Bella’s hair is half blonde and half brunette (and, no, it’s not dyed!)
DECIDING to be a blonde or a brunette is not a choice that concerns most girls aged 11.
But Bella Hill can transform her hair colour simply by how she brushes it. A rare birthmark on her scalp means her locks grow in two colours, making her appear halfblonde and half-brunette.
So the schoolgirl, from Lincoln, can choose the look she wants – she just styles her hair one way for darker, another way for lighter.
She also has different-coloured eyelashes – those on her right side are more blonde than those on her left.
Her mother Jenny was stunned when Bella was born with two-tone hair. ‘My mum pointed it out. I was in
‘People stop us in the supermarket’
too much pain to notice,’ said student nurse Mrs Hill, 37.
‘Then we noticed her eyelashes were fair on the blonde side and dark on the brunette side.’
The difference became more prominent as Bella grew up and her hair got longer.
‘It would take us hours to get round the supermarket because people would stop and admire Bella’s hair or ask if we’d dyed it,’ said Mrs Hill.
‘The blonde is an ice blonde, like it’s been bleached, and it goes all the way underneath in an unusual pattern. If she has it in a certain style, she’s blonde but if she changes her parting, she’s brunette.
‘She prefers her hair lighter when she wears more girly clothes and pastel colours, but when she wears her hoodies and joggers, she wears it up so it’s dark.’
Bella said: ‘I don’t really have a favourite shade. A lot of school friends do want my hair and some ask if I dye it.’ Her look is a result of a genetic condition, poliosis, which creates a lack of pigment in a patch of hair, although neither her brother Riley, 14, nor sister Lilah, four, have it.