Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25277765-20140831060343/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140831150530

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

I'm also not sure if Solid Snake being blond was even his actual hair color, since the MSX2 games did depict Solid Snake with brown hair (and it's extremely unlikely he simply dyed it). Just going by what Colonel says in the original briefing, which you can rewatch on Youtube, he says that aside from skin tone Solid is an exact duplicate of Liquid. Solid responds, "I have a twin?" Then Colonel replies, "Seems so." Now, I don't know if there were errors on the part of the localization team, but it's pretty convincing if you look at the actual briefing footage itself. Solid's hair looks extremely light color. That can't just be due to lighting conditions, because his skin is even darker than his hair.

Colonel commented on the difference in skin tone. Liquid had a tan from spending time in the Middle East, while Solid was pale from living in Alaska. Yet even with pale skin, his skin looks darker than his hair.

The concept art for MGS2 is something to go on. It shows Solid's natural appearance in Pliskin's form. When asked in an interview, Yoji Shinkawa said this:

Shinkawa: Pliskin's hair is more blonde. Snake's hair might be blonde naturally.

In MGS, his hair is brown. He probably dyed his hair before infiltration.

KCEJ: And that's why he dyed his hair.

Shinkawa: Yes, probably. Snake has his hair dyed. Pliskin's hair is of natural color.

While it doesn't explicitly state that Solid dyed his hair in the briefing, Solid's hair did appear darker in MGS1 than it did when we saw him as Pliskin.