Do Your Kids Have the Same Color Hair as You?

Updated on May 03, 2013
K.B. asks from Concord, NH
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I have brown hair, and my husband has blonde. Our oldest has brown hair, that is just like mine, but our 5 other kids all have blonde hair like my husband. I was just curious. How many of your kids have the same color hair as you?

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M.P.

answers from Raleigh on

My son has my exact same shade of blonde as me (and I have been this shade of blonde my whole life). My daughter has a honey brown that neither my husband or I have. She also has brown eyes and both my husband and I have green/hazel. I joke all the time that she's the mailman's kid. lol

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L.M.

answers from Houston on

All 4 of us have different colored hair. Mine is dark brown, hubby's is red, DD1 is light brown, DD2 is blonde ;)

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A.V.

answers from Washington DC on

Nope. She has the same color as my mom.

DD has reddish hair and while I do have red highlights, my hair is decidedly brown. DH has very dark hair. So we joke that DD stole my mom's hair.

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C.N.

answers from Baton Rouge on

My daughter has the same color hair as me, We use the same dye.

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S.B.

answers from Omaha on

I have one and I''m a brunette and my daughter has blonde, blonde hair. My husband had that hair color as a small child as well, but it never occurred to me in a million years that I'd have a blonde baby. I even have strangers comment on "where did that blonde hair come from?" because mine is so dark.

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K.W.

answers from Youngstown on

My husband has brown hair. I have dark blonde hair.

Daughter has dark blonde.
Son 1 has brown.
Son 2 has red hair (kinda a fun surprise)

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C.M.

answers from Washington DC on

I have blonde hair, my husband has black hair. Our kids both have dark brown hair. They are racially mixed with white and Filipino, so they are a perfect blend of both of us :)

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C.C.

answers from San Francisco on

We joke that I was just the incubator for these kids. They look nothing like me! I have straight, fine, light blond hair and green eyes. My husband's hair is thick, jet black and curly, and he has brown eyes. Our older daughter has super-thick, wavy auburn hair, and her eyes are a darker brown than her dad's. Our younger daughter has super-thick, straight light brown hair (that keeps getting lighter as she gets older) and her eyes almost exactly match her dad's. I've often wondered how kids get the hair color they do. When both parents have blond hair, the kids will have blond hair - as blond hair is recessive. I get that. But how my kids ended up with hair color that neither parent has, I have no idea.

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C.O.

answers from Washington DC on

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Nope. My daughter has straight brown hair. My oldest son has blonde. My youngest son has dark brown.

My hair is almost black - very dark brown - with gray (yeppers...i have kids) and golden...I do color it now since the gray was getting more than I wanted!! And it's close to my natural color so I don't get the root growth change....

My husband has brown hair....

My sister is blonde with blue eyes. My brother is light brown with green/hazel eyes. I have brown eyes...my daughter, brown hair, brown eyes. My oldest son - blonde hair blue eyes...my youngest son...brown hair, black eyes.

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V.B.

answers from Jacksonville on

My husband and I both had blonde hair as children. Mine turned darker blonde with reddish tones (depending upon how much time I spend in the sun) and now brown, with reddish tones, as I have aged. My husbands is more just light brown.

Both of my parents also had blonde hair as children, and my dad's turned dark brown and mom's did too. (now my mom dye's her hair blonde/red tones)

Our kids were both born with blonde hair (and blue eyes, like me). Son is a true toe head... white blonde. Although, now that he is 15, it has gotten a little darker... and is pretty much the spitting image of the same hair color his dad had at the same ages. And the same darker eyebrows--to the point that people think he colors his hair, because they don't match.
Daughter has dirtier blonde locks, like I had. I wasn't the toehead white blonde like husband was... mine was more golden blonde. That is our daughter. When they get out in the sun, it lightens up considerably, too.

I expect as they get older (20's) their hair will darken more.

Son's eyes have also gotten a little less blue as he has aged. I took a picture of them the other day and posted on my facebook asking what color it was and got a variety of answers. From blue, to grey, to green, to hazel. Daughter's are still blue as the sky, like me. Husband has green eyes.
:)

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J.W.

answers from St. Louis on

My two oldest have my hair color, exactly. My third well he is on his own but close to my hair color. My youngest has my ex's hair color, exactly.

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M.K.

answers from Columbus on

NOPE! I am a natural red-head and both my kids have dark brown hair just like their Dad. I was sooooooooooo hoping my daughter would have red hair, but nope!

My Mom and I are the only red-heads! My two sisters and brother all have dark brown hair like our Daddy.

Fun question!

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M.H.

answers from Chicago on

One out of two. My son has blond hair, but my daugher has more bown like mine.

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M.J.

answers from Sacramento on

No. I have red hair, my husband has dark brown and our kids are both very blonde. My husband did start off blonde, though, so they get it from him.

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A.C.

answers from Salt Lake City on

No. My husband and I have dark brown hair and my kids are all blond-brown. But my husband was blondie as a kid so I expect they will all darken as they get older. They all have my eyes though!

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C.C.

answers from Dallas on

I have dirty blonde hair and my husband has black hair - out of our 2 boys, the older one has very light dirty blonde hair and the younger one has light brown hair. I'm guessing they'll both get darker hair as they get older, but everyone usually gives my husband a double take when he's with the older boy. Lol.

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S.H.

answers from Honolulu on

I have black hair.
My Husband has brown hair.
My kids have brown hair and very dark brown hair.
But they also have, unnoticeable strands of hair, that are blonde or red even.
This is per my Husband's background. In his family, hair color varies from blonde, to brown to red.
In my family, hair color is black.

My Husband had blonde hair as a kid.
As he got older, it turned brown.
This is common.
Kids hair color, changes until adulthood. Especially if it is blonde and the family has other hair colors in their family.

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P.L.

answers from Washington DC on

Oldest DD had her dad's darn brwn hair, the other two have dark red hair. Mine is dark brn, I'm asian & dad's is dark brwn.
Pammy

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D.N.

answers from Chicago on

I have blond hair with a very slight reddish hue to it. More of a dark blonde really. My husband has dark brown to almost black. My first 3 have dark brown hair like my husband except my girls have a slightly red hue to theirs. Of my younger 2, my daughter (5) has a slightly darker shade of my hair and my 18 month old is blonde.
My parents had 6 kids, out of all 6, only one came with dark hair like my mom.

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X.O.

answers from Chicago on

So far, none. I'm blonde. My husband has black hair. Our kids all have light brown. Statistically, your kids should be a 50/50 split, since you must be Bb, and he's bb.

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S.G.

answers from Grand Forks on

I have always had dark brown hair. My husband had blonde hair as a kid, that turned to a medium brown. My boys both had blonde hair when they were little, but now they are medium brown like their dad.

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B.

answers from Augusta on

My son has my hair color, my daughter has my husbands.

☼.S.

answers from Los Angeles on

Yes, we have one daughter and she is my little mini-me with the same color hair and features (blonde, green eyes). In fact, she's the spitting image of me at her age (8). My husband has dark hair and dark eyes.

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answers from Dallas on

Nope, they took after dad. Both have red to strawberry blond. My hair is a dirty blond now and my H has been gray for at least 15 yrs but was part of 3 redheads when he was little.

K.A.

answers from San Diego on

My youngest son's hair is a little lighter blonde than I have now, but mine was a lot like that as a child.
My daughter has hair exactly the same color as mine, we can mix our hair together and can't tell the difference.
My oldest son has hair that is a dirtier blonde but isn't as brown as my husband's.
They're all blondes though, just different shades. Every one of us get lighter hair in the summer when we're out more in the sun.

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S.B.

answers from Houston on

My husband has blonde hair and mine is a dark blonde/light brown. Our oldest is the only blonde we got. Our third has hair more my color and the other two have light red hair.

Genes are crazy!

Y.M.

answers from Iowa City on

My girls' hair is lighter than than mine (and dad's). Kind of a dirty or honey blonde color. My older daughter's hair is getting darker as she gets older.

K.M.

answers from Chicago on

I have one, his is his father's blonde.

My sisters, one is blonde, one is more strawberry with a dark blonde mix like my mom's and I am brown like my dad.

B.C.

answers from Norfolk on

My husbands hair is dark brown not quite black (or at least it was before it went to %50 silver grey).
My hair is medium brown - always had a little bit of red in it.
Our son's hair is darker than mine but lighter than his Dad's hair.
Our son got his Dad's brown eyes (just a slightly lighter shade of brown) and my eyes are hazel.

J.E.

answers from Minneapolis on

Both my ex and I were blonde when we were kids and turned brown as we became adults.

Our son is blonde still but its getting darker every year (he's 17)
Our daughter is medium brown (very similar to mine now)

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G.O.

answers from Los Angeles on

None of mine do. I have auburn hair and my husband has blonde hair. My oldest has dark brown hair, my second has a light brown w/a little red tint, my third has blonde hair and my baby girl has strawberry blonde hair.

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J.C.

answers from New York on

Yes, she has my hair color but it's not as straight and flat as mine. Humidity will curse her later in life!

E.N.

answers from Knoxville on

I have fraternal twin girls. One looks exactly like me but with her daddys coloring (very fair skinned, platinum, blue eyes). The other looks like daddy but has My coloring (olive skinned, dk. brown eyes and had dk hair -but it keeps getting lighter)
Both my parents had dark hair olive skin and mom had brown eyes. Dads are hazel. All three of us kids are olive skinned (various degrees of light to dark), brown eyes and brown/black hair.
My moms parents were dark haired. Her mom had two dk haired girls, then two blonde light eyed kids. When the first blond was born, she thought the hospital made a mistake and gave her the wrong baby. Not until the next blond was born did she realize that there was no mistake!

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K.H.

answers from Detroit on

I have dark brown, almost auburn, hair. Hubs has beautiful golden blonde hair. (His family all have dark hair.) One son is dark blonde and looks like he may go darker eventually, my daughter has the same color as my husband, my other son will probably be white-blonde once we're in the sunshine more this summer. I joke that I'm going to bring my one son over to the Dark Side, but the Blonde is strong in my family.

L.U.

answers from Seattle on

I have blonde hair. My husband is Mexican and has dark thick black hair.
My eldest has hair just like him.
My younger two have black hair, but not as much.
I also have blue eyes and all of my kids have black/brown eyes (I can't even see their pupils!)
My children have absolutely NONE of my coloring.
L.

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O.O.

answers from Kansas City on

Yes, very much the same as me!

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C.J.

answers from Dallas on

UMM natural hair color? I don't know since I've been highlighting and coloring since high school:)

But based on little kid pictures of me, yes. My kids have my hair color. My husband's is black and always has been, so I know they don't have his:)

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UMM natural hair color? I don't know since I've been highlighting and coloring since high school:)

But based on little kid pictures of me, yes. My kids have my hair color. My husband's is black and always has been, so I know they don't have his:)

J.M.

answers from Philadelphia on

emmys hair is a slightly darker version of mine when i was little. her's is dirty blonde. her eyes are her grandmoms and dads. bright blue. mine are grey blue

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answers from Dallas on

My husband and I are both blonde. Son is the same.

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S.H.

answers from Salinas on

People with blonde hair normal have really blonde hair as a child (I did and my husband and now my kids do). My husband has brownish (with grey) hair as an adult and I have dark blonde. I think a lot of blondes turn darker around puberty. I started highlighting in college because my natural hair color looked homely. Also what i consider blonde might be different from other. I heard the Kardashian girls saying Khloe has blonde hair and I was thinking they were crazy. It might not be black, but defiantly not a blonde.

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M.O.

answers from New York on

Nope. Coarse/curly dark brown hair, brown eyes here. Kid's got his dad's fine, medium brown hair and blue eyes, though Mr. Kid's are this beautiful uncommon dark blue-gray. Those recessive genes just snuck in over all my big, powerful dominant genes -- surprising.

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A.L.

answers from Chicago on

My husband had dark brown almost black hair that is thick and wavy. I had brown with red highlights and now have brown with gray highlights. Okay maybe it is more gray with brown highlights, but we will never know thanks to hair coloring. I also (before kids) had very thick curly hair, not it is no longer thick and is wavy.

My oldest has my color hair brown with red highlights and is very thick but straight and grows like no ones business. That girl donates hair to locks of love every year to year and half. That is saying a lot since it needs to be a certain length.

The youngest one has very blonde hair that is very fine and thin and has a little curl to it, but it barely grows. She is now 3 and it barely goes past her shoulders and has never been cut. She has my sisters hair, poor kid.

C.T.

answers from Santa Fe on

No, not really. I have reddish/dark blondish hair. My husband has brown hair. Both our kids have really light blonde hair. My husband and I both had much lighter hair when we were little so their hair might get darker as they get older.

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S.R.

answers from El Paso on

Well my hair is blonde, my husband's hair is black. Both of our kids have brown hair.... lol

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T.V.

answers from Sheboygan on

None! My husband is brunette and I am blonde. Both of our kids are dark blonde/light brown - right in the middle! And their hair is exactly the same color. We joke that we are only capable of making one 'model' of kid!

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