Ashy brunette or blonette?

**HylianGirl** · September 9th, 2013, 10:47 AM

Okay, I no longer know what my hair color is x.x right now I'm hennaing, and I'm happy, even though I also like my natural color, thing is, I'm not sure what it is, some hairdresses said I am a dark blonde, but I don't see myself as a blond, I say my hair is light brown, but I'm not sure anymore. These pics were taken back when I straightened my hair everyday, but they show my natural color very well. So...

Under natural light:

Under sunlight:

What do you guys think?

**jel** · September 9th, 2013, 10:59 AM

Your hair definitely looks blonde in the sun; in the first picture not so much. I vote you call blonette-brown!

I have personally had the same idea just last week - on holiday in the South of France, I suddenly spotted blonde-looking hair in the mirror. So I am really a blonette, not an ash brown, I think to myself, after all! However, back in the ole Blighty, under a thick covering of clouds (and heavy rain today), my hair is dark again... Sigh. I actually like the ash brown colour, it's just that I would like to know what my hair looks like once and for all. I want a hair colour identity! Maybe I'll take blonette-brown myself...

**fairview** · September 9th, 2013, 11:16 AM

There are 60 blonde swatches in my Paul Mitchell color book. Everyone wants to be blonde, hardly anyone wants to be brown. Blonde = fun and energy; Brown = boring and dull; at least that want the manufacturers believes which is what we are taught to believe which is what we tell our guests because most of them don't want to hear they are brown. Out of 20 pages of swatches there are only 3 in the binder (violet red, red red and orange red) do not have a swatch with as blonde designation. I think the are a lot less blondes running around out in the world then there really are.

**AmberLouise** · September 9th, 2013, 06:48 PM

Although it does seem to have some gold tones, gold to me doesn't automatically equal blonde. I would have to say hands down it's brown.

**Quixii** · September 9th, 2013, 06:52 PM

It looks light brown to me, but my sister says it looks blonde in the sun to her.

**UltraBella** · September 9th, 2013, 07:03 PM

As a professional in the hair/beauty industry, I'd like to weigh in. I see no blonde in either of your photos. I would completely categorize you as a brunette.

**10000days** · September 10th, 2013, 01:59 AM

I say ash brunette!

**kitschy** · September 10th, 2013, 06:27 AM

Your hair is a beautiful color in its own right. Does it need a name? Even so, I think I would call you brunette. Others might very well differ with me and still be right.

**Vampyria** · September 10th, 2013, 07:54 AM

I'd say brunette. It looks quite dark near the roots on the first photo, where it's probably not that damaged from straightening. Mine looks a lot brighter in the sun but I classify it as medium to dark brown (it's probably more medium), because it looks so dark indoors. Yours looks more like light to medium brown to me.

**Ocelan** · September 10th, 2013, 08:40 AM

I would also say brunette. I myself am a dark blonette, just barely not light brown, and the color of my hair in the sun is much lighter than yours. Blonettes usually have a big difference in color indoors and outside in the sun. To me it seems like your hair color doesn't change that much.