Natural Hair going dark randomly

What products do you use? Styling, cleansing etc, whatever you use on your hair.

If you mean when it's wet, then yeah, all hair is darker when it's wet. It might even be that your hair is still wet when it feels dry and so stays darker for a while until it's fully dry and this is what you're judging it on.

Temperature can have an affect on dyed hair, maybe natural, but that's at very high temperatures, like from straighteners applied directly.

Hair lightens with the sun, so it's even possible that your hair will look darker at the beginning of summer due to several months without much sun (though, this is mostly if you're in the UK, Cananda or somewhere with darker winters). Over the summer it will gradually lighten again, especially at the end of the summer when all dark hair has been cut off again.

Hi, thanks for your reply.

All I use is Elvive shampoo, no products or anything else.

What you say makes perfect sense, the strange thing is randomly im light on some days and dark on others when I do exactly the same thing  ???,

as a side question are there products out there that arnt dyes that can lighten hair slightly like some kind of special shampoo? Im uk 

Your hair looking lighter or darker on certain days just depends on the ambient light that day. It's not physically getting darker, I promise you 🙂

I'm not going to recommend any product that lightens hair without being a "dye". They're terrible to use. You'll just get red and/or yellow tones coming through and it'll look brassy. They're also extremely damaging over time.

OK, thanks a lot  🙂

You could try getting a clarifying shampoo and using that once in a while, it could just be environmental build up on your hair. Just get something that says deep cleansing or clarifying and use it once a week or once a fortnight, that's what my boyfriend has started to do because his hair was getting dull every so often and it has really helped.

Some of it is probably just the ambient light though as Janine says, my natural colour is dark blonde and some days it looked much lighter than others, even depending on the colour of clothes I wore etc.

Yes, thank you! I was going that way by asking what products are used, but then forgot! I swear my brain has melted recently 🙂

Heheh thought that was where you were heading with that, tag team advice ha!