How To Determine Your Hair Color and Shade?

[TatsuOni]

Hmm, perhaps the same shade as I when I was growing up? Was more white than blond.

Yeah his hair was pretty much white and curly. My mother was a bit disappointed when it disappeared I've alsways had the same natural color. The rest of my siblings haven't had any changes in theirs either.

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Yeah his hair was pretty much white and curly. My mother was a bit disappointed when it disappeared I've alsways had the same natural color. The rest of my siblings haven't had any changes in theirs either.

Somehow, that doesn't surprise me.

[vanillacake]

I don't know how your hair looks (as far as I recall), but yes, your shade probably has a specific name.
Also, where you are from may determine how you perceive light and dark colors.
For example, a very light brown shade but that is still for me as a Swedish person clearly brown, may for people from the other side of the world that is not used to lighter haircolors perceive as dark blonde.

I haven't posted any pictures (camera shy!), but it's definitely medium or dark brown. Interesting point about where you are in the world might determine hair colour perception!

[vanillacake]

Interesting discussion so far! My hair colour is definitely brown (medium brown?) and has always been the same. Here is Canada, I think blond isn't uncommon but a lot of blonds are also dyed rather than natural.

[TatsuOni]

Interesting discussion so far! My hair colour is definitely brown (medium brown?) and has always been the same. Here is Canada, I think blond isn't uncommon but a lot of blonds are also dyed rather than natural.

It's the same in Sweden. Plenty of natural blonds and even more with bleach. When I was younger, it was super trendy to be blond and a lot of women bleached their hair (it felt like everyone looked the same). At the moment it's more diverse and I believe, but can't be entirely sure, that more people are rocking their natural color today.

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I haven't posted any pictures (camera shy!), but it's definitely medium or dark brown. Interesting point about where you are in the world might determine hair colour perception!

Ok, hard to say without pictures but perhaps you could put brown hair chart in search engine and perhaps you’ll recognize your color among the results?
Yeah, when I first learned that there are those who'd think light brown is a blonde shade, I felt like "Wooah! Is such a thing possible?"

It's the same in Sweden. Plenty of natural blonds and even more with bleach. When I was younger, it was super trendy to be blond and a lot of women bleached their hair (it felt like everyone looked the same). At the moment it's more diverse and I believe, but can't be entirely sure, that more people are rocking their natural color today.

Yeah, I concur.
When I was younger, like 10-12, the mother of my childhood friend initially thought I had dyed my hair to get such a light blonde color until I told her I don't use hair dyes (me and my sister used to compare my shade with the samples in the grocery stores, and you just couldn’t get my color out of a bottle ).
She actually apologized for her assumption!

Now it seems "natural look/color" is trendy.

[TatsuOni]

Ok, hard to say without pictures but perhaps you could put brown hair chart in search engine and perhaps you’ll recognize your color among the results?
Yeah, when I first learned that there are those who'd think light brown is a blonde shade, I felt like "Wooah! Is such a thing possible?"




Yeah, I concur.
When I was younger, like 10-12, the mother of my childhood friend initially thought I had dyed my hair to get such a light blonde color until I told her I don't use hair dyes (me and my sister used to compare my shade with the samples in the grocery stores, and you just couldn’t get my color out of a bottle ).
She actually apologized for her assumption!

Now it seems "natural look/color" is trendy.

I also find more people getting interested in herbal dyes, as people are getting more and more worried about chemicals. I think that it's both good and less good. The less good thing being, that people don't get how extremely permanent herbal dyes are and that they can't just change it if they grow tired of it. Neither can they go back to their natural color.

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I also find more people getting interested in herbal dyes, as people are getting more and more worried about chemicals. I think that it's both good and less good. The less good thing being, that people don't get how extremely permanent herbal dyes are and that they can't just change it if they grow tired of it. Neither can they go back to their natural color.

Good points!

[lithostoic]

My hair always looks different in photos so it's hard to get an accurate depiction of what it actually looks like. I have fair skin so my camera tends to up the contrast and make my hair look darker.

[Lady Winchester]

I have light to medium golden brown hair, which is a mix of medium brown with blonde hair. Before I lost it to chemo, it was strawberry blonde, which is a mixture of red and blonde, so basically the red in my hair just faded (or darkened) to brown (not sure if it was the result of chemo or aging. Perhaps a bit of both). Though my hair has darkened by a few shades, my eyebrows and body hair are the same color they've always been, so it may look like I've dyed my hair when I haven't.