MYTH or FACT FRIDAY: Can hair turn white from fright overnight?

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For centuries, people have believed that a sudden fright, scare or traumatic experience could turn your hair white overnight.

It is in fact medically impossible. Hair that has grown out of your scalp is dead and there is no way any physiological or psychological experience can change its color overnight.

 

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