As I am gradually going gray, I’ve noticed individual hairs that are gray at the tips and dark by the roots- isn’t that backwards?

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As I am gradually going gray, I’ve noticed individual hairs that are gray at the tips and dark by the roots- isn’t that backwards?

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Same. I looked it up once and the answer was that the cells that produce the colour are dying. They’re sort of sputtering out melanin at that point but not consistently.

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