Is this really possible?

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i noticed some people who have brown/dark brown hair.... well it seems the older they get there hair becomes more red like ginger. this can also apply too blonde people as well as they age. certainly as well i notice that dark haired guys can grow ginger beards

i never thought its possible for a brunnete too turn into a red head? My mother had jet black hair when she was younger now aged 54 it looks a red colour or even organge at times. It can also work the other way round with natural red heads turning into brunnetes or going blonde as they age. can recessive genes in familes turn dark haired people into gingers over time as well? throughout my life my hair has been described at numerous times of my life as blonde, chestnut, multicoloured, brown, hazel colour hair, dark brown, dark blonde and jet black. i compared two passport photos of me (one from 2006 and the new passport from 2009) in the old one my hair looks a redish/chestnut colour and in the new one my hiar looks dark brown verging on jet black. i am english but i have been described by others looking italian so i think i do have quite dark hair althougth it can look different colours in various lighting so its hard too tell?

what is your take on this? maybe its just the light giving the illusion of hair changing colour? is hair something that frequently varies in colour over time? I never dye me hair either.

For the first ten years of my life, my hair was light blond. After that, it changed to dark brown. Judging from my eyebrows and hair in other parts of my body, my hair will turn black somewhere within the next five years, in line with my father's hair colour and judging from my father's pattern, will start getting grey after 40.

My hair was bright blonde as a child, but it has gotten much darker over the years. Now it looks light brown (think of the color of Sora's hair in Kingdom Hearts). As Gwen Stefani says in a recent hair dye commercial, "I was born a blonde, but someone forgot to tell my hair that."

I have done platinum highlights once, which helped make it look a little like it used to. However, this fall or winter I plan on doing red lowlights. I figure that if I'm not a natural blonde anymore, I might as well dye my hair my second favorite color. (shrugs)

I've dark brown hair and yet my beard has streaks of red, silver (been so since I was 18), dark yellow and is mostly black.


Funny thing is, the color difference is not noticeable unless the sun or a light source is shining straight in my face.



...then its like xmas.

My hair was a very light brown when I was a child, it's gotten a lot darker as time has passed. I think it shines like copper in the light. It only has a few strands of silver.
I'd agree that lighting does affect what color is seen. I don't know how much variation in color happens over time, but I assume it always changes some. My older brother's red hair appears more brown now.

I have found extremely fine blonde hairs, medium-textured light brown hairs, and very coarse dark hairs on my head. Taken all together, I have a light brown/dark blonde sort of non-color to my hair.