Is platinum blonde a real, natural hair color?

I know someone at my high school who has natural platinum blonde hair. His hair is even blonder than the lady in the picture. With his platinum blonde hair and pinkish skin, he looks like an albino. Especially with his brilliant blue eyes.

My friend from middle school had platinum blonde hair, so yes I do believe it is naturally occurring.

Of course it is; like silver, gold and the ever popular Florida-old people colour – purple.

My next door neighbor’s son has natural platinum blond hair. He is now 22, and so I would consider him an adult. In our predominantly Hispanic area, the poor guy was known as “Q-tip” in high school, because he was tall, skinny, and topped with white fuzz.

My 18 yo niece and my 15 yo nephew are also naturally white-blond.

And then there is Edgar Winter.

Apparently naturally occurring white-blond hair is supposed to be called “tow-headed” or “flaxen haired” but I don’t hear those terms used any longer anywhere except in literature. “Platinum blond” supposedly refers to dyed white-blond hair, but I always thought that “peroxide blond” or “bleached blond” covered that.

I have seen young children with that colour blond, and such children are said to be towheaded. Being from Wisconsin, I saw many, many many, such kids, and they’re usually of Nrothern European extraction.

Also, I once had a boss whose hair would bleach to that colour naturally during summer.

Yes. I went to school with a Finnish girl whose hair was platinum blonde of a tone and quality that no colorist can really achieve by artificial means. My friend of Swedish extraction was also a natural light blonde, but not that pale silvery blonde of the Finnish girl.

My son in his mid-twenties is still absolutely blond, but golden yellow, not platinum. As a youngster he was a true towhead, the same color that a bleached platinum blonde aspires to.

@Darwin, do you know, is Edgar Winters’ hair Platinum blond or White? Was it always that color? or turned that color? Just wondering, I like it.

@wilma – Edgar Winters is an albino. His hair has always been that color. It is almost but not quite pure white, so to me it qualifies as platinum blond.

I decided to quit dying my hair a light golden brown when I turned 67. To my surprise, my hair grew out the color of the girl in the picture. I am now a platinum blonde—not grey, silver or white, but blonde!! What is this all about? And, no, I am not an albino. I was born with light auburn hair. I also have a natural wave on the sides and have very thick hair. I feel blessed, but cannot convince anyone that I do not bleach my hair.

I stopped coloring my hair at age 35 from a dark golden blonde to a light (not platinum) blonde about four years ago. Then I noticed my regrowth and my head was beginning to sprout all these new white hairs amongst the darker blonde. Just last week, I got my hair cut and was discussing with the hairdresser about possibly covering up some of the white as it was coming in fast now. She said, “Honey, these aren’t white hairs, they’re platinum blonde. Don’t even think about coloring. Do you know how many girls would kill to have your hair.” Now I was towheaded as a child, up until I hit puberty. But I didn’t think platinum blonde was one of the color choices available when you got older. I found out that it can, though rarely. It will be interesting to see if my identical twin will also become a platinum blonde. She is still coloring. I recently told her to stop to see what she gets…