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Red/strawberry blonde?

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MamaMeggie · 05/05/2024 10:00

Hiya, my baby is almost 6 months old so probably still difficult to tell but we’re not sure if she will be ginger 😍
She’s not bright orange as you would expect a proper ginger to come out like, she was born with dark reddish hair on her head and bright orange eyebrows but her lashes seemed black.
As her hair is coming through, it’s much lighter now and is more orange. In some photos it looks light brown and in others it’s evidently orange. Having looked at her eyelashes in the light they are dark orange rather than black. Her eyebrows are a light orange now.

For context her father is dark blonde/strawberry blonde (when his hair grows out). We were both born platinum blonde and I stayed blonde until 6 ish and now brown but my partner stayed bleach blonde until he hit puberty around 13 and then it went to the dark blonde/strawberry blonde. His mum is also blonde and I have blonde in my family so we’re not sure if she will just go blonde in the end but we were both very shocked to see her come out with darker hair considering we were expecting blonde like us! The other thing is apparently she doesn’t seem pale enough to be red is what a few people have mentioned.

Of course hair colour doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things but was just curious to others experience of redhead children/ children that seemed redhead but maybe didn’t stay that way? We’d love for her to stay red!

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Red/strawberry blonde?
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Trinity65 · 05/05/2024 10:24

Red at the minute, and your babies long eyelashes are astonishing

Moier · 05/05/2024 10:29

Oh my gosh.. she is absolutely beautiful..
My eldest was born with bright orange hair..( my Mum and her Grandad on other side were ginger). She is 40 and still has the amazing red hair.( I was born plantium blonde).
My youngest daughter was born with black hair.. yet her Dad was ginger.
I actually think my two took after their Grandparents.

Gemstonebeach · 05/05/2024 10:34

My daughters hair is just like that, she has never been a bright orange. She is strawberry blonde through and through, she gets beautiful natural blonde highlights in the summer and it’s goes darker red in the winter.

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MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 05/05/2024 10:37

She is so beautiful.

My son had hair that colour when born. Was convinced he was going to be ginger like my dad but by age 4 was blonde and now aged 15 is dirty blonde.

MamaMeggie · 05/05/2024 16:48

Thank you for your lovely compliments everyone! Lucky thing came out with long lashes and they’ve only thickened as she’s grown! I did lose my eyelashes as some random symptom when I was 30 weeks pregnant with her, so I always say she stole my lashes! 😂

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MamaMeggie · 05/05/2024 16:56

Sounds as though she may be some shade of ginger or blonde in the future then! Here’s hoping!

@Moier yeah I’ve heard ginger can be carried through several generations before cropping up but we have no known ginger as far back as her great great grandmother but maybe there’s some before that!

@Gemstonebeach that sounds beautiful! I’ve always thought ginger girls were some of the prettiest girls around, it’s just the contrast of the pale skin, bright hair and green/blue eyes! Then to add freckles too 🥰

@MinervaMcGonagallsCat oh bless! I suppose dirty blonde actually describes my partners hair better than dark blonde, so maybe she will turn out that way after all! We have no known gingers in the family

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SomeBollocks · 05/05/2024 18:33

She's gorgeous!

I'd guess dark strawberry blonde. My daughter had similar coloured hair at that age (although with white blonde eyebrows and eyelashes). She then came through platinum blonde, but now at 3.5 is starting to look like a bit of the "strawberry" is coming through. Eyelashes still white though 😂

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