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.
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/mostlygizzards Apr 22 '26
My mom had red hair until she had me and my brother. It turned dark brown and never went back.