Silver Blonde natural?

[DarklordKyo]

Exactly what the title says, is the Silver Blonde hair color a natural color?

 

[madwarper]

You mean like albinism?

That natural... But, not exactly normal.

 

[DarklordKyo]

You mean like albinism?

That natural... But, not exactly normal.

Not really what I meant:

Spoiler: This is what I meant.

 

[Terminal Blue]

No. It isn't natural. Older people and people with albinism can have grey or white hair, but it will never be naturally silver because, to put it simply, the Melanin which colours your hair doesn't come in blue. Hair dyes which produce a silver colour use blue pigment to offset the yellow or red tones in hair. It's tricky to get right and leads to the the infamous "blue rinse" (older people ending up with blue or purple tinged hair after trying to correct the colour of their grey hair).

If it's something you're thinking of getting, my advice is to have it done professionally. It will be expensive, but it requires pretty spot-on bleaching and dying which you probably won't be able to do at home.

 

[DarklordKyo]

No. It isn't natural. Older people and people with albinism can have grey or white hair, but it will never be naturally silver because, to put it simply, the Melanin which colours your hair doesn't come in blue. Hair dyes which produce a silver colour use blue pigment to offset the yellow or red tones in hair. It's tricky to get right and leads to the the infamous "blue rinse" (older people ending up with blue or purple tinged hair after trying to correct the colour of their grey hair).

If it's something you're thinking of getting, my advice is to have it done professionally. It will be expensive, but it requires pretty spot-on bleaching and dying which you probably won't be able to do at home.

I'm not really interested in getting my hair dyed silver blonde, was mostly just curious.

 

[Wintermute_v1legacy]

That doesn't look silver to me. Just looks like gray hair. I guess my mom has "silver blonde" hair.

 

[Baffle]

I would also say that is grey, though a few shades lighter and I might not.

 

[Glongpre]

You can't get silver hair but you might be able to find people with really light blonde hair when they stand in the sun.

Man, I can't wait till I get some grey hair. I always thought it looked really cool.

The professor I had in college had a grey streak of hair like Rogue. It was pretty attractive.

 

[Neverhoodian]

My mother's hair went white when she was still in her 30's (stuff like that is common on her side of the family; her father went completely bald while still in his 20's), and some people have referred to it as "silver blonde," possibly as a way to avoid the stigma of "white hair = old" (a stereotype that's thankfully disappearing due to the increasing use of unorthodox hair dyes). Grey or white hair can look silver-ish under certain lighting conditions, but truly "silver blonde" hair doesn't occur naturally.

 

[Baffle]

Man, I can't wait till I get some grey hair. I always thought it looked really cool.

It's shit. (Actually, I don't have any hair, but my beard is starting to get bits of grey in such a line that I will look like a ventriloquist's dummy when it's done. And I will chase people down the street as such.)

 

[COMaestro]

I've got some hairs that look silver when the light hits them just right. They are mostly white with just a hint of blonde left in them. The rest of my hair is a dark blonde color though.

 

[Marik2]

You mean like albinism?

That natural... But, not exactly normal.

Not really what I meant:

Spoiler: This is what I meant.

That's pretty

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

The professor I had in college had a grey streak of hair like Rogue. It was pretty attractive.

That might have been a white forelock rather than grey hair due to age. My nephew has one, as does one of the pharmacists at my local Costco, and since he`s of Indian decent he has jet black hair with a shock of white running through it. It looks really cool.

 

[Saltyk]

My mother's hair went white when she was still in her 30's (stuff like that is common on her side of the family; her father went completely bald while still in his 20's), and some people have referred to it as "silver blonde," possibly as a way to avoid the stigma of "white hair = old" (a stereotype that's thankfully disappearing due to the increasing use of unorthodox hair dyes). Grey or white hair can look silver-ish under certain lighting conditions, but truly "silver blonde" hair doesn't occur naturally.

An aunt of mine had white hair when she was in her teens. It's actually about the same color as the one the OP posted. I don't think either of her kids have that issue, though. Unless they are dying their hair (not impossible in one of their cases).

That being said, I don't think it's very common.

 

[FalloutJack]

I thought that was platinum blonde, and I have no idea if that occurs naturally or not. I'm already surprised that there is a hint of blue in black hair in Japan.

 

[Bobular]

I used to mock my younger brother when we were at school as he had white hair, it's got darker as he got older but it's still lighter than mine and mine is a pretty light blond. So yeah, people can have that kind of hair naturally, I just don't think it's common (then again, natural blond hair doesn't seem to be that common where I live either).

 

[Geisterkarle]

Ha, I just got home from my hairdresser and talked about, that three of the women there had silver hair! And while two are colored, according to the woman working on my hair, one of them actually has this as a natural hair color!

Also do you know the German actress Eva Habermann [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352230/]?
Is this "just blond" or silver?

 

[NPC009]

You mean like albinism?

That natural... But, not exactly normal.

Not really what I meant:

Spoiler: This is what I meant.

The grey in the picture is obviously fake (the colour is too strong and even) but very light ashen blond does happen. My blonde female cousins all had that, though it got a little darker in their teens. I went from almost white to gold blond myself. Some lucky people get to keep that light colour when they grow up, but not us, sadly.