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As we age, our hair follicles produce less melanin, the pigment that gives hair its color. This decrease in melanin production can cause hair to appear gray or silver.

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Why is my hair silver?

Hair turns silver or gray due to a decrease in melanin production, the pigment responsible for hair color. As we age, our hair follicles produce less melanin, resulting in the silver or gray color.


Can your hair be naturally silver?

No, not genetically. However, hair can change color over age or with special shampoos.


What characteristics define the long silver hair man you encountered at the event last night?

The long silver-haired man at the event last night was distinguished by his age, long silver hair, and possibly a sense of wisdom or experience.


What is the youngest age at which a person has had of head full of grey or silver hair color?

It has been known for a newborn to have silver hair. This depends on the parent's genetic path. However, most babies hair gets darker with age. Most often, people who go prematurely gray are completely gray by age 20. However, nutritional deficits and other health conditions can affect children and cause gray hair at any age, so there is no certain age as the youngest.


Why does your hair gray when you get older?

Each hair follicle contains a certain number of pigment cells. As we age the pigment cells in the hair follicles gradually die and the hair turns gray, silver, or white.


What happens when you a piece of your hair turns silver?

When a piece of your hair turns silver, it means that the pigment cells in that hair follicle have stopped producing melanin, the pigment that gives hair its color. This can happen naturally with age or due to a variety of reasons such as stress, genetics, or medical conditions.


How is the health of jazz pianist horace silver?

He died on 18.June 2014 at the age of 85 of natural causes


At what age do most individuals typically start shaving?

Most individuals typically start shaving around the age of 13 to 15, when they begin to develop facial hair.


What age does hair grow on girls vaginia?

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Is it normal to have hair on your head?

Yes; it is exceedingly rare not to (other than by natural causes, i.e. old age).


What causes white hair to appear in a person's beard?

White hair in a person's beard is caused by a decrease in melanin production, the pigment responsible for hair color. As people age, their hair follicles produce less melanin, resulting in the appearance of white or gray hair.


At what age do you put your hair up in your helmet for horseback riding?

Never. Hair inside a riding safety helmet causes it to not fit properly. An ill fitting helmet can result in death if the rider falls or is kicked. Hair should be tied back under the helmet as soon as it is long enough to be caught up in a hair tie. The age is not important, the length of hair is.