I gave in some years ago & let my hair go ‘gray’. Pre-gray, it was dark brown, almost black. Trying to keep the ‘skunk stripe’ away (gray stripe along the part where growing out) got to be a pain. Anyway, BEST thing I could have done for my hair - no more dye & currently in a very healthy state. My hair was naturally curly & liked to ‘frizz’ in humidity & we have plenty of that. The gray is much straighter & not as frizzy. It’s also a ‘silver’/white gray & I have people tell me it’s a beautiful color (I got lucky!). My paternal grandmother was silver/white in her mid-thirties ... 7 kids, making life work on a farm, some of it during Depression years. I’d like to think my hair is a throwback to her.
I’m glad to hear someone is rocking the gray. I was an early gray like your paternal grandmother, and I wasn’t ready to be called “old” at such a young age. I know it’s just a number, but I’m not ready to be viewed that way. I know my kids think I have one foot in the grave already, but I’ve been working hard to get them to stop thinking of me that way. They believed all of the hype about CoVid, so I have worked extra hard these last few years to change their minds about my health status. I think they’re starting to realize that I am pretty healthy, and in good shape. We get very few colds around here.