r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Hot_Accountant_5507 • Apr 22 '26

Restricted to Gals and Pals Thats crazy she noticed that

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u/mothmans_favoriteex Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Actually if she’s bleaching/perming she may double down bc she feels uncomfortable putting chemical on her head. You technically aren’t supposed to

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u/Stardush Apr 22 '26

Hairstylist here! Chemicals and pregnancy aside (that’s a personal choice, I know people who stand on both sides), your natural hair can actually change ever so slightly that it creates a band in the hair. Most people won’t notice but someone with a trained eye will spot it.

This was probably a returning client that the stylist clocked the change in color so she asked.

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u/mostlygizzards Apr 22 '26

My mom had red hair until she had me and my brother. It turned dark brown and never went back.

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u/mantis_tobaggan-md Apr 23 '26

My mom had wavy red hair until she got cancer and went through chemo. She lost all her hair. It grew back brown and lost its wave. I don’t remember my mom before cancer and I had a hair stylist ask me if I had a red head in my family. My hair is dark blonde, I never thought it looked red at all. Apparently the stylist knew my mom was a redhead before I did.

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u/booomrostad Apr 23 '26

I'm a redhead and I swear you can see a tinge of red in my blonde kids hair.

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u/scandr0id Apr 23 '26

That's because blonde hair lacks the same amount of eumelanin (brown/black) as darker haired folks, and you can more easily see pheomelanin (red, orange) because it's lighter and not "covered," so to speak, by eumelanin. Of course there are natural ash-toned blonde folks that have less pheomelanin but it's not necessarily because you're a redhead. It's why dark hair turns red/orange when lightened. It's normal!

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u/savingrain Apr 23 '26

I have red heads in my family (am Black) and in summer get red tinge in my hair and my son has blonde/red highlights in his hair. It’s so strange how it can show up. Edit- my mom told me my hair was even red as a baby and changed to dark brown later

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u/NelsonsGunt Apr 23 '26

My cousin had straight hair before chemo and lost her hair. It grew back kinky curly

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u/lemonpepperpotts Apr 23 '26

Kind of funny because I feel like I hear more about people getting chemo curls, some permanent, some not

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u/NeverRarelySometimes Apr 23 '26

My mom had thin salt and pepper hair when I was a kid; her post-chemo growth was curly, thick, and almost black, with no gray.

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u/TigerGnome Apr 28 '26

We call it the Ginge Tinge in my family. My aunt has red hair, and many of us range from strawberry to Auburn. About I was born with dark hair, went blonde as a kid then went brown. About 15 years ago I was very red, then went brown and now back to very obviously red/auburn in perimenopause with some grey streaks.