My hair is very dark brown, just shy of black, and I am religious about sun protection. Think big hat, heavy layer of sunscreen, Asian auntie vibe. I also freckle if the sun even licks me so I avoid it in every way possible. It’s the main problem with skin aging and wrinkles, before smoking.
My scalp is **bright **white. When I part my hair, it appears that I’m balding. I am not balding. The stark contrast makes it look that way. I’ve looked at old pictures of myself when my hair was lighter and I always had parts where, when my hair decided to curl a funny way, were exposed, but it wasn’t so stark a difference.
Does anyone else have this problem? What do you do?
Face self-tanner applied on the scalp, or dyeing hair lighter so it doesn’t stand out so much were my ideas.
Wash your hair with something that lightly stains both hair scalp. Doesn’t look like you have dyed it, as there is still variation in hair colour. I haven’t done it, but my mother in law used strong tea. She would have a cup of tea in the morning and use the left over tea in the pot to wash her hair every morning. Slightly darkened her scalp and dyed her hair.
Or you could just lean into it and accept your differences
If only we could all accept our differences…I just reeeallyy don’t want bright white scalp against nearly black hair. I will try staining with tea ty
Are you putting sunscreen on your scalp?
No I’m just wearing hats. It’s blindingly white. I will try to stain it, it looks crazy atm