why was i born with different color hair?

Question

I was born and grew up with reddish brown hair, but now i have regualr brown hair. my little brother was born with brown hair, but as a little kid turned blonde, and then at about age 10 his hair turned brown again and has remained so for the last 10 years. What causes this?

Answer 1

It's decided by your genes from your parents. Environment can have something to do with it like sun can lighten hair,but really it's just with your born with.
For a better explanation look here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_color

Answer 2

i think its our ancestors who are responsible for this phenomena. I was born with a thick black hair and by the time i was 6 months old, my hair was so blonde it looked white. Then when i was 6 it was strawberry blonde and then it turned dishwater blonde or ash blonde and now its a medium brown with blonde highlights (in the summer when i'm in the sun more- i get more highlights). I'm almost half native american and who knows what the rest of my ancestors were. I know there are some Irish in the ancestor pool because of the freckles that quite a few of us have.

Answer 3

Hair like everything else changes. Skin pigmentation changes as well. Until you are about 8 your body does not produce any oils (that's why kids do not need deodarant). I was light brownish/blonde as a child and then my hair turned to a reddish light blondish brown. Hard to explain. I hate it so I dye it.

Answer 4

You don't run around in the sun for 6 hours a day like you and all of us did during summer vacation as children. Hair loses color as we age but we also get far less sunlight.

Answer 5

Your hair color will change many times in your life and most start out blond or black some brown.
It's normal it has to do with your family genes

Answer 6

I think its in ur genes cuz my hair was almost white when I was a baby and now its a lot darker.9

Answer 7

well your hair turns color with your age becasue as you grow the chemical complexes in your body change, and as far as your borhter having different colored hair as you do, he may have recieved a different set of chromosomes than you did from your parents

Answer 8

i was a blonde wen i was born and now im a brown

Answer 9

You have about 200,000 of them! How can you possibly expect them all to be the same?

Answer 10

because we are all different . i don't know causes it , but don't worry about it . my cousin had a similar case .