My mother (b. 1914) chose never to color her thick hair. She had a lot of interesting patterns of color groups - dark brown and a ring of lighter brown around the edge. Neither grandmother did anything to their hair (b. 1887 and 1873). I was teased as a first grader that I was adopted; mother was significantly older than my peer’s mothers. When I started going white at age 30 in my dark hair, it was just normal for me. At my present age, 54, I am rather evenly distributed white and dark brown. The texture has changed to a much finer strand. Occasionally, I find a super fine gold strand in there, which is rather surprising. I use a photo of the back of my head, showing my long hair in full color, on social network sites which fits my sense of humor.