I lost my blonde, literally

When I was born, my hair was a beautiful blonde, an it stayed that way till up to the age of ten. It then gradually started getting darker, it took a step through red, and now it's a dark brown. I know that your hair is supposedly supposed to get lighter when exposes to the sun. I was on my high school's swim team, and was out in the sun everyday, but it still kept getting darker. Is this normal, or has this happened to anyone else?

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  • My brother started very blonde and by his twenties his hair went dark.

    I am always blonde.

    I also get regular visits by a hairstylist.

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  • thunderh89

    It's normal. I think I remember hearing that many, many children have blonde hair (I know I did) and then it darken up a lot by the time they hit puberty or adulthood. I was a blonde (I remember a teacher pointing out my hair as blonde) and now, at 23, my hair is very dark (although my facial hair is a weird mix or three or four colors).

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  • johnsonj121698

    Same exact thing happened to me!
    I was born with beautiful blonde hair and gorgeous blue eyes.
    Now as I've gotten older i have light brown hair and green eyes. It all changed!

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  • Crd08

    Normal, but still sucks. I always had pretty golden blonde hair until i was 10 or 11. Then it started getting darker and is now a gross dark or "dishwater" blonde, as my mom calls it. I color my hair baxk to that golden blonde and everybody aasumes its natural just beacuse it still goes so well with my complexion

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  • Jessie735513

    Sammeeee... I tried lemon juice

    ...trust me

    ...never do it. It's sticky and squeaky and crispy and it didn't help lighten my hair.

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  • Tori the exact same thing happened to me im 11 now and now im totally dirty blonde and i miss my blonde hair i always feel kinda jealous of my friends

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  • squirrelgirl

    My hair was very blonde when I was a child, we're talking yellow blonde. Now I'm in my twenties and it's very dark. I wouldn't say it's brunette, but a dark dishwater blonde. I would probably cry if I went full brunette, because having naturally blonde hair is one of the few things I actually like about myself.

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  • tori

    To Ms.Caffinated,

    Haha! My husband used to joke I had an affair with the mailman because my husband has dark brown hair. only problem is that our mailman is Filipino.

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  • Thatguy777

    This seems to be happening to me. When I was born I was really blonde, but it's getting darker. I'm a guy though, so I like that. I dont want it to turn red though..

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  • Exactly the same thing happened with my hair. I see a bit of black mixed in my hair now.

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  • dappled

    This happens a lot. I was born platinum blonde, went ash blonde by 3, mid-brown by 5, and fully dark brown at about 12.

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  • isitforeal

    yea my hair used to be like white blonde now its light brown

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  • Ms.Caffinated

    You've become to smart to be blond lol, and tori, is there any possibility he was switch at the super market? lmao jk

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  • avst

    That happened to my best friend as now has dark brown hair and had blonde hair

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  • tori

    My son was born with blonde hair and blue eyes. Somewhere around 10 years old it switched to medium brown and he has hazel eyes now. Normal I would say.

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  • randomjelly

    This is a normal occurrence and happens to a large majority of children. I remained blond but the color did darken as well.

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  • wigsplitz

    My hair was platinum blonde as a baby and kid but the same thing happened to me, it finally settled on a light reddish brown (well, last I know of anyway, I have been dying it for a long time).

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  • My hair used to be bright blonde, now its a light brown colour. I am abit dissapointed because I would much rather of kept my blonde hair.

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  • iBeatMyWife

    It seems you're getting smarter because blondes are not really bright.

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