Hi all redheads. I've noticed that natural red hair is one of the most unique and diverse types of hair colour. There is strawberry blonde to copper to titian to auburn to deep russet to dark red and everything in between. My hair has strands of blonde, brown, orange, red, copper, and platinum all mixed together. Tell us about what kind of red you have and how it has changed over the years naturally from childhood and throughout your adult life. Any redhead related stories too!

ya know, I am not sure what color my hair is considered other than red. My sister has auburn hair and is darker than mine. I am not orangy or blond. As a Red I have a variety of colors and shades from a few that looked black to orange to copper to blond to white (yes white even before I really got white hairs, maybe they were more very light blond). Anyway, you can look at my profile an see.

Sadly I only have fake red hair.

Mine is naturally all shades of red as well... everything from strawberry blonde streaks to dark auburn curls underneath. My moms hair was a gorgeous orange red... stick straight, fine strands, but thick. She turned heads everywhere.

What's weird to me is how my henna'd hair is sooo close to my natural hair but now I feel really comfortable calling it dark auburn because I "know" that it is. I started out life with red hair but it did not stay really red. It became dark reddish brown. I henna now but the color is practically the same as my natural hair. It's just darker indoors and more red outdoors.

Look at my siggy and you tell me! ;) :D

Mum always called it titian as it's probably not bright enough to be copper red but not dark enough to be auburn. I'm not answering until another redhead agrees with me, as honestly, I have no idea.

my hair is dark blond but i have natural blondy copper bits in it which i love!

Auburn for me! My hair used to be lighter when I was little, but it's gotten darker the last few years - I just love the colour it is right now.. makes me very happy!!:-)

~Nicole

It´s hard to tell because my hair-colour changes with the light conditions and from summer to winter. I don´t have a single photo of my hair which has an accurate colour :shrug: and sometimes I use henna/cassia for conditioning and to add a little more shine to my own red. It does not change my natural colour much, so no outgrowing line.
My red got darker with the years, when I was a child it used to be bright copper almost orange, now it´s not red enough to be titian and not brown enough to be auburn. I have some very fine dark blond stray hairs, a majority of medium thick dark coppery hair and some really coarse dark red ones... I think I´ll go and vote for copper because the others fit less than copper does :gabigrin:

I voted auburn though I usually think of it as chestnut... or the color of an old penny. :o

Firefly

My hair is a mix of browns, blondes and reds. I have the same issue as finoriel, too. In some photographs, I look blonde, in others, my hair looks dark red, in others it looks dark brown and just about every shade but white-blonde or black, depending on the lighting and the angle.



Here it looks darker red.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/theironflapjack/mug/mug.jpg


Here it looks like there is some lighter blonde/red? I have no idea. I left zee eyebrows for good measure.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/theironflapjack/mug/faceee.jpg




I'm a little shy still. Maybe my face will come at a later date, ahaha.

I've always been called a "strawberry blonde", though my hair has wandered through a number of different colors on its way to the current one. I voted for the first option.

My DH has described mine as Titian before. I know that when I was younger I'd compare my color to the swatches of dyed hair by the boxes. It was always a bit lighter and maybe less intense than the lightest shade of auburn.

You can see my natural color in my profile pic. Feel free to correct my color name assignment!

I have naturally auburn hair. Not coppery red, although I certainly have some strands that are very coppery. I have strands that look almost black, as well. But most of it is just a medium auburn color. The canopy gets lighter in the summer, when it's exposed to sun, and the underneath layers can look almost brown until the sun hits them and then they are definitely red.

My hair was yellowy-blonde when I was a little kid and gradually became darker and redder as I got older, and became very auburn after my second baby. Now it's just turning grey!

I enhance my hair color with henna - I just henna the roots once a month or so when the little silver patches become more than I'm willing to bear, and henna gloss about once a month as well just to keep things bright and shiny!

I do not have a typical redhead complexion. I have green eyes and slightly olive skin with no freckles. My sister, however, is a flaming coppery redhead who has "faded" to a more strawberry color that is just gorgeous. She has a lot of blonde in her hair and has a more typical redhead complexion w/blue eyes and loads of freckles.

My natural hair is strawberry blonde, the red in it sometimes doesn't show up in photos, It gets washed out in bright light. It used to be really golden blonde when I was little, probably because I played outside all day. It was red when I was baby.

My hair is a strawberry blonde. I don't have the freckles, unless it is summer- they fade the rest of the year, but I am super pale with greenish hazel eyes, so I actually look better the brighter red my hair is, lol.

I'm a strawberry blonde, who's spent most of my life as a honey/ash blonde combo, with red highlights in the winter and in the sunlight. The last few years, I've gotten redder and redder. I thought at first that it was all of the herbs and natural products that I used, but now, mostly I think I've gotten redder hair. I also had a doctor who insisted I was a redhead--go figure.

Two other things have clued me in--I recently started using Just For Redheads makeup, and it's the only makeup that's ever matched me (duh). The other thing is, I did a henna gloss, and when I brushed the test strand back into my hair--I couldn't find it again, and I could swear it looked red after the application, but it got totally lost in my normal hair.

I'm wondering if I'll get even more red with time.

Oh, and I have brown eyes, and I tan, so not a typical redhead.

Two other things have clued me in--I recently started using Just For Redheads makeup, and it's the only makeup that's ever matched me (duh). The other thing is, I did a henna gloss, and when I brushed the test strand back into my hair--I couldn't find it again, and I could swear it looked red after the application, but it got totally lost in my normal hair.


That's kind of what happened to me. In pictures, same lighting and conditions. The before henna looked redder than after. I have no henna dye line either. While this was not body are quality it stains pretty well.

I'm not a redhead but, I have red highlights, even without the henna. My hair is "dark chestnut brown" as it is too dark to call even dark auburn.

Uh... all of the above, and more? LOL I have so many shades of red on my head, and the overall look can be so vastly different depending on the time of year and what kind of lighting I am in that I honestly don't know what you'd call it other than just "red". :p I also have an almost white blonde streak in my hair which a hairdresser told me is called a halo. :shrug: I don't know if that's really what it's called but he said it's very rare, and I wasn't going to argue with him over it because I liked what he had to say about it and that he seemed so thrilled with my hair. :D

Dark auburn for me!

Oh yeah, I have "redhead skin" - super pale white that only burns and never tans. I have some freckles but not many and those are either too pale to see or orange. JFR's palest makeup is a perfect fit for me.

My hair naturally has tons of different tones in it, and it’s changed throughout my life (born with black-brown, turned blond-copper-brown as a little kid, red-brown later, etc.), but the few (very few) red tones that have grown in now are mostly a mix of gold (mostly only in my widow’s peak), copper, and an almost deep-brown and cherry tone (it actually looks a little fake).
I use indigo-mixes in my hair to enhance the almost-black sections (the majority of my hair is a mix of deep and very deep browns), but I love to leave the red sections visible.

Would you mind choosing my colour for me? Here is a link to my album:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=163
My english is not bad, but I don't know the subtle differences between those colours.
The outdoor pictures show my true colour best.
Thanks!

My natural hair color isn't that red anymore. It's faded out to blond now. However, I used to have light/medium coppery as a child, strawberry blond in my twenties, and now just blong in my thirties. I miss my childhood hair color!

Um, red? I honestly don't know. The SO insists it's more of an orange. It looks different depending on the lighting and the photos. The color never seems the same from photo to photo. It also has a very wide variety of shades of red. Some strands are a very dark auburn color, others very red. I actually have a wide patch of strawberry blond hair at the nape of my neck so, all of the above? ;)

I'm told I'm a vibrant red with strawberry blond coloring.....

I have naturally auburn hair but have been dying it for years.

I am a dark auburn here but would really love fiery red

Would you mind choosing my colour for me? Here is a link to my album:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=163
My english is not bad, but I don't know the subtle differences between those colours.
The outdoor pictures show my true colour best.
Thanks!

I would say light copper orange ;)

Thanks! I answered that in the poll. Wow, I'm unique so far. :cheese:
;)