Is My Hair Blond Or Brown?! Seriously?!

[yellowchariot]

I while back, I posted an update thread showing pics of my length and overall progress. A lot of you complemented my "blond" hair! I had no idea that it was blond LOL :confused:. I kept thinking that it is a light/medium brown tone. So I stepped outside to make a quick HD video in the sun so you all could get a better look at it. Please comment and let me know what color you think it is! However, when indoors, it looks more of a medium/dark brown tone.

Please let me know what your think! Brown or Blond? I give you all permission to laugh at my accent :tongue:
Click Here To See My Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm0EXukp4UI)


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[pepperminttea]

I'd say mid-light brown with some natural dark blonde highlights. And since you mentioned it, I love your accent; it's very warm. :)

[Bene]

[insert snarky remark about accent here]


Light brown? :shrug:

[Aquamarine]

I'd say light brown with some umm.... blond-ish ends??:confused: Sorry I'm not much of a help.:p:D

P.S. Your accent is pretty cool!:silly: :p

[cmnt831]

It looks light brown with some dark blond highlights to me. Very similar to my dh's hair color. Except he gets accused of artificially adding blond highlights to his. :rolleyes:

[yellowchariot]

BTW: Last summer I did mow a lot! I was out in the sun about every other day. So I most likely obtained sun streaks.

[Qwackie]

That's called a Tennessee Accent. :D
... I wish I had the stereotypical accent for TN. :(

Anyways, Um... mid/light brown and dirty blonde in the light?

[Alvrodul]

Light brown, I would say, but obviously the sun has been at work and given you some blonde highlights. I must say I like the color!

[yellowchariot]

I'd say mid-light brown with some natural dark blonde highlights. And since you mentioned it, I love your accent; it's very warm. :)

Thanks pepperminttea


[insert snarky remark about accent here]


Light brown? :shrug:

How now, I said you could laugh, not make fun of it :o


I'd say light brown with some umm.... blond-ish ends??:confused: Sorry I'm not much of a help.

P.S. Your accent is pretty cool!

Thanks Aquamarine!


It looks light brown with some dark blond highlights to me. Very similar to my dh's hair color. Except he gets accused of artificially adding blond highlights to his. :rolleyes:

cmnt, last summer my hair did look as if I had added highlights to it, haha, but it has faded quite a bit!


That's called a Tennessee Accent. :D
... I wish I had the stereotypical accent for TN. :(

Anyways, Um... mid/light brown and dirty blonde in the light?

Qwackie, when I go to TN, I rarely hear anybody with the same accent as mine?! I do not know if they try to hide it, or what?! lol I promise we h'aint dumb! :D

[little_cherry]

Dark Ash blonde/light ash brown? Mine's medium ash brown and slightly darker than yours.

[MissManda]

Your hair looks to be light brown to me. :) My hair is medium brown and is darker than yours. But then again, I once had a hairstylist tell me that my hair was "blonde," so I suppose hair color is subjective.

[enfys]

Well. I read the title and instantly thought "blonde, obviously" but yes it must have darkened since whatever sunkissed picture I looked at!

I'd say light brown but wouldn't blame anyone who threw blonde into the description.

I didn't get to hear your accent because my speakers are off while DH listens to a podcast for uni...

[PiroskaCicu]

I think your hair is similar to my hair colour but a few shades lighter. So I would say dark blonde. My hair is medium/light brown.

[tinti]

I'd say light brown with blonde highlight/streaks. Oh, and I also Love your accent! :D

[HuggyBear]

Dude...your accent is awesome! I am kinda biased, though...I have the same one. We have that southern TN twang. I used to date a guy from Kansas and he called me all the time wanting his friends to hear my accent because they thought it was the cutest thing they ever heard. Or maybe they were just telling me that and laughing their butts off at me. :p

BTW: Your hair looks like it's dark blonde to me.

[Toadstool]

looks blonde to me.
Awesome accent!!!!

[ChrissieM]

The part that hasn't been sunkissed is light brown, but the ends are dark blond. After a few more years of growing and a few more years of sun, I think you are going to be a bit blonder.

[ericthegreat]

As of right now, your hair is a mixture of light brown with lots of natural golden blonde highlights.

Your natural color is a very light brown, but it is the kind of light brown that easily bleaches to golden blonde in the sun. Since you've been outdoors a lot over this summer, its quite normal for your hair to lighten to blonde. I personally think its an awesome color combo! :cheer:

[rags]

Light brown with blond highlights most likely caused by the sun. What accent??? :p

[chelseamichelle]

I would say light brown

[1nuitblanche]

I'd say light brown, although that might be because in the video, I could see that your eyebrows and goatee are dark.

[Lixie]

I'd say light brown. Very nice, too. And I love your accent! :D

[Peter]

Light brown!

And your accent is nifty. :D

[HollowHannah]

Medium to light blonde with some definate blonde highlights. Oh, and your accent is perfectly charming. :-)

[MsBubbles]

This is strange, because from your indoor videos I recognized your hair color as being like my natural indoor hair color, so I just assumed you were also blonde in the sun. I am surprised to see your hair is a more medium brown (to me) outside in the sun.

[frizzinator]

Your hair is golden.

Do you have an accent?

[Hylia]

It looks very much blonde to me. Dark blonde anyways, looks good!

[JenniferNoel]

Ah, the great debate appears once again, as blondette continues to confuse the masses with it's mysterious and elusive persona.
I'm going to take part and agree with most of the above posts, your hair is definitely a light brown/dark blonde. Lighting makes all the difference in the world.

[apynip]

I claim light brown and blonde on teh sun bleached ends.

BTW now i have to read your posts with your voice. its a terrible trait I have. you have teh same accent as my brother in law so no laughing or sassy remarks on my end.

[joiekimochi]

Maple syrup. It looks dark in the bottle but turns golden when the sun hits it. At least, that's how I would describe your hair.

Nice accent by the way, it sounds comforting like the town sheriff who has got everything under control.

[Antipodienne]

Blonette, for sure.

[GoddesJourney]

Well, if you have to ask...

Just kidding. It actually looks perfectly light to medium brown to me, and kind of fine. You have some light and reddish highlights, which is normal. Looks nice, I don't see a problem. :D

ETA: Oh, and the accent, yes, cracks me up. A little more of a drawl than I had imagined, but I guess it suits you so why not? Kind of reminds me of Kevin Bacon from Tremors. Hahaha!

[2peasinapod]

It looks light brown in the video and medium brown in your albums to me. I think it looks nice! :)

[DecafJane]

It is a really nice light brown, IMHO.

I love hearing people's accents (and yours is gorgeous) for the first time. In my head, when I see people but don't hear them, they all speak English with Australian accents, because I'm Australian. This includes Germans with whom I speak German. Then when I hear a different accent to what I expect, it is such a pleasant surprise.

It is also really nice to hear people speaking in accents that aren't the boring modified newsreader accent. Having said that, the harsher Australian accents are awful. (Look up Kath and Kim on Youtube for examples.)

[Lavina]

I think your hair is dark-blond.
In the Russian language has a special name for this color :wink:

[Lianna]

Looks like a level 6.0 dark blonde to me. And seems it will get lighter as it grows. I also love your accent! :D

[Phexlyn]

DBF has almost the same hair colour, and he insists it is dark blonde. I call it light brown anyway, so you see it's a bit difficult ;)

It's probably one of those colours that change very much with the lighting, and that's why some say it's blonde, some say it's brown. Maybe sort that out by the colour it is in most lightings and not counting the sun streaks?

[Gnomentum]

Your hair looks (in the sun) the same sort of colour range as my daughter's. Which is to say, light brown with sunbleached blonde streaks. When I've seen your other videos, indoors, it looks a little darker.

I already heard your accent and I like it! There are very few accents I don't like, but yours is cute.

Loved the earthquake effect on the video.. quite impressed though, if it had been me holding a cam in my hand like that it would have looked like the coming of the apocalypse.. I have really poor upper arm strength!

[Sisko]

Dark blond. Or is it tawny? I'm not sure what the colour between blond and brown is called, but it certainly exists - a lovely soft colour it is.

[cubedcoley]

Hair of many colors based on lighting. The accent rules!! :guns:

[RadiantNeedle]

Puma.
You are puma coloured!
Darker brown tones with tawny highlights and wheat blonde. ^-^

[aada]

between light brown and dark blonde. for added helpfulness, pretend i am making fun of your accent. :D

[FrannyG]

That would be dark blonde. It's a fine line between dark blonde and light brown to the untrained eye, but I'm going with dark blonde.

[Dark Rosaleen]

I'd say it's light brown with dark blond highlights from the sun. It's a pretty color.

And on a side note: Woohoo I've lived in TN long enough now to recognize the accent. It's cool.

[Othala]

In-betweenie!

[serious]

Dark blonde!

[Chrissy]

It is a really nice light brown, IMHO.

I love hearing people's accents (and yours is gorgeous) for the first time. In my head, when I see people but don't hear them, they all speak English with Australian accents, because I'm Australian. This includes Germans with whom I speak German. Then when I hear a different accent to what I expect, it is such a pleasant surprise.

It is also really nice to hear people speaking in accents that aren't the boring modified newsreader accent. Having said that, the harsher Australian accents are awful. (Look up Kath and Kim on Youtube for examples.)

Yipes! I wish I would have had a warning about them. Kinda R rated.

[Chrissy]

To me your hair is light brown. I think your accent is nice. I love accents of all sorts.

[Zindell]

Medium brown with some golden brown streaks :)

[salls]

Light Brown has my vote.

[Joliebaby]

See, even the experts here can't agree :)
I would lean toward dark blonde though. But you could just as easily say it's light brown. Sorry, no help here :)

[lajsa]

I'd say somewhere between brown and blonde, leaning towards brown. :p And your accent is lovely, btw. :D

[Maddy25]

Light brown I'd say. It is kind of hard to tell, sorta like Avril Lavignes hair when it was brownish, I could never decide if it was brown or light blonde.

[Margeaux]

I haven't read the complete thread so this may have been offered before, but a good way to determine whether you're a blond or brunet is this:

Does your hair lighten in the sun and become more 'truly' blond? If so, you're dark blond. If it doesn't lighten, or if it has a reddish/auburnish undertone, you're a brunet.

Hope that helps :)!

- a blonde ;)

[MsBubbles]

I think your hair is dark-blond.
In the Russian language has a special name for this color :wink:

OK so now I'm curious...:o can you say what it is, or is it rude or something? :)

[Aredhel77]

Yep, light brown with some sun-lightening has my vote.

But 'maple syrup' (joiekimochi) and 'puma' (RadiantNeedle)sound sooo much cooler!! :eyebrows:

Maybe this needs to be a poll and then you'll be able to gauge visually what the general consensus is LOL

[Katze]

we have almost the same hair color, and I am considered brown (too bad, I WISH I was still blonde. :D) Look through my pics and see if you don't agree with me that we have very similar color (and type...!)

As a guy you might not know this but 'blonde' depends a LOT on who you're asking. :D

Here in northern Europe there are more people who are naturally blonde, so my hair is considered brown. When I lived in NYC I was considered blonde, go figure. But I have blonde eyebrows and eyelashes so I consider myself dark blonde. Your beard is fairly dark so that might push you into the category of brown.

Here is a pic of my DH (with our daughter just after she was born) who has almost the same hair color as me in real life: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=218&pictureid=37518

but he is considered blonde, and gets platinum streaks in the sun, whereas I don't. His beard is also lighter than yours with a lot of blonde and red.

Sometimes we say 'hair colored', 'tawny' or 'puma-colored' (I love pumas) for this inbetween hair.

IMO, blonde is very much in the eye of the beholder!

and yer accent rocks. :D

[Blueglass]

Light to medium brown, for sure. I don't see any gold, and very little red. A neutral brown.

[KittyLost]

Didn't someone make a Blondette thread? Prehaps are you a Blondette!

[Henrietta]

Didn't someone make a Blondette thread? Prehaps are you a Blondette!

I did:D

Here, I vote for light brown. Maybe it's just my computer's settings but I can see some red tones too;)

[aenflex]

Tee hee I was thinking light brown!!!! Perception is Reality!!?!?!?!

[Kathie]

I was also thinking light/med brown. But you do seem to have blond ends :shrug:

[yellowchariot]

Alright now, you all are throwing in colors that aren't even present! LOL J/K :laugh:

Most of the replies seem half and half.
So it must be the combination of my color tone :shrug:
However, if I look at the strands of my hair, individually, they appear to be the same shade. I do not just see an isolated different shade of color :confused:

[MsBubbles]

...and then there are all our different computer monitors, plus our own perception of what falls under blonde or brown :D

[DavidN]

Your hair colour looks similar to mine, Yellowchariot, except that I have quite a few natural silvers mixed in, of course! I still call it brown, with blonde highlights. My hair always looks lighter in the sun, and may even lighten slightly in the summer as well.

Cool accent, btw!

[melikai]

Light to medium brown! :) The tips are blondish, but the top doesn't seem to go "golden" in the sunlight, which I associate with blonde hair. So, yeah: light/med brown.

[RitaPG]

It seems definitely brown, just lightened by the sun.

You have that particular hair color that my mom calls "light brown and dark blonde" :rollin:
I think it's a lovely color, it changes with the season :)

[Thinthondiel]

I'd say medium brown with natural highlights.

I still love your accent. :)

(ETA: "still" as in, I've told you before that I love your accent and I still do, not "still" as in "I like your accent even though your hair looks brown to me" :p)

[JulietCapulet]

Dark blonde. Not brown.