I take the middle ground on the whole color-to-hide-hair debate. For me, personally, colored hair is too big of a PITA to maintain. Inevitably I end up with roots (b/c no one can seem to match the normal color and just, you know, hide the grey). So for now I'm just letting it be.

Now, should what happened to my folks happen to me, I will probably change my tune. My father was incredibly slow to grey - didn't really have any to speak of until ~62. My mom, on the other hand, was fully grey by 40. So people at church would ask things like "Doesn't your husband come to church? I see you every week with your two daughters and your son." If it gets to the point where I'm grey and Tim is not and people wonder if he's my son, there will be haircolor applied forthwith - no matter what the attraction of grey in its own right.

Women with the coloring applied, would look much better with the gray ...

Beth - if you ever get that question, you should turn and plant a big one on Tim, just to seriously mess with your questioner's mind!

And in this, I'm thinking the whole Ferris Bueller "Do you have a kiss for Daddy?" thing here.

Now see, that's a very good response. I will keep it in my pocket.

Hold on a sec, Tex. It's "just life" until it's your life that's affected. Then it's a bit different story, eh? They could cure my baldness and I'd love them for it.

Unfortunately, however, that just ain't gonna happen until they can figure out how to attack fast growing cancer cells without attacking hair cells, too, which also grow fast.

;)

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity . . .

Of course, I'm 42, have all of my hair, and have about 2 greys on my entire head.

But no, if I were going bald, I'd simply buzz it short like Bruce Willis.

As one who started to turn grey in college and has colored her hair since age 26, I'm for it. However, if my natural hair color were not mousy dishwater blond, but a rich dark brown then I would have let it go grey. But add grey to mousy, dishwater blond and you get dingy dishwater blond and who wants that on their head?

I prefer the occasional hassle of coloring my hair to keep my youthful appearance, thank you.

If I could be guaranteed to go grey to a lovely silver, I'd be all for it. But most of the people in my family get an ugly yellowish white that isn't attractive at all. Fortunately for me, I seem to have got the late greying -- instead of the extremely early greying -- genes. So I'm not expecting to find anything but brown hair for another ten years or so. Time will tell though.

Robbo,

LMC had mentioned the aforementioned law professor - any chance you two could start a "hot females in academia" contest? Beauty and brains are an unbeatable combination - academicly speaking, of course...