When I was a kid I had very light brown hair, almost sandy blond. Over the years it’s become darker and darker brown. Now I’m 33 and to me and many other people it’s dark brown. When the light is on it, it looks a little lighter brown. However, I have some people in my family that insist that I have black hair. You put me next to an asian with black hair and it’s night and day. They just say mine is a lighter black. I say that lighter black doesn’t exist, unless you count gray. Anyway, they won’t listen and everytime it comes up it’s so frustrating. My science background makes me want to say that it’s impossible. You either are born with black hair or you aren’t. I say you can’t go from another color to black.
By the way, no matter what your response, my hair is DARK BROWN!
I am in the same situation as you. I went from nearly blonde as a kid to extremely dark brown hair as as an adult. I have had the “dark brown” vs. black argument with people many times. My little brother OTOH, looks a lot like me except he has had true black hair since he was born. I would say that you have to be born with black hair to truly have it. Dark brown hair just mimics it somewhat.
Isn’t it just the opposite of an albino with white hair? There’s no way it’s changing. White will always be white, and black always black. Hair turns gray when it loses it’s pigment.
What’s funny about this thread is that the same thing happened to me - very dark brown hair that got even darker, to the point where everyone says I have black hair. I got so tired of arguing that it wasn’t black, just very dark brown, that I just went with “black” whenever describing it, to the point that I now think of my own hair as black.
Just checked the mirrror. Nope it’s still just very, very dark brown.
I had blonde-white hair as a child. My hair is now as close to black as one can be. I can’t tell if it really is black because there’s so little of it left, that the only true color indicator I get is when I buzz it and look at the (look black to me) shavings.
I have a college friend of Eastern European/Mediterranean Jewish descent, who for as long as I’ve known him has had hair that I would consider genuinely black (well, except that now there’s some gray in it), whose baby/childhood pictures show him with much lighter hair.
In fact, my friend married a Jewish woman with hair as black as his own, and their son was practically blond when a baby. Four years later, the kid’s hair is still no darker than about medium brown, but I bet it turns black as his parents’ when he’s grown up.