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Did your hair change in your teens?

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MeanwhileTime · 30/12/2022 12:23

Did the texture or colour of your or your children’s hair change during the teenage years? Mine didn’t at all, the texture and colour remained exactly the same. Just curious as to whether others found theirs changed or stayed the same. Both my DDs have beautiful hair and I’ll be interested to see if theirs changes (not that it matters if it does, I’m just wondering).

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Everydaywheniwakeup · 30/12/2022 12:26

Mine changed colour at 14.
Dd's changed colour and went straight, having previously had blonde curls its now dark and very straight.

VariationsonaTheme · 30/12/2022 12:26

Lots of blonde children go darker in their teens. One of mine has, as did I and DH. The other has stayed fair, and at 18 shows no signs of changing colour. All of us had very blonde hair as small children.

clipclop5 · 31/12/2022 04:44

DD (18) had perfectly straight hair her entire life, but over the past year or 2 it has become wavy and frizzy! Also some slight colour changes, we keep finding firey ginger strands nowadays so not sure what has happened

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fallfallfall · 31/12/2022 05:32

From wavy hair as a child to very course in sections as a teen. Nightmare come true

HardStareBear · 31/12/2022 05:52

Hormones seem to affect my family's hair. At puberty, my child went from straight to full-on curls in a matter of months. My pregnancies have coincided with my hair becoming curlier.

daretodenim · 31/12/2022 06:27

My hair went from straight to wavy/curly (not tight) at puberty. Now approaching menopause and it appears to be straightening/flattening. As I really don't suit straight hair, so it's awful. I asked my hairdresser (who finds this all rather curious) about a loose perm and she said it's rare to find people who do perms at all nowadays as it's no longer a part of training.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 31/12/2022 06:38

Mine went much darker (was the colour of poet it notes), but stayed curly. DS's has also got much darker (again from very light blonde) and gone curly (was poker straight).

HideyHoe · 31/12/2022 07:06

Yes it became wavy, frizzier and lighter in colour.
I can see my DD's hair getting frizzier.

Fuuuuuckit · 31/12/2022 07:25

As an infant my hair was jet black. As a kid it went multi-toned with all colours from brown to blonde streaks in the summer months. It was silky and thick. As a teen it went wiry and bushy and has stayed wild into adulthood. Colour is als more gingery.

My daughter didn't have a hair on her head at birth and grew blonde tufts, really thin hair. Stayed thin until about 7/8 and now has the same wiriness as mine but has stayed blonde (late teens)

DaisyCornflowerBlue · 31/12/2022 07:42

Niece had blond curls, now has dark curls. Her brother, the same.

DD had straight ginger hair, now reddish auburn and wavy. It's remains very thick.

pigsducksandchickens · 31/12/2022 07:45

daretodenim · 31/12/2022 06:27

My hair went from straight to wavy/curly (not tight) at puberty. Now approaching menopause and it appears to be straightening/flattening. As I really don't suit straight hair, so it's awful. I asked my hairdresser (who finds this all rather curious) about a loose perm and she said it's rare to find people who do perms at all nowadays as it's no longer a part of training.

Exactly the same for me. In my teens I used to sleep in a scarf to try and tame my hair (no straighteners then) but now it's gone thin and straight.

Awful.

Colour has stayed the same though.

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