having a myriad of different colored hair also makes me look younger.

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

I don’t dye my hair but haven’t really gone gray (I’m looking forward to it). My skin isn’t perfect but okay. I actually like wrinkles/crows feet, but I do have some sagging I hate. No interventions though- I’m not sure what I would do if I could actually afford it. Probably nothing still.

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Joliet-Jake@reddit

I don’t care about it. The only time I‘ve ever died by hair, it was blue. I might do that again one day, but that’s just for fun, not vanity.

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Blizzardof1991@reddit

Not much hair left, it honestly doesn't bother me much. I'm glad I was able to accept it.