Hair color

[ImagineKate]

I notice my hair has some golden brownish highlights on it now. Is this due to E or something else? My mom has something similar. One of my daughters has it too.

[Dee Marshall]

I noticed after being on E a while that my sweat was no longer oily and a lot of the oils in my hair are gone. Now I can go a day or two without washing it and it looks good, in fact, this time of year I have to. Perhaps that change was enough to uncover highlights you had all along.

[ImagineKate]

I wash it like once every few days but I use conditioner every day. I was also reading that blondes have more estrogen in their system naturally, so there may be a link between hair pigment and E.

[Dee Marshall]

Mine's a dark brown with red and gold highlights, but it has been since long before HRT. Used to only show in sunlight on the day I washed it. Perhaps you're right.

[ImagineKate]

Mine was definitely jet black before E.

[April_TO]

Hi Beautiful,

Yes its one of the side effects of HRT. It has been documented and I couldnt remember where I've read it that it will cause the shade of your hair to lighten up a bit. It will also cause your hair to soften much like of a biological woman's hair.

I noticed after awhile my hair color switched from almost medium/dark brown to light brown with almost gold highlights. It really makes you beautiful

Hope this helps my friend,

Love - April

Mine was definitely jet black before E.

[ImagineKate]

Thanks April. I love it and my hair is softer too, however I'm not sure how much of that is better hair care or hormones. Either way I will take it!!!

[Dee Marshall]

Oh goodness! How can my hair possibility get softer. My hair has been baby fine my entire life and almost uncontrollable.

[cindianna_jones]

I had brown hair before. Now it is blond. Go figure.

Cindi

[Rainbow Dash]

No idea. but my hair is Lavendar colored so I dont pay attention to the color much. but any hair I had that regrew was a light brown, the color it was when I was a little child.

[April_TO]

Hi,

I of course read it on wikipedia which I think we manage:

Head hair may slightly change in texture, curl, and color (new hairs that is, not hair that has already formed and reached the surface prior to HRT), this is especially likely with hair growth from previously bald areas.

quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone_replacement_therapy_%28male-to-female%29#Hair

Thanks,

April

[Blush]

I noticed after being on E a while that my sweat was no longer oily and a lot of the oils in my hair are gone. Now I can go a day or two without washing it and it looks good, in fact, this time of year I have to. Perhaps that change was enough to uncover highlights you had all along.

That may be in part from Spironolactone - it greatly inhibits the sebaceous glands, which produce the oils on our skin.

[Steph34]

I have never heard of a lightening effect of estradiol. I think my hair has actually darkened since starting HRT and that is because the strands are thicker now. It kind of changed from medium brown with blonde highlights to dark brown. I think the lighter colors in my hair were actually due to strand thinning caused by DHT, which is no longer occurring.

[DrummerGirl]

My hair has a lot more red in it since starting HRT.  Under certain types of light it turns a merlot color that I absolutely love.  Before, my hair was pure black.  It's also thicker, healthier, and much less brittle now.

ImagineKate, we started HRT on the same day, so it's fun to see you have some of the same changes at the same time I have them.

[cindianna_jones]

My hair has thinned over the years. That's just part of getting older, my doctor tells me. I'm glad I had a lot to start with!

[jeni]

Glad to see this topic, I was just wondering about people's experiences with hair color changes. Have to think about something to fill the time while patiently waiting for HRT to do its thing.... I've been curious especially because I had very blond hair when I was a kid, two of my kids had very blond hair when born, and one of them looks like she's going to keep it at least at a dirty blond shade. It'd be sort of interesting if things went back in that direction...