Naturally blonde at 14 - will it stay?

[Anonymous]

I’m 40 and have medium to light blonde hair. However, it is darker than it was ten years ago. Now I’m starting to get a lot of white hair. I hope my hair goes full Betty White in the next 20 years. My dad went full Santa white in his 30s!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m 40 and have medium to light blonde hair. However, it is darker than it was ten years ago. Now I’m starting to get a lot of white hair. I hope my hair goes full Betty White in the next 20 years. My dad went full Santa white in his 30s!

You think Betty White doesn't dye her hair? Hahahahaha!

[Anonymous]

Probably. I’m 45 and still have blonde hair. Mine was almost white when I was little though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was still pretty blond at 14. I had almost white blond hair as a little kid. At 45, you would still call me blond, but it’s much darker blond. The change didn’t happen at puberty. It happened really slowly into my thirties.

Same here. But the gray, and now white, came early.

[Anonymous]

My kids and I seem to be going in the opposite direction. DD always had medium to light brown straight hair, now as a teenager she has extremely hair that is dark to medium blonde. My hair has also gotten lighter to the point where I dye it darker because I hate the yellow tones in my dark blonde hair. DS went the other way. He always had super light blond hair as a child and now as a teenager he has dark blonde almost brown hair but lighter eyebrows.

[Anonymous]

My niece has been blonde since she was a kid but its getting to darker blonde as she hits her late teens (college freshman). I cannot say how much time outside and sunshine can lighten the color. We spend a bunch of time every summers at the beach; by mid to late August she is markedly blonder than at the start of the summer. She doesnt dye it or put anything like sun-in in it; it happens naturally.

[Anonymous]

I’m 44 and my hair is actually lighter than it was when I was little. I’m platinum blonde with naturally golden highlights. I don’t have any grey hair. Maybe it’s growing in white? Who knows but my hair is still very blonde. My eyebrows and lashes are also platinum so that’s annoying. I’m first generation North American, my family comes form Sweden. Everyone in Sweden looks like me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was still pretty blond at 14. I had almost white blond hair as a little kid. At 45, you would still call me blond, but it’s much darker blond. The change didn’t happen at puberty. It happened really slowly into my thirties.

+1 Do people really not know this? Blonde hair gets darker as you age into your 20s and 30s.

Not actually true. Go to Nordic countries.

[Anonymous]

Most blondes get darker. Even in Sweden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most blondes get darker. Even in Sweden.

How many times have you been to Sweden? I’ve been over 20 times and my families are swedes. There are many natural platinum blondes back home!! Of course some people go dark, that’s normal but in Nordic countries we stay blonde for a long time. My grandma is still blonde! I think it makes a difference if you have the white hair when you’re little. In my family people seem to stay very blonde when they were super blonde in the beginning. Many swedes want brown hair because blonde is so common!

[Anonymous]

I am of swedish/danish descent. I had golden blonde hair as a child until maybe around age 20 and then it slowly darkened to what my hair stylist calls bronde.

My hair darkened considerably and became curly while I was pregnant and nursing my kids. Then it returned to its regular color and texture. My kids are 6 years apart so I went through the cycle twice.

My hair gets much lighter in the summer also and that color fades by December.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was called a brunette for the first time in my mid-40s by a hairstylist. It was like an identity crisis. Until then nobody called me anything but blonde, though it had become a dirtier blonde over time. The rest of my hair — arms/legs/eyebrows — has always been light to nearly translucent. Now I dye it and it never matches the natural color I imagine I have.

I had s similar experience in my mid-30s—mentioned to an older woman that I was sprouting a few grey hairs, and she said, “you keep that brown hair as long as you can.” BROWN?! I had always been a blonde—light as a child, dirty blonde but still photo-sensitive with natural highlights into my 30s. After I had my son at 37, my hair darkened exponentially.

Recently (at 40) did some very tiny highlights and a friend from childhood said it looked like when I was 20 again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any natural blondes over the age of 30 who don’t get help from a bottle.

I’m 45, and my hair is still blond. I’ve never colored it, and I don’t have any gray hair. The blond has very gradually darkened over the course of my life, although even when I was a kid it was never white-blond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless it's white blonde, then she will eventually become a brunette... although like 90% of us white women who had fair hair growing up, she will still hold onto being blonde like her identity depends upon it and she will spend tons at the salon getting bad dye jobs that make her look like the most basic of basic bitches of dc.

I love you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am of swedish/danish descent. I had golden blonde hair as a child until maybe around age 20 and then it slowly darkened to what my hair stylist calls bronde.

My hair darkened considerably and became curly while I was pregnant and nursing my kids. Then it returned to its regular color and texture. My kids are 6 years apart so I went through the cycle twice.

My hair gets much lighter in the summer also and that color fades by December.

Bronde. Haha, that's funny and I'm going to use that going forward.