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 Personally, dealing with hair dye is way too much work.  It doesn't seem too bad when you have just a little gray, but once you start really going gray, you have to keep up with it or you have terrible looking roots.  Then if you decide to stop after you are near full gray, you look horrible for a year or more.

I've never used hair dye and never will.  I'll admit I'm probably going gray slower than many, but I have better things to do with my time and money.  

The bad things for people like you that have black hair, is the grays really show.  The good thing is they almost always go a beautiful silver.  Those of us with lighter hair don't show those few scattered grays when they first appear, but tend to have dull, dingy gray/off-white hair once it goes full gray.

I'd say embrace it.  Claim your wisdom gained through a few years. 
 I for one celebrate as it comes In I think it looks great.   That is true for most persons. 
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 can confirm on the silver

i went grey early and i still have a lot of brown in my mop but the overall sheen is shiny silver when it's clean and happy, it looks like ... well... russian blue cats have grey from birth, it's like their hair 
 Yeah, definitely silver or pure white. 
 yeah, it really looks nice when it's fully clean and happy, like fine little glass wires with a silvery sheen, they bounce light differently, i mean, like glass fibre, they have that appearance