Why is dark blond/ light brown so unpopular?

[Phalaenopsis]

I'm just curious, why this is exactly. :) I'm guessing that it has something to do with the colour looking bland and 'in between' or something.

I won't be offended by the answers even though I have this haircolour. I found the results of a poll and I found it a bit funny that not much people would want this colour. :grin:

Even people with this haircolour are fighting against their own haircolour! And it's a bit like peolpe with curls wanting to straighten them or like people with straight hair getting a perm.

Thank you in advance for your honest opinions :flower:

[Eolan]

I have that color too! (Maybee I'm a bit darker than you, maybee not, hard to tell...) Anyway, my guess is that people dislikes this color because it can look a bit dull and greyish. It's not always as radiant as for example red hair. But I love my color and would not change it! I think alot has to do with the condition of the hair. Your hair is wonderful! :D

[Samikha]

Well, here it's exceptionally common. That doesn't help. It's not a very saturated colour like deep brown, red or black, nor lacking saturation like blonde. It lacks distinguishing elements. Plus, it's my natural hair colour, so I guess I'm not supposed to like it?:o

[Fractalsofhair]

I think it's because it's not a commonly dyed color. A lot of these people were light blondes as children, and thus want that color back, as it's seen as the ideal, and feel bad for the color. It's like with my silvery blonde hair, it's next to impossible to dye to since it's too dark to be done in a salon(With toners on lightest yellow hair etc), but it's too light to be considered ash or anywhere in the range of brunette, so people get confused and aren't quite sure what to make of a non yellow blonde. Personally, I love dark blonde hair, it's unique since most people dye over it and it's very rarely dyed to, so it's generally someone's natural hair color, and thus fairly unique. I wish my hair was just a tad darker, so it wouldn't show oil and darken so easily from that, because it's fairly light normally but it needs oils to survive, so it looks a bit darker than it actually is depending on what products I used today etc.

[prosperina]

I remember a really snotty girl in junior high referred to this color as "poo colored". Her thought was that it was neither blond nor brown and just looked yucky and drab. :shrug: I disagree of course, I think it's a nice color. And if you like to color your hair, it's a nice color to have, as darker tends to look good as does lighter.

[Eolan]

It's like with my silvery blonde hair, it's next to impossible to dye to since it's too dark to be done in a salon(With toners on lightest yellow hair etc), but it's too light to be considered ash or anywhere in the range of brunette, so people get confused and aren't quite sure what to make of a non yellow blonde.

Exactly! Recently I've gotten the question: "But... What color is your hair, really?" alot, and not because they think my hair is dyed, they just don't know what to make of the color they see! :laugh:

[CindyLea1]

Do I count in this color? See my avatar.

I get bored with my color. I want something different. I don't want to cut it anymore, or perm it; so color it is. Maybe.

Somedays I love it and it is sparkly and pretty. Somedays it looks drab and icky.

[Fractalsofhair]

Eolan, I've been referred to as the girl with gray hair. I'm 16, and well, although I've heard of early graying, my hair always was more silver than gold, and I really don't think anyone can call a 2 year old gray haired! XD It's always amusing though, people ask me to switch the color I dye it to a more golden shade. When I tell them I don't dye it(Only did once and it didn't affect the color, and it's mostly grown out, so thus I just say I don't dye it), they get quite confused! XD

[chelssix]

I think it's pretty! Possibly because it is a common color, not many people want it?
But you know, I did read a study that said most men prefer light brown hair.

[Eolan]

Eolan, I've been referred to as the girl with gray hair. I'm 16, and well, although I've heard of early graying, my hair always was more silver than gold, and I really don't think anyone can call a 2 year old gray haired! XD It's always amusing though, people ask me to switch the color I dye it to a more golden shade. When I tell them I don't dye it(Only did once and it didn't affect the color, and it's mostly grown out, so thus I just say I don't dye it), they get quite confused! XD

My hair also looked alot more grey when I was your age, maybee it has something to do with being a teen? (Hormones, etc.) Or maybee you always had that color? Anyway, silver is pretty! My hair got more brown than mousy grey as I got older.

(Okay, so when I read your post again, I saw that you said that you always had that color. Sorry for lack of attention, my bad!)

[Eolan]

Eolan, I've been referred to as the girl with gray hair. I'm 16, and well, although I've heard of early graying, my hair always was more silver than gold, and I really don't think anyone can call a 2 year old gray haired! XD It's always amusing though, people ask me to switch the color I dye it to a more golden shade. When I tell them I don't dye it(Only did once and it didn't affect the color, and it's mostly grown out, so thus I just say I don't dye it), they get quite confused! XD

Okay, having looked at your profile, I'd say your blonde! But I can't be sure, can I? :silly:

[swanns]

That particular colour is very common around here. I think more people have that colour rather than the more blond-ish tone we're kind of known for. In finnish it's called 'road-coloured', you know, like the gravel. I guess most people just feel depressed of their hair being such a 'bland' colour. Personally I think it's just as lovely as any other tone, and I'd prefer it to dyed hair any day!

[Fractalsofhair]

Eolan, I think people get confused due to the fact most girls in my town with blonde hair tend to dye it, and the stylists here are HUGE fans of "yellow" hair(Warms you up, or in my case when I had high lights, made me look sickly! XD), as opposed to cooler blonde hair.(And our drugstores have limited hair dye colors, and most of them are yellowish) My photos are a little iffy of my hair color, since I take them indoors and we have yellowish light. I did manage to get 2 photos of my actual hair color. http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3149&pictureid=39791
As you can see, it's grayer than most bleach blondes are, but well, I think I'm a blonde when I look at my hair. My hair color is just a tricky one though, since there are very few natural blondes or redheads out there,(less than 5% of the total population I'd say), and thus people get a little confused. Probably the same deal with dark blonde hair, since it's not a commonly dyed color, but it's somewhat rare in adults. (Children and preteens(when most girls start dying their hair in my town), it might be a little more common. A lot of girls don't know what color their roots are now, but know what it was 5 years ago.)

[Eolan]

Eolan, I think people get confused due to the fact most girls in my town with blonde hair tend to dye it, and the stylists here are HUGE fans of "yellow" hair(Warms you up, or in my case when I had high lights, made me look sickly! XD), as opposed to cooler blonde hair.(And our drugstores have limited hair dye colors, and most of them are yellowish) My photos are a little iffy of my hair color, since I take them indoors and we have yellowish light. I did manage to get 2 photos of my actual hair color. http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3149&pictureid=39791
As you can see, it's grayer than most bleach blondes are, but well, I think I'm a blonde when I look at my hair. My hair color is just a tricky one though, since there are very few natural blondes or redheads out there,(less than 5% of the total population I'd say), and thus people get a little confused. Probably the same deal with dark blonde hair, since it's not a commonly dyed color, but it's somewhat rare in adults. (Children and preteens(when most girls start dying their hair in my town), it might be a little more common. A lot of girls don't know what color their roots are now, but know what it was 5 years ago.)

I love your color in that picture. It looks like it came straight from a farytale. Much more interresting than any dye at any time! :crush:

[papillion]

...A lot of these people were light blondes as children, and thus want that color back...

This is exactly how I feel about the colour of my hair. I don't dislike the dark blonde, but I miss the colour it used to be, and I just want to get it back.

[Fractalsofhair]

Thanks Eolan! Your hair looks great, healthy and no frizz from your picture! Fairly uncommon here as well. I must say, blue dyed hair is more fun and interesting than my natural color, but I do like my natural color, it's fun and pretty. Took me a while to accept it though. I don't think any teenager wants gray hair in their teenage years, though I do want white hair in old age, and the social pressure of being told I have gray hair doesn't help, and dying it once caused a lot of damage, leading me to realize that it's best if I just accept it. Silver is a much "cooler" metal than gold though, so it's fun!

papillion- I know what you're saying. I used to have almost white hair when I was little. It's still pretty light, but it's annoying when stylists ask if I want to go back to my childhood color since I could "pull it off" (Small suburban area, many of the same stylists knew me as a child and I was known for having problem hair). Erm, no thanks on that front. Though I do know when I get older, 30s or so, I'll start to get gradually lighter hair. I did bleach my hair once and given that highlights make my hair darker, the damage from the 1 bleaching isn't worth it at all. (And it didn't even lighten my hair!) I do wish my hair was either light enough so the oils it needs didn't darken it terribly, or dark enough for that to happen. Meh, it looks better than all one shade of yellow though. XD

[handsclean]

My hair is naturally a dark blonde/light brown, and I've always wanted it be just make up it's mind, to be brown or blonde! I hate not having a category. I ask people, and some say that I am blonde, and some say that I'm a brunette. I've come to like it though, because I actually have so many different colors on my head :) One hair could be a honey blond and one could be a chestnut brown.. which I think is pretty cool.

[Eolan]

One should always take what the hair stylists say with a pinch of salt. Pressure is on everyone, but especially on young girls, when it comes to style and apperance. You don't have to do anything you don't want to with yourself, ever, no matter what. If you enjoy your hair as it is, then all good. If you should feel you want to color your hair blue, than by all means, do it. But don't do it for anyone else than yourself. (And keep in mind the two weeks rule!) Okay, end of girl pep talk and highjack of this tread.

[justme]

I don't know. I like shimmering wheat and dark honey colored hair.

[Fractalsofhair]

Yep Eolan and I've had blue streaks for almost a year and like it(Darn allergies though to the dye I used, and inactive ingredients in it(Parabens)!). I think part of the pressure for light brown/dark blonde hair to dye it is the same reason I get pressured about hair color! It's easier for a stylist to make money dying hair(and hair dye companies!), than it is for them if there are only a few people with gorgeous natural hair colors that can't be dyed to that color easily and which people admire. Dark blonde/Light brown hair is one of the most beautiful natural hair colors IMO, but it does take work to dye hair that color with all the unique high lights/low lights that that hair has! The lights are subtle, but well, they're the difference between pretty hair and one color hair. Everyone has them, but I think they're the most noticeable in this hair color!

[Tornerose]

I think it's because it's just so dull.
Around here I've heard it reminds people of apartment complexes in the old USSR. They had this greyish hue to them no matter what colour it was supposed to be.
And that's pretty descriptive for the ashy-tones, the strands that are blonde look greyish, the strands that are brown have a grey tint, and the strands that look red have a grey tint. So overall, it's just not something you notice. Just like the Soviet apartment buildings.

The blondes are so light that it makes people look, the redheads just stand out and grab the attention, and the darker brunettes and black have so much shine that it makes people go "oooh".
That doesn't happend with this shade.

[Silver Strands]

I love the color myself but when I was in Jr. High and High School, my hair was often described as "dishwater", "mouse" or "dirty" blonde or brown.
Who wants hair that color?
It's no wonder young women color their hair.

Edited to Add: I didn't answer the survey, "What color would you want" because i've always preferred my hair color to any other.
Even when I used henna it was to cover the gray and keep my natural color.
Of course that was a disaster.

That was the only time I attempted to color my hair.

[Feline]

I considered dying my hair blonde at one point, but changed my mind after seeing the results of many bleach jobs. It's better to be brown silk than blonde straw. ;)

[Maud]

i really don't know, personally i really like the color because it can be so shiny.

[Rain76]

This would describe my haircolor. I went through a black hair phase in my early 20's, and paid the price when I had it bleached out. Then I did another stupid thing in my mid 20's, and had it highlighted. NEVER AGAIN will I do either of those things. My haircolor is the one God gave me, and I am sticking with it. I will not damage my hair again like that! My goal is HEALTHY & NATURAL waist-length hair. Besides, my hair grows in so thin & fragile now, it would probably all break off if I were to dye it again.

[ilovelonghair]

I'm dark blonde and have tried every hair color possible (only natural colors though) Light blonde made me look pale and sickly, black hair looked really good, but too much upkeep, all brown shade were allright but my own tawny color makes me look sick and pale, even though it's quite a nice color with lots of variety in it. I henna it now, which I see as working with my color and not really against it, as the henna nicely adapts to the natural high and low lights in my hair and the outgrow isn't very visible. If I get bored of it, I might go back to my natural color.

As a teen I hated my color, indeed for all the nasty names people have for it. And it was always extremely oily which didn't make the color look nice. My hair had even some sickly weird green shine to it. My natural hair color now is much nicer and warmer.

[mira-chan]

I love the color myself but when I was in Jr. High and High School, my hair was often described as "dishwater", "mouse" or "dirty" blonde or brown.
Who wants hair that color?
It's no wonder young women color their hair.

Edited to Add: I didn't answer the survey, "What color would you want" because i've always preferred my hair color to any other.
Even when I used henna it was to cover the gray and keep my natural color.
Of course that was a disaster.

That was the only time I attempted to color my hair.
Call the color range Agouti then. It's a certain fur color gene in mammals such as Agouti mice, where "mousy" comes from. It sounds so much better and fancy.

[KiwiLiz]

Exactly! Recently I've gotten the question: "But... What color is your hair, really?" alot, and not because they think my hair is dyed, they just don't know what to make of the color they see! :laugh:

Yeah that get that too, people are like "it's a got a blonde tinge but it's not blonde, it's got a brown tinge but it's not brown, it's got a red tinge but it's not red"

The red tinge is from henna that washed out -my hair does not hold any sort of dye at all :(

I describe my natural colour as "bronde", apparently this colour is becoming quite fashionable, Jennifer Aniston and Gisele Bundchen have it.

[spidermom]

In the past, I felt that my hair color nudged too close to beige, and since my skin is beige, too, there was no contrast whatsoever. The most modest makeup shades would look clownish on me because a little color in that sea of beige was too much color; it stood out. Now that I'm getting a lot of white and silvery tones, my hair color doesn't look so bland, and you can see where my hair ends and my skin begins.

[Desideira]

My natural hair color is verly close to your color and for years I have been dying it lighter....thats because I used to have light blonde hair as a child and at my early teens and when they started to get darker I couldnt acept it and started to fight against that process. I didnt like the fact taht it become mousey, greyish and greenish and I ewas even teased about it:(
Its strange that I like this color on other people but I have prbolem with accepting it on myslef. I also have dark green-brown eyes and I always wanted it to be light blue-green and light blonde hair. But I am far from that...Guess I just have problem with acepting my look in general. :rolleyes:I am trying to use semi permanent color now withaut ammonia in a darker shade of blonde so I am learning to accept my hair in its natural state... :cool:

[Charlotte]

Sigh... I too found it difficult to accept my once silvery blonde hair (as a child) gradually turning from silver to yellowish and then finally to a dark, greenish hued, mousy blonde. :( Since finding LHC though, I am going to try and embrace my natural colour (now with silver strands) and grow out my heavily highlighted hair - it will take years to do as it is almost waist length and took too long to get it there to do a big chop... You know, I'm actually starting to like the look of my virgin roots (now about two inches long). :eyebrows: My complexion is rather pale and the effect of my own hair colour framing my face is rather soft and interesting compared to the harsh yellow blonde length.:)

[zombi]

My hair is a little lighter and more "strawberry" than the OP's. My mom referred to it as "honey" blonde? I don't like it because I think I tend to look much more tired and/or "washed out" with my natural colour.

I'm just not fond of it! It's a gorgeous colour on other people, but on me, I'm not at that point where I'm like, okay, it looks good by itself.

[longhairedfairy]

Call the color range Agouti then. It's a certain fur color gene in mammals such as Agouti mice, where "mousy" comes from. It sounds so much better and fancy.
And Agouti hedgehogs! Woohoo!:cheese:

Seriously, I think most people just want what we don't have. Curlies often want straight hair, straighties (Is that a word?) want perms, brunettes want red, etc.

[Melisande]

I really can't understand why so many people don' love this hair color and call it "dishwater blonde", "dirty blonde" or "mutt blonde". It's without a doubt the hair color with the worst reputation of all but IMO it's beautiful. Not only because it grows on my head, too, (or better: grew, before the Grays came in) but because whenever I see it on people, I really like it. It's often a very interesting mixture of single hairs in all kind of different colors. It's a gentle kind of beauty, you have to discover it on second sight.

In Germany, many many people have this hair color and dye it to get more "characteristic" colors. Sometimes it enhances their looks, but sometimes I feel that the natural color would have flattered the person's complexion, lashes and eyes more....

[Eolan]

I describe my natural colour as "bronde", apparently this colour is becoming quite fashionable, Jennifer Aniston and Gisele Bundchen have it.

Hah, that's GREAT! :rollin:To bad we need famous people to make it popular, though.

[rhubarbarin]

I like my haircolor (reddish light brown with gold highlights) and have never dyed it.

As for that poll - black and dark-brown hair, pin-straight hair is my absolute favorite - but I would only want hair like that if it was natural (and my skin matched). I definately believe in embracing and working with, not against, your natural physical appearance. It's just easier!

ETA: I know a lot of people with this color who hate it, most dye much darker or lighter. However - I disagree with what all of them say they dislike about it ('it makes me look washed out' 'it's dull and gray' etc). Personally I think it is pretty difficult to get a good match to eyebrows, eye color and skin tone with hair dye, especially when bleaching is involved (most people with this hair color like to go lighter). I hate to see hair clashing.

I think it's just another sad case of people hating what they do have, and wanting what they don't. Nearly everyone has this problem and we tend to fixate on a few things about our appearance. Hair is the easiest thing to change.. if it makes you happier, then go for it.

[Phalaenopsis]

The funny thing is most of the times I really liked my hair, until I came on the boards and start reading so many posts of people with my kind of haircolour wanting to change their haircolour.

It was the first time that I felt unpretty with my haircolour and even started to want to change my own colour! :o But I got over that :)

Now I just find it interesting. I have never got the comment of 'greyish' hair though. I have a more golden tone in my hair.

[MsBubbles]

I describe my natural colour as "bronde", apparently this colour is becoming quite fashionable, Jennifer Aniston and Gisele Bundchen have it.

Yeah, and I really loved Julia Stiles' hair color in Ten Things I Hate About you. I feel like that would be what my hair would look like if I left it alone, colorwise. However, Aniston, Bundchen and Stiles are all pretty if not young, and I'm not. So my poor, tired face needs all the help it can get.

To the OP (Phaelean...Phelanops...sorry, I can't get the spelling to stick!): you have gorgeous hair!! Not bland at all.

I do not have the gumption or desire to look as haggard as I do with my natural hair color around my face. I do my own lightening around my face on what would be my bangs if I cut them. I really look like hell with my natural hair color. And yes I used to be white blond as a kid.

I think this haircolor looks lovely on some people, just not on me.

[Presto]

I used to call mine dark strawberry blonde, since I have red tones in my underlayers. But I think for simplicity and positive sounding names, Tawny is the right word for my color. :)
Definitely not a cendre on my head, I'm too warm colored.

But I too heard, "OMG that girl's got gray hair!" back in high school. :rolleyes: Yay flourescent lighting.

[Phalaenopsis]

To the OP (Phaelean...Phelanops...sorry, I can't get the spelling to stick!): you have gorgeous hair!! Not bland at all.


You can just say Pha or Phal if you want :lol: (I didn't realize at the time that my nickname was maybe a bit difficult to use)

And thank you for the compliment, you're sweet :flower:

[MsBubbles]

You can just say Pha or Phal if you want :lol: (I didn't realize at the time that my nickname was maybe a bit difficult to use)


Oh hey, listen. It's not you it's me :p.

Thinking about it...if I were marooned on an island like Tom Hanks in Castaway, for about five years, I could let my natural ash/grey/beige come in no problem and then I'd probably love it.

[Alexannee10]

I have dark blond hair too .. But I don't like my color loll .. (On my avatar, they look like much lightier !)

[Vivien']

Neither blond, nor brown. That's my color. And it's so common :) On the other hand, my hair becomes a lot lighter when it grows.

Alexannee10, you have a beautiful color, in my opinion. ;)

[Sara_1987]

I have that color too. I don't like it either. When I was younger I was much blonder and that was prettier. It's just too in-between, I never know whether to call myself blonde or brunette.
It's just not distinct enough.

[Feye]

Without having read the entire thread, I would think that it has to do with the color film industry. Dark blonde just didn't look good on Technicolor. I think that when films were black and white, more dark blondes were around. At the introduction of color movies, then bleach got more common.

That's just my observation, I'm not sure if it's correct and I'd love to hear some more thoughts on this.

I still think that my own dark blonde hair color looks much better in real life than on photo. Perhaps this age's photography habits make dark blondes go get the bleach or color bottel?

[Feye]

Eolan, I think people get confused due to the fact most girls in my town with blonde hair tend to dye it, and the stylists here are HUGE fans of "yellow" hair(Warms you up, or in my case when I had high lights, made me look sickly! XD), as opposed to cooler blonde hair.(And our drugstores have limited hair dye colors, and most of them are yellowish) My photos are a little iffy of my hair color, since I take them indoors and we have yellowish light. I did manage to get 2 photos of my actual hair color. http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3149&pictureid=39791

First of all, very beautiful hair color and texture!! :)

And I've heard that it's very difficult to color cooler ashy shades, it's so easy to mess it up and turn the hair greenish. That's why everyone does the warm shades. Then they have to use blue shampoos to take down the yellow a notch.

[Feline]

Without having read the entire thread, I would think that it has to do with the color film industry. Dark blonde just didn't look good on Technicolor. I think that when films were black and white, more dark blondes were around. At the introduction of color movies, then bleach got more common.

That's just my observation, I'm not sure if it's correct and I'd love to hear some more thoughts on this.

I still think that my own dark blonde hair color looks much better in real life than on photo. Perhaps this age's photography habits make dark blondes go get the bleach or color bottel?

A very interesting theory. Makeup certainly followed the movies, it makes sense that hair color would, also.

[Fractalsofhair]

Feye, I totally agree with you about the photos! Thanks about my hair, it's really damaged so if the texture looks good, that's really good! I've learned to love the color again, and your hair looks wonderful as well! My hair does well on 35 mm black and white, if developed properly and by hand by a professional. In fact, I just look amazing in that format(And most people do!). Color and digital tend to make my hair darker and look greasy, though if I use bright enough light and prevent it from getting washed out, I can get a good photo of my hair. Rather as right after I bleached my hair, it looked gorgeous on film, but looked odd in person, as gold really isn't my color. As it faded, my hair went back to it's normal self, abit damaged and breaking, but in terms of color and shine, more like the healthy virgin hair I had before I started using cones(Which does not work for my hair.). A little bit darker than when I was a kid, but it looks a lot better now.

It is defs. hard to dye dark blonde hair. The way hair is bleached increase the amount(Ratio really) of gold pigment in hair, if using conventional means and without heavy toners. The lightest color that can be bleached to is light yellow, and that can be toned to look white, but it actually is darker than true white hair. A lot of people think all blondes have golden hair due to the number of dyed blondes in our world(Nothing wrong with it, but since the natural blondes are rare... It does lead to confusion.) which leads to confusion about my silvery (a very light cendre?) hair, and dark blonde/light brown hair if it's cool toned. It's a shame since these colors are gorgeous and I envy women with light brown/dark blonde hair!

This being said, dark blonde hair shows up as brunette on B/W film, and you really had to have white hair to look blonde. My hair looks darker on B/W film, and it's pretty light. Not as odd as with color or digital, but since it's darker than my skin, it does look a dark blonde. It looks gorgeous, and high contrast, but definitely darker. More accurate than color film in bad lighting though! The tinitypes do show different hair colors somewhat well. I have some from the mid 1800s that one of my ancestors had taken since one of his friends was experimenting with color process and didn't want to use a patron's photo, and the hair colors do look different(Only the cheeks of one of my female ancestors were blushed, since she was known for wearing makeup!), but none of them were blonde so I can't quite say.

[NickalNack]

Strange... my boyfriend's hair is sort of this color too. Not quite brown, red, or blonde. It's totally in-between, but I think it's BEAUTIFUL. It always keeps me guessing, and it changes color depending on the season. I'm not sure if this is the color you all are talking about, but people refer to him as blonde, and his hair is a very dark shade of it.

[Fractalsofhair]

Nickal Nack, his hair looks to be a medium golden blonde in that photo! He does look to have some darker streaks, so it's hard to say, but that's generally medium/dark blonde. Blonde isn't all the light blonde we think of it as. Gorgeous color though! I suppose if that was taken during the summer, and his hair was on the lighter side for him, he's in this range, but if it was taken in the winter when his hair is at it's darkest, I'd think he'd be well into the blonde range. Meh, blonde and brunette are such wide range of colors, it's hard to say.

[skay]

I'm just curious, why this is exactly. :) I'm guessing that it has something to do with the colour looking bland and 'in between' or something.

I won't be offended by the answers even though I have this haircolour. I found the results of a poll and I found it a bit funny that not much people would want this colour. :grin:

Even people with this haircolour are fighting against their own haircolour! And it's a bit like peolpe with curls wanting to straighten them or like people with straight hair getting a perm.

Thank you in advance for your honest opinions :flower:

Hi Phalaenopsis,

Another perspective:

I think, when one is asked if they could have ANY color...or most things for that matter, they tend to wish for an extreme ...because it's "a wish" basically -- and so why not go crazy...:)

So, perhaps, as dark blond/light brown is not "extreme" it's not chosen by many.

However, I see a dark blond/light brown as a nice & "soft" color...gentle...

Thus, it's too bad the softer & "shyer" color, the "quieter" hair color so to speak, gets overlooked sometimes.

It's a lovely color.

[skay]

Strange... my boyfriend's hair is sort of this color too. Not quite brown, red, or blonde. It's totally in-between, but I think it's BEAUTIFUL. It always keeps me guessing, and it changes color depending on the season. I'm not sure if this is the color you all are talking about, but people refer to him as blonde, and his hair is a very dark shade of it.

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Looks like he's got some "strawberry" in there! :) Looks good!

[Tangles]

I've always thought this color could be quite romantic. It flatters many, many people, funny enough. For brightness you can always use shine enhancing products or henna or cassia glosses.

[iris]

I just spent 2.5 years growing out henna to get back to this color, so yes I do like it, I always have liked it on myself. (I did henna with the understanding that it would wash out - um, it didn't).

I see it a lot around me (not so many people in my circles dye their hair, really), and I've spent a lot of time in the past years looking at it wistfully :lol:, and I have to agree with this statement:


It flatters many, many people, funny enough.

I do feel that this color generally looks better the longer it gets. This color tends to get more variations as it grows longer, is exposed to the sun etc. I think the variations are one of its charms. For myself I've always felt it looked better in summer, when streaks bleach out in the sun, and I've usually helped Mother Nature a bit in this respect in winter by helping the bleached out streaks continue up into my roots. I don't really like how it looks on me without the streakiness :shrug:.

[NickalNack]

Nickal Nack, his hair looks to be a medium golden blonde in that photo! He does look to have some darker streaks, so it's hard to say, but that's generally medium/dark blonde. Blonde isn't all the light blonde we think of it as. Gorgeous color though! I suppose if that was taken during the summer, and his hair was on the lighter side for him, he's in this range, but if it was taken in the winter when his hair is at it's darkest, I'd think he'd be well into the blonde range. Meh, blonde and brunette are such wide range of colors, it's hard to say.
Yeah, this was taken early Autumn. His hair is a bit lighter now.

[Duchess of Erat]

I think, when one is asked if they could have ANY color...or most things for that matter, they tend to wish for an extreme ...because it's "a wish" basically -- and so why not go crazy...:)

This is why I answered purple on the poll... That doesn't mean I don't like my own haircolour though, I do, I think it suits me.

My natural colour is dark blonde/light brown (see avatar) and though I wasn't white blonde as a kid, my hair was a very light yellowy blonde. I'd look horrible as a blonde now though (I've had highlights done for a bet once, and even those made me look sickly).

[Armelle]

The term 'dishwater blonde' comes to mind. Because my hair changed from a gold blonde to a darker...I don't know what but BLEH, it looks dirty all the time...even after cleaning. :mad:

[flapjack]

This forum is the only place I have ever heard negative comments about this haircolor.


You guys are being way too hard on yourselves. It sounds like some of you live in very ethnically homogenous areas, which results in this. If you all had any other haircolor together, you would all be saying the same thing. Ask an Asian girl what she thinks of black hair, in general. Every last one I know says it's completely dull and boring. Same thing for a lot of the white blonde girls I know from other states. They all think their hair is boring.


I've also never seen blonde/brown or blonde/red/brown hair with grayish tones to it. And it looks anything but dull. They walk into light and suddenly there are dozens of colors all over their head. How on earth is that boring? That's as interesting as it gets, unless you're willing to go insane with several dyes. But naturally, you just don't get more variation than that.


Anddddd, the only people on here who make comments about it are those who have the color. You guys constantly have other people coming into these threads, myself included, telling you that your hair is pretty.

Therefore, I have reached the conclusion that you are all nutty. I am throwing cheese in your general direction.

[MsBubbles]

This forum is the only place I have ever heard negative comments about this haircolor.


Unfortunately I have heard this in real life, even directed at me before I began my 10 years back-to-back highlights campaign. "You know why they call it 'dirty blond'? Because that's just what it looks like, dirty". Nods in the direction of my head. That really hurt my feelings but I was younger then.

[Feye]

This forum is the only place I have ever heard negative comments about this haircolor.


You guys are being way too hard on yourselves. It sounds like some of you live in very ethnically homogenous areas, which results in this. If you all had any other haircolor together, you would all be saying the same thing. Ask an Asian girl what she thinks of black hair, in general. Every last one I know says it's completely dull and boring. Same thing for a lot of the white blonde girls I know from other states. They all think their hair is boring.

I think you're right. In Scandinavia/Nordics the blonde doesn't get touched by the sun during the winter hours, in sunny countries the sun makes the color warmer. Many are shocked by the seasonal variation and get highlights during winter (especially if the hair is short and cut off often). Here the various shades of blonde get compared a lot. I'm not even considered blonde by many here. "True" blonde to them is light and nothing else. The color Dark Blonde in France is in Scandinavia Medium Brown instead!

As soon as I go abroad people go "Ooh, your color is lovely, ooh wow is it your real color". I think that many blondes are being much too hard on themselves. The most negative comments that I hear about medium to dark blonde comes from blondes themselves. Other people just don't make negative comments [outside of Scandinavia].

This thread is making me even more determined to grow my virgin color out completely. Right now it's just at the roots... I'm also planning to move abroad ;)

[invisiblebabe]

This forum is the only place I have ever heard negative comments about this haircolor.


You guys are being way too hard on yourselves. It sounds like some of you live in very ethnically homogenous areas, which results in this. If you all had any other haircolor together, you would all be saying the same thing. Ask an Asian girl what she thinks of black hair, in general. Every last one I know says it's completely dull and boring. Same thing for a lot of the white blonde girls I know from other states. They all think their hair is boring.

I get what you are saying, although it doesn't apply to me in particular :) I live in a VERY ethnically diverse area... there are people from Romania, Poland, Mexico, Africa, Russia, Korea, Sweden, Canada, and since I live in the USA, of course there are born Americans around here too.

I've also heard the "mousy" comments before about my natural hair color when I was younger.

I do think this hair color looks good on some people, but I feel I am not one of them. I have very pale skin that has some acne scarring, and I feel that my natural hair color accentuates the skin flaws rather than detracting from them (my highlights detract quite nicely and brighten up my face a lot).

[aksown]

My mom always marvels at the colors in my hair when she is brushing it for me. (It's not that long, I just love it when someone brushes it ) I guess she spent a few hours one day trying to divide all the hairs by their color. I did find a single, solitary, black hair a few years ago. It's coarse and everything! I do soooo love my "Hair Of Many Colors" :happydance:

[Lile]

It's better to be brown silk than blonde straw. ;)

Well said.:-)
I did lighten my hair a couple of years ago with sun in,and even that bit of peroxid made my hair rough like straw.
Anyway.The dishwasher blond can be very pretty when shiney,and this darker colour suits me better than my actual hair colour,which is the original with more yellow hues due to cassia.(oh and a hennaed underlayer...)So I'm still fighting against my own hair colour too.But I like the golden tone cassia gives to it.And it's not permanent.

[desertgirl]

I like those descriptors! So much better than 'dish-water blonde'!

[flapjack]

Unfortunately I have heard this in real life, even directed at me before I began my 10 years back-to-back highlights campaign. "You know why they call it 'dirty blond'? Because that's just what it looks like, dirty". Nods in the direction of my head. That really hurt my feelings but I was younger then.



Ugh. They're jealous of you over something if they're just randomly coming out of nowhere, making catty comments like that. :rolleyes:



I think you're right. In Scandinavia/Nordics the blonde doesn't get touched by the sun during the winter hours, in sunny countries the sun makes the color warmer. Many are shocked by the seasonal variation and get highlights during winter (especially if the hair is short and cut off often). Here the various shades of blonde get compared a lot. I'm not even considered blonde by many here. "True" blonde to them is light and nothing else. The color Dark Blonde in France is in Scandinavia Medium Brown instead!



It's so true about the different standards for what is blonde, hahaha. My hair is medium brown with shades of reds and a bit of blonde, but not much. It's definitely not dark blonde or light brown at all. But my South American and Asian friends will argue and insist my hair is blonde. My friend Megan is from a Polish and Norweigan family in South Dakota. She thinks my hair is super dark brown, practically black, except for the reds. None of them are right, hahaha. But it's all perception.




I get what you are saying, although it doesn't apply to me in particular :) I live in a VERY ethnically diverse area... there are people from Romania, Poland, Mexico, Africa, Russia, Korea, Sweden, Canada, and since I live in the USA, of course there are born Americans around here too.

I've also heard the "mousy" comments before about my natural hair color when I was younger.

I do think this hair color looks good on some people, but I feel I am not one of them. I have very pale skin that has some acne scarring, and I feel that my natural hair color accentuates the skin flaws rather than detracting from them (my highlights detract quite nicely and brighten up my face a lot).


You are an exception that we will have to take into consideration with this theory, haha. :p And yeah, some people in general just aren't born with a hair color that suits them the best. That goes for more than just people with light brown/dark blonde hair, though. I have a friend with blue-black hair and for whatever reason, it makes the undertones in her skin look gray and she always looked exhausted. Now, she dyes her hair a dark brown with a bit of red tones and she looks fantastic. So, that definitely works for some people. I also know people who look good with every hair color you could think of. The rest of us don't like them, haha. I've had just about every natural shade except black and they all seem to work fine. Just depends.

[invisiblebabe]

You are an exception that we will have to take into consideration with this theory, haha. :p And yeah, some people in general just aren't born with a hair color that suits them the best. That goes for more than just people with light brown/dark blonde hair, though. I have a friend with blue-black hair and for whatever reason, it makes the undertones in her skin look gray and she always looked exhausted. Now, she dyes her hair a dark brown with a bit of red tones and she looks fantastic. So, that definitely works for some people. I also know people who look good with every hair color you could think of. The rest of us don't like them, haha. I've had just about every natural shade except black and they all seem to work fine. Just depends.

Yah, I agree that there can be people of all hair colors whose natural hair color just doesn't suit them.

I've also dyed my hair just about every natural shade except very light platinum and dark brown/black. The golden blondes and reds work best on me. :)

[vindo]

Think Europe (influenced in the States by most white immigrants),

many people there have that hair color and it is nothing special, people either aspire to be lighter or much darker.
Too bad since I really love those hair colors..they are just so flattering for any face and complexion, not so dark you look sickly pale and not so light it washes out your facial features. Really does look great on those that were born with it naturally.
And I always tell my German friends this: World Wide - your color is rare, so be proud of it!
In many darker haired countries women would kill for a shade like that. We always want what we don't have or how does the saying go ;)

[DBBramble]

I have no problem with a dark blonde to light brown hair color. Unfortunately I can't tell exactly what color my own hair is. Some times it looks light brown, other times it's a pretty copper gold color, at least to my eyes. I

think I have what's either called Dishwater or Dirty blonde hair. Take a look at my avatar and y'all can tell me what you think.

I don't think I could ever dislike my haircolor no matter what it turned out to be. Though I do find people with silver streaked hair vs. blonde streaks very very interesting. I didn't know a person's hair could have natural silver in it. Just goes to show you learn something new everyday.

[tiny_teesha]

If it's unpopular i best be changeing my favourite hair colour then!
:rollseyes:

[3azza]

I think it's less popular than other colours because people tend to like extremes, they like stronger colours like red, or black or blonde. Also because most people's hair range some where between blonde and black making colours such as dark blonde more common and consequently less desirable.
BUT we have a proverb that says "intermediate is best" and you have such a nice calm colour (which is by the way very popular and appreciated in my community since it's the lightest hair tone that fits with our complexion".

[Bene]

i never thought that color was unpopular, i suppose i just just never gave that color a second thought or glance.


it could be that the eye is drawn to the extremes?

[dearladydisdain]

That's my natural haircolor (I henna). It just drove me crazy because it was so ambiguous. People could never decide if it was blonde, brown, or red :p

[flapjack]

I think it's less popular than other colours because people tend to like extremes, they like stronger colours like red, or black or blonde. Also because most people's hair range some where between blonde and black making colours such as dark blonde more common and consequently less desirable.
BUT we have a proverb that says "intermediate is best" and you have such a nice calm colour (which is by the way very popular and appreciated in my community since it's the lightest hair tone that fits with our complexion".


I don't know if it works that way for natural hair colors. Extreme haircolors that stand out are colors like blue or green, in my opinion. I don't think natural hair colors fall into the same category.

And I don't know if there is a way to find out for certain (I'm sure there isn't), but I don't think dark blonde/light brown is any more common than blonde. Not to mention that there are many shades of blonde and light brown/dark blonde hair to begin with. Which of these is more common? Who knows.


All I do know is that any hair color that isn't dark brown and/or black is rare. Most people around the world and in almost every ethnicity outside of the people from northeastern Europe, have dark brown/black hair. Dark brown/black is the default, the common range of colors in humans. Anyone with a different hair color is a, err, hair minority. Haha.

[Flotsum]

I thought the hair color was pretty. The color does seem to be very common though.

[may1em]

I considered dying my hair blonde at one point, but changed my mind after seeing the results of many bleach jobs. It's better to be brown silk than blonde straw. ;)

I like that way of looking at it. My hair could be described as dirty strawberry blond, caramel, or tawny. I used to hate it because it was so light when I was a kid. Now I like it, though it's crazy how much debate there is over what color it is (brown? blonde? red?)

Also, could you please use a normal sized font? I don't even have bad vision with my new contacts, but it's hard to read. I imagine our members with bigger vision difficulties would like to be able to read what you write.

[Dorothea]

It's my hair colour, and while I think it's fairly common around here, I see very few heads sporting it unaltered. Most women I know with dark blond hair either dye it much darker or bleach it white. I think that some people feel it doesn't have a lot of wow-factor or whatever, but personally I have grown to love it.

[redcelticcurls]

My natural color is that not-quite-blonde, yet not-quite-brown color.

My colorist calls it level 7 blonde.

I just feel that it lacks vibrancy on me, especially with the rest of my coloring. I started coloring it red about 15 years ago and never looked back.

I have a redheaded father and a redheaded daughter. I just got left out! :D

[soopahgrover]

I remember a really snotty girl in junior high referred to this color as "poo colored".

Yes! I have dark blond hair, and I started dying it red in 8th grade because the same thing happened to me! I didn't stop dying it until I was 24 years old!
Not surprisingly, I couldn't grow it out long successfully until I stopped dying it. If I didn't want long hair, I might still be dying it strawberry blonde. *sigh*

[getoffmyskittle]

I have nothing to really add to this discussion, except... to me, light brown and dark blonde are totally distinct colors.

[Armelle]

That's my natural haircolor (I henna). It just drove me crazy because it was so ambiguous. People could never decide if it was blonde, brown, or red :p

I think "ambiguous" is the perfect word for the color. Where I live, many females have this mixed color so any sort of 'solid' color stands out. Even brown...well, as long as it's shiny.

[sweet*things]

My hair color is very similar to the original poster's color. I was white-blond as a small child (sun-bleached, not healthy for hair or skin), then "mousey" as an adolescent, then medium to dark blonde as a young adult and as I've gotten older it's gotten darker and darker. About a year ago I decided I could no longer think of myself as a blonde, but brown didn't seem to quite fit the bill either.

I do feel ambiguous about my hair color, perhaps because it keeps changing on me. It can't commit, so I can't either. :)

[Phalaenopsis]

I have nothing to really add to this discussion, except... to me, light brown and dark blonde are totally distinct colors.

Could you show me the difference? :)

[RedJen]

I really like this color. My husband's hair is kind of a dark blond (now silver) and my son's is a blond/brown that I might describe as what auburn would look like if it had no red tones. I think the color is just beautiful.

[free_hug]

I seriously wonder if it's really unpopular... it's true women would dye their hair blonde or black, red and even darker brown, but somehow few people seem to opt for a fake light brown. is this shaed the same as tawny? they just made up a support group for them (us?) a couple of days ago in the mane forum :)

still, i had hennaed red for years, and at the end i had to face the facts and realize i totally want my natural color back, no matter how low it rates in the great popularity competition. sometimes i have to fight the temptation for honey lightening or some henna - but i know i would just want my own color back pretty soon :D so i wear my light brown (sometimes kindly referred to as light chestnut) proudly!

[GlassEyes]

Could you show me the difference? :)
I can see a difference sometimes, but the two colors are TERRIBLY close.

A lot of the discrepancy for the color can come from confusion as to what colors are to the individual. I've heard people I consider to have medium brown hair called light, and I've seen blondes (unquestionable blondes from my point of view) called brown. :shrug:

The color in here I usually call tawny, but depending on the undertone (ash or gold) it can go either way. xD;

[Loviatar]

My mom, who is completely grey under her dye, dyes her hair light brown to match what was her natural colour. It is a tone on tone dye and looks very natural. We all call it light brown. Always have.

However the box calls it 'Nevada', Dark Blonde! :shrug:

I think that dark blonde has more goldeny tones to it and is a little 'warmer'; light brown to me is a more ashy neutral/cooler shade.

[Bianca]

I have this dark blonde color. And I do not think it looks ANYTHING like light brown. Many people may have it naturally, but most color over it. So I think of it as a rare color. I rarely see it here in denmark. They bleach it yellow instead... :p

[getoffmyskittle]

Could you show me the difference? :)

I think your hair is light brown. In her avatar, Duchess of Erat's hair looks dark blonde. Soopahgrover's also looks dark blonde. I'm not well-versed in describing colors, but I think it's a warmth v coolness thing; lighter blondes can be ashy, but this shade and ashy hue makes it light brown in my eyes.

ETA: Disclaimer: This is totally and entirely about how I view the world, it's not empirical at all, and I understand if you disagree with me and I won't argue about it. :lol:

[rhubarbarin]

It's been said before, but where you live has a lot to do with what people will call your hair.

I am blond here, most people don't even add the 'dirty' 'dishwater' or 'dark' qualifier. When I lived in South Dakota where it was ethnically homogeneous and many had light hair, it was unquestionable that my hair was brown.

Skitts, I tend to perceive more ashy shades as brown also. I consider myself a dark blond instead of a light brown because my hair is so warm-colored and because while the majority isn't light, I get bright golden highlights and ends.

[psychosister]

My hair is dark blond and I have colored it since I was in the 6th grade. I always thought it had a green color to it. However, this year, I decided to grow out my natural color since I haven't seen it in about 25 years, and low and behold...IT IS GORGEOUS! The hair color that I always hated is actually shiny and pretty. I can't believe how many years I covered it up. I felt like it was soooo blah in the middle yucky. At least I know now, and now I will be able to grow it out without worrying about damaging it like I did before.

[sweet*things]

I've been happy with my hair color until the past year or so. Maybe the few grays I'm starting to get are finally tipping it too far towards ashy, or maybe I have finally lost all my natural highlights. In strong sun it looks okay, but in all other light it seems very blah to me.:undecided

My hair used to be extremely variegated, but it's growing in more and more uniformly colored and that seems to be taking the life out of it. :rolleyes:

[ladylibra]

I certainly don't know. But there is a girl I work with who has this hair color... and she has some of the thickest, most gorgeous waist length hair I've ever seen in real life/outside of hair boards. Blunt ends and all. I just want to steal it! :laugh:

Honestly, I like the color on her. Probably for no other reason besides that it's "different," since most with that color go blonde or dark brown.

[Jemoiselle]

"They walk into light and suddenly there are dozens of colors all over their head. How on earth is that boring? That's as interesting as it gets..."


Amen!! LOL My hair used to be dark brown, pin straight and now it seems reddish brown, and is actually lightening up as I age, as well as getting wavy! I have always loved the sandy brown/blondes. They always seemed so healthy, natural and elegant. The best of both worlds, truly. Lucky ladies! Also, I don't know if it just where I grew up, lol, but their hair always seemed so thick and glossy.

[may1em]

I used to hate it. Now I like it. I don't know what changed, really.

Also, I'd just like to recommend purple hairtoys to set the color off.

[daydreamer]

I have this hair color too... I used to dye it all the time, maybe because it is such an in-between color and lots of people when they dye hair they want more of a dramatic change. I like it very much now :) think I'll keep it!

[Flynn]

My money is on the fact that it's fairly common in a lot of places.

[Stephichan]

I have dark blonde/light brown hair. I love it, mostly because I have so many colors in it. The top layers have been lightened by the sun, so they're a fairly bright blonde, but the layers that are hidden are a richer brown. I was looking in the mirror and realized that when my hair is brushed in certain ways it looks like I have the type of highlights so many destroy their hair to get (okay, not really, mine are more subtle). However, just because I like my natural hair color doesn't mean that I don't want to experiment with it to see what else I might like on myself.

[carinkla]

I also never had a prob with my color (therefore never colored it) Like others say its darkisch blond in some light, light brown in some, and when the sun shines on it its the colour it is in my sig. But maybe it depends on what kind of glow darkblond/light brown has. My has a 'warm' glow but if it would have a 'cold' glow like more ash..I might not be happy with it.

[Sarahmoon]

Maybe because it's rather common around Europe and North America?

Anyway I quite like those colours so maybe you're just asking the wrong people? ;) They're typical colours that can change a bit depending on the season, the light etc. I think that's cool.

[aisling]

I think your hair is light brown. In her avatar, Duchess of Erat's hair looks dark blonde. Soopahgrover's also looks dark blonde. I'm not well-versed in describing colors, but I think it's a warmth v coolness thing; lighter blondes can be ashy, but this shade and ashy hue makes it light brown in my eyes.

ETA: Disclaimer: This is totally and entirely about how I view the world, it's not empirical at all, and I understand if you disagree with me and I won't argue about it. :lol:

I think it's quite hard to make out anything from photos, this is a hair colour that act very different depending on the light. I should know as I have a head full of hairs of this despised colour :) At least here in Finland I can read a lot of derogatory comments and hear hairdressers say I really ought to colour it because it is so boring. I'm not sure about the boring part as I feel I have different coloured hair depending on the light and time of the year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/aisling_stein/Hair/Dcp_4954.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/aisling_stein/Hair/DCP_4712.jpg

Summer and sun to the left, winter indoors to the right

[Bellalalala]

I think our impressions regarding hair colour are formed during childhood.
In our youth and teen years, hair becomes more than just fashion, it becomes a real symbol of personal identity.
Children and teens see the world in very black and white terms, so they tend to be drawn to expressing themselves in absolutes, especially when it comes to haircolour.

I mean, how many of us destroyed beautiful virgin hair in our teens by dying in black or bleaching it platinum blonde? I know I did both (and every colour in between).

Dark blond/light brown is just that, an in between colour. I does not evoke an identity. It is beautiful, dynamic, filled with various highlights, responds amazingly to sunlight, and flatters almost every skin tone.
However, it simply doesn't send any message.

Lastly, in terms of chemical dyes, it is virtually impossible to imitate. The dye will either lighten hair and result in orange tones, or darken hair and make it brown. Chemically, it is an elusive colour to emulate.

So, I propose that we create an identity for this colour. It is the "I have stunning, dynamic, VIRGIN hair that I absolutely love!" colour.

Now that makes a statement.

[Petra]

I fit right in here--I even have the "ugly" grayish--or ashy brown instead of reddish or blondish brown. But, I like my hair color--I seem to have hairs of every color in it when I look closely (before the henna and indigo streaks, of course)--blond, dark brown, light brown, black, grey and the occasional reddish wirey one--which I think is what ends up creating the "mousey" color when combined. My husband tells me I have "cat" hair--like the agouti pattern--hairs of every color. It may not be the "prettiest" color according to some but I think I'd look very strange with hair of a different color considering my complexion and green eyes.

[LaFlor]

I have the same color. Mine has always been more golden. In school I felt pressure to lighten my hair, and now that I am in a mostly latino area, I have felt pressure to darken my hair. I guess I just always wanted to fit in with the hair color wagon.
Right now I have highlights that I am growing out... they look good, but it's damaging... and I prefer darker colors now.

I am learning to accept my color, it is not that bad. It is a warm golden blonde/brown color that looks really pretty in the sunlight and with flash. Yeah, sometimes it looks dingy and lackluster, but I just remember how amazing it's going to look when I get back in the sun!

I think it's something that has just been forced into our brains with the horrible names and inside lighting.

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[Maddy25]

My hair is naturally a medium-dark very ash blonde and i love my silvery hair when i have it. I find the sun catches it really nice and i love when the top layer gets lighter from the sun, lots of dimension. I always admire people who have this colour natural and take really good care of it cause it can be gorgeous!

[hydrangea]

I think natural color looks the best on someone, simply because their hair is healthier without having been corrupted by the chemicals of hair dye. I have tried many things to get my hair lighter...highlights, then lemon juice, then I flat out dyed my hair light blonde with one of those crappy $8 boxes. My hair is very fine and now it is damaged almost beyond repair. I started trying to cut out the split ends one day...if I had continued I would have ended up shag headed. I now have learned to love my color. When I'm inside my BF says my hair looks brown but outside it looks blonde. Our color is the chameleon of hair colors! How fun! :joy:

[harpyangel]

This is definitely my natural hair colour. All those people who said 'it has red tones but it's not red, it has brown tones but it's not brown, it has blonde tones but it's not blonde' are right on the money.

My mum calls it Autumn Gold :) :) I must say it's growing on me....HA

Harpyangel xxx

[Zéphine]

I like that color a lot, but I don't think I could pull it off, even if I could change my hair color without bleach. I had light brown hair as a small child, but I've darkened so much since then that I would look odd with it now (or anything other than my "new" natural dark brown). I think light brown and dark blond hair is gorgeous and enjoy seeing it on those fortunate enough to have it.

[melikai]

Sort of OT, but it seems like there are actually two groups of hair colour in this thread - more "tawny", golden/red toned heads, often with quite dark browns, golden blonde, and reddish shades in their hair, and more ashy shades - which to me was what the OP was talking about? It seems like the latter is the one that is sometimes more tricky to tell whether it is brown or blonde, and which changes so much with the seasons.

I started growing out my natural colour a year and a half ago or so, and love it the longer it gets! It's a nice sort of honey-ash blonde. :>

[Kat]

I never used to like mine (pics in my album) because for one, I never knew what color to call it! I too was blond as a kid, so I got used to calling my hair blond. After a while people started saying "your hair isn't blond." Indeed it's not, but it's also got too much gold in it to call it light brown really (and if you find one of my many shed hairs and pick it up and look at it individually, chances are it'll look blond instead of brown, even though that's not the way it looks on my head together with all of the others). And saying "dark blond/light brown" is so clunky.

Sometimes I describe it as "dark honey blond."

[Tangles]

My hair is medium brown with shades of reds and a bit of blonde, but not much. .

Flapjack, this is OT, but I'd consider your hair light brown, though not really close to blonde. I consider my own hair medium brown; it's not close enough to black to be "dark brown."

See, everyone? It's all soooo relative.

[Deborah]

I think American and European societies are kind of stupid about this. Light brown/dark blonde hair colors are extremely pretty, but fairly common. In older times people seemed to understand this particular beauty. They sang "I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair," implying that it was (as it is) a lovely range of colors.

I blame Hollywood and the haircolor industry. Both imply that anything other than bleachy blonde or way-too-dark black or way-too-red-red are boring. This is ridiculous. On women to whom these colors are not natural, the extreme shades cause their skin tones to fade and wash out.

Embrace those wonderful, subtle, in-between hair color shades you are blessed with. They enhance your facial coloring and features better than anything you can fake.

I hope I have not stated this in a way that makes anyone feel badly. I just hate to see so many women genuinely unhappy with their own natural, wonderful beauty.

[prettigurl]

My hair isn't light brown, it's more medium and I hate it because it doesn't shine like some of the other colors. I guess they don't like it because it's not blonde enough or brown enough if that makes any sense. If I'm going to go blonde I want it to be a nice honey blonde or lighter and if I'm going dark I want a deep shiny brown shade.

[Reptilia]

It's just boring and bland. I find it's a very dull color, despite how shiny it is.

[getoffmyskittle]

I think it's quite hard to make out anything from photos, this is a hair colour that act very different depending on the light. I should know as I have a head full of hairs of this despised colour :) At least here in Finland I can read a lot of derogatory comments and hear hairdressers say I really ought to colour it because it is so boring. I'm not sure about the boring part as I feel I have different coloured hair depending on the light and time of the year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/aisling_stein/Hair/Dcp_4954.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/aisling_stein/Hair/DCP_4712.jpg

Summer and sun to the left, winter indoors to the right

:lol:... I don't think your hair is boring at all, I love its color, but I have never thought your hair was brown, it looks blonde to me in every photo I've seen of it. :wink:

[talervo]

Me too! I have some of the reddish tint to my hair. It is great how there are like 5 different colors in it and also different thicknesses. Though, it is mostly fine. It's strange to find the odd dark brown thick hair.
It's pretty to me because it is different colors in different lights and changes a lot from summer to winter.

[Aer]

I have dark auburn hair naturally, but I gloss it lightly with henna. I want to say that I think that dark blond/light brown hair is actually very pretty.I think it has a tendency to shine or reflet more light then most colors. I really truly believe that any color hair, if it is taken care of and looks healthy is beautiful. I've never seen a head of healthy hair, and thought " Too bad their hair is such and such color". And a cool thing about dark blond/light brown, is that the color is never really replicated in another person. Usually, there are so many different types of tones, and colors mixed in, that it ends up being a truly an unique color.

[Lady Mary]

For me, I'm not a fan because they're common colors and because they don't stand out (to me.) Red, white, black, these colors jump out in my eyes. I want my hair to be noticeable from a distance.

Also, my husband and I have Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness) so it's extremely important for both of us to stand out in a crowd. Otherwise, we might not find each other! :blossom:

[blondecat]

Yeah that get that too, people are like "it's a got a blonde tinge but it's not blonde, it's got a brown tinge but it's not brown, it's got a red tinge but it's not red"

The red tinge is from henna that washed out -my hair does not hold any sort of dye at all :(

I describe my natural colour as "bronde", apparently this colour is becoming quite fashionable, Jennifer Aniston and Gisele Bundchen have it.

This is my hair - Blonde/red/brown.

You described it to a Tee :)

[Kat]

I just noticed that it seems my hair hasn't stopped darkening as I age.

When I was a kid, it was absolutely blond. Then darkened as I got older.

I didn't realize it was still darkening, though, until I looked at one of my senior pictures (in which I had CHIN-LENGTH hair! For my pictures was the last time I cut it--I'd decided to grow it out just before that but my mom convinced me to take it back to chin-length one last time because otherwise my pictures would've had my hair in that "awkward in between chin and shoulder length" stage). I can definitely tell my hair was lighter then.

it'll be interesting to see where I end up before I go gray...

[Angharad]

Because it is so common and it doesn't stand out in a crowd; I think that when you are a person that likes to express your lifestyle in clothes, make-up, and jewelry you are are likely to choose a more daring and more expressive colour like red or black or whatever, but not dark blond/light brown.

I must often remember myself when I feel this urge to henna my hair and become a redhair that I've been there, done that and it is NOT for me!!! It is hard sticking to my own (in my eyes rather dull) natural colour but it is what is best for my skintone.

[Bianca]

I saw this girl walk by with waist lenght dark blonde hair and it just looked so beautiful, it had every shade of blonde and was super shiny...

Honestly, it may be that many people have this color, but most dye it. I used to do that too, but not anymore. I love my "dull" :rolleyes: ash blonde hair color...

[Sammybunny711]

I, too, have this color and I think my is more of a dark blonde/ashy color and it is quite nice, I think. It lightens up a little in the summer, gets darker in the wintertime. I think it is an underrated color. :flower:

[Bianca]

I, too, have this color and I think my is more of a dark blonde/ashy color and it is quite nice, I think. It lightens up a little in the summer, gets darker in the wintertime. I think it is an underrated color. :flower:

Underrated, yes indeed...!

[violetka]

This color is rare in my country. I have darkish brown/a bit redish an have always hated it, because it is the most common color in my country.

My sister has dark blond hair and has always been complimented on her color - it is very aristocratic and gorgeous.
I think dark blond is my most favourite hair color and is very favoured where I am from.
The same thing about eye color - in internet I keep reading how gorgeous hazel eyes are - well my whole family on my mother`s side and half of Bulgaria has hazel eyes (getting more and more greenish with age) me included, and I have always considered this color extremely boring. The other half has brown.

So to cut it - I would love to have dark blond hair, I consider it to be much better than light blond or brown.

[violetka]

I think it's quite hard to make out anything from photos, this is a hair colour that act very different depending on the light. I should know as I have a head full of hairs of this despised colour :) At least here in Finland I can read a lot of derogatory comments and hear hairdressers say I really ought to colour it because it is so boring. I'm not sure about the boring part as I feel I have different coloured hair depending on the light and time of the year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/aisling_stein/Hair/Dcp_4954.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/aisling_stein/Hair/DCP_4712.jpg

Summer and sun to the left, winter indoors to the right

Your hair is exactly like my sister`s, only hers is sligthly wavier. She has been adored for her hair color - come to Bulgaria/Romania/Italy/Greece/Spain. You will be adored and appreciated. :D:D
Very beautiful and special color, i think.

I just want to add, that spidermom`s hair is my hair ideal in terms of color, waves and volume. If her color is boring, I dont know what is interesting :D:D

[takhisis]

I have this colour too. I think it's unpopular because blonde children grow up to have this colour, so it's a marker of age. (I've been reading up on evolutionary psychology lately; can you tell?) Blonde hair is attractive in a woman because it indicates that she's young, and therefore more fertile. I think if you have black, dark brown, or red hair, you've probably had it all your life, so it doesn't say anything about your age, but if you have light brown hair, you probably started off with blonde hair, but are now too old to have it. I could be completely wrong; this is just my opinion.

I'm not sure if I like my hair colour. In the sun it can look really nice and golden, but sometimes it looks almost grey indoors. I keep thinking I should lighten or darken it, but I think I'm too lazy to keep retouching the roots.

[MsBubbles]

Bianca and Sammybunny: I wouldn't call either one of you 'dark blond'. Your hair looks naturally lighter than that to me.

[jasper]

I have to agree with takhisis above. My own hair color is unpopular with me at least because it doesn't seem to be a color at all. It seems to have gone dull and I miss my glory days of being more blonde than this.

My mother has light brown hair and I think it's beautiful. She went from being a blonde child to a light brown as an adult and her color is still lovely at 70. My hair went from a blonde to a dishwater.

[chamogirl]

I was a dark strawberry blonde as a child and now it is a dark blonde/ light brown with white at the temples. I have colored in the past with box, salon and henna no more. If anything I use a blue shampoo (non sulfate) to keep it neutral and shine up the white. I do how ever have a dorky bob at the moment so I am not liking my hair lately; good thing it will grow.

[Feye]

I love this thread! I'm even more determined to grow my natural color out. The virgin roots are now 1 1/2 years long and starting to really compliment my skin tone. And the shine is blinding!

I really like my natural color for all of the reasons stated in this thread. However, when I wore short hair it did not look cute, it's the added length and sun influence that really makes the color interesting. I agree that it's a very striking color!


I have this colour too. I think it's unpopular because blonde children grow up to have this colour, so it's a marker of age. (I've been reading up on evolutionary psychology lately; can you tell?) Blonde hair is attractive in a woman because it indicates that she's young, and therefore more fertile. I think if you have black, dark brown, or red hair, you've probably had it all your life, so it doesn't say anything about your age, but if you have light brown hair, you probably started off with blonde hair, but are now too old to have it. I could be completely wrong; this is just my opinion.

I was light blonde when I was a kid, but it turned into this dark blonde tone already when I was 12. I didn't notice the transition until I cut my hair short. I remember a guy walking by, pointing at me saying "Look, she's got grey hair". I was mortified and started bleaching it very soon... So I'm not sure about the theory that light blonde is popular because it's what you have when you're fertile. Because for me the light blonde color grew darker already before my teens, and I think that's the same for most kids. I rarely hear of people who grow darker in their late teens, it usually happens before that. The way I'm thinking, darker hair indicates fertility since it shows that you're not 12 anymore! :)

[takhisis]

I was light blonde when I was a kid, but it turned into this dark blonde tone already when I was 12. I didn't notice the transition until I cut my hair short. I remember a guy walking by, pointing at me saying "Look, she's got grey hair". I was mortified and started bleaching it very soon... So I'm not sure about the theory that light blonde is popular because it's what you have when you're fertile. Because for me the light blonde color grew darker already before my teens, and I think that's the same for most kids. I rarely hear of people who grow darker in their late teens, it usually happens before that. The way I'm thinking, darker hair indicates fertility since it shows that you're not 12 anymore! :)

Haha! You're probably right. That's a nicer way of thinking about it anyway. I'll consider my darkened hair the mark of maturity.

[jasper]

When my brother and I were small, we looked almost like twins with our light blonde hair, but he was always more "fair" than me and by our teen years, he was gloating about still being blonde while my hair was dark compared to his. My hair was still always a sunny blonde because I spent so much time outdoors, but now I've learned to dread sun damage and most of my hair does not see the light anymore. I often find myself wishing for brown instead of used-to-be blonde. I doubt I will ever color it, though.

[Lilli]

I think the answer is as simple as this: when we were young, we had light blonde hair and were constantly complimented for it. Then it darkened and we both stopped getting all the compliments AND the person in the mirror didn't look like the image in our mind's eye.

[LaurenH]

Glad I found this thread. :) Nice to know I'm not the only one with "in between color"! lol. ;) I had lighter blond hair as a kid but now it's darkened some and I don't know if my color is considered dark blond or light brown. :p Also, my top layer of hair is way lighter than my bottom layer, if I pull half of my hair back in a pony/clip and leave the rest hanging, my hair looks dyed (though I've never dyed it.) When I wear it all down it looks like I have blond highlights. I've also found that my hair seems to be lighter in the summer and then darken in the winter. I've always wanted to be either a "true blond" or a "true brunette", lol. :)

[sapphire-o]

I think people don't like it because it's very common and kinda expected on adults, In other words, nothing special about it. Of course not everybody thinks so. I absolutely love that hair color. Looks so natural and is different in every kind of light.

I also think it's not actually "unpopular", it's just too easy to alter for people to resist changing it. They bleach nicely into a blonde color, they take almost any hair dye easily as they're fairly colorless. I mean if I want to change my hair color I'd have to bleach it first until it's almost fried, then dye it, and that may not work anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to resist changing my hair color. :D

[Madonna-Fan]

I think people don't like it because it's very common and kinda expected on adults, In other words, nothing special about it. Of course not everybody thinks so. I absolutely love that hair color. Looks so natural and is different in every kind of light.

I also think it's not actually "unpopular", it's just too easy to alter for people to resist changing it. They bleach nicely into a blonde color, they take almost any hair dye easily as they're fairly colorless. I mean if I want to change my hair color I'd have to bleach it first until it's almost fried, then dye it, and that may not work anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to resist changing my hair color. :D

That´s right.
I began to dye (or better: bleach) my hair very early,
because I couldn´t stand that my hair isn´t a light shade of blonde
instead it was a medium ash blonde.
Last year I finally stopped bleaching my (poor) hair
and since August 2008 my natural dark ash blonde grew out.
It´s not my favourite hair colour
but I start to like it
(sometimes less, sometimes more).

[Bellona]

I too am a former bleach worshiper. I used to have white-blonde hair as a child, and then when I hit 13 it changed to a dark golden blonde. My parents, grandparents, friends, etc. kept making comments on ugly it was, so I started highlighting it. By age 17 I had bleached white hair again. It appeared healthy, but it used to break off all the time. Then I went to university and started experimenting with different colors and lengths.

I haven't seen my virgin hair color since I was 13 years old. I've finally decided to grow it out. I think it will look beautiful, because a lot of people on LHC seem to have it, and I love it on them! I'm so glad I'm finally getting over thinking my natural hair color is ugly. :cool:

I got a few highlights put in the last time I had a haircut (where the stylist hacked my hair off into a horrible short haircut), but those should grow out without looking too horrible. I'm excited!

[verene]

I was a very light warm golden blond as a child and now my hair has darkened to that blond/brown inbetween color.

For a while my sister tried to convince me to dye it darker. I have dark eyebrows and lashes, and I've no doubt that with my fair skin dark hair would probably look rather striking on me. The thing is though that I like the variation in my natural hair color. I've blond strands, red strands, light brown, and dark brown all blended together. My hair takes on lovely golden highlights in the summer and darkens in the winter. Depending on lighting I can even look strawberry blond. If i dyed my hair I'd lose that depth and interest, and I think I would miss it. It's not a color I could dye back to if I didn't like being a brunette because it has so many different tones to it.

[Lilli]

Another thought on this - one of my kids has very light blonde hair, and sometimes strangers will look at us and ask, "Where did he get that blonde hair?" It always irritates me b/c it came from ME, you idiot, and his hair will be honey blonde like mine when he is my age!

[Lilli]

I was a very light warm golden blond as a child and now my hair has darkened to that blond/brown inbetween color.

For a while my sister tried to convince me to dye it darker. I have dark eyebrows and lashes, and I've no doubt that with my fair skin dark hair would probably look rather striking on me. The thing is though that I like the variation in my natural hair color. I've blond strands, red strands, light brown, and dark brown all blended together. My hair takes on lovely golden highlights in the summer and darkens in the winter. Depending on lighting I can even look strawberry blond. If i dyed my hair I'd lose that depth and interest, and I think I would miss it. It's not a color I could dye back to if I didn't like being a brunette because it has so many different tones to it.


Me, too - I tried on a dark brown wig and it looked great with my dark brows and pale skin, but then I would lose all the different blondes I have in my hair, and I could never get them back. I have had stylists tell me that women pay a ton of money to try to get my hair color but you just can't get it from a bottle. That felt nice!!!

[LaurenH]

I was a very light warm golden blond as a child and now my hair has darkened to that blond/brown inbetween color. I have dark eyebrows and lashes, and I've no doubt that with my fair skin dark hair would probably look rather striking on me. The thing is though that I like the variation in my natural hair color. I've blond strands, red strands, light brown, and dark brown all blended together. My hair takes on lovely golden highlights in the summer and darkens in the winter.

How cool, that sounds exactly like mine! :) I've never really liked my hair color that much (mainly because it has never matched my dark eyebrows) but it's starting to grow on me... I do like how I can see all types of colors in it. :)

[Mutinous]

I've tried hard over the last couple of years to get that hair colour, I'm naturally the darkest brown and I find it very boring and it just has no character to it, and I thought lightening it was the way. Unluckily for me, my hair as a natural reddish pigmentation so whenever bleach got anywhere near it, it went ginger! Not good.

[Rhiannon7]

i would guess that the main reason is because the dark blonde/light brown is most typical natural color? and because people always want what they don't have or had as a child they change it? i don't know, my oldest niece just started coloring her hair and since she was a red head as a child, now a light brown with red highlights she colors it red. same thing with another niece, she always had dark brown hair, a beautiful hershey's chocolate color, the dark kind. and she is now coloring her hair the same color as when she was a child. dark chocolate brown.

[CheshireGrin]

Weird.... I always thought it was one of the MOST popular. Everyone in Hollywood seems to have that honey blond/brown colour. Also, I'm really used to seeing almost every fashionable kid in Japan having it but I suppose that's a different story. :shrug:

[Daoine Sidhe]

It's unpopular because it is the color most people have. Well it least in my country it is(Belgium). And with most people I mean 75&#37; or so. Most people are 'in between' over here.
They don't call darkblonde darkblonde over here. They call it brown. And brown hair they call really dark brown or black :p

I guess in countries where everyone had dark brown or black hair they find that color boring too, while here people find dark hair really beautiful, rare and exotic.
People find beautiful what is 'rare'.

[Nanni]

My hair is light brown and I love it. I've dyed it darker for many years but I've now been growing out the dye for the last two years to get back my natural color and healthy hair. I don't gain as much lenght but that's because I want to cut off dye, splits and fairytale ends.

I also had more of a mousy grey color when i was little, but not anymore.

[Sylvanas]

I have this colour. 'Municipality grey' as we call it in Norway. I used to be light blonde as a child, and that colour looked really good with my skin tone. The thing that bothers me about this colour is that it can look really pretty and blonde certain days, other days it looks nearly gray and just meh.... All depending on lighting, humidity, how long since the last wash, what colour of clothes I wear, etc. With this colour I feel that the longer my hair is, the better it looks. When the sun gives you natural highlights, it can look amazing.

I've abused my hair with bleach for the past few years, even dying it brown, black and blue, with bleaching to get back to blonde after each of the dye jobs. I can't say I regret it too much, cause I've had fun with different hair colours, and after all, it's only hair, and it will grow back :)

I'm currently in the process of growing out my natural haircolour, and it's inspiring to see so many pictures of people on this forum who really pull off this particular colour (or should I say colours? :p) It also helps that I now know a lot more about what to wear, and what kind of makeup to use, to make the most of my colour.

[RocketDog]

I used to find my natural haircolor quite bland, and I felt that it made me look kind of washed out since there wasn't much contrast between my skin and hair colors. After experimenting with all sorts of dyes (both lighter and darker than my own color) I decided that the upkeep and expense wasn't worth it, and have learned to actually LIKE my color. It has subtle variances within itself, almost like every strand is a slightly different color, and now that there isn't any dye in the way all those hairs shimmer in the light. Sure, I still have days where I wish I had my cherry-red or mahogany-brown hair, but for the most part I'm pretty happy with what I've got!

[emeraldfaery]

I used to hate my haircolor, even when it was more blonde. I dyed it 3 times with temporary red dye. I've always wanted to be a redhead, but I don't want to constantly have to dye or henna it. I've finally come to terms with my "mousy" brown color.

[silverspun]

I agree that I've noticed people always fighting what comes natural, I used to do it.. but now I am giving in to the natural texture and color.

My natural color is in between blonde/brown... I always liked it because it was a shimmery gold with brunette caving in, and sometimes a hint of red... natural hair sparkles. I never wanted to dye my hair but after a breakup I kinda just went for it- Now it's almost all the way grown out [since I cut it].

[Armelle]

I have this colour too. I think it's unpopular because blonde children grow up to have this colour, so it's a marker of age. (I've been reading up on evolutionary psychology lately; can you tell?) Blonde hair is attractive in a woman because it indicates that she's young, and therefore more fertile. I think if you have black, dark brown, or red hair, you've probably had it all your life, so it doesn't say anything about your age, but if you have light brown hair, you probably started off with blonde hair, but are now too old to have it. I could be completely wrong; this is just my opinion.



I think you're very right! That's what happened to me I had blonde hair until I was in my 20s (it's always been a dark golden blonde), then after I had my daughter it's been getting darker and duller.

[Feye]

Yesterday I was in a store debating some hair clips. The woman behind the counter told me to get the brown clips "Because your hair is brown".

I thought I was a dark blonde. Should I call myself light brown instead? I bet if I did people would refer to my hair as blonde. It's very annoying, it's like having your identity constantly questioned! This is probably why many with this color dye their hair either darker or lighter. To be able to say "I'm blonde" or "I'm a brunette" without having people going "Hmm... I don't agree, that's not blonde/brown". A while ago a woman tried to describe my looks saying "She with the brown-red-blonde hair". I feel like my hair has a split personality issue...

So, what is my haircolor according to you? Blonde or brown? Or are my ends blonde and the roots brown, perhaps? :confused:

[rhubarbarin]

I would definitely call you blonde, Feye, but you could also be called 'tawny' (my favorite term for warm-colored hair on the border of brown and blonde). I would never consider your hair brown, light or otherwise.

We have similar hair colors but yours is lighter overall.. although my highlights are blonder! I have very streaky hair and it can look vastly different in color not only depending lighting but on how it's styled.

I think you are right on that a lot of people in our color group dye or highlight just so they can be definitively 'one or the other'! It does get annoying when people start arguing over your hair color..

[Feye]

I would definitely call you blonde, Feye, but you could also be called 'tawny' (my favorite term for warm-colored hair on the border of brown and blonde). I would never consider your hair brown, light or otherwise.

We have similar hair colors but yours is lighter overall.. although my highlights are blonder! I have very streaky hair and it can look vastly different in color not only depending lighting but on how it's styled.

I think you are right on that a lot of people in our color group dye or highlight just so they can be definitively 'one or the other'! It does get annoying when people start arguing over your hair color..

Tawny, I love it! Thanks :)

I think that my hair is more ashy by nature, but it seems to take to even the slightest bit of sun to create warmer streaks. And for some reason it's gotten a little darker/warmer at the roots the last couple of years.

I think that your color is very pretty, and I would have guessed that your hair is just a shade lighter than mine, actually!

Oh, and by the way, I have seen many more models sporting dark blonde / light brown lately. It makes me really happy to see that

[invisiblebabe]

Yesterday I was in a store debating some hair clips. The woman behind the counter told me to get the brown clips "Because your hair is brown".

I thought I was a dark blonde. Should I call myself light brown instead? I bet if I did people would refer to my hair as blonde. It's very annoying, it's like having your identity constantly questioned! This is probably why many with this color dye their hair either darker or lighter. To be able to say "I'm blonde" or "I'm a brunette" without having people going "Hmm... I don't agree, that's not blonde/brown". A while ago a woman tried to describe my looks saying "She with the brown-red-blonde hair". I feel like my hair has a split personality issue...

So, what is my haircolor according to you? Blonde or brown? Or are my ends blonde and the roots brown, perhaps? :confused:

You're dark blonde. You are definitely not a brunette.

[rhubarbarin]

I don't know if it's been mentioned before, but location has a lot to do with people's opinion.

When I lived in NY (and most people we knew had dark hair), I was 'so blond'. Then I moved to South Dakota (where many people have Scotch, German and Nordic ancestry and many of the kids were towhead and lighter blond) and my hair became brown. Not even light brown!

Here in PA I get mixed opinions. ;)

Since so many people, especially those we see in the media, have very light bleached hair, I think the public opinion of what blond hair is has been getting lighter and lighter..

[Bellona]

Feye, your hair is definitely blonde to me! I think rhubarbarin is right -- most people have a skewed perception of what "natural blonde" is. Very few people keep a natural light blonde color into adulthood, so technically if that was all that could be considered "blonde" then there would be no blondes in most places :)

[Kris Dove]

I'm dark blonde(though it was lighter when I was a child), but I've been every colour of the rainbow before going back to my roots so I can grow my hair long and healthy!

I think the fact people have described my hair colour as "dirty blonde" contibuted to my disliking it... it gets greasy very quickly as it's so fine as well and I wash it every single day (I know...) as any grease makes this colour look absolutely terrible, whereas as a redhead or brunette I could skip a day and it looked passable.

[terryn]

My natural color is a medium brown, there's nothing distinctly wrong with it and some of my friends have referred to it as "(lovely) chestnut." But, I have never liked it. I think it lacks saturation, which is frustrating to me because I tend to wear a lot of saturated colors and I think it makes me look washed out. Also, it has a yellowish tone on the top of my head, but an ashy tone on the underside, so it can't seem to decide if it wants to be cool or warm (like the rest of me. ;p) I dyed my hair for years, and stopped about a year ago, just because I could never stand it and always thought my hair looked better when it was warmer and darker.

So I am waiting for my first henna mix to finish setting right now. ;p

[Feye]

Thanks invisiblebabe, rhubarbarin and Bellona! I feel better now, although still annoyed. It surprised me that I'd get that annoyed by a stranger calling my hair brown. I seem to have formed part of my identity on my looks.

On some internet forums you have the option to enter your hair color, but it's only got blonde, brown, black and red as options (sometimes gray too). People can then search on hair color, age and that sort of thing. Well, once a stranger actually contacted me saying "You are calling yourself blonde, but you're not". :rolleyes:

Eye colors are more diverse. People with light brown/green eyes have the word "hazel" to describe the color, not just brown, blue, gray or green as the only options. I want to have something similar for hair to describe the dark blonde/light brown color!

[alligatorbaby23]

Eye colors are more diverse. People with light brown/green eyes have the word "hazel" to describe the color, not just brown, blue, gray or green as the only options. I want to have something similar for hair to describe the dark blonde/light brown color!

I have heard it called "fawn" or "tawny" here in the U.S. That's how I would describe it.

And I think it's pretty. Please don't anyone take offense, but it's the exact color of my dog, and I love it/him!

[rhubarbarin]

I seem to have formed part of my identity on my looks.

I think almost everyone does this. How we look is pretty important to the outside world, and to how we interact with it and feel about ourselves.. for better or for worse.

I think it's totally obnoxious that someone would message you to try to 'correct' your self-identification. I hope you told them to stuff it. :)

[kmangus]

I have the "mousy" hair as well....im not sure why i feel compelled to make it a different color.....but lately ive been thinking (yeah i know right?) that maybe i just need to grow it out because it takes to much time to keep dyeing it 40 different shades of the spectrum :)

[Feye]

I have heard it called "fawn" or "tawny" here in the U.S. That's how I would describe it.

And I think it's pretty. Please don't anyone take offense, but it's the exact color of my dog, and I love it/him!

Haha, when looking up tawny in google images I actually got pictures of both women and dogs.

In my country we don't have a good description of the color, although sometimes cendré is used for dark blonde ash.

And rhubarbarin, I believe that I just ignored the person who emailed me trying to correct my hair color.

[Elvi]

In Finland this truly common hair color is called "country road color". My own hair is in that same group, except darker than Faye&#180;s nice hair. I have noted that the longer my hair grows, the more it gets reddish and golden highlight instead of that not so popular greyish brown.

[jasper]

As much as I am not thrilled by my hair color, I would not do something so high maintenance as dying it.

[ooo]

my hair is brown and i love it. but i do get offended when people call me/it blond. it happened a couple of times in salons but also once in public.
there is nothing blond in my hair. since i moved to finland i even think of my hair as darkbrown. i don't now why.

[clairenewcastle]

I've never understood why so many people with this hair colour dye it, perhaps they feel it's not dramatic enough, but for me it's the gentleness of the tone that appeals to me.

[Rhea]

I've never understood why so many people with this hair colour dye it, perhaps they feel it's not dramatic enough, but for me it's the gentleness of the tone that appeals to me.
http://wuerziworld.de/Smilies/mx/mx25.gif http://wuerziworld.de/Smilies/mx/mx7.gif http://wuerziworld.de/Smilies/mx/mx27.gif I love my hair in "road dog color" , but , when I´m younger I don´t like this colour .

[Tinose]

I love this hair color, but I also find it irritating at times. Mostly due to the "You're blonde!" "No, your hair is brown!" arguments. Admittedly, when it's down it is very clearly blonde, but when it's up it certainly can look light brown, so the fact that I still maintain that I'm blonde is weird to the people who may have never seen my hair down.

I may be the only person who wishes it were more ashy, though. I tend to look terrible in warm colors, and I suspect that it would be more flattering if I had slightly cooler hair. I mean, I like the multifaceted effect sometimes. One time I noticed a streak of gold in my hair when it was up that was the exact color of tigerseye, and I thought that was neat. But if I ever do lose my mind and dye my hair, it's either going to be a very pale and ashy color, or something completely and wildly unnatural.

[katydid317]

My hair naturally is light brown/dark blonde. Depending on the person I get called blonde and for a long time that bothered me so I dyed it darker. My hair was never lighter when I was a kid. My mom used to call it chameleon blonde because it hurt my feelings having kids tell me it was dirty blonde.

My son has the exact same hair colour I had/have and it's never been blonder. It does tend to get blonde streaks in it from the sun, and that in my mind has always been the dividing line between blonde and brown. If your hair is brown you don't usually get blonde streaks.

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk104/katydid317/P1020429.jpg

[blackfrostqueen]

I have to agree with Tinose, I hate the blonde, no brown agruments. I've heard them repeatedly over my life. I too am a light brown, dark blonde. I really don't mind the hair color, its not like its a bad color. But yeah, it is a bit boring when dull. I do agree. Yet, I must say its the most fascinating color when in the sun. The different shades of blonde and brown just seem to glow. I will never get tired of hearing peoples surprised comments of "Oh wow, your hair is really blonde." or "Wow, you've got so many different shades in your hair." I think dark blonde, light brown hair is really one of the few shades that can pull off such diversity.

I feel luckY to have such a hair color... even though I too get bored with it when its dull and lifeless looking. But then again who doesn't get frustrated with their hair.

[cjjester]

My natural hair color is verly close to your color and for years I have been dying it lighter....thats because I used to have light blonde hair as a child and at my early teens and when they started to get darker I couldnt acept it and started to fight against that process. I didnt like the fact taht it become mousey, greyish and greenish and I ewas even teased about it:(
Its strange that I like this color on other people but I have prbolem with accepting it on myslef. I also have dark green-brown eyes and I always wanted it to be light blue-green and light blonde hair. But I am far from that...Guess I just have problem with acepting my look in general. :rolleyes:I am trying to use semi permanent color now withaut ammonia in a darker shade of blonde so I am learning to accept my hair in its natural state... :cool:

I think your colour is lovely. Mine is a natural blonde, brown, red, can't make up its mind so I chose red... If i let mine grow out it is very grey looking until lots of sunshine changes it very blonde red.

[Kris Dove]

I've just remember a book I read years ago, Girlfriend 44 by Mark Barrowcliffe (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girlfriend-44-Mark-Barrowcliffe/dp/0747268142), and the main character's love interest had this shade of hair, which he described as being "like a blonde and a brunette had put their heads together and came up with a better colour"!:)

[Lady Danger]

There are many reasons why I changed my hair from this dark blonde/light brown color to being Henna'd. Yes, as a child and teen I had very pretty natural highlights to my hair - from golden to even strawberry red. Around my early 20s, it started deepening to a honey blonde; by late 20s I had lost almost all of the highlights, and what remained was the "gray ashy" color. Under very extreme lighting, you still saw some golden tones, but under 90% of everyday lighting, it looked washed out and dull.

And don't even start me on how it looked if I didn't wash it every single day (it's very fine, thin and flat; I have genetic SD so I struggle constantly with oiliness) - the slightest bit of grease turned it darker. I'm almost albino-pale and cool-toned, so the matching cool-toned ashy-gray color washed me out like crazy. I constantly looked sickly and tired, but I couldn't put my finger on why I was feeling so haggard lately. It wasn't until I tried a temporary color spray that I realized my natural color was draining me. I still didn't think I could do anything about it (I will never let conventional dye touch my hair) until I found out about Henna. Did some strand tests and felt like the difference was the same as seeing a sepia-toned photo vs. color. Finally did my whole head and I do not regret it. The warmth of the red makes me look alive/awake and actually complements my paleness.

The funny thing is, no one had ever criticized my hair, but when I came in with it red, people started confessing that they had long thought my color was draining me. (I was not insulted, since they did not tell me until I made up my own mind to change.)

Also, someone upthread mentioned the notion that we use bright colors in clothing to express our individuality. I've always done that without even thinking - just love brights. I feel now like my hair color matches that part of my personality. The notion that it now has "identity" makes sense to me. I never felt like it did before. Everything else on me did - clothes, makeup - now I feel like my hair does, too.

And yes, the constant arguments between friends of, "She's blonde/no she is not!" were irritating. Now there's no question. ;)

So while I fully embrace and admire you ladies for whom this shade is still beautiful (because you still have all those lovely highlights) and flattering, for me, it was no longer working for me.

[Henrietta]

I have something for you. And for myself. Tangerine found this word- blonette. Blonde+brunette. Nice, ha? I am too light for being called a brunette and too dark for blonde. So now we have this! How do you like it?

[allnaturalboy]

I actually happen to like this color, but maybe that's because its my hair color. XD
My hair is a light brown/dark blonde, very golden looking but not a pale yellow blonde in the least.
I don't mind it at all and with honey rinses and SMTs(without microwaving of course) I can get a really pretty lighter blonde. If you really want it lighter do honey rinses(Or if you want it darker molasses or something). No one needs to fight their color. I think all hair colors are beautiful, as long as the hair itself is treated nice and looks wonderful. Just like how I think all hair textures are beautiful. Fine, thick, straight, wavy, curly. I've dated guys with different hair textures and I liked them all, as long as the hair was treated properly.

[Henrietta]

I actually happen to like this color, but maybe that's because its my hair color. XD
My hair is a light brown/dark blonde, very golden looking but not a pale yellow blonde in the least.
I don't mind it at all and with honey rinses and SMTs(without microwaving of course) I can get a really pretty lighter blonde. If you really want it lighter do honey rinses(Or if you want it darker molasses or something). No one needs to fight their color. I think all hair colors are beautiful, as long as the hair itself is treated nice and looks wonderful. Just like how I think all hair textures are beautiful. Fine, thick, straight, wavy, curly. I've dated guys with different hair textures and I liked them all, as long as the hair was treated properly.

You are my guru now:) Fantastic attitude. "No one needs to fight their color."-I like this part the most. Thank you for posting this.

[PiroskaCicu]

I have this hair colour, too. Light brown/golden. It seems "bland" at times. But I want to learn to accept and love my natural colour. I am growing out my henna and from now on I just want to be me. Light brown hair or not.

I actually like this colour sometimes, especially in the sunlight- my hair would look blonde. In the shade it looks like a darker brown. So it's pretty cool. Like a chameleon :P

[sugarpixie10988]

My hair is also dark blonde, I have a love/hate relationship with it. Sometimes I really like my color, but then the next day I'll feel that it looks so blah. I've dyed my hair brown before and really liked it, but I'm pretty lazy when it comes to maintaining it. Sometimes if I'm in an exceptionally long period of feeling that my hair color is icky then I'll put some temporary pink streaks in. The color fades nicely in my hair too, and keeps me from doing anything drastic :p.

[ghost]

I have naturally light brown hair, that was a very pretty strawberry blonde when I was younger, then it got some brown streaks in middle/high school, then it pretty much grew in all brown. I always think of it as being lighter than it is, and then when I see my hair and remember it's just light brown, I get disappointed. My sartorial choices are very dramatic, dripping black lace everywhere and whatnot, and most of the time I think a more high-contrast, vivid color (or lack of color) would suit me better. Other times, I like my light-to-medium brown hair...I'm trying to err more on the side of liking it. I bought some clove shampoo for brown hair that makes it look a little more tawny, and think of it as 'cinnamon' or 'clove' colored...anything other than mouse.

[Lianna]

How about greyish light brown without cute blonde highlights? My hair is pretty much grey plus grey eyebrows and lashes...not fun, LOL.

[xoxophelia]

I tried to just read this thread and not get offended but I pretty much did. I think it is a shame how many people feel down on their natural hair color and how so many (not here) project their dislike of that color or their own color onto the people who have and enjoy it.

I never had much of a problem at all with my hair color. I get blonde highlights in the sun and when I look at people like models on the runway, the fake hair colors you see running around from a bottle are very rarely seen. It is a lot more of the cool colored blondes or dark blondes than brassy or warm blonde (which is often unavoidable or desired when coloring).

Secondly, I don't think the color is common at all. So many people color their hair that if you have this color and walk around with it, you aren't going to see many other people doing the same.

I don't want to bleach my hair and risk damage (or even have bleached hair), I don't want to stay dark because I think it is too stereotypical for my tastes in the metal world.. and I hate conforming!!, and I can't go red.. I would be compared to simone simons ten fold.

I may get some subtle highlights by the face eventually as I am trying to avoid the sun on my hair but that won't happen for a long time.

I will leave you all with this: http://cm1.theinsider.com/thumbnail/400/602/cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/83/1/ruslanakorshunova10bo0.jpg
http://stupidcelebrities.net/wp-content/ruslanakorshunovazi5.jpg

I think it is beautiful!

[Coffeebug]

My hair is..... I haven't a clue what the heck colour it is really, kind of... Scottish?! Beige with a hint of red, sort of... I wouldn't consider dying it though cos I sort of like it's odd indescribableness!

[Drynwhyl]

This is my natural colour, and I really don't like it. It's what you said, bland! And my skintone is quite light so I look very washed out. I needed some contrast, and henna red goes very well.

[JenniferNoel]

It's pretty much my natural color. It literally calls to be dyed. I can't stand it.

[anthonyswife]

xoxophelia, I love your post. It is sad just how many people are unhappy with their natural hair.

I have light-ish brown/dark blonde hair. I consider myself a brunette but many people have told me I'm actually dishwater blonde, which irritates me because I've never wanted to be a blonde. My husband calls my color honey brown, which actually sounds pretty nice, and just that alone made me like my color a lot more. However, I'm trying really hard at the moment to resist henna-ing my hair, as I've always wanted to be a redhead. I actually get a lot of compliments on my natural color, though, and that's what has been keeping me from coloring it.

[Joliebaby]

What a depressing thread. I like what someone said (sorry I forgot who/ on what page): We have the best of both worlds.
I adore DARK BLONDE. It's a contradiction. Keep them wondering. Wear it proudly. And I bet they are secretly envious and dream that they, too had this shiny natural hair color.
(Me, I'm growing my color out.)

[Lianna]

I tried to just read this thread and not get offended but I pretty much did. I think it is a shame how many people feel down on their natural hair color and how so many (not here) project their dislike of that color or their own color onto the people who have and enjoy it.

I never had much of a problem at all with my hair color. I get blonde highlights in the sun and when I look at people like models on the runway, the fake hair colors you see running around from a bottle are very rarely seen. It is a lot more of the cool colored blondes or dark blondes than brassy or warm blonde (which is often unavoidable or desired when coloring).

Secondly, I don't think the color is common at all. So many people color their hair that if you have this color and walk around with it, you aren't going to see many other people doing the same.

I don't want to bleach my hair and risk damage (or even have bleached hair), I don't want to stay dark because I think it is too stereotypical for my tastes in the metal world.. and I hate conforming!!, and I can't go red.. I would be compared to simone simons ten fold.

I may get some subtle highlights by the face eventually as I am trying to avoid the sun on my hair but that won't happen for a long time.

I will leave you all with this: http://cm1.theinsider.com/thumbnail/400/602/cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/83/1/ruslanakorshunova10bo0.jpg
http://stupidcelebrities.net/wp-content/ruslanakorshunovazi5.jpg

I think it is beautiful!

Those pictures have a lovely yellow cast, mine only at temples and widow's peak in sunlight. I'm truly colorless. :shake:

[Schefflera]

I'm a bit puzzled by this, myself. It seems like a good color to me.

[sibiryachka]

If my never-quite-knew-what-to-call-it color had *stayed* that way, I'd never have done anything to change it, even to cover grays - I loved it!! The problem was that it started the drift toward mousiness in my late 30s, and the amount of lightening necessary to get back to it was too damaging to sustain. And that, my friends, is the story of how I decided to go red.

[VanillaTresses]

My honest opinion is this: People tend to go for extremes. Platinum blond, ebony black, flamboyant flaming red.

The subtlety of a dark blond or light brown color can be stunningly beautiful though, IMHO!

[poloandpearls]

I think it's nice.. & maybe not as unpopular as we think if you count foil colours?
Lots of brunettes get light brown foils & even some blonds have dark blonde spooned in to create the appearance of volume / to texturise..
Maybe people don't like dying their whole head this colour, but it's pretty popular as a highlighter!!

[poloandpearls]

And I guess mousy brown doesn't seem quite as shiny somehow.. Probably because of what VanillaTresses said about people going for extremes.. With more contrast seems to come more shine :)

[Shany]

In my opinion, Ruslana Korshunova (first pic posted by xoxophelia) had pretty hair and I like her natural hair color. I looked at other pics of her and found one with her knee length hair. It looks light brown on this one:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bq6_cE4BJJQ/Skdp9zzTiRI/AAAAAAAAQHE/C90BgK6NAeg/s400/Mario+Sorrenti+×+Ruslana+Korshunova+-+W+Magazine+November+2004+-+Solitary+Refinement+-+005.jpg

On some other pictures, it looks blonde:
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/28463/thumbs/s-RUSLANA-KORSHUNOVA-large.jpg

http://fl2.shopmania.org/files/images/8274/5n-light-brown-satin-hair-color-with-aloe-vera-base~8273255.jpg
http://fl2.shopmania.org/files/images/8332/satin-hair-color-6n-dark-blonde~8331364.jpg
usually 7N is dark blonde...whatever

[LouLaLa]

I really like it. I have slivery dark blonde and I used to dye it honey blonde as that was a big fad (teen of the 2000s) but now I appreciate my colour. I think if you have this colour and do your best to take care of it eg SMT etc then it can be really beautiful.

Also everyone I know dyes their hair to extremes so my colour which is naturally common is now the rare hue :p

So all in all I abandoned fake tan and dye and embraced my uber white skin and dark blonde hair. Oh and I HATE the term dirty blonde grrr.

As you can see from my avatar it looks shiny and quite light but in different light it looks darker not as stark as the pics Shany posted but still a very obvious change. I sort of like that bark blonde is a shape shifter colour!

[xoxophelia]

I really like it. I have slivery dark blonde and I used to dye it honey blonde as that was a big fad (teen of the 2000s) but now I appreciate my colour. I think if you have this colour and do your best to take care of it eg SMT etc then it can be really beautiful.

Also everyone I know dyes their hair to extremes so my colour which is naturally common is now the rare hue :p

So all in all I abandoned fake tan and dye and embraced my uber white skin and dark blonde hair. Oh and I HATE the term dirty blonde grrr.

As you can see from my avatar it looks shiny and quite light but in different light it looks darker not as stark as the pics Shany posted but still a very obvious change. I sort of like that bark blonde is a shape shifter colour!

For me, if I want to have light brown hair I can do so by just really trying to keep my hair out of the sun. But at the same time, I can get gold highlights and have it lighten up a lot by just spending some time outside with my hair uncovered. So it is pretty fun in that way :)

[Drynwhyl]

Mine isn't like those on the pics, it's just...light greyish-poopy colour with a yellow-greenish cast.
It would at least need a henna gloss or something to define it better.

[Venefica]

My natural hair color is dark blond, and it is very pretty color, so is light brown. For me I dye my hair black because I am a goth and it fit my clothes and personality better. However I think both light brown and dark brown are beautiful colors. As for why they are not so popular, I do not know, perhaps it is that they do not look that dramatic, I am not really sure. But where I live both light brown and dark blond are common colors of hair dye in the stores so I do not think they are that unpopular.

[lunaheretic]

I'm so happy to find this thread! I grew up with quite light blond hair and it darkened as I grew into a teen. My grandmother was disappointed when it darkened, as if it doesn't happen to almost all childhood blondes, and neither of my parents were blond adults. I was shy and quiet as a child and young teen so part of it was that when I started rebelling and growing up, I dyed my hair bright red. At 36 I'm still doing it but just now I'm looking to grow out my natural colour. The names for this colour are so unattractive. I've come to like it on others I just associated it personally with my mousy attitude and I was trying to bring out the more fiery side of myself through my colour. I posted the most recent pics where I was growing out some highlights- that was another long phase. I haven't had a full head of my natural color since I was like 15.
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=17602&page=5&p=2907698&viewfull=1#post2907698
Anyone care to tell me what shade of blond/brown you think my natural hair is? Pretty please? I won't be offended and I'd honestly like some opinions. It really depends on the light, as those two awful pics show in my link above. I think it's in between, but kind of ashy. While I've been growing out henna it looked particularly awful because the red in contrast made it look very grey and even green-tinged!

[lapushka]

lunaheretic, that looks like mid-tone blonde to blonette to me; somewhere in the middle.

[meteor]

lunaheretic, judging by those photos, I'd say you are Level 7 or 6, which would be medium-dark blonde. I think you have a bit of golden undertone, so dark golden blonde / light golden brown or blonette is how I would describe it. It's a beautiful color that tends to have many beautiful, chameleon-like, undefinable shades. :)

[lunaheretic]

Aw, thanks for the response, ladies. Blonette, that's a cute term, much better than the alternatives! Yes, it really depends on the light, time of year and what it's being compared to.

Lately it looks so ash but looking at my old photos I'm wondering if it's just in relation to the henna red. Here is a photo from a month ago or so before I touched up the roots with manic panic! See what I mean about it looking ashy? Maybe my hair has changed since I was in my 20's, it is 10 years since those earlier photos were taken. It's hard even for me to figure what it is, because it's shiny and thus looks different the way the light hits it. I guess you have to go with the mid-tone and not count the shine or the shadow.
http://i57.tinypic.com/359bssz.jpg


It's chameleon hair, I agree! Whatever it is I'm going to embrace it.

I have a question for you ladies this thread applies to. Blonettes. Chameleon heads. What is your skin tone and eye colour? I'm curious the most common and more rare combinations with this hair colour. Thanks!

[lapushka]

I'd say it looks a little darker especially because it's a small patch of roots growing out - compared to the henna hair. Wait until it grows out more, if that's what you want to do.

[meteor]

Aw, thanks for the response, ladies. Blonette, that's a cute term, much better than the alternatives! Yes, it really depends on the light, time of year and what it's being compared to.

Lately it looks so ash but looking at my old photos I'm wondering if it's just in relation to the henna red.


I'd say it looks a little darker especially because it's a small patch of roots growing out - compared to the henna hair. Wait until it grows out more, if that's what you want to do.

^ Yes, definitely this. :agree:
Also, for ashier colors, it's not unheard of to describe roots as even looking greyish/greenish next to that intense red henna. I think that apparent extreme ashiness of roots is something of a rite of passage for many folks who grow out henna, but it improves as you wait it out. For comparison, blondes who grow out bleach often complain that their roots look super-dark brunette, but again, it's because the roots are sitting right next to that bleached extreme without ombre-like gradation to smooth it out.

[Bella-donna]

Maybe it could be less popular since it's a common natural color but our society tells girls to work against their natural given looks... for example, girls with curly hair straightening their hair every morning and girls with straight hair curling it every morning- which is okay if that's what they want to do but both is beautiful. The majority of females I know dye their hair a different color even though there's nothing wrong with their natural color. I can understand wanting a different hair color but I'm just saying that for some reason a lot of girls feel like they need to look the opposite of how they really look.

[spidermom]

Lunaheretic, it does look like a shade of ash blonde against the henna. It's hard to pinpoint color when there's such a small patch of it.

[Eichan]

I have dark blonde hair (indoors, outdoors it's much lighter looking for some reason!).

My parents are medium blonde and auburn, so I have some red in my hair too that mixes it up?


All I have ever gotten was "Where did you get your hair dyed?!" (school), "OH! Blonde hair so nice!" (Nice Hairdresser), and "I know so many girls that want that same color." (Housekeeper).

Of course, where I live lots of people have dark hair so it may be that mine seems really light in comparison. I love my hair color.

[lapushka]

These days on TV you see all kinds of colors just not this color - much. Try looking at shows from the seventies. Big big difference! You see that color all the time.

[Stray_mind]

I didn't much like my hair colour some years ago, but now i think the colder tones to it are really beautiful and can be really stunning, especially on people with fairer skin... Like this girl

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120220175227/camphalfbloodroleplay/images/thumb/c/c6/Light-brown-hair-color.jpg/359px-Light-brown-hair-color.jpg

or this one (though it is more blonde that brown)
http://womeninfashion.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/long-dark-blonde-hair_large.jpg

And i am actually glad it isn't that popular. You can be the one with undefined hair colour between all bright blondes, reds and blacks or dark browns :)

[lunaheretic]

^I adore that first pic, I have it saved to my computer. Hair ideals, even though my fine hair will never look that good, I think it's about the same shade. The second pic I think she's very, very highlighted.

[Éowyn_GreyEyes]

Love that first photo as well! This is what my hair does when it has no bangs... Thus.... I have been growing out my bangs for about a year now... Very similar colour too:o

[missblueeyes]

That first picture wandered right onto my hair inspirations Pinterest board! My hair should be a tad lighter than that but my natural highlights are super similar as far as I can tell! Grow, hair, grow!

[Stray_mind]

My hair colour is very simmilar to the first pic also in some lightings and i think this shade is really nice..

Lunaheretic-highlighted or not, it still has that dark blonde, light brown feel... My hair had same highlights (maybe a little less) after all the sunny summers before i hennaed it. I am planning to protect it from the sun as much as possible when it grows out to see what shade is my "real" hair.

[curiouskitty]

I have so many friends around me with this beautiful mousy blonde/brown color, and I'm baffled as to why so many of them decide to dye it to unnaturally intense colors (platinum, jet black, bright fiery red, etc.) instead of embracing it and playing with it. I personally think it's such a beautiful mix of brown and blonde... and that girls with this hair color tend to look gorgeous is dark eye makeup or dark lipsticks. I really don't see anything 'bland' or 'dull' about the color. It looks earthy, natural and even 'mystical' if the hair is properly cared for. One of my friends always complains about her mousy blonde color, and how she looks so much more beautiful as a redhead... but she looks angelic to me with her natural hair color!

[Pseudoavatar]

This shade actually is very 'in' right now, and according to my hairdresser is the most requested color at the moment! Probably because of the balayage/ombre craze, where people often choose a hair color close to their own and blend it to a lighter color at the ends. If you google bronde or blonette, you will see plenty of this shade. So lucky us, I guess :) I hated my hair color as a teenager, because it was much darker than when I was a child. But now I am growing it out and actually like it a lot, because it has the ability to simultaneously look blonde and dark, depending on the light and season. It also often seems to have both warm and cold pigmentation at once (or at least my hair does) which is interesting. So I'm looking forwards to having a full head of this 'bronde' shade!

[Begemot]

I think that this color range is not so popular partly because it's not stereotyped heavily. Medium and dark brunettes, bright blondes, redheads and black haired folks all have those well known stereotypes. When people are choosing a hair color they could be wanting to express some inner qualities. People often talk about "not feeling like they are the person who has this kind of (natural) hair color." They attach so many things to different colors.
But what type of person has light brown or dark blonde hair? Are light brunettes diluted versions of smart and serious darker brunettes? Dark blondes less fun and dumb than very light blondes?
Blonette shades are those that get to be called dull and boring and too ordinary. People want to be seen and it's pretty obvious that blonette shades aren't usually those that jump right out from the crowd when there's very intense and unusual artificial colors around.

All this said I have to mention I really like my own natural hair color. I'm not going to get complimented for it on the street but I think it suits me really well and it makes me feel great :) I prefer natural and subtle shades over dramatic ones on myself.

[0xalis]

That's my natural hair colour but I dye mine black. I don't particularly dislike my hair natural, but I do like black better.

The best part about it is that it's still light enough to dye weird colours with manic panic without bleaching!

[Lauraes]

This is the natural color of my roots. I don't like how gray it looks sometimes. :/

[Rosetta]

I think that this color range is not so popular partly because it's not stereotyped heavily. Medium and dark brunettes, bright blondes, redheads and black haired folks all have those well known stereotypes. When people are choosing a hair color they could be wanting to express some inner qualities. People often talk about "not feeling like they are the person who has this kind of (natural) hair color." They attach so many things to different colors.
But what type of person has light brown or dark blonde hair? Are light brunettes diluted versions of smart and serious darker brunettes? Dark blondes less fun and dumb than very light blondes?
Blonette shades are those that get to be called dull and boring and too ordinary. People want to be seen and it's pretty obvious that blonette shades aren't usually those that jump right out from the crowd when there's very intense and unusual artificial colors around.
That's a very interesting point of view!

[Remi]

I really don't know. I have had several friends in the past, and even now, my daughter has this color. I think it's nice, so I can't imagine why anyone would not like it.

[StellaKatherine]

I think that this color range is not so popular partly because it's not stereotyped heavily. Medium and dark brunettes, bright blondes, redheads and black haired folks all have those well known stereotypes. When people are choosing a hair color they could be wanting to express some inner qualities. People often talk about "not feeling like they are the person who has this kind of (natural) hair color." They attach so many things to different colors.
But what type of person has light brown or dark blonde hair? Are light brunettes diluted versions of smart and serious darker brunettes? Dark blondes less fun and dumb than very light blondes?
Blonette shades are those that get to be called dull and boring and too ordinary. People want to be seen and it's pretty obvious that blonette shades aren't usually those that jump right out from the crowd when there's very intense and unusual artificial colors around.

All this said I have to mention I really like my own natural hair color. I'm not going to get complimented for it on the street but I think it suits me really well and it makes me feel great :) I prefer natural and subtle shades over dramatic ones on myself.

I think there is actually a stereotype for this hair colour... A good girl next door. Nothing extraordinary :) Like my mother-in-law said about me " She's just the normal girl" ;) And who really want to look like a nice girl this days? We all want be eather dramatic, cute, ethereal .... :D

[Begemot]

Haven't thought about that StellaKatherine! But I see what you mean :) Although I think in popular culture the stereotype of sweet girl from next door can have pretty much any hair color (ideally maybe not colored bright red or black? Too dramatic perhaps?). In my mind I have this image of pretty, young and fair girl, the blonde and angelic type. The average, "wall flower" type of girl would probably have brown hair.
With this light brunettes and dark blondes still don't get the same treatment as other hair colors. Personality traits aren't usually discussed. In my experience it always comes down to the fact that light brown and dark blonde hair are seen dull and boring looking hair colors, they don't draw attention like dyed hair. I haven't heard people call blonette's dull and boring people, just the hair looks like that to them. You're right about the fact that pretty much no one wants to have a "dull look" tho :D But then again there are people who don't consider natural colors dull and nothing special. I like my natural look, the whole package, and atm wouldn't want to add more drama into my appearence by dyeing.
Then there's people who seem suspicious of people who choose not to color their hair, suspecting they are weird, religious etc. But it's not about the natural color you have but the fact that you aren't altering your hair color.

I think at some point blonette shades got branded as sophisticated, modelesque hair colors and this does back up the thought of "nothing extraordinary". These days you can see runway models having light brown and dark blonde hair a lot. Possibly because they they shouldn't grab the attention from the clothing they display (maybe they also want to protect their hair from too much processing, frequent dye and heat together can be a disaster to some). So they are supposed to look uniform and sort of invisible, like just a clean canvas for the art. It's different for us normies with "boring" hair color when you're not a glamorous model girl... :D

[Yarrow]

Because a lot of times it has an ashy tone to it.
And ashy tones don't look good in artificial indoor lighting. In fact, it's that lighting that tends to give the hair color the most brutal comments. I once heard a person call it the " ugliest hair colour of Europe".
But in the sun, it tends to get the natural highlights that hair dressers try to imitate. So it can't be that bad

[MINAKO]

I think its pretty, especially with a very even color throughout.

[missblueeyes]

I personally love it. I might be very biased, though, as it's my natural haircolour and I'm currently growing it out. I have a whole pinterest board with blondette pictures to inspire me haha. :P

[cat11]

It's a popular color in anime, at least :)

I have this color and though I used to hate it Ive grown to really appreciate it.

[Begemot]

It's a popular color in anime, at least :)

Really? That's interesting! :D Off to google search blonette anime characters...

[MINAKO]

Really? That's interesting! :D Off to google search blonette anime characters...

Kyary PP has this color too most of the time as far as i know. In japan medium ash and pinkish brown tones are very popular and come in so many shades.

[Rosetta]

Because a lot of times it has an ashy tone to it. And ashy tones don't look good in artificial indoor lighting. In fact, it's that lighting that tends to give the hair color the most brutal comments. I once heard a person call it the "ugliest hair colour of Europe". But in the sun, it tends to get the natural highlights that hair dressers try to imitate. So it can't be that bad
That's quite a categorical blanket statement (the one I bolded) - I really don't think you can say that there's one natural colour or tone that just never looks good in some kind of lighting... (Not to mention the "ugliest hair colour of Europe"... :eek:) Of course some lighting conditions are kinder than others, but like any tones, ashy tones can look wonderful, it just depends if they suit the person or not.

(Please note the word natural; imo bleached blonde doesn't look good in much any lighting, especially artificial, and henna is also said not to look best in artificial indoor lighting ;)

[Begemot]

Googled Kyary PP and she has different hair color in every picture :D But I did see the light brown color too, very cute! Also got tons of results when searched anime characters with light brown hair. The representation is awesome, so many shades.

[MINAKO]

Googled Kyary PP and she has different hair color in every picture :D But I did see the light brown color too, very cute! Also got tons of results when searched anime characters with light brown hair. The representation is awesome, so many shades.

Oh, she wears alot of wigs. Many times when i think its her actual hair its that color tho.
in Japan young people are not really shy to just slap on new hairstyles, theres alot of affordable and decent quality synthetic hair around to have fun with. http://www.prisila.jp :D

ETA: How could i forget Namie Amuro. She has amazing hair and also seems to like it blonette.

[Begemot]

Woah, that's amazing! :D Such diversity. Where I live people with this color would most likely get it dyed over or bleached
http://www.prisila.jp/upload/save_image/vx-24-tay_main-2013awa.jpg

It's so strange to hear that there's a place on earth where blonette shades and ashy tones are considered beautiful by many! I'm so used to hearing how light brown and dark blonde colors are so ugly and dull and having to defend those.

[Yarrow]

That's quite a categorical blanket statement (the one I bolded) - I really don't think you can say that there's one natural colour or tone that just never looks good in some kind of lighting... (Not to mention the "ugliest hair colour of Europe"... :eek:) Of course some lighting conditions are kinder than others, but like any tones, ashy tones can look wonderful, it just depends if they suit the person or not.

(Please note the word natural; imo bleached blonde doesn't look good in much any lighting, especially artificial, and henna is also said not to look best in artificial indoor lighting ;)
I don't know if it is good answering a blanket statement with another one.
True, maybe I worded it a bit wrong but I wasn't offering an absolute truth but an explanation to the question why it is not popular( I realise not all blond/brown have an ash tone so maybe I'm in the wrong thread)
It does seem to be the perception of quite a few people that this ash blond/brown hair color ( especially true in the darker winter months where the color grows out darker)is not an attractive hair color. And the ash tone does come out dominant in artificial light conditions. (I'm not talking about spotlights or other unusual lighting situations). In the summer, through sun the ash tone seems to fade out and people don't take quite as negatively to the color as previously.
So I still think there is a bit of truth in my explanation.

[MINAKO]

Maybe for an asian person its more interesting since these colors naturally do not appear often, if at all in mixed people or foreigners. But i agree, if it looks stunning on a japanese girl with a light pink based skin tone, why on earth wouldn't it look stunning as well on caucasian girls who just happen to grow it this way. Especially with ashy shades you get the best of both worlds, a nice contrast but still enough lightness. There is a charm with bleached hair on some people too, but i would never consider it "the better color". I think thats something that still vibes from the days when (bottle)blonde was a status symbol for the rich, because it reqires so much maintenance. Now there is much more variety and less pressure to conform to one single look for all.

[Sharysa]

Yep, culture makes a HUGE difference in whether blonette is "boring/plain/ugly" or "pretty/interesting/unique."

Non-Caucasians tend to gush over my hair because it's black, but I find it pretty average/boring because my entire family has black hair, and I live in an area where at least half the people have black/brown hair.

[Begemot]

Very true, surroundings and culture matter :) I have wondered this before actually. Do people somewhat dislike the natural color in places where black hair is the most common natural hair color for just being so common? Black is the most common hair color globally but I have never heard anyone call it dull or boring or too ordinary. It feels like in my country and many other places the hate for common color/blonette is very strong. Like people actually despise the color and wish to never see it. Even though if someone with dark hair decides to dye for reasons they don't seem to have such strong feelings about their natural color growing back. Blonette people tend to wish that they could somehow entirely get rid off their natural color. Others seem to be more... calm about it? :D This is just based on my own, pretty narrow observations.

[Sharysa]

It's not that most people in dark-haired areas DISLIKE their hair, it's more like "Eh. Not shiny-blue black. *shrug*"

I also find that blonette people are more likely to feel genuine stress about their hair--probably because it's neither "real" brown or "real" blonde, as mentioned quite a few times. People with red hair get stressed about their hair color, but that's pretty clearly because of the social stigma against ginger people in some areas. There doesn't seem to be an active stigma against blonette people, though.

[maborosi]

There are many reasons why I changed my hair from this dark blonde/light brown color to being Henna'd. Yes, as a child and teen I had very pretty natural highlights to my hair - from golden to even strawberry red. Around my early 20s, it started deepening to a honey blonde; by late 20s I had lost almost all of the highlights, and what remained was the "gray ashy" color. Under very extreme lighting, you still saw some golden tones, but under 90% of everyday lighting, it looked washed out and dull.

And don't even start me on how it looked if I didn't wash it every single day (it's very fine, thin and flat; I have genetic SD so I struggle constantly with oiliness) - the slightest bit of grease turned it darker. I'm almost albino-pale and cool-toned, so the matching cool-toned ashy-gray color washed me out like crazy. I constantly looked sickly and tired, but I couldn't put my finger on why I was feeling so haggard lately. It wasn't until I tried a temporary color spray that I realized my natural color was draining me. I still didn't think I could do anything about it (I will never let conventional dye touch my hair) until I found out about Henna. Did some strand tests and felt like the difference was the same as seeing a sepia-toned photo vs. color. Finally did my whole head and I do not regret it. The warmth of the red makes me look alive/awake and actually complements my paleness.

The funny thing is, no one had ever criticized my hair, but when I came in with it red, people started confessing that they had long thought my color was draining me. (I was not insulted, since they did not tell me until I made up my own mind to change.)

Also, someone upthread mentioned the notion that we use bright colors in clothing to express our individuality. I've always done that without even thinking - just love brights. I feel now like my hair color matches that part of my personality. The notion that it now has "identity" makes sense to me. I never felt like it did before. Everything else on me did - clothes, makeup - now I feel like my hair does, too.

And yes, the constant arguments between friends of, "She's blonde/no she is not!" were irritating. Now there's no question. ;)

So while I fully embrace and admire you ladies for whom this shade is still beautiful (because you still have all those lovely highlights) and flattering, for me, it was no longer working for me.

We must be twins or something- this is 100% exactly how I feel about my color. People say "nature doesn't make mistakes, your natural color is best for you", but...

I found a picture of my hair from when I was about 12 or 13, when I had it my natural color. I looked sickly . I wonder if it's a thing that happens because I transitioned from extremely pale golden hair to a very cool-toned light blonde as I got older? I lost the warmth and I had very cool, ashy hair. Nothing wrong with it- it's a really pretty, unique color, but it made me look really unwell.

I henna my hair and I feel like it gives my face warmth and more 'livelyness', if that makes sense. I'm still very pale, but I feel like my soft copper suits my complexion better.

[Rosetta]

Woah, that's amazing! :D Such diversity. Where I live people with this color would most likely get it dyed over or bleached
http://www.prisila.jp/upload/save_image/vx-24-tay_main-2013awa.jpg

It's so strange to hear that there's a place on earth where blonette shades and ashy tones are considered beautiful by many! I'm so used to hearing how light brown and dark blonde colors are so ugly and dull and having to defend those.
We must live in the same corner of the world..? ;)

That in the picture is more or less my natural colour, though mine is maybe slightly darker, at least at the roots.


Very true, surroundings and culture matter :) I have wondered this before actually. Do people somewhat dislike the natural color in places where black hair is the most common natural hair color for just being so common? Black is the most common hair color globally but I have never heard anyone call it dull or boring or too ordinary. It feels like in my country and many other places the hate for common color/blonette is very strong. Like people actually despise the color and wish to never see it. Even though if someone with dark hair decides to dye for reasons they don't seem to have such strong feelings about their natural color growing back. Blonette people tend to wish that they could somehow entirely get rid off their natural color. Others seem to be more... calm about it? :D This is just based on my own, pretty narrow observations.
Yeah, it's weird, as black *is* the most common hair color globally, but here, it's never seen as "common" or ordinary, quite the contrary, and blonette is seen as the most "common" hair color (in a bit disparaging sense, too). It seems people have a very narrow sense of what is "common" or "usual", only limited to their own country's borders... (I have noticed that in other things too of course, not just hair, the vast majority of people just don't think globally; I've always felt the odd one out in that.)


I henna my hair and I feel like it gives my face warmth and more 'livelyness', if that makes sense. I'm still very pale, but I feel like my soft copper suits my complexion better.
That's how I used to feel about my hair, too :) (though I'm not very pale). But now I've actually grown to love my own colour especially close to my face, and can't wait for more ashyness to appear :D

Though actually, what we often call "ashy" is actually more often than not neutral - there was a thread in the mane forum about the different tones a while back. I guess we're just so used to seeing glowing red or warm, bright blonde that everything else seems "ashy" compared to those...

[M-L-E]

I know that most people here on LHC do not conform to the ever-changing hair styles of the fashion world (no normal person could actually keep up with them, anyway...) But in the last couple of years, blonette-type colours have become really popular with supermodels because natural beauty is more "in"-compared to bleach blonde and the obvious chunky blonde highlights of several years back. Same with ombré- instead of people telling me my roots need doing like they used to, I get, "I love your ombre!" :p These things come in swings and roundabouts, at the moment I think blonette is actually very popular compared to what it used to be! I'm just glad to be slowly growing out the bleach and embracing my natural blonette/dark blonde colour... :)

Just to show some examples:

http://www.prettydesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2014-Karlie-Kloss-Hairstyles-Classic-Bob-Haircut.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5a/64/7b/5a647b835e3146792447332480e2def2.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/3c/81/9c/3c819c9b1fd354dea929354134c6e681.jpg

[Begemot]

It's not that most people in dark-haired areas DISLIKE their hair, it's more like "Eh. Not shiny-blue black. *shrug*"

I also find that blonette people are more likely to feel genuine stress about their hair--probably because it's neither "real" brown or "real" blonde, as mentioned quite a few times. People with red hair get stressed about their hair color, but that's pretty clearly because of the social stigma against ginger people in some areas. There doesn't seem to be an active stigma against blonette people, though.

So there's some level of indifference. Which is nice actually. Why waste energy on hating something you can't change permanently.
I hear people talk about traditional beauty and that would mean the average looking girl in their area, whose coloring reflects the general population around. Some would see it as a look that is very acceptable and even desired. I get this this sort of patriotic vibe from this thinking.
Here the stereotype of a average girl is blonde and blue eyed. But then again dark blondes aren't considered really blonde so the most common color would not be blonde and where does that leave us, what is the look of a average girl here...? It's confusing and it leaves blonettes hanging without a "look". You are right about the not this and that feel of blonette, in-between colors. People usually don't like uncertain things, so maybe they are bothered by the fickle nature of natural light browns and dark blondes.

At least there's no such thing as a "Kick a Blonette Day" :scared: I've found it very interesting how people react to red hair. Some see it as a way to bully and harass. But then there are so many people who love red hair and almost worship the ground under your feet if you happen to be natural red :D Polls suggest that red hair is the most favored color in TLHC. It's a very twofold thing.

Rosetta Ha, if I remember correctly we do share the same homeland :D It is very weird how passionately people hate blonette colors around here. They even seem upset when you challenge their thinking with facts. It often seems that people actually bond over with their hate on their natural hair color.

[tigress86]

In my country, this shade of hair color is called "potato peel". It is very, very common and I guess that is the reason it is unpopular - almost everyone else is born with it as well, nothing unique. When I was a kid, my mom wanted to call it something nicer and said that me and my brother had "satin blonde" hair. I have also noticed natural dark blonde getting more fashionable and many high fashion models wearing that shade. I admit it looks good on them, but is it because it's their natural color and suits best, or because they are supermodels and look stunning with every hair color?

[Rosetta]

At least there's no such thing as a "Kick a Blonette Day" :scared:
:eek: Thank goodness for that!


Rosetta Ha, if I remember correctly we do share the same homeland :D It is very weird how passionately people hate blonette colors around here. They even seem upset when you challenge their thinking with facts. It often seems that people actually bond over with their hate on their natural hair color.
Ah, but people *always* get upset if you challenge their habitual thinking, I've noticed... Unfortunately. So it's not just hair-related.
But I can't say I've noticed this passionate hate here, at least not lately. Or maybe that's just because my own thinking has changed ;)


In my country, this shade of hair color is called "potato peel". It is very, very common and I guess that is the reason it is unpopular - almost everyone else is born with it as well, nothing unique.
"Potato peel" :eek: I've heard it called so many things, from "dirt road" (over here) to "dishwater", but that's a new one!!

(Curious as to which country that is, but of course you don't have to tell if you'd rather keep it a secret, tigress ;))

[tigress86]

Not a secret, I am from Estonia :) "Dirt road" sounds familiar too... I think the Finns call it that, but I'm not sure.

[Rosetta]

^ You're right in that ("maantienvärinen") ;) Funny how I'd never heard of this potato peel thing before, Estonia being so close and all! Not very flattering term (again), definitely. I don't think any other hair colour has so many unflattering names :(

[tigress86]

I agree, many of these names are very unflattering :( "Potato peel" sounds to me like it means something dirty, as if not a true blonde/golden color, but a "stained" version.
I much prefer the satin blonde name of the shade. I looked it up in a dictionary, the word "šatään" (some kind of weird Estonian derivative of the word satin) is defined as: adj. a color between blonde and brown, n. a person with such hair color. But nowadays this term is rarely used over here, probably most people don't even know the meaning.

[Begemot]

Ah, but people *always* get upset if you challenge their habitual thinking, I've noticed... Unfortunately. So it's not just hair-related.
But I can't say I've noticed this passionate hate here, at least not lately. Or maybe that's just because my own thinking has changed ;)

"Potato peel" :eek: I've heard it called so many things, from "dirt road" (over here) to "dishwater", but that's a new one!!


True... I started to notice these things when I grew my natural color out. Time to time I will hear mean spirited stuff but it doesn't bother me that much anymore. Your own attitude towards yourself is all that matters :)

Potato peel colored hair, never heard of that one before! :D Just this morning ate a potato omelette...
The funny thing is that when vast majority prefers to color over the most common color it becomes a rare sight.

[Rosetta]

I agree, many of these names are very unflattering :( "Potato peel" sounds to me like it means something dirty, as if not a true blonde/golden color, but a "stained" version.
I much prefer the satin blonde name of the shade. I looked it up in a dictionary, the word "šatään" (some kind of weird Estonian derivative of the word satin) is defined as: adj. a color between blonde and brown, n. a person with such hair color. But nowadays this term is rarely used over here, probably most people don't even know the meaning.
That's an interesting meaning of that word; in English 'satin' only refers to the material, or weave, as far as I know. Although I have seen some hair dye shades called 'Satin blonde': http://sammccauley.com/images/productImages/Large/lo_casting_creme_gloss_satin_blonde_801.jpg and http://eleven.se/files/s/schwarzkopf-natural-easy-550-morkblond_500x500.jpg


The funny thing is that when vast majority prefers to color over the most common color it becomes a rare sight.
So true :)