My grandmother told me it would darken either at 30 or when I had my first baby. She was right. She passed away at 90 (just after my first child was born) with beautiful blonde curls. I have followed her example and lightened my hair since it darkened. Most people assume my hair color is still fully natural but Im not ashamed to say it isnt. DD at 15 has light blonde hair. Like my grandmother and me, DD has no interest in ever not being a blonde. She will lighten it whenever it darkens. We all had/have the same coloring and we look best as blondes.

Anonymous wrote:If it was going to darken wouldn’t it have darkened before puberty?

Just curious..does it matter? Btw, my dd at 20 is still a blonde although not as light.

Who cares? Anyone who wants blonde hair can easily get it nowadays.

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.

DH is still blonde at almost 50
I started turning darker brown in college

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

DH was still blonde around that age, based on pictures. He’s full on dark brown (with a little salt) now at 40

I had a sandy blonde at 14 that is now firmly in the light brown category. I would get lighter each summer from the sun while in my 20s, but now I'm more careful about hats/shade and that doesn't happen anymore so it seems darker since having kids, but I think that's just because I'm not sitting in the sun as much for several months out of the year.

If her hair is light blonde/white blonde, then yes it may stay. If it's medium to dark blonde, there's a good chance it will be darker as an adult.

I was pretty blonde at 14. Now I am in my 40s. My eyebrows and arm hair are still very blonde but my hair is a dirty dark blonde that lightens up a lot in the summer sun. I put blonde highlights in it now. Similar to the PP, I have pale pink toned skin and it looks better with blonde hair. When my hair is darker, my face looks like a sick ghost.

My blonde hair stayed light until shortly after college, when it started getting darker and darker. I've been highlighting it since my 20s since my skintone didn't darken along with my hair and I look awful as a dishwater-colored brunette.

My blonde hair got significantly darker after the birth of each of my children and I have friends who the same thing happened to.

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.

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.

It has a good chance of staying if it hasn’t darkened by now but I know several people whose blond hair darkened in college &/or well into their 20s.

If it was going to darken wouldn’t it have darkened before puberty?