2007-01-21 08:26:35 · 5 answers · asked by Christina K 2 in Beauty & Style ➔ Hair
It's because the pigment for blonde hair (pheomelanin) is so strong. Your body can only produce a certain amount of it, and that process slows down a little (and instead produces more eumelanin, the pigment for brown hair) when you get older. I'm guessing that sunlight accentuates the pigment, because if you stay in the sun long enough, your hair will turn more blonde. The guy at the top was somewhat right: that is the same reason why your hair will then turn from brown to gray or white. A total absence of pigment will cause your hair to be white, and a very minute amount will cause it to be gray.
Pigment is what causes color to show. Different types of pigment will show different colors. They absorb the colors they don't want to show and then reflect the colors they do want to show. So when leaves are dying, that's why they turn brown, too, is because it's absorbing all of the color and not reflecting anymore. Another example of pigment is melanin, the pigment in your skin. The reason you tan is because ultraviolet rays from the sun can genetically alter your skin pigment, causing it to reflect more colors in the EM spectrum.
2007-01-21 09:18:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
definite it ought to. my associates hair turns a distinct colour each season. for instance, now that its getting chillier and there is a lot less sunlight, her hair is a dismal brown mixed with somewhat blonde.
2016-10-15 21:52:02 · answer #2 · answered by gettinger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, maybe the same reason my brown hair turned silver!!
2007-01-21 08:34:43 · answer #3 · answered by Auburn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It could be how age dill. my dads hair was blonde when he was born and as he got older it got darker its probobly just some age dill.
2007-01-21 08:38:29 · answer #4 · answered by Brittany 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It has a tendency to do that when you don't wash it.
2007-01-21 08:37:21 · answer #5 · answered by russia 3 · 0⤊ 8⤋