DD's very strange & changing hair colour

[MiaSparrow]

Sorry if this is the most trivial post du jour... It's nice not to have something to moan about

She's 26 months and we've only ever cut the fringe and the back, so she's still got some original birth hair, IYSWIM.

But we just can't work it out - it's somewhere between strawberry blonde to golden blonde (and it doesn't help that she hardly ever lets us wash it so would be a bit lighter if washed). She was very dark when she was born. If she's next to a ginger kid she looks blonde and if she's next to a blonde kid she looks ginger, but just now I've noticed proper large patches of light ashy/platinum blonde in the middle at the back, ie where it never gets any sun! It's much darker on top.

Do they often still have patchy hair at this age? And if so, when does it change and become the colour their permanent colour?

Feel a bit silly posting this. Not a problem at all, just intrigued!

[FattyMcChubster]

DD's hair sounds similar. Not cut it yet so 'original' hair still there and has a definate red tinge in some lights. She had nearly black hair at birth and it's just faded and faded to light brown but the new hair growth is ash blonde?
No idea but I think it's cute

[MiaSparrow]

It's totally weird, isn't it! DD had really dark brown hair at birth and with navy blue eyes - they were amazing, but there was no way she was going to keep them. They're a much lighter blue now.

[OrlaKiely]

People keep asking if ds3 is ginger haired...he's not, they all looked a bit reddish in the sunlight at his age but now ds1 is decidedly mouse, and ds2 is a dark blonde.

My family has red hair in it from way back, but although mine also has reddish elements especially in the sun, it's never been called red by anyone.

I think babies change quite a bit.

[MiaSparrow]

Yeah, I think she's losing the red a bit, which is a shame. I do like it - I have absolutely no red in mine, but the only upside to having dishwater-blonde hair is that it bleaches easily! Maybe she'll end up a bottle-blonde like her Mam.

[flossymuldoon]

My DS is 3.5 and still has patchy hair. He has like a halo around his head that is a couple of shades lighter than the rest. In summer the darker stuff lightens to the same shade as the lighter stuff. It's quite fascinating (or maybe i need to get out more! )

[MimsyBorogroves]

DS's hair is exactly the same, OP. We've never cut it either, but he was born with very very dark brown hair and every bit of it seems to have vanished somewhere.

His cot used to look like a wookie had moulted all over it, but we only ever noticed that his hair had thinned at the back.

[bookbird]

My DS is now 6. He had red hair at birth but it's changed dramatically over the years and he has different strawberry blonde/sandy patches. It looks a different colour depending on how the light shines on it. One of the girls in his class says he has sparkly hair

[MiaSparrow]

That's so sweet bookbird!

Glad to hear DD's not the only one with k-razy hair then...

[MiaSparrow]

Haha! Sun-in. I remember it well...

[FattyMcChubster]

Dd rubbed the back of her hair away in her Moses basket and that bit has grown back ash blonde. The rest is very long and has this almost dip dyed look to it like its faded in the sun!
Someone asked if we'd had it cut in that concave style (like posh a few years ago?)
People are also always asking where she got blonde hair from as me and dp are both dark (but blonde babies) and I like to say the milkman

[fififrog]

Mia I thought for a minute I knew you but on reflection the identical sounding girl I know is 33 months :)

[MiaSparrow]

Fatty! That's it. It's where her birth hair was rubbed away - so that's all new and bizarrely, platinum. That makes a bit more sense now.

Ha, Fifi, no, she's defo 26 months...

[MERLYPUSS]

DT2 (mixed race) was born black haired. By year 2 he was ginger with gold highlights. He is now, aged 5, dark moussy brown. DT1 remained black

[Puddlelane]

All of mine went through this phase and now they all have mousy dead straight hair!