When Is A Child’s Hair Color Permanent?
2-15-2016
My VERY un-identical twinkettes are 5 years, 11 months, 1 week & 6 days old.
I have been wondering for several years now, when is a child’s hair color permanent? I have heard for many years that some children are platinum blond as kids (towheads) and become darker over time until they have brown or even black hair. It sounds odd to me. I don’t know why this would happen, but in looking at photos of my husband as a child, it is definitely not a fallacy.
Coming from my 1/2 Italian family with a very dark featured father, we were born and raised up with brown hair and eyes from the get-go. I had never seen that before, not even in any of my friends, but now I know, it happens. He was PLATINUM as blonds come, and then it got darker as he got older, but he can’t remember quite when. The little hair he has left now, ha,ha 
, is dark brown.
One of my questions is, because I can’t find the answers online is that if a child has that super blond hair as a child is he or she most likely to change to the darker color with age? See my Annie was born with a very little crop of light brown hair I would say. Definitely lighter than mine, but not blond. Over the first three years of life it turned into a beautiful shade of blond. Not a platinum blonde, but a very natural dirty blond color, which of course, like most blonds, gets far lighter in the summer due to the sun.
Progression in Annie to blond hair
The 1st two winters I thought, because of this happening, she might go brown, but every year the same event took place, and it winds up the same color by the next season. She’s my only blond child of 5, so I am wondering if she will most likely stay a blond at this point (almost 6) or will it darken and turn brown like mine?
It’s funny, My son has a light- light/medium brown head of hair, and my girls (by a different dad) go in ranges of color. My eldest daughter’s hair has been the same medium-dark brown since birth. My eldest twin Allie has a lighter shade of brown than her older sister, and instead of darkening over time, it has lightened a bit, and has ombre blond near the tips that I don’t know where that came from, but it’s almost like she got mixed between both sisters, as her co-twin is dirty blond, again lighter in the summer.
Early spring after winter
End of summer
I look over photos to see if it has gotten any darker, but really, aside from those winter months, it seems to be consistent. Will it stay that way? I love it because I think it makes my twins look really unique. Plus, with her cinnamon colored brown eyes, the blond just looks beautiful on her. The contrast is lovely. I always had blah dark hair and blah dark eyes. I used to wear colored contacts, lighten my hair. (We are never happy with what we have, are we?) But this subject I know is one that many moms wonder about.
I am fascinated by the differences in my kids and genetics in a whole, and I have certainly seen two darker haired parents with blond or red haired children. I know the dark colored eyes and hair are more dominant genes than lighter eye colors and hair colors, but there is more to it than mom and dad. The majority may rule, but I have a son with the most stunning blue eyes on the planet. His dad had blue eyes, I have dark brown. So it doesn’t always work that way, as I have nobody I know of in my family with blue eyes at all, aside from now him. Me and my brother are dark, father dark, mom green. Mother nature is a mad scientist!
My girls all have lighter eyes than mine. My husband has very blue eyes, as did his dad, his mom and brother. Mikayla had steel blue eyes until 2 and 1/2 which is VERY late to change, then green, then hazel. I think I would still call them a bit of hazel, but with gold amber flecks in them. They are pretty. Some people do call her eyes brown, but they are not like mine. Annie has a light golden brown that I have never really seen before. Allie is a mossy green which may go full brown. We will see. So, I have seen eye color change way passed when the doctors say they do, so what about hair color? In looking online people were wondering a lot about redheads, but blond wasn’t much talked about. I had to write this post and see what the public has to say. (Comment below please.)
Mikayla’s eyes turned late. Eyes shown at 4.5 years of age.
So, my husband went from blond to brown, can’t remember when. Platinum though, almost white. She never went to that light of a color. My mom claims to have been blond as a child and turned a lighter brown than my own, but she said it already happened by Annie’s age. I’m kind of stumped. I’m 1/2 Italian from my dad, and my mom is Irish, Swedish & Austrian. My dad’s pull overwhelmed me and my brother, genetically speaking. And my husband is Polish, Russian, German and 1/2 Irish. Yes, my kids have a lot of nationalities in them. His whole family has blue eyes, but if genetics were correct my son would NOT have the stunning blue eyes that he has, and my other son was pretty much a green turned hazel color, kind of like Mikayla. What gives?
Eyes at 9
So, if you have a child or children that have grown, did they keep the same hair color? Did it change? If so, at what age did this change happen? Do you think a more natural blond vs. a platinum one is less likely to change, or it makes no matter? Would it have likely changed by 6, or could it still darken until adulthood? I guess some questions can only be answered with time, but I know a lot of people out there wonder the same thing of their babies, toddlers and big kids. I am not alone.
Thanks in advance!
Hope you all had a terrific Valentine’s Day!
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