# My hair grows darker and darker with age... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692 "2005-11-18T19:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/21 "2005-11-19T10:00:59Z")
My hair is naturally very color. When I was younger it was a dark brown (but easily identifiable as brown) with reddish highlights. Now it’s so nearly black that I just gave up on calling it brown anymore. I miss that old color - I used to love the way it looked when the sun hit it. Now it just looks dark. And dull. Unless I use that horrible silicone stuff that gives hair a nice sheen (and hands a greasy feeling unaffected by water and soap). ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/22 "2005-11-19T10:02:01Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > My hair is naturally very color. My hair, while apparently naturally “very color”, is also naturally very curly. Gah. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/23 "2005-11-19T11:46:38Z")
I’m curly headed! When I was very little - from the time my hair actually grew in so it could be seen (I look bald in every picture before I was about 6 months old) until I was about 3 or 4 was blonde. By the time my kindergarten pictures were taken during the school year, I was brown haired. Now I dye it an auburn color. Underneath, it’s still the same brown, with strands that come in grey. But still curly! ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/24 "2005-11-19T14:29:16Z")
This has happened to my wife’s hair. When she was a kid, it was a bit like a darker shade of blonde. Nine years ago, when we met, it was a kind of golden-dirty blonde mix with auburn highlights. Now it’s several different shades of brown. Still looks very nice, though. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/25 "2005-11-19T14:52:17Z")
Wait, wait, aren’t you Indian? 😕 I have always had black hair. It can only get, ahem, lighter with age ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/26 "2005-11-19T16:08:25Z")
> [@csharpmajor](#): > > Wait, wait, aren’t you Indian? 😕 > > I have always had black hair. It can only get, ahem, lighter with age ☹ Yup. But, yes, it was a lovely reddish-brown as a child. Too lazy to link to pics right now. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/27 "2005-11-19T16:14:13Z")
My hair was a lovely shade of auburn until a few years ago. Now it’s almost completely dark brown with a few bright white strands here and there. It makes me sad too, and I’m almost tempted to color it. I have very _very_ curly hair too. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/28 "2005-11-19T23:23:45Z")
Nope. Mine continues to be reddish brown. However, during pregnancy and for a few months afterward it grew in _straight_. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/29 "2005-11-20T03:39:40Z")
My hair has been dark-brown-almost-black since. . .well, pretty much forever. It might’ve been a little bit lighter when I was a toddler, but it’s hard to tell in pictures. Right now. . .it’s dyed. It looks almost exactly-the-freaking-same, though, just a little more red. I dyed it Midnight Ruby. It’s already washing out. My hair is also curly (well, _really_ wavy, not corkscrew curls or anything like that) Unfortunately, I started getting grey hairs when I was 16. I blame AP Calc. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/30 "2005-11-20T15:44:02Z")
Auburn is a beautiful hair color, especially on olive skin–I used to know a teenage girl down the street who had dark olive skin and naturally auburn hair–she was breathtakingly lovely. I am another tow-head kid turned boring ash blonde grownup. :rolleyes: Both I and one of my sons were born with jetblack hair which later grew in blonde. I was wavy-haired in Colorado, but since the move to Florida, I’ve returned to the ranks of the curly-haired. I used to have my hair highlighted about four times a year, but this new curly look may reduce the highlight habit. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/31 "2005-11-20T18:32:31Z")
My brothers and I were all towheads as children. The older brother is definitely brunet, the younger is ash blonde/brown with a multi-colored beard and mustache, and the only reason I can still pass as blonde is because I started getting white hairs when I was 24. Not grey. Not silver. _White_. I’ve also gone from having straight-as-a-board fine hair to having very slightly wavy fine hair. At least there’s lots of it. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692/32 "2005-11-20T19:05:59Z")
When I was a young lad my hair was bright blond, like white gold. Now, it’s almost brown. I think it’s a family thing. I’ve pictures of my dad when he was realy young and he had the same bright blond hair. Now he’s fifty and it’s difinitely brown. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hair-grows-darker-and-darker-with-age/331692.md?page=1)