Cherri Gervais obtained her first grey hairs as an adolescent.
“It’s genetic,” she mentioned.
Her hair coloration, a hanging shade of silver, is the very first thing folks on TikTok seen when she requested them to inform her how previous she appeared in a latest video.
The guesses ranged wildly. Many have been appropriate, or shut sufficient, Ms. Gervais mentioned. (She turned 34 this month.) Different advised she was in her 60s or 70s.
Ms. Gervais, who lives in Kansas and works for a part-time magnificence firm, mentioned she had determined to publish her video after coming upon comparable TikToks.
“I noticed somebody Gen Z do it as a result of they have been saying Gen Z is getting older quicker,” she mentioned, referring to a latest on-line principle arguing that youngsters and younger adults are aging more rapidly and more visibly than their millennial counterparts.
Her video is a part of a pattern through which customers, largely girls, ask strangers to touch upon their appearances. Ms. Gervais mentioned that most of the feedback she had obtained have been unkind.
