Thread: A question on colour of facial hair and hair on the head.....

Its been a few days now since i've had a shave- mainly because i've been VERY busy! I'll get one tomorrow morning hopefully. But whilst its been growing in i've noticed that my facial hair seems to be of a different colour to that of the hair on my head. I am naturally ginger on top and yet my facial hair is a darker brown colour. I have a friend who has the opposite effect of brown hair and ginger beard. TBH i'd rather it was my way round of the two, but it got me wondering....

Is this something common to anyone else? Does the hair grow back darker the more often I shave? Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

I have dark brown hair on my head and light brownish-red facial hair.

I've had a goatee since I was 16, and its always been a lighter color than the hair on my head.

Could it be that you are paying more attention to the color of your hair these days? or that you have gone longer without a shave than ever before and it is not that you notice the difference? I can see no reason why shaving with a straight leads to changes in pigmentation of your hair.

Al raz.

My beard seems to have turned grayer over the years.

I have the same brownish/reddish hair on my face as on my head. Well, on my head it looks more like it's hilighted since the hair is more dense, but I'm pretty sure it works out to the same ratio.

What's interesting though is that my eyebrows are a dark brown with no red at all. In the past, I've been asked if I dye my hair (ok, that is reasonable since it does look hilighted). But one time, someone actually asked me if I'd dyed my eyebrows. I cannot imagine why someone would dye their eyebrows, so that question took me aback.

It's pure genetics and not shaving related. Both my parents have dark hair, and so do I. My grandpa on my mom's side had red hair (though it is all white now); When I've had a beard it is mostly dark brown, but does have some red in it. Coincidence? Probably not.

My head hair is really dark blond, almost brown. My beard is mostly the same color, but the mustache area is blond and the soul patch area is almost white. (I am 24 so it is not the grey kind of white)

My beard is MUCH redder than my hair when it grows in. My beard is a coppery red color, while my hair tends more to the blonde. It's got nothing to do with shaving, as this happened long before I started shaving (I had a beard from HS through Uni.)

Originally Posted by Ryan82

It's pure genetics and not shaving related. Both my parents have dark hair, and so do I. My grandpa on my mom's side had red hair (though it is all white now); When I've had a beard it is mostly dark brown, but does have some red in it. Coincidence? Probably not.

Well its strange if it has anything to do with genetics. My dad has a black beard, though its turning grey now. My mother used to have strawberry blonde/ light reddish hair. She's never had a beard though.

Its interesting that with the exception of nun2sharp who I think is just getting old everyone who has expressed a difference in hair colour mentions reddish hair.....

I've got black hair (one red hair and one brown hair). My beard though is half black, and the other half consists of brown and red. If you were to really look hard, you might even find some blonds. Hair color has nothing to do with shaving technique. As pointed out earlier, it's purely genetic.