If you are determined, I recommend chalk as an alternative:
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I may try thatā¦
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Just be prepared to cover or clean anything that might stain when applying it. Itās not permanent, and might rub off on fabric even when dry.
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Hmm reading that over it may not work, doubly so if right after a #3 buzz cut. Not much hair to work with and a lot of scalp to color.
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Maybe wait for it to grow a bit, and only dampen/apply to the tips of the hair.
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My wife went grey at 13 and had been coloring her hair ever since. I explained that now, as she approaches the half-century marker, showing her grey would be appropriate. She recoiled at the notion, claiming if she went grey now, it would be admitting to living a lie her whole life. Maybe when 100 rolls aroundā¦
Whatās appropriate got to do with it? Maybe she enjoys coloring her hairā¦ who cares if she looks āappropriateā for her age?
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I started going grey at 18, and was fully grey by 25. Freaked out at first, because I thought it made me look old. I tried dyeing it a couple times, but it ended up not being worth the trouble. Luckily, being a dude, my grey hair wasnāt a negative thing, it was ādistinguishedā. I got flattering terms like āsilver foxā instead of people asking why I didnāt color my hair. Iām glad women are bucking this stupid societal taboo around their hair not being the color it was in their teens. Iāve never found grey hair on anyone to be particularly unattractive or ugly. But I am admittedly biased.
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GROwMyBeautifulRootsEarnestly
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over 50, never gonna happen
you have to already be beautiful to pull off grey looking good and even then it only works if all your hair is grey/white, not just some strands
I have a quarter-sized chunk of hair that grows out without color, just that part has been white all my life, wonder how many other people have that defect
She doesnāt. Itās a chore and a constant pre-occupation for her NOT to show grey. Sheās at the point of coloring all of her hair every 3 weeks, not just touching up the roots.
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Sugar-and-cinnamon?
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Iām apparently entirely oblivious. Iām really surprised by the number of comments on this āissueā. I grew up in a family full of white/grey haired people. I went grey really young and never even thought about it. Iām basically stark white now, and still donāt care a lick. So what?!
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Wow, no. I was never what one would call pretty and was never complimented on my mousy brown hair. But now that itās white - occasionally with a blue or magenta tint - I get compliments from strangers quite a lot! (over 50, too)
@AbelardLindsay. From what Iāve read, that hair color is from a bottle; sheās naturally brunette still. Nice pic of what gray can look like, though. 
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Oddly enough two exes of mine both had mothers that went white very young and the color looked great on both of them 
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Pretty sure Mindysan33ās point is that there isnāt any āappropriateā age to stop coloring. You should color, or not, according to what you want, not according to what anyone else deems is āappropriateā.
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People sometimes say, āYou have beautiful white hair just like your mother,ā and I get in trouble for saying āThanks, but thatās not her hair.ā 
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I still donāt understand what that has to do with āappropriateā?
As @spetrovits notesā¦
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Ugh, maybe I should have said āage appropriate.ā Since sheās been coloring her hair pretty much her whole life to hide the fact that she has gone prematurely grey at a young age, if she was to show some natural color at this point noone would look twice. Whatever she wants to do is fine by me, I have no opinion either way, other than her constant complaining about it. If she wants her hair raven black for the rest of her life, fantastic.
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