katie goes platinum
As a gray hair blogger, I immerse myself in silver hair facts and statistics every day. But one thing that struck me recently was how few research studies actually answer the questions that women are asking.
In order to get those answers, I created a comprehensive gray hair survey, distributed it far and wide, and received over 1150 responses from women all over the world.
Until recently, we rarely saw women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and even their 50s walking around in public with naturally gray hair.
So, how old ARE most women when they find those first white hairs? Let’s look at the survey results:
It appears that many of my readers felt the same, as 75.3% of my respondents had dyed their hair for fun, with the vast majority doing so before the age of 35 (70%)
After age 35, the number of women who started dyeing their hair for fun (as opposed to dyeing for gray coverage) went way down: – 2.9% – 36-40 years old – 1.6% – 41-45 years old – 0.002% – 51-60 years old And 24.7% of my respondents never dyed their hair just for fun (as opposed to dyeing to cover the grays).