Hair growing darker??

[amethystrain]

I have had light blond hair my entire life. So light it was almost white. The past few months however, it is starting to grow out darker...like it's dirty blond. I love the lightness I've always had, but it suddenly looks like I'm a bottle blond growing out. LOL Why would it do that? Anyone know?

TIA!
~Vanessa

[chopandchange]

That's really weird! I have never heard of that before. Blondes can darken with age (I used to be blonde when I was a little girl) but it usually darkens gradually over time, I think. Do you actually have visible "roots?" That is very strange.

[Capybara]

Do you live in a temperate climate, where the sun shines in the summer but not so much in the winter? Maybe the sun bleaches your hair in the summer, and you get "roots" of a slightly darker shade in the winter.

Sometimes hair changes color, too. I was born with jet black hair, which turned platinum blonde, and now it's part way between blonde and brown.

HTH :flower:

[Themyst]

I was born platinum blond, grew up mostly golden blond, and now I'm brunette (well, I would be if I didn't use henna). My hair darkened exponentially after having children.

I don't understand it either.

[Alia]

My hair was a golden blonde as a teen, streaked dark blonde in college, and is now pretty much totally brown now. During this transition, I was accused of being a bottle blonde with bad roots, too, so you aren't alone.:flowers:

[jera]

Hi there. :) It's not unusual for blonde hair to darken with age. Is this a very sudden change? I honestly can't account for it. :rolleyes:

[Tornerose]

I don't know how old you are, but it happends to alot of blondes in their teens. It happened to me too, but I didn't really notice it, because at first I was colouring it to a more honey blonde, then suddenly decided to colour it redblack, and it grew out brunette, wich confused me alot. When I look at old pics though, I can see it gradually going darker, and I even have dark roots in a picture, wich I didn't even notice I had at the time.

[minnie may]

this is a normal hormonal thing for most blondes.

the darkening can be especially noticeable during or after hormal swings such as adolescence, childbirth and sometimes when starting/switching/stopping hormonal bc. It's the oestrogen level that does this and it naturally decreases with age.

I counteract this with occasional raw honey treatments. uv-light helps to, but that can be quite damaging and not only to your hair so be careful with overexposure to sunlight.

[MonikaHa]

Same thing happened to me, you can blame hormonal changes. After having a baby my hair got really dark. I hate it. :/