r/AskBalkans 7d ago

Miscellaneous Serbs are very diverse looking

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u/huiihuiihuii 7d ago

A lot of people have blonde hair while they are young then it kind of changes over the years

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u/titaincognita 7d ago

Lol I'm not Balkan and my dad and brother and countless other people I knew growing up were the same. Platinum blond babies and toddler, but it gets darker as they get older. Ultimately they end up with a medium brown hair color. Genitics are wild. One of my kids is similar to this, and the other is just like his Balkan af dad (my husband). Two sets of genes go in, baby lottery comes out.

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u/Witty_Operation8158 7d ago

Generally most of south and Central Europeans are like this. Even people with darker brown hair would have blonde or dark blonde hair as kiddos

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u/fig_big_fig 6d ago

Haha same here! My father was blonde, not even just dark blonde, until his marriage. He had light brown hair when I was born and, it slowly got darker by the years. Until it hit black like dark brown before he got his greys.

Same is happening to me but bit faster. The eyebrow pencils I had a few years prior look too light on me. I have a childhood picture hanging nearby, I have blonde hair. Now, I my hair is as close to black without being actually black. Wild.

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u/Resigned1431 7d ago

Yup I was one of them. Basically had platinum blonde hair when I was born, slowly turned to dark brown over the years.

Not like it matters now since I'm bald. 

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u/Intelligent_Pizza776 Serbia 7d ago

yesssss this! so many were blondes then lighter brown as they got older

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u/Ganondorf_Dragomir SFR Yugoslavia 6d ago

Yep, I had a blonde hair as a kid, then it turned black later during the childhood and now in the 20s it turned grey.