Does (long-term) dying your hair change the natural colour of your hair?

Question

OK..Before you say DOH!!!!! Of course when you dye your hair..the colour changes!!!

This is what I mean is the your natural colour of your hair..when the hair dye has grown out...

Because up until 15 I used to be a natural golden blonde but then I started dying my hair..and I noticed the roots coming back brown..

And now after 10+ years of dying my hair..when I do let some of the roots show there are now a brown colour rather than blonde..

Why is this?? Can anyone explain this to me?? And if I stopped dying my hair is it possible to go back to blonde??

Answer 1

Your natural hair color comes from alot of different things. Sun and damage are the biggest. What I'm getting at is your hair is one color when it comes out and then you have to figure into the process...the sun changes the color by how much you expose yourself to it and then damage....anything from a blow dryer to hair spray damages your hair. Any chemical treatment with change your growth but not the regrowth part of your hair. The hair closest to your scalp is the newest hair and therefore is you natural color.

You also have to consider yourself getting older. Your hair color will lighten and change until it turns either Gray or white. Your hair depending on how dark or light it is, has stages of color is has to go through before reaching the gray or white color stage.

Hope this helped!!!

Answer 2

It doesn't not change your natural colour. Firstly your roots always look darker because they have not been lightened by the sun...quite a bit darker. Second of all if you have been dying your hair for a while you didn't notice the gradual change in hair colour that occurs naturally. As you grow older your hair slowly darkens if you are blond...some people it darkens more than others though. The bottom line is that dying your hair doesn't affect it's natural colour.

Answer 3

I think it's just age that's done it, unless you've been bleaching your hair, that will have a permanent effect on your hair. I've been dying mine since I was 14, I'm now 32 and my natural hair colour is exactly the same as it was when I was 14, but from when I was a baby up until I was around 11 my hair was blonde, it started going brown as I got older, I think that's all it is. :)

Answer 4

Dying your hair will not change the pigmentation of your natural root.

What will change is your bodies response to age.

As a baby my hair was dark brown. Through my infant years, and up until my senior school, I was blonde. Then my hair started to darken.

I have since dyed my hair a variety of colours, having now stuck to blonde for the last 10 years.

If I were to leave my hair to grow naturally, I would be predominately brown with a smattering of grey.

This is all down to my genes , nothing to do with the hair dye.

I doubt very much that if you stopped dying your hair you would return to being blonde.

Answer 5

I dyed my hair for a long time and when I got to college I stopped. I had a room mate that dyed her hair way to much. I saw first hand the damage hair dye can do to your hair! Granted she dyed way to often, was always changing her color, and did the dying herself. However, it made me think about what the dye could be doing to my own hair. I think my hair seems a lot more healthy now that I don't dye it. If you tried to grow your natural color eventually it may go back to what it once was, but there is always that ugly stage while your trying to grow it out.

Answer 6

Certainly no !
After dying your hair for many times. Some harmful chemical elements would be retained forever on your hair and your skin. So that it would make your hair weak, easily to fall, and can not keep their natural colour any more. Worse it could lead cancer.
Stop dying your hair. Do not do anything for long time to help your hair and skin be recovered.
Last thing, you do not see a girl with natural blonde hair is more attracted and allured ?

Answer 7

ur antural blonde will have changed a little anyway if u left it natural but because the sun cant get to the colour underneath the tint its no longer naturally bleaching ur hair therefor its not makin it lighter.
if u let all the colour grow out it is possible to be a blonde again just not naturally.u would have to tint the hair to a blonde colour. hope this helped

Answer 8

well i have died my hair every color in the book and i am a natural light blonde but after a while the more colors added up the more i lost the golden blonde.But i have been dying it black and it looks great so i have had it like this for about 2 years and now my roots are blond so if i grew the color out then it would be pretty close to my natural color.

Answer 9

No it doesn't effect your long term natural hair color. The reason your roots are now dark is because your aging. I use to be a tow head, but now my hair is a light brown.

Answer 10

The dye will only affect the existing growth of hair, not future hair. Your natural hair color is determined by your genes. Hair color can change naturally over time.