Black and silver strand of hair

[daviine]

I just found a strand of hair that is silver at the end (2 inches or so) but the rest of the strand going up to the root is black (6 or more inches). I would think that once your hair starts going gray, then it would continue to do so. Does anyone know why/how this happens? Anyone else experience this?

I haven't been able to find any information online. Maybe I'm not using the right search terms.

 

[yamilee21]

I haven't found any explanations for it either, but I have plenty of strands like that - I have even seen a few with dark roots, then grey, then dark again, then grey again. Maybe it has something to do with nutrition/deficiencies at various points?

 

[Monaleezza]

i have loads like that too. I begun to think the grey pours out into the strand from the scalp or vice versa, because the longest hairs are grey and they don't grow that colour, they turn!!

 

[danysedai]

daviine, I remember that there's something on "The science of black hair" book by one of our members. I have it here at work on my tablet. I'll try to find the explanation she gives.

 

[Lucie]

I'd like to know too. I hate those halfway hairs, LOL! Either be black or silver.

 

[Blairx0]

I have heard that it could be an imbalance. I have had hair that seems to change color and I have just decides that my body stopped making pigment because it needed to do something else. Once that task was completed it went back to making pigment. I say this because I will see gray or red only in the center of a strand

 

[Just11412]

i had that once. i had just had surgery and i was on all these meds. i had like 3 hairs like that. after i recovered and stopped taking the meds i didn't have them anymore. hair has been all black every since.

 

[greenandchic]

My hair has been doing that since I was 13. I would have several gray hairs then it would eventually grow back to my natural color. I had more gray hairs at 13/14 than I do now at 30-something.

 

[daviine]

How interesting. The body is an amazing thing.

I'll try to remember to ask the doctor when I get around to going.