Does your hair really turn green when you go to swimming pools?
wasimjse asked:
I hear a lot of people here on yahoo say that their hair turns green from swimming in swimming pools. I cant believe this because i go to the swimming pool very often in summer and i have blonde hair but it never turns green. And I dont know anybody whose hair has turned green either. Do you put anything strange in you pools? Has your hair ever turned green or do you know or have you ever seen anybody whose hair has turned green from swimming pools?
Abel
I hear a lot of people here on yahoo say that their hair turns green from swimming in swimming pools. I cant believe this because i go to the swimming pool very often in summer and i have blonde hair but it never turns green. And I dont know anybody whose hair has turned green either. Do you put anything strange in you pools? Has your hair ever turned green or do you know or have you ever seen anybody whose hair has turned green from swimming pools?
Abel
June 1st, 2008 at 12:16 am
When I dyed my hair blonde and stayed in the pool awhile going underwater alot it got a greenish tint not like lime green but it was a light green tint on the blonde.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 am
They don’t mean full-on green, but you can get a greenish tinge in the sun. Usually this means there is too much chlorine in the pool or the person is spending too much time in there!
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
yes and you turn into a mermaid.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Yea because they have chemicals in the pool that make it turn colors for certain types of hair
June 8th, 2008 at 6:54 am
nooooooooooo my hair is dark brown & it never changes & also i hadn’t seen this before
June 11th, 2008 at 5:12 am
OMG YES UR HAIR DOES TURN GREEN!!!!! Its from some chemical in the clorine. But in order to get it out out a little bit of baking soda and powder to ur shampoo.! Then wash it normaly again.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
The clorine in the pool CAN turn hair a greenish color if it’s not rinsed out immediately after swimming.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Yes, my hair will turn greenish – esp. when I was a little toehead. I had a friend growing up with super white-blonde hair and she would literally get green “highlights” in her hair. It was comical – so she used special shampoo to neutralize the discolorations. If I go swimming and don’t wash my hair quickly enough after, it will cause my hair to darken and become an icky color.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
If you have dyed hair or a permanent in your hair it could turn slightly greenish from the chlorine in the water.
My daughter’s blonde hair took on an orange tint from our well water before we got our water softener. and when I got a permanent the solution always turned purple.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am
my daughter has very blonde hair. When she spends a lot of time in the pool, her hair has a greenish tint to it.
June 22nd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I live in the dominican rep i go in pools all the time, i have also got blonde colour in my hair. i go to the pool the day after i have put a colour on, my hair never turns green.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:35 am
It happens usualy with bleached hair. It’s the clorine, it’s slightly green. If you wash your hair well afterwards, thoroughly, you should be fine. Bleached blondes won’t be though
My old room-mate found out the hard way.
Could also be the quality of shampoo used, perhapse?
June 24th, 2008 at 4:10 am
when you dye you hair blonde and stay in any pool for an extended period of time yes, your hair may turn green. I have never seen anyones hair turn green from swimming in a pool but i wasn’t really around any blondes long enough to really see their hair turn.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
If you die your hair blonde, the chlorine from the pool will turn it green. I know people whos’ hair has turned green it’s not that big of a deal
June 29th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
The reason your hair turns “green” is from copper, not from chlorine…
See the link.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
Usually natural blonde won’t change, but if your hair is chemically treated it WILL get a greenish tint to it. And yes, I’ve had it happen. All you need is a shampoo that removes chlorine…you can get them at Walmart. You really should use them no matter what color your hair is…chlorine is very bad for your hair.
July 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Yes it a green tint if your haircolor is blonde. Due to the chlorine and other harsh chemicals from pool water.
July 6th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
if you swim a lot and a pool has a lot of chlorine in it can turn green or if you swim a lot and don’t wash the chlorine out then you can have the chance of it turning green i use stuff make for blond hair that takes chlorine out i have never had green hair but i still wash it with it since i do swim in my pool every day.
And actually this happend more to naturally blond hair. I am one.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
when i was a kid every day in summer would go swimming all day and yes i had blond hair then and yes it did turn green. used to get teased that i was wiping my nose up and over my head.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
if your a natural blonde YES