How weird is this?

Question

my mom is swiss, italian, french, & spanish & my father is Arabian yet I was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed child. I have dark hair as an adult, but still have my blue eyes & people often ask me if they're contacts! How come I had blonde hair? I mean, isn't brown hair & brown eyes dominate?

Answer 1

That is not a genealogy question.  It is a genetics question.  We research our dead ancestors and their place in history, not what their genes were.  That is a science issue, not history or genealogy.

Answer 2

You are special.

Answer 3

Yes brown is dominant, but sometimes the recessive gene wins. You just happen to be the one to get it. Besides, blue eyes and dark hair is beautiful.

Answer 4

Blue eyes are from a recessive gene but if for example your father has a blue eye gene and brown eye gene (from one of his parents) then he can have brown eyes and his offspring can still have blue eyes providing they inherit the blue rather than the brown gene from him - it's a 50/50 split.

Answer 5

Looks like that resessive gene popped up in your eye department.  Yes we learned in science that brown trumps blue but every few generations it "throws back" to an earlier generation.

My grandfather had one blue and one green eye. Talk about weird.

I too had blond hair as a child but now have dark brown. My parents have brown hair. My son was also blond until he was about 11, with it slowly getting darker up to that age, when it stopped at brown.

Be proud of your eyes. My mom always says "What in the Blue Eyed World are you doing?" (she of course having blue eyes and me brown)