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I asked myself the same question a few weeks ago and found the answer on line from an albinism site.

A mother talking about her daughter (re hair colourants) said the results may be unpredictable and temp dyes may not wash out. The problem being most hair dyes rely on base colour to achive the said colour (on the box) and without pigment in the hair it may come out completely different to what is described.
So yes dye works but it's unpredictable.

Maybe my question wasn't as daft as I thought it was!

LOL!!

xx

Apparently it is possible but the lack of pigment in the hair means that it doesn't lock the dye in the same way as ordinary hair...this means that it may need to be left in longer, won't last as long and risks damaging the hair as the hair is very brittle. (Just what I gathered from pootling round google) Although to confuse issues there are different types of albinoism.

I have a white streak in my hair and semi-permanent hair colourant covers it.
White hair (that has lost all the pigment and is in reality grey) does absorb colour. A para or permanent hair colourant may be needed to produce an even coverage.

Viv

mmmmmmmm lol I don't think the aunts would want pink or blue though. Can't you dye his hair dark blonde and test it out for us??????? pmsl xx

it was a dye what angel had left over

one of them freaky permanent ones

aaaaaaaaa that would be a rinse though Joy not a dye......poor doggie lol. I'm wracking my very limited brains to think of how one would be able to dye hair without pigment. I am pretty sure it wouldn't be by the normal methods.

If anyone knows PLEASE put me out of my misery lol.

My daughter has a white streak......no pigment, at the front of her hair and so has OH .......obviously comes from his side of the family.... his aunts have tried numerous times to get rid of theirs without success........so I have an ulterior motive for being dead interested in this one. I personally think it looks fab but they don't lol xx

I know I shouldn't but.......................





pmsl

Dee x

don't think daughter would appreciate being blue!! too much like mums mauve rinses that she insisted doing for family weddings lol

mind he never looked half as good blue

pmsl x

i had a albino dog

and i dyed it pink often

i agree with you Muffy

from someone who also did their City and Guilds a "few" years ago...lol

Ahhh... so it is possible!!!

Thanks guys

xx

lol
same here muffy
mine was more 25 years ago

Things must have moved on since I did my City and Guilds then lol. I was always told that it was the pigment in the hair that changed the colour during the dying process and that hair without pigment couldn't be dyed.

Mind you...........that was about 20 * cough * years ago now lol xx

THE PIGMENT WOULD BE THE DYE

it is possible to dye it

he could also wear colour contacts

I watched a documentry on Albino people and there was a girl on there who died her hair, lashes and eyebrows, so it is possible...

probably wouldn't absorb colourants as no pigments and ,am guessing here, the chemicals might be detrimental to the skin the same as someone who has had recent chemo. daughter came through grey after her chemo in 2006 and was told NOT to dye her hair with usual hair colourants only to use vegetable dyes

Oh ok!!

Just wondering really!! ;O)