Blonette Pride :)

**mcgg417** · December 6th, 2015, 03:18 PM

I made a collage of blonde hair variation. It's amazing how much variety there is in blonette. Especially the last three shades.

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**lapushka** · December 6th, 2015, 03:42 PM

I wouldn't call the lighter shades "blonette". Blonette is what's on the very edge between blonde & brown, not light or mid-tone blonde.

**mcgg417** · December 6th, 2015, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by lapushka

I wouldn't call the lighter shades "blonette". Blonette is what's on the very edge between blonde & brown, not light or mid-tone blonde.

No, i agree with you, I meant to clarify in my original post what distinguishes blonette from blonde. I added the lighter shades so people would see the transition between platinum light blonde shades on the top, medium in the middle, and blonette shades on the bottom. Seeing the transition helps a lot. For me the last 4 are blonette.

**lapushka** · December 6th, 2015, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by mcgg417

No, i agree with you, I meant to clarify in my original post what distinguishes blonette from blonde. I added the lighter shades so people would see the transition between platinum light blonde shades on the top, medium in the middle, and blonette shades on the bottom. Seeing the transition helps a lot. For me the last 4 are blonette.

Blonette can be even darker than that, almost brown.

**Ingrid** · December 6th, 2015, 04:15 PM

I don't know, the last three images especially look like light brown colour to me, they look a little too "warm" to be blonette. The top images look colour-treated so they don't really look like examples of variation of natural blonde colour.

**mcgg417** · December 6th, 2015, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by Ingrid

I don't know, the last three images especially look like light brown colour to me, they look a little too "warm" to be blonette. The top images look colour-treated so they don't really look like examples of variation of natural blonde colour.

Well that is what makes those last three images blonette. It is a blend of both blonde and brown or what I call "dirty blonde" in everyday speak. Blonette's can definitely be warm. The last three shades exemplify what true dark blondes look like. The 4th to last shade is between medium and dark blonde. now as far as the top three shades go I can tell you that the top three exist in children.

These three shades are light brown in color and solidly darker and less yellowish than the three final shades in the blonde collage. if anything those last three shades are extremely blonette considering that we are all here with different opinions about what those shades are.

**Ingrid** · December 6th, 2015, 05:39 PM

I know very light blonde hair exists even in adults, particularly where I come from, but those pictures aren't really examples of it.

"Dirty" blonde to me would look more like this or this or this. This might be a warmer example which is slightly golden. To me blonette isn't really about lightness and darkness (or hair colour level in other terms) in the sense that it's in between lighter ("blonde") and darker ("brunette") hair, it's more really about that peculiar natural shade of colour which is neither obviously golden, brown or ashy.

It's interesting looking at different perspectives of what is considered that elusive blonette colour!

**mcgg417** · December 6th, 2015, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by Ingrid

I know very light blonde hair exists even in adults, particularly where I come from, but those pictures aren't really examples of it.

"Dirty" blonde to me would look more like this or this or this. This might be a warmer example which is slightly golden. To me blonette isn't really about lightness and darkness (or hair colour level in other terms) in the sense that it's in between lighter ("blonde") and darker ("brunette") hair, it's more really about that peculiar natural shade of colour which is neither obviously golden, brown or ashy.

It's interesting looking at different perspectives of what is considered that elusive blonette colour!

It is very interesting. Esp. considering that your first two example of dirty blonde are just plain medium blonde to me while your last two examples are very much blonette to me!

Also interestingly "ash" makes me immediately think of a deep silver blonde color, never brown.

**lapushka** · December 7th, 2015, 04:29 AM

If you just look at hair dye, that will give you the answer. The dark ash blonde semi-permanent from Indola, I once put on my hair, was a bit like those last images you posted!

**ReneeG** · December 7th, 2015, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by mcgg417

Well that is what makes those last three images blonette. It is a blend of both blonde and brown or what I call "dirty blonde" in everyday speak. Blonette's can definitely be warm. The last three shades exemplify what true dark blondes look like. The 4th to last shade is between medium and dark blonde. now as far as the top three shades go I can tell you that the top three exist in children.

These three shades are light brown in color and solidly darker and less yellowish than the three final shades in the blonde collage. if anything those last three shades are extremely blonette considering that we are all here with different opinions about what those shades are.

I completely Agee that these 3 are just barely blonnette and more light brow. Mine is right here in this range, and people call it light brown rather than blonde anymore since its really darkened in the last year or so to reach this shade. Mine is closest to the bottom right, because although it is cool most of the time, in sunlight it shines more golden. There are a lot of ash blondes/Browns that can border on auburn in particular lights. I've been wearing a hat a lot this last year, but before that I got super light natural highlights around my face up to 5 shades lighter - it was crazy! But red looks natural on me too because my natural ash still has random red tones in the right lighting. To me, the bottom row of the first collage is exactly what blonnette means.