Is it possible to have blonde hair as a child and then it turns brown?

Question

I had blonde hair as a child, then as I was growing up, it started going light brown and now it's dark brown. Why did this happen?

Answer 1

good question. Isn't it like all babies (or caucasion babies)are born with blue eyes then they change to a different color (some). Me & my sis had blonde hair as a child that turned more brown as we aged. My sis's boys had blonde hair that turned also. Mine turned between 1st & 2nd grade to dishwater blonde. I still have golden highlights that show up more dramatically in the summer. Our cousin that kept her blonde hair (at least from what I could tell by pix sent to us)
up till jr high-highschool, had her hair turn brown in adulthood. Hmm?
ya, 1st. lol! :0
One of my sons was born with blonde hair & I'm wondering when it will change! Ha Ha (as I don't believe true blondes run in our family -lol) My other son was born a brownie. :)

Answer 2

Yep, my son had Blonde Hair and Beautiful Dark Brown eyes at birth until approximatley 7 or 8....At least two gene pairs control human hair color. One gene, which is a brown/blonde pair, has a dominant brown allele and a recessive blonde allele. If a person carries the brown allele, they will have brown hair; otherwise, they will be blonde. This also explains why two brown-haired parents can produce a blonde-haired child. why one blonde child's hair might turn brown as he grows up while another blonde child's hair does not. According to some research, there are several gene pairs that control the light versus dark hair color in an accumulative effect. Therefore, the more of these that are dominant, the darker the hair will be.

Answer 3

I had the same. I had blonde hair until about 5 years old and then it gradually got darker. I am now in my 30s and it is dark brown. If I am out in the sun a lot in summer it goes lighter. I don't know why this happens.

Answer 4

this happened to me. i had blonde, blonde hair as a baby. and eventually it started getting darker. now it's dark brown, so yeah, of course it's possible. i can't explain why it happens, but it does happen. it's not a wierd thing either. hair just changes color over time. just like when you get old, your hair turns grey. can you explain that?

Answer 5

Sure. I used to have rust colored hair when I was 4, now it's black. Nobody is quite sure what happens, but you may have a set of genes for blond hair and also genes for brown hair. The brown hair genes may have been masked somehow, because there are multiple factor controlling hair color. But somehow your brown hair genes began expressing themselves. Brown is dominant to blond, so now the blond gene is masked.

Answer 6

Ya, defiantly. My brother had really blond hair until he was like 8 and then it started to turn brown. Now his hair is completely brown.

Answer 7

I don't know why but hair color changes. My hair was red as a child and has changed to a very dark brown.

Answer 8

i dont know...but my sister was very very blonde as a child, and now her hair is dark brown too. i guess it just happens sometimes.

Answer 9

Eye shade is polygenic, meaning that many genes administration the quantity of pigment in the iris. Brown has the main pigment, observed via gentle brown, hazel, eco-friendly, gray, and blue, with the smallest quantity of pigment. Brown eyes are dominant to blue eyes; in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, somebody with brown eyes might desire to hold recessive features for eco-friendly or maybe blue eyes. on account that recessive features are hidden via dominant features (they do no longer teach), a brown-eyed couple might desire to hold the hidden genes and supply delivery to a blue-eyed baby without the intervention of a milkman. in basic terms like a brown-haired couple might have redheads and blondes. it would be a lot extra in all probability for them to have brown-haired toddlers, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it relatively is relatively conceivable and not uncommon to have toddlers with distinctive hair/eye hues. on the different hand, once you're watching parents showing recessive features, it relatively is in all probability their baby might have the recessive features. this is by using the fact the recessive features in basic terms happen if there are no longer any dominant features to hide them. for this reason, if the two parents have blue eyes, the youngster will extra suitable than in all probability have blue eyes. If the two parents have pink hair, the youngster will in all probability have pink hair. i wish this helps and is not any longer too puzzling.

Answer 10

Yes, it happened to me. It got darker as I grew older. The funny thing is that these last 10 years, I'm blonde again. *wink* lol