Blonette Pride :)

[bobaerose]

*sorry for errors!

OCELAN your hair story i similar to mine!

[natural_shine]

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[natural_shine]

my blonette hair is getting darker and darker as I age.

- until 12 I was light blonde, childish bright blonde
-12-13 to 18 it turned darker, dirty blonde
-18-21 got even darker, blonette

Now I'm 24 and it's darker and darker. I wonder if it will turn like a washed black by the time I'll be 30. Both my parents have dark hair, but none of them had blonde hair when they were younger.

does this happen to anyone else?

[meishkamooshka]

My hair when I was a tiny tot:
http://i.imgur.com/88xBIMsl.jpg

My hair now:
http://i.imgur.com/3UFbgNj.jpg?1

[SugarPlumDreams]

Just another brunette wanting to pop in and say that I've been envious of those with blonette hair my whole life! It embodies to me a natural and earthy beauty that is intricate, subtle, fascinating. Leaves the viewer intrigued ;)

[Lize]

meishkamooshka - Adorable photos of when you were a kid! And your hair was and is beautiful!

[Springlets]

More beautifully blonette pictures for your viewing pleasure, ladies:
Gorgeous (http://media-cache-lt0.pinterest.com/550x/5c/9f/74/5c9f74b100f32ec91d2e0ade4f3ee0d8.jpg)
Amazing (http://media-cache-ec6.pinterest.com/550x/41/7d/d2/417dd2de1a2b83225eb97540f0ca57f6.jpg)
Wonderful (http://media-cache-ec7.pinterest.com/550x/c9/4c/06/c94c063d4ce03c4ddd1e21094fcbb101.jpg)
Beautiful (http://media-cache-ec7.pinterest.com/550x/f1/99/67/f1996761e36101ef5439ddb66a8bccc2.jpg)
Sublime (http://media-cache-ec7.pinterest.com/550x/3a/25/2e/3a252e16c96d158e190f61626716ad41.jpg)
Supercalifragilistic (http://media-cache-ec1.pinterest.com/550x/35/64/c6/3564c6f926ca094c170aba2e4c302511.jpg)
And this one I really like- they're actually promoting going from light blonde to dark blonde! (http://media-cache-ec7.pinterest.com/550x/bc/08/84/bc0884d25c52cec3d8e34a16b9059beb.jpg) She looks a million times better with the dark blonde, no stark roots, coloring matches her better, and her features stand out more.

[Vrindi]

One more reason to be proud of being blonette: as I start to get grey hairs, they just blend right in!

[Phalaenopsis]

A picture of my blondette hair:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/naturalgirl/20130112_141545_resized_zps307b4d7e.jpg

I'm realizing more and more, that this is just the colour for me. It isn't an intense colour which goes great with my light green eyes.

Here an older pic in daylight, no sun:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/naturalgirl/vanachter-1.jpg

[ozzy]

beautiful hair Phalaenopsis!

[aspartame gram]

Springlets, I always love coming back to the Blonette Pride forum to see the wonderful examples you've pulled up. :) So happy that everyone is embracing and sharing their lovely hair color. ^_^

[Lize]

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/IMG_7447_zps255ce0b2.jpg

My hair in pale spring sunlight from the window. I love my hair color more every day. :)

[AndreaPetrea]

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/IMG_7447_zps255ce0b2.jpg

My hair in pale spring sunlight from the window. I love my hair color more every day. :)

And you can see why!

My hair colour is exactly the same in sunlight, but it's almost impossible to catch with my camera. I love that it can look like pure gold. In some lights, though, it looks almost grey.

[palaeoqueen]

And you can see why!

My hair colour is exactly the same in sunlight, but it's almost impossible to catch with my camera. I love that it can look like pure gold. In some lights, though, it looks almost grey.

Mine too! I'm also starting to love it more and more.

[lapushka]

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/IMG_7447_zps255ce0b2.jpg

My hair in pale spring sunlight from the window. I love my hair color more every day. :)

I would say that's a light to mid-tone blonde rather than blonette.

[Ocelan]

I would say that's a light to mid-tone blonde rather than blonette.

Yes, it looks like that but my dark blonette borderlining brunette goes almost the same color in sunlight (or as light but perhaps a little different tone). Oh the versatility! :cheese:

[AndreaPetrea]

If I'm telling people that my hair is blonde, they tell me it's light brown. If I say that my hair is light brown, they tell me it's blonde. Human beings are hard to satisfy :laugh:

[lapushka]

Yes, it looks like that but my dark blonette borderlining brunette goes almost the same color in sunlight (or as light but perhaps a little different tone). Oh the versatility! :cheese:

True. Mine goes quite light in the sunshine and in bright light as well... hmmm.

[MsBubbles]

My hair colour is exactly the same in sunlight, but it's almost impossible to catch with my camera. I love that it can look like pure gold. In some lights, though, it looks almost grey.

Ditto.


I would say that's a light to mid-tone blonde rather than blonette.

Ditto.


Yes, it looks like that but my dark blonette borderlining brunette goes almost the same color in sunlight (or as light but perhaps a little different tone). Oh the versatility! :cheese:

Ditto.


If I'm telling people that my hair is blonde, they tell me it's light brown. If I say that my hair is light brown, they tell me it's blonde. Human beings are hard to satisfy :laugh:

Ditto! Haha. I'm so glad to see everybody else having the same reaction as me to Lize's hair color. It's beautiful, Lize! Definitely lighter than mine.

I guess the thing about chemical highlights is that you get the brighter color no matter what light, as opposed to what mine does, which is go into black-hole light-sucking grey mode, depending on the type of light. I think certain features and complexions look great with my hair color, but I wouldn't include myself in that! LOL.

I've been dumping chamomile tea rinses on my hair for the past 3 weeks (3 or 4 times a week) to see if it'll lighten up a tad, and it makes my hair beautifully glossy and a little thicker-feeling. The color? No change. I'm looking forward to the sun being a bit more directly overhead, to brighten up the front a little.

[Lize]

Thank's everyone for the comments. :flowers:


I would say that's a light to mid-tone blonde rather than blonette.

I have some other photos in natural, but darker light.

Here it's getting dark outside so it's pretty dark in the room, and hair is still slightly damp. Natural color down to APL.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/IMG_0118_zpse85ab2df.jpg

On a cloudy day. Natural color down to the line.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/IMG_7352.jpg

As you can see it varies a lot with different lights. And also with different cameras. Some cameras take out more red tones like the upper photo. I don't really see so much red in real life. It can also look grey like in the lower one. I consider myself to be a dark blonde, and I guess that's the same thing as blonette right? I know several others also have expressed that this is typical for this hair color - the shifting of the color in different lights and how people perceive it. That is actually one of the reasons that I like it so much. Sometimes it looks blonde and sometimes dark, it can fit different seasons and different moods. :)

[missketi]

Wow, your hair colour is beautiful Lize! I love all shades of your hair!
I adore this hair colour although I'm a medium brunette myself. Don't see much blondettes in real life and that makes me sad.

[Ocelan]

Lize your hair color is so much like mine in many ways! I don't remember if I've posted these photos in this thread but here we go anyway. They're from 2 months ago when I hadn't dyed my hair in a year. You'll see where the demarcation line is...
ETA: I don't have a photo of my hair in the sun. There's been close to zero sunlight here so the thought hasn't even crossed my mind.

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk102/Ocelan/colorsaftercassia_zps48513f64.jpg

[Lize]

Wow, your hair colour is beautiful Lize! I love all shades of your hair!
I adore this hair colour although I'm a medium brunette myself. Don't see much blondettes in real life and that makes me sad.

Thank you very much! :flowers:

Ocelan - Yes, I think our colors are very similar. It's nice to see your natural color progress. :) I hope we all get some more sun soon! :cool:

[redtuss]

Took me 11 pages to find this thread again! :D

I believe I might be a blonette/blunette (?) although not being to familiar with the lingo yet ;) Decided to stop hennaing for a while and see if I can get my natural colour back again!

My hair is brown but not dark brown, and it has never been mistaken for blonde at least as some of you guys' hair has been called. (AndreaPetrea and MsBubbles). But it does shimmer in sunlight and gets golden. I kinda miss it - have not had my natural haircolour for.. well.. a lot of years! It was natural to the chin during 2011, and then I started hennaing in august 2011 - and have continued to do that and taking better care of it until now.
Before 2010-2011 I have had all kinds of colours, red/pink/purple/blue/green/orange/blond/grey/white/black/yellow and all kinds of hairstyles but now very long. And now, being older and wiser, I kinda miss my long straight hair from my childhood - it was beautiful :D So, I am trying to get that back but better! ;)

I did write in the thread for growing out natural colour but wanted to join this thread too, and here is a little picture of my colour - do you think it is blonette? Do I fit in here? ;)

http://s11.postimg.org/6pqzkliib/DSC_9337.jpg

Take care of your marveolous hair ladies and gentlemen!

[vintage]

Me too! I was bright blonde as a child and when it darkened in my teen years, I didn't like it and so I started dying it. And doing it badly as well ;-). My best friend and I would dye our hair like every 2 weeks or so, and every color we could imagine and several we didn't imagine but showed up anyways (like the pink from the "temporary" koolaid. Temporary is a myth for porous bleached blonde hair). On a whim, just because I couldn't remember my natural color, I grew it out. It was darker than what I consider blonde though and many years of self-identifying as blonde led me to bleaching it again. I hennaed it for a bit as well, but it showed up too orange and so tried to get it back to blonde which melted my hair and turned it green! I had to cut it all off. That was the last of my dying adventures. I'm now growing it out. I still have about an inch or two of bleached ends, but natural hair to my shoulders. I still think it's too dark because I only ever see it in my poorly lighted bathroom. But my daughter has my same color of hair and because of seeing how beautiful hers is, I'm learning to love mine too. Actually her hair will probably end up darker than mine as it's fairly dark already at 7, but I've never seen anyone with so much color variation in their hair! Sometimes it looks caramel colored, others a light bleach blonde, sometimes antique gold, and on occasion a super bright strawberry blonde. Every color is completely flattering on her as well. I would hate for her to dye it when she grows up and if I dye my hair of the same color, she would likely believe that hers isn't pretty enough either, and nothing could be further from the truth.

[Liesbeth]

Yep, that's me! My hair is light ash brown. I used to think my hair color was drab and plain, and others have told me so, too. :shake:
But then I dyed my hair with henna for a year and really came to miss my natural color. I shaved all the henna off and got my virgin color back. I absolutely love it and will never dye it again! :rockerdud

[cooklaezo13]

I really liked this picture of my hair color, by the light of the setting sun through a window. As others have noted, blonnette hair looks really different in different lighting.
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n573/cooklaezo13/IMG_20130211_140832_439_zps618bbf8d.jpg

[Springlets]

Some more pictures!

Great (http://media-cache-ak2.pinimg.com/236x/06/7f/fd/067ffd0211dc404fd8a9a1fdaef6e7ad.jpg)
Wonderful (http://media-cache-ak2.pinimg.com/736x/ef/b8/e2/efb8e20f3913538a7da1264e7a3c4ec3.jpg)
Fantastic (http://media-cache-ak1.pinimg.com/236x/d1/db/84/d1db84a0924d8e7258253f5ad7d60081.jpg)
Sensational (http://media-cache-ec2.pinimg.com/736x/0d/f1/6b/0df16b9c6103d6e97f04199280e76e02.jpg)
Mystical (http://media-cache-ak2.pinimg.com/236x/98/33/6d/98336d65411f167fef846e0c2603d45e.jpg)
Beeyootiful (http://media-cache-ak2.pinimg.com/736x/09/bb/21/09bb219ffe9061775d1656324ec8dea0.jpg)
Stupendous (http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a5/ff/93/a5ff9343db6778f7a6064959c9247f7a.jpg)

Also, I am slowly moving the pictures from my private Real Blonde Hair pinterest board to a public one, so if you want to follow it, here (http://pinterest.com/realblondehair/real-blonde-hair/) you go!

[Mai Gloeckchen]

Wonderful linked pictures, Springelts. :)

I almost forgot this thread... but blonette is exactly my haircolour. In fact I named my blog after this colour: "haselnussblond" means "hazelnutblonde", you could also say blonette. :)

Here is my hair last week in the sun, warm golden, almost coppery.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/wasichsomache/2013/Laenge/130613laenge2_zps9b2daf5f.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/wasichsomache/media/2013/Laenge/130613laenge2_zps9b2daf5f.jpg.html)

And this is my hair in daylight, but no direct sun. Much darker, browner.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/wasichsomache/2013/Frisuren/1306015flechtwerk2_zps0ebc02bb.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/wasichsomache/media/2013/Frisuren/1306015flechtwerk2_zps0ebc02bb.jpg.html)

And I guess this is closest to reality. Somehwere between darkblond and light brown at the crown, weathering to a warmer blonde downwards. :)
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/wasichsomache/2013/01Jan/Haare/130116fr1_zpse0f206de.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/wasichsomache/media/2013/01Jan/Haare/130116fr1_zpse0f206de.jpg.html)
I really love my haircolour and never understood why people told my I shoul dye (maybe becuase I was a teenager long ago ;) and everybody was so excited about dyeing their hai).

[CaranDulin]

I belong here! This is the lightest my hair gets:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4307&d=1368314654

[aspartame gram]

Here's my hair color, though I admit I have been trying to add some warmth to it. I'm still debating on what looks best. It's very ashy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98374957@N08/9187138159/

[Phalaenopsis]

Wonderful linked pictures, Springelts. :)

I almost forgot this thread... but blonette is exactly my haircolour. In fact I named my blog after this colour: "haselnussblond" means "hazelnutblonde", you could also say blonette. :)

Here is my hair last week in the sun, warm golden, almost coppery.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/wasichsomache/2013/Laenge/130613laenge2_zps9b2daf5f.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/wasichsomache/media/2013/Laenge/130613laenge2_zps9b2daf5f.jpg.html)

And this is my hair in daylight, but no direct sun. Much darker, browner.
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/wasichsomache/2013/Frisuren/1306015flechtwerk2_zps0ebc02bb.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/wasichsomache/media/2013/Frisuren/1306015flechtwerk2_zps0ebc02bb.jpg.html)

And I guess this is closest to reality. Somehwere between darkblond and light brown at the crown, weathering to a warmer blonde downwards. :)
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/wasichsomache/2013/01Jan/Haare/130116fr1_zpse0f206de.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/wasichsomache/media/2013/01Jan/Haare/130116fr1_zpse0f206de.jpg.html)
I really love my haircolour and never understood why people told my I shoul dye (maybe becuase I was a teenager long ago ;) and everybody was so excited about dyeing their hai).

I really like haselnussblond!

I googled hazelnut blonde, just to see if there were any results for that and did you know that apparently in English it's a dessert?
I find it so cool that we have a yummy hair colour :D

[WilfredAllen]

Here's my hair color, though I admit I have been trying to add some warmth to it. I'm still debating on what looks best. It's very ashy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98374957@N08/9187138159/

I love your colour! Don't change it, it's beautiful! It matches your skin perfectly... in my opinion, most people look best with their natural colour.

If you're still thinking about colouring it maybe you could try a redish rinse (like rooibos) to see if you like it?

[Skade]

Here's my hair color, though I admit I have been trying to add some warmth to it. I'm still debating on what looks best. It's very ashy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98374957@N08/9187138159/

That is a beautiful photo, your eyes are striking in it!

[palaeoqueen]

I finally remembered to post a picture of my hair colour here! It was taken for the APL to BSL thread, I don't usually go around in my undies :lol:

It's natural down to about shoulder at the back and the lighting wasn't very good, it's probably a touch lighter in real life.. What do people think? Is it blondette/blonette?

http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh584/SofaNymph/_DSC3721.jpg (http://s1253.photobucket.com/user/SofaNymph/media/_DSC3721.jpg.html)

[FuzzyBlackWaves]

Ah, I wish I could be proud of my natural hair colour like you guys are. It's this colour underneath the years of dye:

http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u605/NikkiBik/virginhair_zpsbabc2294.jpg (http://s1324.photobucket.com/user/NikkiBik/media/virginhair_zpsbabc2294.jpg.html)

Do excuse my nine year old painted face. Still, I think I suit black a lot better anyway :)

http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/u605/NikkiBik/june2013snapshot2_zps23695a44.jpg (http://s1324.photobucket.com/user/NikkiBik/media/june2013snapshot2_zps23695a44.jpg.html)

[Springlets]

I finally remembered to post a picture of my hair colour here! It was taken for the APL to BSL thread, I don't usually go around in my undies :lol:

It's natural down to about shoulder at the back and the lighting wasn't very good, it's probably a touch lighter in real life.. What do people think? Is it blondette/blonette?


It looks like a level 7 edging towards 8 just above your shoulders, which I think is one of the two quintessential blonette colors (level 6 being the second).

I know my hair is generally lighter than what is considered blonette, but I'll always consider blonette as part of my hair color. When I put my hair in an updo, it looks blonette. When I am in dark lighting, my hair looks blonette. On the day before I wash my hair, it looks blonette. I think this is true for most who consider themselves blonde, and likewise a blonette's hair can appear very clear, light blonde as well. To me, blonde and blonette is more of a continuum than two separate categories. :shrug:

ETA: Oh and Paleoqueen, it has a very natural gradient down, I think the remaining dye at the bottom is pretty much the color that your natural hair will be when it reaches that length. It's been true for my hair anyway. :)

[Ocelan]

I'm starting to look more and more like an actual blonette now that I have 18 months worth of virgin roots. Here we go (ignore my blue eyeshadow and the blue blobs of scales on my neck, it was mermaid photoshoot day (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=11044)):

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5141&d=1373132501

[palaeoqueen]

It looks like a level 7 edging towards 8 just above your shoulders, which I think is one of the two quintessential blonette colors (level 6 being the second).

I know my hair is generally lighter than what is considered blonette, but I'll always consider blonette as part of my hair color. When I put my hair in an updo, it looks blonette. When I am in dark lighting, my hair looks blonette. On the day before I wash my hair, it looks blonette. I think this is true for most who consider themselves blonde, and likewise a blonette's hair can appear very clear, light blonde as well. To me, blonde and blonette is more of a continuum than two separate categories. :shrug:

ETA: Oh and Paleoqueen, it has a very natural gradient down, I think the remaining dye at the bottom is pretty much the color that your natural hair will be when it reaches that length. It's been true for my hair anyway. :)

Thanks, I think I'd be inclined to agree about the level. It's a bit lighter in natural light but probably not enough to call it an 8, maybe a 7.5. If the colour gradient I have now ends up being similar to what it will do naturally I'll be very happy. I'm just so delighted that my natural hair has turned out to be "properly" blonde, I really thought it was going to be a lot darker. Certainly no-one around me considers it to be brown anyway and you know how the general public tend to dark blondes to be brunette.

[UStoUKmomma]

I probably belong here. My natural color is a dark blonde these days, but I gave in about a month ago and lightened the 8" of roots because I couldn't stand looking at them (even though they really weren't that bad....I wish I hadn't done it now. Too late!) I didn't leave it on as long as I should've, though, so maybe the change will be subtle enough this time that it won't annoy me and I'll just grow my color back out in a reverse ombre. Haha

[Nedertane]

Guys. You guys. It's finally happened. We finally have a blonette Disney princess to call our own. Meet Anna, from Frozen:

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33400000/Frozen-Posters-frozen-33492103-1080-1600.jpg

I mean, I don't know about you, but my childhood self is pleased as peaches to have a princess in my image (fun times being "not blonde enough" to be Cinderella or Aurora, but "not brunette/dark enough" to be Belle).


*(Ah, and before the anti-Disney comments may arise - many of which I at least partly agree with - I'll go ahead and state for the record that I'm being facetious. :) )*

[MeganE]

Guys. You guys. It's finally happened. We finally have a blonette Disney princess to call our own. Meet Anna, from Frozen:

http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33400000/Frozen-Posters-frozen-33492103-1080-1600.jpg

I mean, I don't know about you, but my childhood self is pleased as peaches to have a princess in my image (fun times being "not blonde enough" to be Cinderella or Aurora, but "not brunette/dark enough" to be Belle).


*(Ah, and before the anti-Disney comments may arise - many of which I at least partly agree with - I'll go ahead and state for the record that I'm being facetious. :) )*

She looks clearly blonde to me. I don't think I could say she "could" be brunette, and isn't that what blonette is? But you're right, it's definitely an unusual shade that they haven't done before.

I've been wondering lately if I was too dark to be blonette anymore, but somebody called me blonde yesterday so yay!

[lapushka]

She looks clearly blonde to me. I don't think I could say she "could" be brunette, and isn't that what blonette is? But you're right, it's definitely an unusual shade that they haven't done before.

I've been wondering lately if I was too dark to be blonette anymore, but somebody called me blonde yesterday so yay!

No, I definitely agree. She's a mid-tone blonde, a "regular" blonde.

[Ocelan]

Yes, sadly I can't get the Disney princess to be a blonette in my head either, no matter how much I try to look for pictures with her hair being a tad darker... :/

But look what I found! This girl (http://fairy-emily.blogspot.fi/) has amazing hair and it's such a pretty blonette color! Now I found my hair inspiration methinks (without the bangs for me)! :)

[Nedertane]

She looks clearly blonde to me. I don't think I could say she "could" be brunette, and isn't that what blonette is? But you're right, it's definitely an unusual shade that they haven't done before.

I've been wondering lately if I was too dark to be blonette anymore, but somebody called me blonde yesterday so yay!

No, I definitely agree. She's a mid-tone blonde, a "regular" blonde.

Yes, sadly I can't get the Disney princess to be a blonette in my head either, no matter how much I try to look for pictures with her hair being a tad darker... :/

But look what I found! This girl (http://fairy-emily.blogspot.fi/) has amazing hair and it's such a pretty blonette color! Now I found my hair inspiration methinks (without the bangs for me)! :)

Aww, y'all really feel that way? Well, in the words of Maurice Moss of The IT Crowd, "Egg and my face are in alignment".

Looking over some of the other pictures in this thread, I can see why you might feel like your hair is darker than Ms. Anna's, but I personally considered it to be out of the usual Disney context for "blonde". I mean, if we compare her to Cinderella, Aurora, or Rapunzel:

- http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BdzJcIO1Sh4/UKxGfSVNTGI/AAAAAAAAXbQ/hCy5ewJ3hRE/s1600/Cinderella+in+her+dress.jpg
- http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31400000/Princess-Aurora-disney-princess-31471875-1024-768.jpg
- http://iphone.wallpapersus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2010-Tangled-Rapunzel.jpg

Then Anna's hair seems darker (and even a little redder?) by comparison -perhaps even to the point of being considered a light brown - and thus she stuck out to me as being blonette. I guess I could see why some might not see as much of a difference between their hair colors, but I find the differences to be more striking (but then again, I've always considered myself to have a very strong color-distinguishing ability).


Like I mentioned, I just like having a princess that basically looks like a CGI copy of me :p . Heck, even one of my friends that considers me to be a brunette thinks Anna looks like me lol.

[palaeoqueen]

She looks clearly blonde to me. I don't think I could say she "could" be brunette, and isn't that what blonette is? But you're right, it's definitely an unusual shade that they haven't done before.

I've been wondering lately if I was too dark to be blonette anymore, but somebody called me blonde yesterday so yay!

Well now I'm confused, no-one would mistake me for brunette but people on here seem to agree that I'm a blonette? Does blonette means it's hard to tell? If so then maybe I should just call myself mid-blonde because there's no way my hair is at all close to brown :confused:

[Skade]

Yes, sadly I can't get the Disney princess to be a blonette in my head either, no matter how much I try to look for pictures with her hair being a tad darker... :/

But look what I found! This girl (http://fairy-emily.blogspot.fi/) has amazing hair and it's such a pretty blonette color! Now I found my hair inspiration methinks (without the bangs for me)! :)

I am trying to embrace my blondette color and go natural, after bashing on it for too long and always either bleached or dyed it. This was a really good hair inspiration. Thanks for posting it. The length and color looks so good on her.

[ThatOneMermaid]

This is for the dark blonde, light brown, tawny, "dishwater" blonde, municipal grey, blonde-brown-red haired LHC members and those who also appreciate the hair color.

Please no negativity or bashing of the color in this thread. I think instead we should post pictures of our own hair and those with it that we admire or find to have beautiful heads of hair. We can also discuss why we love the color, what colors suit it well etc

Let the Blonette Pride Parade begin :D

Aaaaand a couple years later... Haha! :)
Just wanted to say thank you for making this thread! For such a long time, I haven't decided if I'm brunette or secretly blonde or just what, haha! Buuuut my hair looks to be the exact same as yours in your footer/bottom pic :) I love it - mine looks like this really pretty golden color when it's in direct daytime sunlight :D

[MeganE]

Aww, y'all really feel that way? Well, in the words of Maurice Moss of The IT Crowd, "Egg and my face are in alignment".

Looking over some of the other pictures in this thread, I can see why you might feel like your hair is darker than Ms. Anna's, but I personally considered it to be out of the usual Disney context for "blonde". I mean, if we compare her to Cinderella, Aurora, or Rapunzel:

- http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BdzJcIO1Sh4/UKxGfSVNTGI/AAAAAAAAXbQ/hCy5ewJ3hRE/s1600/Cinderella+in+her+dress.jpg
- http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31400000/Princess-Aurora-disney-princess-31471875-1024-768.jpg
- http://iphone.wallpapersus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2010-Tangled-Rapunzel.jpg

Then Anna's hair seems darker (and even a little redder?) by comparison -perhaps even to the point of being considered a light brown - and thus she stuck out to me as being blonette. I guess I could see why some might not see as much of a difference between their hair colors, but I find the differences to be more striking (but then again, I've always considered myself to have a very strong color-distinguishing ability).


Like I mentioned, I just like having a princess that basically looks like a CGI copy of me :p . Heck, even one of my friends that considers me to be a brunette thinks Anna looks like me lol.

You know, now that you bring it up, I have often wondered if Cinderella actually is a blonette. Forget the new way they draw her, it doesn't look anything like the original movie.

But in the movie, her hair does shift colors quite a lot.

Some pictures:

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24400000/Cinderella-classic-disney-24456712-1024-768.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PAlAWsQxuF0/ThT2MgPvCzI/AAAAAAAAAv0/5QkzbXvv_Yw/s1600/Disneys-Cinderella.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rmu3BzQtGsE/UKxGf1AxyjI/AAAAAAAAXbY/Tpt7W6y4CqI/s1600/Cinderella+measured+for+dress.jpg
http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Disney-Princess-Cinderella.jpg
http://scheysalescentre.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/cinderella3242.jpg
http://www.freewebs.com/dpcgallery/photos/Cinderella-Movie-Pictures/disney_cinderella_13%5B1%5D.jpg
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/polls/460000/460789_1275928261578_full.jpg

And if she looks like you, that really is totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think the face matching is really cool.

[MeganE]

For that matter, Aurora's hair gets super dark in some scenes too, especially that kiss scene at the end!! It is just a shade lighter than Phillip's brown hair. But Aurora tends to be more blonde than Cinderella throughout the majority of the movie, I think. Haven't watched either of them lately though....

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m59b62wPwz1qizh23o1_1280.jpg

[Springlets]

^Agree, I was going to say that this new character Anna's hair is about the same level as Cinderella's medium strawberry blonde, just less warm though. I'd say it's pretty close to my hair! And I also agree about Aurora's hair changing a lot too. This new girl's hair is more natural-looking and realistic than say rapunzel's hair, but I don't think it's dark enough to be blonette.

Paleoqueen when I looked at your recent picture from the shoulders up, I think that looked like a color that some people could still consider brown. Level 7 is supposed to be medium blonde by hairstylist standards, but in people's general opinion, it seems to be dark blonde/light brown. For some people (cough: Scandinavians! ;)) even level 8 is closer to brown than blonde, so... to me you're on the lighter side of blonette. There are plenty of people back home who would call my hair dark blonde or just sort of blondish. People can have very high expectations of what blonde is supposed to be. :rolleyes:

[Ocelan]

I was about to say the same thing about Aurora, the old way of drawing her. I remember some pictures from a Disney storybook we had when I was a kid, where she was walking towards the tower where she got stung and fell asleep. In those her hair color was definitely closing in on light brown more than blonde, but the new way she's a total yellow blonde and way too colorful for me. Actually I think I do have the old movie and should watch it to see if my memory serves me right. Also, I had to link to this photo (http://dettoldisney.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/briar-rose.jpg) where her hair looks a tad darker, but it's in a dark forest. The reason I had to link to it was that there's an owl! :)

[Etna]

I started reading this thread because I've been coloring my hair most of my life because it was blonette as a teenager and now all I want to do is watch Sleeping Beauty. How did that happen? :hmm:

[palaeoqueen]

Paleoqueen when I looked at your recent picture from the shoulders up, I think that looked like a color that some people could still consider brown. Level 7 is supposed to be medium blonde by hairstylist standards, but in people's general opinion, it seems to be dark blonde/light brown. For some people (cough: Scandinavians! ;)) even level 8 is closer to brown than blonde, so... to me you're on the lighter side of blonette. There are plenty of people back home who would call my hair dark blonde or just sort of blondish. People can have very high expectations of what blonde is supposed to be. :rolleyes:

Of course! I don't really mind whether people call it blondette (is that the same thing as blonette?) or blonde and it does seem there's quite a wide variety of shades in the dark blonde range. It's never been called brown though, actually that's not entirely true... a few years ago I was at a hair salon, I had Manic Panic red hair with about half an inch of roots. I was telling the stylist I wanted it stripped and dyed back to my natural dark blonde and she laughed and sneered at me "it's not dark blonde, it is BROWN". That was weird. Of course there's nothing wrong with brown hair and I ended up with my hair dyed light brown with looked bizzare when the roots came through some more.S

Sorry for sidetrack!

You're so right btw about people's expectations of blonde, a lot of people think blonde hair is very light and very yellow. Natural blonde hair CAN be very light of course but the yellow tones achieved through bleaching appear to be very uncommon naturally. Though if anyone has any pictures of naturally very light, very yellow hair I'd love to see them :D

[Nedertane]

MeganE, Springlets, and Ocelan, though their hair does change, I'm not inclined to call Aurora or Cinderella blonette, as they still just seem too light overall. I will say, though, that those screenshots are great testaments to the care that went into Disney's animation! The animators clearly knew how lighter hair changes in different lighting, and thus did make their hair colors very realistic. :)

[Nedertane]

Oh, and PaleoQueen, this is Petri Lindroos of the Finnish metal band, Ensiferum. I've posted him before in this thread, but here he is again as an example of someone with natural pale yellow blonde hair:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr4dhxJdaS1qdaymno1_400.jpg

[Springlets]

MeganE, Springlets, and Ocelan, though their hair does change, I'm not inclined to call Aurora or Cinderella blonette, as they still just seem too light overall. I will say, though, that those screenshots are great testaments to the care that went into Disney's animation! The animators clearly knew how lighter hair changes in different lighting, and thus did make their hair colors very realistic. :)

Oh yes, i wasn't trying to say that Aurora or Cinderella should be considered blonette, simply that their color is often drawn darker and with more variation than I had previously thought. Overall, I'd say both of them are a light to medium blonde which can sometimes look darker, but compared to say Barbie's hair, their hair is much more natural-looking. I remember it bothered me that in the movie for rapunzel, her hair still looked golden and not much darker even after she came out of the water, when I think there's a general consensus that blonde hair looks brown when wet.


Of course! I don't really mind whether people call it blondette (is that the same thing as blonette?) or blonde and it does seem there's quite a wide variety of shades in the dark blonde range. It's never been called brown though, actually that's not entirely true... a few years ago I was at a hair salon, I had Manic Panic red hair with about half an inch of roots. I was telling the stylist I wanted it stripped and dyed back to my natural dark blonde and she laughed and sneered at me "it's not dark blonde, it is BROWN". That was weird. Of course there's nothing wrong with brown hair and I ended up with my hair dyed light brown with looked bizzare when the roots came through some more.S

Sorry for sidetrack!

You're so right btw about people's expectations of blonde, a lot of people think blonde hair is very light and very yellow. Natural blonde hair CAN be very light of course but the yellow tones achieved through bleaching appear to be very uncommon naturally. Though if anyone has any pictures of naturally very light, very yellow hair I'd love to see them :D

Yes, I totally agree, natural blonde hair I think is far closer to beige than it is yellow.

http://media-cache-ec3.pinimg.com/236x/57/6f/ec/576feca154c283a9b62715cbac1878b6.jpg


http://media-cache-ak1.pinimg.com/736x/35/64/c6/3564c6f926ca094c170aba2e4c302511.jpg

http://media-cache-ec3.pinimg.com/236x/14/90/bc/1490bc069ba1118d6f1831621d6f46d0.jpg

Oh and I had an experience like that too. I was having my friend dye my hair (red also!) from previous Sun-In use, and she was looking at the hair in the back of my head, at my nape where of course it is it's absolute darkest and telling me, "I can see your natural color too, it's a nice silvery brown." Haha, back then I wasn't sure if I was still blonde so I didn't say anything, but now if someone were to tell me that I'll just laugh and take a look at their own nape hair because I'm sure it would be a lot darker than the rest. ;)

[palaeoqueen]

Oh, and PaleoQueen, this is Petri Lindroos of the Finnish metal band, Ensiferum. I've posted him before in this thread, but here he is again as an example of someone with natural pale yellow blonde hair:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr4dhxJdaS1qdaymno1_400.jpg

I still wouldn't consider that yellow, I'd call it a silvery beige. It's not like the yellow of bleached hair. Absolutely beautiful though, it's very like how mine used to be.

[palaeoqueen]

Oh yes, i wasn't trying to say that Aurora or Cinderella should be considered blonette, simply that their color is often drawn darker and with more variation than I had previously thought. Overall, I'd say both of them are a light to medium blonde which can sometimes look darker, but compared to say Barbie's hair, their hair is much more natural-looking. I remember it bothered me that in the movie for rapunzel, her hair still looked golden and not much darker even after she came out of the water, when I think there's a general consensus that blonde hair looks brown when wet.



Yes, I totally agree, natural blonde hair I think is far closer to beige than it is yellow.

http://media-cache-ec3.pinimg.com/236x/57/6f/ec/576feca154c283a9b62715cbac1878b6.jpg


http://media-cache-ak1.pinimg.com/736x/35/64/c6/3564c6f926ca094c170aba2e4c302511.jpg

http://media-cache-ec3.pinimg.com/236x/14/90/bc/1490bc069ba1118d6f1831621d6f46d0.jpg

Oh and I had an experience like that too. I was having my friend dye my hair (red also!) from previous Sun-In use, and she was looking at the hair in the back of my head, at my nape where of course it is it's absolute darkest and telling me, "I can see your natural color too, it's a nice silvery brown." Haha, back then I wasn't sure if I was still blonde so I didn't say anything, but now if someone were to tell me that I'll just laugh and take a look at their own nape hair because I'm sure it would be a lot darker than the rest. ;)

Yes they're all very beige and very beautiful, thanks for posting!

[schweedie]

Natural blonde hair CAN be very light of course but the yellow tones achieved through bleaching appear to be very uncommon naturally. Though if anyone has any pictures of naturally very light, very yellow hair I'd love to see them :D
Well, my hair probably doesn't quality as "very light", but it's certainly very naturally yellow (http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k626/growingmyhair/IMG_0331_zpsbe3edb07.jpg)! *g* (It's really a brighter yellow than comes across in the picture.) Naturally yellowhaired blondes definitely exist, but I guess we aren't too common? I do rarely see people with my colour out and about. I used to wish it were more neutral, more like the first picture of the ones Springlets posted, but nope.

I sat behind a couple of girls on the bus a while ago who both had beautiful blonette hair. I almost complimented them but was afraid to come off as creepy, heh. It really is a lovely colour when left to do its thing.

[Springlets]

That still looks like beige to me, Schweedie. :) In fact, if I were to find a color in nature that looks like it, I would say it is beechwood. Maybe it is just the amateur artist in me, but I just think to myself when looking at a picture what colors I would use and for blonde hair I would use a lot more beige and tan colors than yellow. I don't think we are talking about differences in tone such as ash, neutral, and golden, but simply that all blonde colors are more represented by beige colors rather than straight up Corola crayon yellow.

..in fact after taking a look at my blonde boards, I think that we are just programmed to think of blonde= yellow in the same way we view redheads= red hair even though the color is really orange or copper. I guess the trick is to think of the color you see represented by something else, such as a color for painting your walls or a car color. Wouldn't you (general you) then suddenly see it as a type of beige or cream than yellow?

I recently took a trip with my family and in some of the pictures my hair does look more yellowish, but I still think there's a difference between it and dyed blonde colors.
Me with a bad smile (https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/1057196_10152959732040430_778539318_n.jpg?oh=77a28 59af936ab09f397d20430240920&oe=51E4BFBA&__gda__=1373953031_ba8df2018f7b87756fb33b78cfdc073 a)
Could be helped by the lighting (https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/1060239_10152977496370430_1463121138_n.jpg?oh=9b6d d1f592bad7f2bf2021c79e6edcbc&oe=51E4F8EC&__gda__=1373932958_a735aa869449644c51b7d998525c256 8)
and this one (https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1044061_10151460886277823_2031461672_n.jpg)
compared to this bleach blonde (http://media-cache-ak3.pinimg.com/236x/6e/59/84/6e59844083f70a85af969164cc750a41.jpg)

[Kizuna]

Yes, sadly I can't get the Disney princess to be a blonette in my head either, no matter how much I try to look for pictures with her hair being a tad darker... :/

But look what I found! This girl (http://fairy-emily.blogspot.fi/) has amazing hair and it's such a pretty blonette color! Now I found my hair inspiration methinks (without the bangs for me)! :)

That girl was really cute.. and her hair is stunning! I got myself some new inspiration now too! :)

[palaeoqueen]

Well, my hair probably doesn't quality as "very light", but it's certainly very naturally yellow (http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k626/growingmyhair/IMG_0331_zpsbe3edb07.jpg)! *g* (It's really a brighter yellow than comes across in the picture.) Naturally yellowhaired blondes definitely exist, but I guess we aren't too common? I do rarely see people with my colour out and about. I used to wish it were more neutral, more like the first picture of the ones Springlets posted, but nope.

I sat behind a couple of girls on the bus a while ago who both had beautiful blonette hair. I almost complimented them but was afraid to come off as creepy, heh. It really is a lovely colour when left to do its thing.

Your colour is very beautiful but it's still not what I mean by yellow!

[palaeoqueen]

That still looks like beige to me, Schweedie. :) In fact, if I were to find a color in nature that looks like it, I would say it is beechwood. Maybe it is just the amateur artist in me, but I just think to myself when looking at a picture what colors I would use and for blonde hair I would use a lot more beige and tan colors than yellow. I don't think we are talking about differences in tone such as ash, neutral, and golden, but simply that all blonde colors are more represented by beige colors rather than straight up Corola crayon yellow.

..in fact after taking a look at my blonde boards, I think that we are just programmed to think of blonde= yellow in the same way we view redheads= red hair even though the color is really orange or copper. I guess the trick is to think of the color you see represented by something else, such as a color for painting your walls or a car color. Wouldn't you (general you) then suddenly see it as a type of beige or cream than yellow?

I recently took a trip with my family and in some of the pictures my hair does look more yellowish, but I still think there's a difference between it and dyed blonde colors.
Me with a bad smile (https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/1057196_10152959732040430_778539318_n.jpg?oh=77a28 59af936ab09f397d20430240920&oe=51E4BFBA&__gda__=1373953031_ba8df2018f7b87756fb33b78cfdc073 a)
Could be helped by the lighting (https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/1060239_10152977496370430_1463121138_n.jpg?oh=9b6d d1f592bad7f2bf2021c79e6edcbc&oe=51E4F8EC&__gda__=1373932958_a735aa869449644c51b7d998525c256 8)
and this one (https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1044061_10151460886277823_2031461672_n.jpg)
compared to this bleach blonde (http://media-cache-ak3.pinimg.com/236x/6e/59/84/6e59844083f70a85af969164cc750a41.jpg)

Yes, that's exactly what I mean!

[aspartame gram]

WilfredAllen and Skade, thank you for the kind comments! I agree that one's natural color usually looks best with one's skin tone, usually. Unless you're FuzzyBlackWaves, who looks amaaaazing with black hair! It looks fantastic with her skin tone! I haven't found any one color that really looks better than my natural (unless it's auburn, for some reason that looks pretty decent on me).

I'm finding that the Colorado sun is causing my hair to lighten and look warmer. It might be that I had been experimenting with hair products until I found the right mix with the shampoo bars and the ACV rinse. A possibility...

Ocelan, I love you hair! I'd love to get that length! I might need a few face-framing layers though since I'm 4'10 and it might look odd to have such a short person with long hair.

[Nedertane]

I still wouldn't consider that yellow, I'd call it a silvery beige. It's not like the yellow of bleached hair. Absolutely beautiful though, it's very like how mine used to be.

Ah, well, I didn't mean to say that it was yellow in the way that bleached hair can often look lol. To me, his hair is simply the one natural shade that closest matches bleached blonde hair. But yeah, even as a natural adult tow-head, it's still not quite like bleaching.



That still looks like beige to me, Schweedie. :) In fact, if I were to find a color in nature that looks like it, I would say it is beechwood. Maybe it is just the amateur artist in me, but I just think to myself when looking at a picture what colors I would use and for blonde hair I would use a lot more beige and tan colors than yellow. I don't think we are talking about differences in tone such as ash, neutral, and golden, but simply that all blonde colors are more represented by beige colors rather than straight up Corola crayon yellow.

..in fact after taking a look at my blonde boards, I think that we are just programmed to think of blonde= yellow in the same way we view redheads= red hair even though the color is really orange or copper. I guess the trick is to think of the color you see represented by something else, such as a color for painting your walls or a car color. Wouldn't you (general you) then suddenly see it as a type of beige or cream than yellow?


(bolded for emphasis and extra agreeing power)

This exactly! Unless I want it to look cartoonish, or fake, I would almost never use true yellow to paint blonde hair, or true red to paint red hair. The only time I might ever incorporate those colors for a natural look would be in small amounts to get a slightly stronger tone to beiges or browns. Otherwise, yeah, I would use gold, beige, and brown for blonde hair, and orange, brown, and a hint of red for red hair.

[FuzzyBlackWaves]

Your hair is a beautiful colour Ocelan. It looks lovely and smooth too, and the dye and virgin hair actually compliment each other well.

I always thought Cinderella's hair looked quite red in the original movie sometimes :)

Your hair is very like my cousin's Schweedie, a lovely rich blonde colour.

Your name suits you Springlets, you have such a lovely texture!

Thankyou so much aspartame gram :) You're really beautiful, and your hair colour looks fantastic with your eyes. The texture makes it look really defined too. I agree, most people look brilliant just being natural. I suppose it's because there's a lot of dark hair in my family. I am curious as to what I'd look like blonette nowadays, especially since you all look so great with it.

It's really cool to hear about how people paint different shades of hair. I'm terrible at painting, so I feel like I'm learning something new :o

[Ashenputtel]

This thread is great. I finally decided to embrase my natural color which is about a level 7 or 8 and very ashy. Now it's dyed to a light blonde shade but the upkeep is too much. I will dye it back darker this week.

[aspartame gram]

Aww, FuzzyBlackWaves, you gotta stop or I'm going to start believing you! :) I just kind of want to hug everyone and have tea with cake.

It really helps motivate me to not alter my hair color when I see others who are so positive about their natural color with one another. That's not to say dying your hair isn't bad, not at all, but I think I've always used hair dye as a way to try and change those parts of myself I wasn't happy with. I kept trying to find a "different" me. Now, though, I am really happy with being myself. ^_^

[Springlets]

So I was thinking about it and I know so many of us struggle with our hair color because when we were growing up it was much lighter. The thing is though, I think there are so many natural factors that went along with that, such as:

a) children usually have very fine, thin hair, which makes it more susceptible to either lightening in the sun or simply appearing lighter. (My brother's hair is thinning and suddenly appears several levels lighter).
b) children are a lot more active outdoors than adults are. When I was a kid, I played on soccer teams, swim team, baseball, etc. And when I wasn't playing sports, I was simply outside playing and exploring my backyard. So the lightness of my hair back then could be just as likely due to the amount of time I spent outside in the sun. In fact, in the childhood pictures I have of me in winter when my hair had natural roots, they look much the same as when I grew them out from dye.

I do think in general, whether from genetics or increase of hormones or hair thickening, people's hair does get a little darker as they grow up, but after thinking of the physical factors for why that might be so, I don't think it's quite as much as you might think.

[Mai Gloeckchen]

Thank you, Pha. :) I consider hazelnutblonde to be a very nice discription for our haircolour. Much better than dishwaterblonde or something like that.
Here is a new photo. Always like my hair, when the sun shines.

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd424/wasichsomache/2013/Frisuren/130720flexi_zps0fb9fa4e.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/wasichsomache/media/2013/Frisuren/130720flexi_zps0fb9fa4e.jpg.html)

[RainbowLizFairy]

I've always hated my hair colour, it's always been that ashy colour but it has gotten darker with age and it used to lighten in the summer and still been blonette but it had golden tones to it. I dye my hair just to be more golden by I'll show you what it looks like, which is hard for me, because any one with this hair colour knows it's very hard to love and searching for blonettes on the web just results in people with a colour nothing like mine which makes me feel horrible :/ I'm 16 and I already feel like I have grey hair. Xei, your post was quite encouraging :) https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/p480x480/988642_414272372025481_1029739265_n.jpg

[rachelbethany]

b) children are a lot more active outdoors than adults are. When I was a kid, I played on soccer teams, swim team, baseball, etc. And when I wasn't playing sports, I was simply outside playing and exploring my backyard. So the lightness of my hair back then could be just as likely due to the amount of time I spent outside in the sun. In fact, in the childhood pictures I have of me in winter when my hair had natural roots, they look much the same as when I grew them out from dye.

I do think in general, whether from genetics or increase of hormones or hair thickening, people's hair does get a little darker as they grow up, but after thinking of the physical factors for why that might be so, I don't think it's quite as much as you might think.

I so agree. If I spend a day gardening, swimming, or the like outside, I still notice a huge increase in blonde highlights, even as an adult. I've started going out in the sun solely for the purpose of lightening my hair. That's the best part of being blonette; you can manipulate your hair more than the average person just using small tricks like sunlight! :)

[Juniper.]

I think this is where I belong! I can never quite decide if I'm a blonette or a light ashy brown because it changes a lot depending on the light, but going by the photographs on here I'd say I'm blonette. I'm growing out henna so I only have about 4/5cm of roots to go on, but sometimes it can look dark golden/honey blonde and sometimes it can look very ashy (the finer hairs can look almost translucent). I had blonde hair as a child which had darkened to blonette by the time I was 13, which is when I started to dye it. I'm now in my early 20s and haven't seen my natural colour since then so I always assumed my colour would have darkened to a mid-brown by now. I was pretty pleased to see the hair hasn't changed much since I was 13. :)

I really love being a henna head but I do want my virgin hair back so I'll be coming to look at the beautiful pictures on this thread regularly to keep me on the straight and narrow, and away from the tempting lure of henna!

[Ashenputtel]

I did it I dyed my hair back darker to let it grow back. It still a bit darker than my natural hair color but it will fade away. I'm starting to like it and miss the light blonde less and less. Sorry for the size of the picture I don't know how to resize.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/971400_10153050536635580_450070028_n.jpg

[Uhlizubeth]

I'm not sure if I qualify as a blonette. I have always been told that I have dirty blonde hair, the catch is that I have natural red highlights. Many people seriously call my hair "brownish blondish redish", sometimes I get "light auburn" and "strawberry blonde" but I don't feel like I fit into any of these categories. My hair isn't red enough to be strawberry blonde, brown enough to be auburn, or ashy enough to just be a dirty blonde. I'm so confused :( I'm not sure about anything anymore! Lol

Some of these pictures are a few years old and very awkward but please bear with me

Indoors. Natural light standing near a window
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/091b3247-f8f3-4c55-95e2-74d2d5768bd8_zps53abe6d6.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/091b3247-f8f3-4c55-95e2-74d2d5768bd8_zps53abe6d6.jpg.html)

Indoors with camera flash
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/image_zps98cb1cba.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/image_zps98cb1cba.jpg.html)

Outdoors without any flash
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/d8977b85-8c6a-4480-b94d-fdd50615e902_zpsc69e1f64.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/d8977b85-8c6a-4480-b94d-fdd50615e902_zpsc69e1f64.jpg.html)
Taken on the same day
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/45990004-45a3-426a-ac67-fa8024e5e875_zpsd39d6516.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/45990004-45a3-426a-ac67-fa8024e5e875_zpsd39d6516.jpg.html)


Indoors with natural light and a lamp
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/af3e39d7-4532-4aac-9734-a62bd8c4e229_zps35297ef2.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/af3e39d7-4532-4aac-9734-a62bd8c4e229_zps35297ef2.jpg.html)

Outdoors during overcast
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/image_zpsfab6b342.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/image_zpsfab6b342.jpg.html)

[CurlMonster]

Uhlizubeth, I think I'd call you blonette, but I can see how your hair looking so different in different lighting makes it a little tricky to call. It certainly is a beautiful colour no matter what it is though! :)

[palaeoqueen]

I'm not sure if I qualify as a blonette. I have always been told that I have dirty blonde hair, the catch is that I have natural red highlights. Many people seriously call my hair "brownish blondish redish", sometimes I get "light auburn" and "strawberry blonde" but I don't feel like I fit into any of these categories. My hair isn't red enough to be strawberry blonde, brown enough to be auburn, or ashy enough to just be a dirty blonde. I'm so confused :( I'm not sure about anything anymore! Lol

Some of these pictures are a few years old and very awkward but please bear with me

Indoors. Natural light standing near a window
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/091b3247-f8f3-4c55-95e2-74d2d5768bd8_zps53abe6d6.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/091b3247-f8f3-4c55-95e2-74d2d5768bd8_zps53abe6d6.jpg.html)

Indoors with camera flash
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/image_zps98cb1cba.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/image_zps98cb1cba.jpg.html)

Outdoors without any flash
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/d8977b85-8c6a-4480-b94d-fdd50615e902_zpsc69e1f64.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/d8977b85-8c6a-4480-b94d-fdd50615e902_zpsc69e1f64.jpg.html)
Taken on the same day
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/45990004-45a3-426a-ac67-fa8024e5e875_zpsd39d6516.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/45990004-45a3-426a-ac67-fa8024e5e875_zpsd39d6516.jpg.html)


Indoors with natural light and a lamp
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/af3e39d7-4532-4aac-9734-a62bd8c4e229_zps35297ef2.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/af3e39d7-4532-4aac-9734-a62bd8c4e229_zps35297ef2.jpg.html)

Outdoors during overcast
http://i1167.photobucket.com/albums/q639/Uhlizubeth/image_zpsfab6b342.jpg (http://s1167.photobucket.com/user/Uhlizubeth/media/image_zpsfab6b342.jpg.html)

I'd say auburn not blonde, it's very beautiful.

[lapushka]

Uhlizubeth, I think I'd call you blonette, but I can see how your hair looking so different in different lighting makes it a little tricky to call. It certainly is a beautiful colour no matter what it is though! :)

I agree. The outside pic clearly shows it's blonde.

[naopll10]

my hair is that colour, I've always wanted blonde hair but now I like my colour.

[arcane]

I'm definitely a blonette, though most people assume it's just brown looking at it. Though when I got my bleached hair dyed to match my roots last summer (its now gone very yellow) the two hair dressers both said I'm blonde, not a brunette. Which was a nice confirmation. I don't naturally have any golden tones in my hair (very much an ash blonde). My friend took this picture at dusk the other night, it was kinda cloudy so my natural colour looks darker here (and I was shaded by the roof of the boat). I've made a point of wearing it down more and I'm starting to see the summer highlights I used to get.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/1069166_588576457861799_874839557_n.jpg

[gonzobird]

Arcane..... that's exactly my color! Very pretty!

[rachelbethany]

Uhlizubeth, You hair photographs SO differently in each picture! Is there such a thing as "auburnette," or even "blauburnette"? Haha! Because I'd say you have a little of every shade in there. Quite enviable! :)

[Uhlizubeth]

Thank you guys for helping me out and the very sweet compliments! At this point I think I can be a member of the blonette AND auburn pride threads. I'm still not sure but I'm learning to appreciate my unique hair color, whatever the heck it is.

[palaeoqueen]

I'm definitely a blonette, though most people assume it's just brown looking at it. Though when I got my bleached hair dyed to match my roots last summer (its now gone very yellow) the two hair dressers both said I'm blonde, not a brunette. Which was a nice confirmation. I don't naturally have any golden tones in my hair (very much an ash blonde). My friend took this picture at dusk the other night, it was kinda cloudy so my natural colour looks darker here (and I was shaded by the roof of the boat). I've made a point of wearing it down more and I'm starting to see the summer highlights I used to get.

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/1069166_588576457861799_874839557_n.jpg

It looks mid-brown in this picture (on my computer screen at least), do you have any more pictures? It's very nice whatever colour it is.

[BreeTheBoss]

Heheh I have dark honey blonde hair and I love it! Its a very interesting and beautiful color. It goes will with my fair fair complexion and small body frame, almost giving me the appearance of one of those anime/doll characters

[Springlets]

Just thought I'd share this pictograph I made of blonde level distribution in adults. :)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/Collagejpg_zpsc1cb896f.jpg

9 pictures are level 7/6 (56%)
4 pictures are level 8 (25%)
2 pictures are level 9 (12%)
1 picture is level 10 (6%)

I haven't used actual statistics or anything, but I think this generally represents the blonde adult population that you see in western cultures.

[10000days]

Love it! I think that's perfectly accurate. I'm an ash brunette but I was temporarily confused because some people with my colour called themselves blonette. But based on your chart- I'm officially NOT a blonette! :)

[sofo]

I'm probably a blonette but after a very nice summer I can call myself blonde. It's really dark though when growing out and some red tones in it. But now I have some natural highlights that are very light. I do like the sun bleaching it even though it does some damage. I've even tried different hairstyles to get the sun bleach as even as possible... I have some single coarse hairs that are black brown as well. They feel so different in texture I usually pull them out when I find them.

[palaeoqueen]

Just thought I'd share this pictograph I made of blonde level distribution in adults. :)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/Collagejpg_zpsc1cb896f.jpg

9 pictures are level 7/6 (56%)
4 pictures are level 8 (25%)
2 pictures are level 9 (12%)
1 picture is level 10 (6%)

I haven't used actual statistics or anything, but I think this generally represents the blonde adult population that you see in western cultures.

Some amazing colours here, thanks again for the great pics!

There are pictures on this thread (I read the whole thing so not anyone in particular and not recently) that are much darker/just not blonde (as it's not just about depth of colour of course). I think I'm going to stop calling myself blondette/blonette and stick with blonde as it the term does seem to imply that you're borderline/not sure of your colour. Sorry, just thinking out loud, I'm not still not 100% sure what's bothering me or why it matters :lol: Btw, are the terms blondette and blonette interchangeable? Just curious.

[samanthaj08]

I'm not the only one :D omgggg. In normal light I have brown hair, and in sunlight I have blonde hair if my hair is frizzing or red hair if it's normal. I always thought it was just some weird hair mutation lol

[Springlets]

Love it! I think that's perfectly accurate. I'm an ash brunette but I was temporarily confused because some people with my colour called themselves blonette. But based on your chart- I'm officially NOT a blonette! :)

It's possible that I did not use enough level 6 in the chart, it's just so hard to find pictures of it in blonde form. Hard to tell from your picture, but has a hair dresser ever told you your hair is blonde?



Some amazing colours here, thanks again for the great pics!

There are pictures on this thread (I read the whole thing so not anyone in particular and not recently) that are much darker/just not blonde (as it's not just about depth of colour of course). I think I'm going to stop calling myself blondette/blonette and stick with blonde as it the term does seem to imply that you're borderline/not sure of your colour. Sorry, just thinking out loud, I'm not still not 100% sure what's bothering me or why it matters :lol: Btw, are the terms blondette and blonette interchangeable? Just curious.

Yeah, I'm not sure what the definition of blondette actually entails, I always thought it meant level 7 or 6 because those are levels which hairdressers define as blonde, but the general population does not see as blonde. For me, if a hairdresser says it's blonde, then it's blonde, even if it's level 5 or whatnot. But if it's also the type of hair which people would usually see as 'not blonde', then it probably fits in the 'blondette' category.

[frejafjord]

This is my hair colour and also my favourite! I can't help but look at dyed "rich" colours as BORINGGGG. All the same colour? pffft mine has an endless amount! Between blonde weathering and golden shimmers throughout I am very happy with my hair colour.
Here's an alright pic of mine (I really gotta get some proper long hair shots)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/73338_4817827717038_310314040_n.jpg

[CurlMonster]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/73338_4817827717038_310314040_n.jpg

Wow! Your hair is so beautiful! :) Are the lighter ends natural?

[ejking2]

Just thought I'd share this pictograph I made of blonde level distribution in adults. :)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/Collagejpg_zpsc1cb896f.jpg

9 pictures are level 7/6 (56%)
4 pictures are level 8 (25%)
2 pictures are level 9 (12%)
1 picture is level 10 (6%)

I haven't used actual statistics or anything, but I think this generally represents the blonde adult population that you see in western cultures.

This is fantastic!

I don't consider myself a blonette; my hair is positively blonde IMO. I share the inability to peg my hair color with you all, though. I usually think it's a slightly ashy medium blonde, about level 8. However, at times it looks more gold, level 7 dark if it's dirty or has buildup, or in poor lighting, or level 9--even 10 in some sections--in natural light. I like my color, I just wish I knew what it was. :p

ETA my color is most like the girl's in the bottom left of this chart, but my skin tone is much lighter.

[10000days]

It's possible that I did not use enough level 6 in the chart, it's just so hard to find pictures of it in blonde form. Hard to tell from your picture, but has a hair dresser ever told you your hair is blonde?

I think so, yes, but I think public perception is key: if I walked out onto the street and said "I'm a blonde", people would look at me like I'm delusional. I think I'd get the same response if I said I was a dark blonde... Honestly, I think deciding between something that might be dark blonde or level 6 is walking a fine line so I'd go by public perception in the country you're in. In Europe I'd probably be called a dark blonde, in Australia I'd be called a brunette.

[10000days]

In fact, according to this http://oi35.tinypic.com/241uzpu.jpg I'd be a light-medium brown. And I think it would be ridiculous if I considered myself some permutation of blonde...

[kmcg]

I'm glad this thread floated to the top. So encouraging! I certainly fall in this category and have a history of love/hate with my color(s). My hair has always changed with the seasons, sometimes so abruptly that people would ask me if I dyed it. It's nice that my color has the ability to be easily persuaded in either direction. I used to complain that my hair couldn't make up its mind but now I know that it's just exploring its options. ;)
Over the past year I've been experimenting with homemade hair rinses and I've discovered all sorts of ways to manipulate my low lights and highlights with herbs, flowers, spices and sometimes infused oils. Calendula and chamomile accentuate my highlights. Cloves, nettles, sage and rosemary bring out deep rich browns. Adding a dash of coffee infused oil to my rinses (or separately after washing) really makes my hair look 3-dimensional. Occasionally, I make a hair mask with banana, peaches, cocoa powder and honey. The peaches (or apricots) bring out any reddish highlights and the cocoa powder gives my browns a nice rich sheen. It's definitely fun to toy around with the 'color confusion.'
I've also read that you can use rhubarb to lighten hair but I have yet to try it.

[10000days]

There are pictures on this thread (I read the whole thing so not anyone in particular and not recently) that are much darker/just not blonde (as it's not just about depth of colour of course). I think I'm going to stop calling myself blondette/blonette and stick with blonde as it the term does seem to imply that you're borderline/not sure of your colour. Sorry, just thinking out loud, I'm not still not 100% sure what's bothering me or why it matters :lol: Btw, are the terms blondette and blonette interchangeable? Just curious.

Yeah I've been wondering why natural blondes call themselves blonettes... As if they don't qualify for the blonde label. The way I see it, blonde doesn't mean white-bleached-out blonde.

[0xalis]

I'm a bit too dark altogether for this thread but I have natural blonde and red highlights and if I actually go into the sun [which i dont because i'm allergic] my hair turns very "blondette" :D Be proud of your hair, ladies and gents, it is all very beautiful!

[xoxophelia]

I wish I had some new photos... my sig pic still had the brown dye growing out in the length and I recently just cut the rest of that off (my hair is still longer than waist). When I went into a store to compare, against their samples I was a level 7N with golder bits and strips that are 8-9 and areas as dark as 6. I found this older photo that shows my hair above the grow out and I think it sums it up:

http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m596/MaryLaMer/haircolornatural.jpg (http://s1133.photobucket.com/user/MaryLaMer/media/haircolornatural.jpg.html)

When I looked at my ponytail yesterday, I was surprised how blonde it is. I have even been pretty careful to stay out of the sun this summer so I guess my hair hasn't darkened as much as I thought it had. However, my hair is very lighting dependent. I think I am definitely a blonette but if I called myself blonde, I could possibly get away with it without too much backlash from people.

[xoxophelia]

It's possible that I did not use enough level 6 in the chart, it's just so hard to find pictures of it in blonde form. Hard to tell from your picture, but has a hair dresser ever told you your hair is blonde?




Yeah, I'm not sure what the definition of blondette actually entails, I always thought it meant level 7 or 6 because those are levels which hairdressers define as blonde, but the general population does not see as blonde. For me, if a hairdresser says it's blonde, then it's blonde, even if it's level 5 or whatnot. But if it's also the type of hair which people would usually see as 'not blonde', then it probably fits in the 'blondette' category.

To me, the easiest way to figure out if you are blonette is if you had platinum to golden blonde hair before puberty and then gradually darkened a little. If your hair has always looked ash brown, it is likely just that. It has a lot to do with the sort of tones that construct the underlying tones of your hair and how it will bleach out.

[peepopowitz]

Well, my friend has that hair colour and I must say, that it's one of the most 3dimentional hair colours I know - it gets highlights from the sun quite easily and looks great, highlights or not!

Go Blondette!
(I had a friend, who used to call that colour "mousy quarterblonde" but I think this term is rather unplesant :( )

I actually think that's the perfect term for my natural color. We could certainly drop the "mousy", but I've never heard such an apt description as "quarterblonde". Consider your term stolen. :).

I only have an inch and a half of darker root (level 8 length), but the front part blends almost perfectly with the lighter length while the roots at the back are quite noticeable. For the first time in my life I'm actually excited to see what my natural color looks like. Good thread, everybody.

[arcane]

It looks mid-brown in this picture (on my computer screen at least), do you have any more pictures? It's very nice whatever colour it is.

Ask and you shall receive (albeit a month late). I decided to spam a bit to show how my hair looks different in every picture. Seriously pictures that I have taken on the same night can look shades apart depending on the light.

First off I had white blonde hair until I was 12:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/1199_117604105480_1049_n.jpg

Here is a few of my hair before it was ever dyed:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/al/Image7.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/al/b01f3c87-9b58-45be-bd2e-afbad5241b72.jpg

Here are some from my early twenties when I would stop dying and grow my natural out to my shoulders:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/26219ec9-6aea-4263-9722-856bfd474000.jpg
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/226417_22832740480_7695_n.jpg

And this is the dyed to match my roots colour I got from the hair dresser last summer:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/549482_10151969006865481_1897323439_n.jpg

And a recent one of me, inside at night, with a flash (sorry for the dopey expression), natural colour a little below chin length:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/26d7d6a6-1f3d-4189-b908-fb784e5b6963.jpg

Just for fun here is a picture from about march that makes my hair look really brown/redish:
http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z201/arcanefairy/IMG_5501.jpg

People who see me IRL can see that it's blonde, it just doesn't photograph all that well.

[lazuliblue]

Just thought I'd share this pictograph I made of blonde level distribution in adults. :)

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/Collagejpg_zpsc1cb896f.jpg


Thanks for this, it's really good! I definitely am blonette/dark blonde, no matter what anyone else says. Well, my hairdresser agrees anyway ;)

[xoxophelia]

arcane- yeah, you are pretty much a classic blonette :)

[lapushka]

Ask and you shall receive (albeit a month late). I decided to spam a bit to show how my hair looks different in every picture. Seriously pictures that I have taken on the same night can look shades apart depending on the light.

<<<snip pictures>>>

People who see me IRL can see that it's blonde, it just doesn't photograph all that well.

That's a pretty mid-tone blonde, not exactly blonette, but a regular mid-tone blonde.

[Springlets]

Yeah I've been wondering why natural blondes call themselves blonettes... As if they don't qualify for the blonde label. The way I see it, blonde doesn't mean white-bleached-out blonde.


I think so, yes, but I think public perception is key: if I walked out onto the street and said "I'm a blonde", people would look at me like I'm delusional. I think I'd get the same response if I said I was a dark blonde... Honestly, I think deciding between something that might be dark blonde or level 6 is walking a fine line so I'd go by public perception in the country you're in. In Europe I'd probably be called a dark blonde, in Australia I'd be called a brunette.

Those are the reasons why people with natural blonde hair will call themselves blonette. According to hair color theory, natural blonde hair ranges from Level 12- Level 7/6 (depending on the company). But according to public opinion, especially in Western countries where blonde hair is more present, "true" natural blonde hair is only level 8 and above (and from what some of our Swedish members say, not even level 8 is considered blonde there). This is probably because even when you do have natural level 9 and 8 hair, it can appear darker with the lighting, as all hair does. So for some people, if your hair at any time doesn't look clearly blonde, then you aren't "truly" blonde. My hair generally ranges between level 8-9, so it technically should be considered light to very light blonde, but if I were to talk about my hair color with someone from a western country, I would refer to it as medium to dark blonde, just in case. I made a thread before about how I believe the popularity and prevalence of bleached blonde hair makes anyone with natural blonde hair, whether light or dark, feel that their hair is never "blonde enough", so they feel the need to put in highlights, etc. Also, I've taken many pictures of my hair looking much darker.

Lighter (http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c8/f5/2e/c8f52ec89002fc31b966aca80d2930a7.jpg)
Darker (http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/SANY0020.jpg)

[LAG93]

I was definitely a blondette! I always considered my hair to be light brown but it definitely has that three toned thing, blonde brown red in different lights and layers of my hair. It may have been on the darker side though. But now I use henna and indigo, I'm starting to miss my natural color although with the henndigo gloss I still get that three toned look, it's just on the darker brownish red side now than the lighter brown/darker blonde side. I'm glad henna didn't cover up any of my natural highlights and lowlights it just made them redder! Maybe I will grow out my henna but I love the conditioning and health benefits it gives to my hair. Being a brownishredhead can be fun too ;D

[arcane]

arcane- yeah, you are pretty much a classic blonette :)


That's a pretty mid-tone blonde, not exactly blonette, but a regular mid-tone blonde.

I'm going to say I'm more a blondette, just cause I do get these ranges of responses, and truely my hair never looks the same in two photos, and no photo has ever been truly accurate to how it looks in real life. Plus this time around it seems to have darkened somewhat compared to when I was younger. I'm also not outside as much as I used to be, which means I don't get the sun lightening that I used to get.

Kinda wish I just had black hair like my mother, at least then it's a lot easier to say what colour hair I would have.

[Nadine <3]

This is for sure me! I was born with black hair, that fell out when I was a few months old and grew in so blonde it was almost white, then it darkened. I love that my hair can't deiced what co;or it wants to be! Sometimes it looks brown, other times it looks blonde. I have the greatest golden highlights!

Here's my hair inside with dim lighting. Older pic, longer hair and some sock curls.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naners_photography/9658821805/

Here I am a few weeks ago! I'm the one with the braid, the other girl is my roommate and best friend Alyssa. I covet here hair...not the color, the thickness! She has so much long hair.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naners_photography/9658820581/

I love my hair color. Everyone here has such pretty hair!

[Nadine <3]

My links didnt seem to work...
first
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naners_photography/9658821805/
second
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naners_photography/9658820581/

[MagicalMystery]

Hey everyone,

This week, I decided to stop beating up my hair, and grow out my natural color again. I'm a proud blonette once more! :)

[Johannah]

My hair color changed so much in the last year without dyeing... Very strange. Right now, I'm golden blonde with a copper glow!

[höpönasu]

I think I'm a blonette. My hair color is strange and changes in the light a lot.. :hmm:

[littlemonster]

I was dark blonde or blonette - may still be but I only have 2 inches of virgin hair so far! I assume I still am, it's only been 3 1/2 years of dying, but things do change. I was properly blonde as a little girl and it just got darker. I ended up dying it, partially because I was fed up of being called dirty, mousy and dishwater blonde. Dishwater was the term I hated most.

My friends actually argued over my colour, as I was "too dark" to be blonde, but I was the wrong colour to be brown. So nice of them to argue over. Finding out on here that people have named that casm between the 2 is lovely!

Half my reason for growing out is a friend's lovely dark blonde hair, I realised my colour was actually lovely.

[battles]

I cut my hair back to chin early this month, so I'm back to my natural color. No red! :o It's a huge relief to have my own color back, even though I really dislike having my hair this short. This time I'm excited to see how the sun changes the color as I grow back out.

[Springlets]

Saw this picture (http://www.pinterest.com/pin/275423333434891727/) on pinterest, with this caption "blonde to bronde! Platinum locks to a rich shade of honey bronde. This is more like my natural hair color. And i like that name rather than dirty blonde! lol"

Have I been in the blonette thread too long or is it crazy to consider that color "bronde"?

[redtuss]

Saw this picture (http://www.pinterest.com/pin/275423333434891727/) on pinterest, with this caption "blonde to bronde! Platinum locks to a rich shade of honey bronde. This is more like my natural hair color. And i like that name rather than dirty blonde! lol"

Have I been in the blonette thread too long or is it crazy to consider that color "bronde"?

I never heard bronde before..

[RubberDucky]

Another blonette here :) Just like so many of you, I started out my life as a platinum blond kid - during summer my hair was usually completely white. It started going darker somewhere around the age of ten. By high school I was dark blond/light brown and started getting more and more ashy. So I went for the bleach. I never tried darker or redder colors - they just look wrong on me.

About two years ago I cut my hair into a longish pixie and started growing out the bleach. In the beginning it was rough, since the roots were seriously GREY looking, but I kept going. By this summer I had cut the last fake color out and now I'm growing my hair again, this time all virgin.

My hair is a hodgepodge of colors - light, ashy on top, much more brown growing out of my head below my eye line, silver-blonde stripes on both sides of my face and smaller stripes all over. I look like a bleached skunk - and I love it! :lol:

[snakes&stuff]

A thread where I belong! Yay!
Like nearly everyone else, my hair was platinum until about 10. Now it's "blonette" (such a great term for it!) Mostly dark blonde, but with a lot of light chestnut-ish brown with strawberry undertones. My boyfriend calls it "fawn" because it's very similar to the color of baby deer. Lighter and redder than adults, but still a little brownish. I think blonette is a better word for it, because if you're not in a rural area chances are you've never seen a baby deer up close. My hair has been every color of the rainbow, but right now I'm growing out the bleach so it has an ombre effect.

[redtuss]

Another blonette here :) Just like so many of you, I started out my life as a platinum blond kid - during summer my hair was usually completely white. It started going darker somewhere around the age of ten. By high school I was dark blond/light brown and started getting more and more ashy. So I went for the bleach. I never tried darker or redder colors - they just look wrong on me.

About two years ago I cut my hair into a longish pixie and started growing out the bleach. In the beginning it was rough, since the roots were seriously GREY looking, but I kept going. By this summer I had cut the last fake color out and now I'm growing my hair again, this time all virgin.

My hair is a hodgepodge of colors - light, ashy on top, much more brown growing out of my head below my eye line, silver-blonde stripes on both sides of my face and smaller stripes all over. I look like a bleached skunk - and I love it! :lol:


A thread where I belong! Yay!
Like nearly everyone else, my hair was platinum until about 10. Now it's "blonette" (such a great term for it!) Mostly dark blonde, but with a lot of light chestnut-ish brown with strawberry undertones. My boyfriend calls it "fawn" because it's very similar to the color of baby deer. Lighter and redder than adults, but still a little brownish. I think blonette is a better word for it, because if you're not in a rural area chances are you've never seen a baby deer up close. My hair has been every color of the rainbow, but right now I'm growing out the bleach so it has an ombre effect.


I would LOVE to see pictures of both your colours, the descriptions are most intriguing! :D

And welcome to the thread!

[Lyv]

You all have such beautiful hair! I'm not sure if my natural color would be considered blonde or blonette after looking at all of your pictures! I've been coloring mine since I turned 12 so the pictures I have of my natural color are pretty old and I'm not sure how much hair tends to darken as you get older. My roots always look greyish so they aren't very helpful in determining my color lol.

[Penny Dreadful]

Joining this thread. My hair is naturally dark blonde, dark and ashy in some lights, bright gold in others. At least from what I can tell. Most of it is dyed dark reddish pink with black ombre. I hated doing the maintenance on it, it was a huge chore I hated, so I stopped. I thought I might as well try out my natural color since it's been 15 years and it's as low-maintenance as you can get. But now the black is a muddy, gross off-black, I have a horizontal stripe of bleach where the dye mysteriously always fades completely away around my hair line and part, and just under an inch of virgin roots. I feel like garbage and I'm miserable and doubting everything. So I got some color stripper and I suppose I'll start from scratch and attempt to dye it something pretty that's close to my roots. But I'll admit I'm afraid, because pink is so bright, and blonette has a reputation for being boring. I don't want to hate it and regret the whole thing. I've been reading this thread all day and It's helping but I'm still not 100% confident. I have to remember too that my hair color does not define me. It does not have to look like a crayon.

[Ashflower89]

I think I fit in this category. Started out platinum blonde like most of this thread, darkened into "dishwater blonde", which I hated and dyed obsessively. I am finally able to accept and love my natural color nowadays. I do prefer your term "blonette" or "bronde".

[Penny Dreadful]

That's beautiful, Ashflower89! I do really love how this is a very soft color, it's not harsh or severe, very flattering :)

[Ashflower89]

That's beautiful, Ashflower89! I do really love how this is a very soft color, it's not harsh or severe, very flattering :)

Thanks! If only I hadn't ruined it with another dye-job. =P oh well. It's a long road back to natural but its so worth it. Wish I could travel to the past and try to convince myself there was nothing "ugly" about that color to begin with.

[RubberDucky]

I would LOVE to see pictures of both your colours, the descriptions are most intriguing! :D

And welcome to the thread!

Thanks! :D And I promise to take some pictures when my hair is a bit longer.

[BowTie]

Hi all,
I definitely belong here. I'm blonette who is learning to love her real hair colour and growing my bleach out. Like many of you, I was a platinium blonde as a child but it darkened when I was 12. Since I was 13 I started dying it and have tried all the colours. I come from a country (finland) where blonette colours are very much disliked and especially women are expected to dye their hair. It's probably because it's such a common colour .

[SamEatsBrains]

Oh, finally! After years of uncertainty about my hair color, not to mention years of criticism....I finally find a name :). I'll definitely be taking some pictures today as I believe I completely qualify as a 'blonette''

[SamEatsBrains]

This is 'blonette', yes? This is just my bedroom lighting. I don't have one in natural lighting atm. Naturally like everyone else my hair is quite translucent and dependent on light. Also, I'm Mexican on my mother's side...and my tan skin tends to be the same color as my hair lol :3....I am pale in the moment....but you should see in the summer lol. Skin extra dark, hair extra light! It's a washed-out mess lol :3. http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/Haircolor_zpsff95f676.jpg (http://s1111.photobucket.com/user/SamEatsBrains/media/Haircolor_zpsff95f676.jpg.html)

[höpönasu]

Am I blonette?
This is my hair few months ago. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fq0Bv3N4NZ4/UjrTW58ASDI/AAAAAAAAAlM/d05TriSfWZw/s1600/HPIM4510%5B1%5D.JPG)
And this just a few days ago. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B2mx6aa6JCE/UouMiNat9II/AAAAAAAAApQ/BcW403G40Vo/s1600/HPIM4585.JPG)

My hair isn't dyed and lightning has a big difference on it. Also oiling and when I've washed it changes the color. So it's difficult to say what my hair color is.

[SamEatsBrains]

Am I blonette?
This is my hair few months ago. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fq0Bv3N4NZ4/UjrTW58ASDI/AAAAAAAAAlM/d05TriSfWZw/s1600/HPIM4510%5B1%5D.JPG)
And this just a few days ago. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B2mx6aa6JCE/UouMiNat9II/AAAAAAAAApQ/BcW403G40Vo/s1600/HPIM4585.JPG)

My hair isn't dyed and lightning has a big difference on it. Also oiling and when I've washed it changes the color. So it's difficult to say what my hair color is.

Wow! Your hair is gorgeous! Like.....copper/gold. I'd say you're more strawberry blonde! Beautiful :].

[florenonite]

Am I blonette?
This is my hair few months ago. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fq0Bv3N4NZ4/UjrTW58ASDI/AAAAAAAAAlM/d05TriSfWZw/s1600/HPIM4510%5B1%5D.JPG)
And this just a few days ago. (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-B2mx6aa6JCE/UouMiNat9II/AAAAAAAAApQ/BcW403G40Vo/s1600/HPIM4585.JPG)

My hair isn't dyed and lightning has a big difference on it. Also oiling and when I've washed it changes the color. So it's difficult to say what my hair color is.

I'd say your hair is blonde.

[SamEatsBrains]

I'd say your hair is blonde.

And a gorgeous blonde at that! Any opinion on my color?

[sharonluvscats]

I see your hair as blonde not dirty blonde or "blonette."

[SamEatsBrains]

What about me? Am I doomed to me in hair color limbo for all time lol?

[Saldana]

SamEatsBrains, I'd call your color golden reddish blonde, or reddish blonde.

[SamEatsBrains]

I will have to post some new pictures. My hair can look reddish in say....sunset lighting. But really my hair has no red at all.

[SamEatsBrains]

Surprises me though, because I really don't see any red in that picture at all lol. http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/photo5_zpsafc49833.jpg This is the same day, excuse my coconut oil :3. The only picture I have of me outside (I don't get out much!) is when I was a kid lol. But my hair is for all intents are purposes that same color still. If anything it looks a bit more gold outside now. http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/photo1_zps1f0b5b1b.jpg Looking very stringy! (It's the oil I swear) http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsf1bf3ca0.jpg

[spirals]

Sam, you're a dark blonde. What's confusing is that it has both ashy tones and red/gold. I think people can forget that hair colors can be warm, neutral (all tones, like yours), or cool, and that makes the line blur.

[SamEatsBrains]

Ya, I think that's why I have so much trouble. I think my hair is mostly on a warm/gold side with tones, but it definitely does look ashy at times or on the red side of warm. It's very chameleon like. It's so funny....all my life my family told me I'm blonde.....But, coming from a family with all dark-black haired people, I was like "Ya, ok...compared to you maybe!" And when I started to refer to my own hair as blonde after a while....I'd get people who were like....offended! And yelled that I was NOT blonde lol. Which I guess leads to to believe I am in the 'blonette' spectrum because no one can ever decide. Here's a picture of my family where I look very much....not blonde! But, other pictures I look very much...not brown! Lol. I guess it's a mystery forever.

[SamEatsBrains]

http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/222-1.jpg Ooops. There's the picture.

[spirals]

Maybe you have light golden brown. I have dark golden brown. Most of the undertone is golden, but there's some red in there. When it bleaches out it looks auburn. It's like we have the same undertone, but you're 2 color levels above me. I say go to the store, match your hair to a box of hair color, and use whatever name is on it. The boxes of medium golden brown and dark golden brown match my hair perfectly. You could do the same. :lol:

[SamEatsBrains]

It's funny where some people draw the line. I have a friend who has hair probably....not even a shade lighter than my own, and actually my boyfriend in the same...both of them will argue all day that THEIR hair is blonde, and MINE is brown lol...when it is so close in color that it's almost indistinguishable!

[SamEatsBrains]

Lol, I actually do that quite a bit for fun! It's pretty 50/50 whether I match up to a dark blonde or a light brown....depends on the box/brand I guess! Most recently when I went to the drug store and tried I matched up to a 'dark golden blonde' color.

[SamEatsBrains]

But, it's pretty half and half honestly. So, I guess I probably qualify for the 'blonette' spectrum :P.

[spirals]

Maybe this is the answer: http://www.truth-is-beauty.com/1/post/2011/03/revising-our-idea-of-what-spring-and-summer-look-like.html


"For me, it was essentially a question of hue: more yellow than brown = blonde, more brown than yellow = brunette."

[SamEatsBrains]

Well, then equal of both would be 'blonette' and very confusing lol.

[SamEatsBrains]

Some of the 'brunettes' on the page, while they clearly aren't as blonde as they dye their hair, I would still consider them in the blonde spectrum. Hmmm.

[florenonite]

Maybe this is the answer: http://www.truth-is-beauty.com/1/post/2011/03/revising-our-idea-of-what-spring-and-summer-look-like.html


"For me, it was essentially a question of hue: more yellow than brown = blonde, more brown than yellow = brunette."

From that link:


I think celebs have all agreed to privately define "naturally blonde" as "blonde at birth" or "blonde during some period of my childhood." One's childhood hair color is not one's natural color if one is no longer a child.

:lol:

[höpönasu]

I'd say your hair is blonde.

Thank you. (:

[höpönasu]

Wow! Your hair is gorgeous! Like.....copper/gold. I'd say you're more strawberry blonde! Beautiful :].

Thank you! :o :flower:

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I used to be more light blonde when I was younger, my little brother was almost white blonde but we've both have gone darker older. My little sister has dark brown hair.

[lapushka]

This is 'blonette', yes? This is just my bedroom lighting. I don't have one in natural lighting atm. Naturally like everyone else my hair is quite translucent and dependent on light. Also, I'm Mexican on my mother's side...and my tan skin tends to be the same color as my hair lol :3....I am pale in the moment....but you should see in the summer lol. Skin extra dark, hair extra light! It's a washed-out mess lol :3. http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/Haircolor_zpsff95f676.jpg (http://s1111.photobucket.com/user/SamEatsBrains/media/Haircolor_zpsff95f676.jpg.html)

I'd say you are a mid-tone to dark blonde, more mid-tone than dark, actually.

[SamEatsBrains]

Wow! So surprising all these votes for blonde lol. Besides my parents, and my ex boyfriend (on just one occasion in 4 years), no one in real life has ever considered me even dark blonde! Maybe it has to do with my skin tone or something. I've never identified as a brunette (although I really wanted to be one) but was never accepted as blonde. So, I always felt in the 'awkward' middle ground. I thought for sure I would be a qualifying 'blonette' lol. If anything I thought I'd be told my hair was too dark :P! It looks so dark to me at times lol! Oh well. Guess I will have to come to terms with accepting my parents were right lol ;). Ouch!

[Ocelan]

SamEatsBrains, to me your hair color looks like a typical blonette. I wouldn't call it blonde, but I wouldn't call it brown either. I say this because your hair color is really similar to mine and one day my hair may seem blondeish and other times it seems brown, so I'm always confused. My hair was somewhat blonder when I was a kid though, atleast in sunshine. Check out my album (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=11042) for reference or comparison if you like (photos one (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3726&d=1365776940), two (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5141&d=1373132501) and three (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6524&d=1379845728) for example). :) Others might have a different idea about my hair color too though.

I do agree with others that höpönasu has blonde hair.

[SamEatsBrains]

Ya, I guess opinions will always vary! Especially with a color so open to interpretation :P. I looked through your pictures and our hair colors seem VERY very close actually, so thanks for the insight :D.

[Ocelan]

And like you said yours often does, most of the time my hair color indoors looks really just brown, but in some outdoors photos I guess one could call it dark blonde. My face framing hairs are quite blonde though and always have been. I rarely see my hair outdoors as there are fewer mirror outside and I mainly just look at myself from our dimly lit bathroom mirror. Rarely do I take pictures outdoors either.

Just for the heck of it I made a comparison collage of pictures of my hair from different photos. These are all the same virgin hair, no dye and no bleaching here. The photos haven't been taken in any order but they have been arranged sort of by their shade by eye. Some of them were rather hard to place. You can see that most of the shades are very similar and I guess I could say they portray my hair color very well, but in the end lighting is key.

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk102/Ocelan/haircolors_comparison_zps1c8c207c.png
ETA: Larger image in photobucket (http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk102/Ocelan/haircolors_comparison_zps1c8c207c.png).

[kitschy]

Speaking of lighting. I've posted this picture on two other threads dealing with gray hair, but my hair was blonette, now is gray. These two pictures were taken within minutes of each other, but with different exposures (my camera was set to auto exposure). The photo of me in purple is much closer to my actual color.

http://images116.fotki.com/v694/photos/0/1803120/9931107/Blndvsgray-vi.png

Cameras just can't really do most blonette/light brown hair justice.

[SamEatsBrains]

Ya, I guess I experience the same thing. I never really go outside or get a chance to see my hair in outside lighting, so I'm continually surprised at it's light color. I have the same face-framing very blonde hairs as well! I've had them since I was a kid. And it's so true that cameras can't capture blonette hair or do it justice. I keep taking pictures and going "well, that doesn't look like my hair color!" Lol :3. And kitschy, your hair is gorgeous!

[Springlets]

Maybe this is the answer: http://www.truth-is-beauty.com/1/post/2011/03/revising-our-idea-of-what-spring-and-summer-look-like.html


That was a really interesting article. I've made a thread before about how much I hate how Hollywood perpetuates the idea the prevalence of blondes (and mainly super light blonde hair) and whenever a celebrity says they're naturally blonde, people automatically assume they must mean very light blonde hair when it is almost completely certain that their natural hair color would be dark blonde. Thanks for linking to it! (I also learned that I needn't ascribe myself to a certain Seasonal color just because examples from celebrities in that section don't look like me. I've always thought I looked best in Winter colors!)

SamEatsBrains I wholeheartedly agree with Ocelan, when I saw your pictures I immediately thought of her hair color. They look so similar. And, Ocelan from the pictures you posted, it looks to me like your hair ranges from level 7 to level 5. Although this is definitely in the blonette spectrum, I think many people in the outside world would find it hard to call it blonde (again, I blame this on the silly idea that blonde is only light and yellow). Recently someone looked at one of my old pictures with bleached hair and they exclaimed "But your hair is blonde in it!" as if to say that my hair is no longer blonde... Silly people.

[SamEatsBrains]

I wholeheartedly agree with Ocelan, when I saw your pictures I immediately thought of her hair color. They look so similar. And, Ocelan from the pictures you posted, it looks to me like your hair ranges from level 7 to level 5. Although this is definitely in the blonette spectrum, I think many people in the outside world would find it hard to call it blonde (again, I blame this on the silly idea that blonde is only light and yellow). Recently someone looked at one of my old pictures with bleached hair and they exclaimed "But your hair is blonde in it!" as if to say that my hair is no longer blonde... Silly people.

So true. My parents view me as blonde (not sure why this is. I guess because I have my dad's hair color and he has always considered himself blond, no questions asked...of course, girls get met with more opposition to such things!), despite the majority of the world viewing me as brunette. I never could cozy up to brunette (but neither could I to blonde...my dad calls me blondie, etc...all the time and I would just toll my eyes for years thinking my parents were blind!). To me, brunette was my mom. I wanted her hair color SO badly, but it seemed wrong to claim I had it when my hair was so much different/lighter. So, I opted for 'brown' which I would argue all day and night is different from 'brunette' lol. If more natural blondes were walking around, people may see things differently...but with so many bottle blondes out there, dark blonde stands no chance as being recognized as blonde most of the time, although being still a fairly light color.

That's why I'm so excited to finally think of myself as 'blonette'! No more hair color limbo lol. Also, here's a thought:

I wonder how differently these pictures/colors look to all of us with our different computer monitors. I took a picture of my hair this morning in natural light (but not direct sunlight( finally! And on my phone, it looks very gold. And when I uploaded it to photobucket....on my computer screen it shows as very ashy! On my boyfriend's phone (His colors are way too saturated! It bugs me!) There is tons of red. It's like when you're watching that one TV channel that isn't quite right and everyone is orange lol!

And I can't believe people would exclaim your hair is no longer blonde. It is so very OBVIOUSLY blonde. Sheesh :D!

[Ocelan]

I‘m annoyed about the ‘blondes need to be really blonde‘ thing too but not for myself (as I'm obviously not blonde) but for some of my dark blonde friends who would look beautiful in their natural hair color but feel they need to bleach to be 'real' blondes. Then they end up hating their regrowth which looks dull compared to their bleached parts, but which could have just as well lightened to a lighter blonde shade in the summer, only with less damage and more beautiful variation from natural highlights. It's a shame.

[EmmaDStrange]

Oh hey, I absolutely love this thread, it was what made me choose to embrace my natural dark blonde and stop dying my hair reddish/black. My roots looked hideously grey and ashy against the dye, but I persevered and lightened the dye with color b4 and the likes. Now my lengths are light reddish brown I guess but I can hardly see the demarcation line between the two colours anymore, maybe my natural colour isn't as ashy as I first though, it's too early to tell.

I have been growing it out for about 6 months now and have a couple inches of virgin hair. I can't wait to have my natural, probably blonette colour back, it's been 8 years since I last saw my natural colour, and at the time I was 11 and really rather blonde... so it's anyones guess how much it has darkened.

I think I'm a fairly pale blonette colour, but have very dark hazel eyes, is this like anyone else here? Because it seems like most blonettes I see are blue eyed. Thats why I chose to dye it dark eventually, because I felt it matched my eyes better, it looked more natural than my natural colour! Haha

[Ocelan]

I'm a green eyed one! Well, the color consists of blue, yellow and hazel/brown specks of color, but the outcome is definitely green. :) I see both blue/gray and green eyed blonettes around, but am not sure if I've even seen many hazel or light brown eyed people around. All the brown eyes are usually dark brown, but maybe I just haven't paid enough attention. All I know most people here have grey blue eyes.

[CurlMonster]

I have brown eyes, but in some lights they can look green so I am sometimes called hazel-eyed. :) I can think of a few other people who I know in real life who are blonette with brown eyes. :)

[CurlMonster]

Oh, and also like you EmmaDStrange, I dyed my hair dark because I liked how it made my eyes 'pop'. I am still a little on the fence about my natural colour. It is down to about eye level now and I think I looked more striking with a darker colour.

[Shibe]

I have light ashy hair, but I have natural blonde highlights with platinum roots at my hairline and temples. Not sure if mine would count or not.

[SamEatsBrains]

I'm a green eyed one! Well, the color consists of blue, yellow and hazel/brown specks of color, but the outcome is definitely green. :) I see both blue/gray and green eyed blonettes around, but am not sure if I've even seen many hazel or light brown eyed people around. All the brown eyes are usually dark brown, but maybe I just haven't paid enough attention. All I know most people here have grey blue eyes.

Apparently we have similar hair AND eyes. My eyes appear green most of the time because of the way the colors sorta mix....but I don't consider them green, as the green is an illusion. My eyes are blue/orange mostly! When I was looking through your photos your eyes looked blue to me! But, I think I seen blue and green differently than most people. Same with blonde and brown I guess lol! http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/beyecollage.jpg A quick/sorta crappy collage I made. I didn't take pictures specifically for it, but cropped existing ones I had. So, the blue photos are sorta lacking as they were taken from very far away! So, I'll add these two to the mix.... http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/photo42_zps8010623a.png http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/Eyeball.jpg

[SamEatsBrains]

I‘m annoyed about the ‘blondes need to be really blonde‘ thing too but not for myself (as I'm obviously not blonde) but for some of my dark blonde friends who would look beautiful in their natural hair color but feel they need to bleach to be 'real' blondes. Then they end up hating their regrowth which looks dull compared to their bleached parts, but which could have just as well lightened to a lighter blonde shade in the summer, only with less damage and more beautiful variation from natural highlights. It's a shame.
Some (My parents lol!) would view you as blonde for sure. And the interesting thing is...most blonde IS 'dark blonde'...there are of course natural plantinum types out there, but it's rare. Hair color like ours would look much lighter to most people/much blonder if we weren't constantly bombarded with this false idea of what blonde looks like....when really it's what bleach looks like! In a world with no bleach, colors like ours would be much nearer to the start of the hair color spectrum! And I agree. I know SO many people, one of my best friends included...who have gorgeous blonde hair....and ruin it with bleach because it's not 'blonde enough' it's such a shame D:.

[Ocelan]

Apparently we have similar hair AND eyes. My eyes appear green most of the time because of the way the colors sorta mix....but I don't consider them green, as the green is an illusion. My eyes are blue/orange mostly! When I was looking through your photos your eyes looked blue to me! But, I think I seen blue and green differently than most people. Same with blonde and brown I guess lol! http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/beyecollage.jpg A quick/sorta crappy collage I made. I didn't take pictures specifically for it, but cropped existing ones I had. So, the blue photos are sorta lacking as they were taken from very far away! So, I'll add these two to the mix.... http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/photo42_zps8010623a.png http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/SamEatsBrains/Eyeball.jpg

I can see why in most of my photos my eyes might look blue, but my eyes pretty much are built from the same colors as yours. So yes, they're not green in the real sense of green, but they are not blue and they are not grey, green is the closest color they are. When people ask for my eye color I usually tell them it's kind of green, but basically my eyes are just a big mess of colors mixed together. They are quite light "green" so if you put something that is obviously green next to my eye, they will look "blah", but if I put on blush or wear something red or purple, my eyes will pop. I am not actually sure if I've ever seen a person with eyes that consists of only green, unless they were wearing contacts. Hmm, interesting... I might try to snap a picture.

[SamEatsBrains]

I can see why in most of my photos my eyes might look blue, but my eyes pretty much are built from the same colors as yours. So yes, they're not green in the real sense of green, but they are not blue and they are not grey, green is the closest color they are. When people ask for my eye color I usually tell them it's kind of green, but basically my eyes are just a big mess of colors mixed together. They are quite light "green" so if you put something that is obviously green next to my eye, they will look "blah", but if I put on blush or wear something red or purple, my eyes will pop. I am not actually sure if I've ever seen a person with eyes that consists of only green, unless they were wearing contacts. Hmm, interesting... I might try to snap a picture.


Ya, green eyes are extremely rare (I think 1% of the population!) It's crazy! I usually just told people mine were green as well but sometimes I call them 'blue hazel' lol. Ya I'd love to see a picture :D!

[MonaMayfair]

Ya, green eyes are extremely rare (I think 1% of the population!) It's crazy! I usually just told people mine were green as well but sometimes I call them 'blue hazel' lol. Ya I'd love to see a picture :D!

My eyes are green. I've been asked quite a few times if I wear colored contacts because they're SO green...

[Ocelan]

MonaMayfair, I would love to see a picture of real green eyes, not just the ones like mine that look green but don't consists of green colors. I get asked about whether if I wear contacts too, especially in sunlight, but most of the time they don't look strikingly green unless if I wear the right colors. I do have a really dark ring around the eyes which I think people find different.

I'll try to snap a picture of mine tomorrow. I hope I manage to catch their real coloration as it's sometimes hard. :)

[SamEatsBrains]

My eyes are green. I've been asked quite a few times if I wear colored contacts because they're SO green...

I would love to see! I have NEVER see a real pair of green eyes before!

[Ocelan]

So here are my eyes. See, a mess of... stuff...

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7892&d=1385896506

[Tlb2012]

I belong here :) I have browney-blondey-red hair. I'm currently growing out my dark brown dye, i have 2 inches of natural growth and can't wait to see it longer! The only problem i have found is its not possible to find a box dye to get it back close to my natural shade, i guess true 3 dimensional dyes are hard to come by lol.

I love seeing these inspirational pics, they are so motivating!
Rosie Huntington-whitely (she was in transformers 3) has stunningly beautiful blonette hair, i drooled over her hair most of the way through the film haha.

Maybe you can go into the salon and when you request a color correction, ask the hairdresser/colorist if he/she can mix up several different dyes to give you that look?

[MonaMayfair]

I would love to see! I have NEVER see a real pair of green eyes before!

I would post pictures on here if I could post them straight from my computer or phone like I can on Twitter/instagram/every other site I belong to! That's why I've never posted a photo of my hair on here, I cant be bothered to mess around with photo bucket? or whatever it's called :D
But I've had friends with very green eyes too, though always a much cooler darker shade than mine which are more of a warm lighter green. My half sister has the same color eyes as me though and so did my grandmother.
My boyfriend has stunning green eyes, but they're kind of green/gray.

[Stray_mind]

I'm growing out my natural colour and i think i fit in this thread well. I have an inch of my natural roots now and i am really excited to see my natural colour. I guess you really start appreciating things when they're gone, so i can't wait to grow out from all chemical dye and henna. And since you're talking about eye-colour too, mine is grey with a hint of blue and there's some light green around my pupils, maybe i'll post pictures sometime. :)

[SamEatsBrains]

So here are my eyes. See, a mess of... stuff...

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7892&d=1385896506

Very very pretty! Love the dark ring and the specks of brown :D!

[SamEatsBrains]

I would post pictures on here if I could post them straight from my computer or phone like I can on Twitter/instagram/every other site I belong to! That's why I've never posted a photo of my hair on here, I cant be bothered to mess around with photo bucket? or whatever it's called :D
But I've had friends with very green eyes too, though always a much cooler darker shade than mine which are more of a warm lighter green. My half sister has the same color eyes as me though and so did my grandmother.
My boyfriend has stunning green eyes, but they're kind of green/gray.

Wow, you're lucky to know so many people with green eyes! I never get to see any lol. I don't blame you for not wanting to mess around with photobucket :P.

[SamEatsBrains]

I'm growing out my natural colour and i think i fit in this thread well. I have an inch of my natural roots now and i am really excited to see my natural colour. I guess you really start appreciating things when they're gone, so i can't wait to grow out from all chemical dye and henna. And since you're talking about eye-colour too, mine is grey with a hint of blue and there's some light green around my pupils, maybe i'll post pictures sometime. :)

Definitely would love to see! Also, love the spell in your signature lol :D!

[thistledown]

I think my eyes are green:
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p679/aintnograve1897/b5eab579-c0ea-4a4e-9c77-35a13ba13788_zpsca79749a.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/aintnograve1897/media/b5eab579-c0ea-4a4e-9c77-35a13ba13788_zpsca79749a.jpg.html)
They're not blue, they're not brown and I don't think they are hazel either......they are like amber around the pupil, green and then a final ring of dark grey........what do you guys think? I've noticed a lot of blonettes have greeny eyes.
Vanessa

[SamEatsBrains]

I think my eyes are green:
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/p679/aintnograve1897/b5eab579-c0ea-4a4e-9c77-35a13ba13788_zpsca79749a.jpg (http://s1345.photobucket.com/user/aintnograve1897/media/b5eab579-c0ea-4a4e-9c77-35a13ba13788_zpsca79749a.jpg.html)
They're not blue, they're not brown and I don't think they are hazel either......they are like amber around the pupil, green and then a final ring of dark grey........what do you guys think? I've noticed a lot of blonettes have greeny eyes.
Vanessa Your eyes look very very similar to Ocelan's! I would consider them to be blue/grey. But they definitely look green! Very pretty :D. The problem with eye color is central heterochromia is actually very common and we (all of use who've shared eye pictures) have it! SO, the outer color of the eye is the true, genetic color, and the inner ring is a mutation. And usually that inner ring causes our eyes to be very 'hazely' and change color depending on the light much more than other colors (Which is funny considering all our hair does the same!) So, while my eyes are TRULY/genetically blue....most everyone thinks my eyes are green or even brown! But it's an illusion. Sorry. I'm a dork. Eyes sorta fascinate me lol.


And yes, I bet a lot of Blonettes have eyes that appear green! Our hair color shows a light-moderate level of melanin. And the eye color definitely reflects that.

[thistledown]

So the true colour is the darker outer ring? Don't worry I find it all fascinating too :) All I know for sure is they are not brown.......when I had my hair dyed red they stood out like whoa but when I'm sporting my natural blonette they are very subtle and muted. You can't even tell what colour they are until you get up close. Thank you for saying they're pretty, every little bit helps :)
Vanessa

[ejking2]

Huh, maybe my eyes aren't really green either. :confused:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eyes.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eyes.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eye1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eye1.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eye3.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eye3.jpg.html)

[SamEatsBrains]

So the true colour is the darker outer ring? Don't worry I find it all fascinating too :) All I know for sure is they are not brown.......when I had my hair dyed red they stood out like whoa but when I'm sporting my natural blonette they are very subtle and muted. You can't even tell what colour they are until you get up close. Thank you for saying they're pretty, every little bit helps :)
Vanessa

Not the dark outer ring, but the middle color I guess. Since the iris is a muscle the darker outer ring is typically just a tensed/more compact version of the main color. Which I would guess is a grayish blue? Lol, I know what you mean. Depsite thinking brown eyes are absolutely lovely...I always got annoyed when people thought my eyes were brown. I'm sure you can sympathize with how many times I've told people "NO, look closer!" :P! And I know all about muted. My coloring is so washed out looking lol. But I'm learning to love it.

[SamEatsBrains]

Huh, maybe my eyes aren't really green either. :confused:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eyes.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eyes.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eye1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eye1.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eye3.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eye3.jpg.html)

Nope! They are blue and yellow! And gorgeous at that! Wow :D.

[SamEatsBrains]

Much like people do with hair...if blonde isn't BLEACHY enough to be blonde, it must be brown. People do the same with eyes. If your eyes aren't as blue as the sky, call them green! But that's not surprising because blue with an inner ring of yellow is a more common situation than most would realize. And naturally blue+yellow can look very green at times! My boyfriend has like....the BLUEST blue eyes I've ever seen...with a small ring of yellow...and when we first met he was convinced they weren't blue enough to be blue, and were green!

Oh, also! Not that I'm the eye color authority or anything, I just know quite a bit about it. Green is very rare and only 1% of the population has it. And true green is like...literally...GRASS green. Not like, 'sea green' which is a very lovely color, but a shade of blue. Most people called my eyes green growing up and still do. My mom is half Mexican, with a mother with eyes I like to call 'blue hazel' consisting of blue and yellow, and her father has brown eyes. My dad has brown eyes, and his mother has blue eyes, and his father brown as well. So, both of my siblings have brown eyes. And since I don't have brown eyes, my eyes can only be genetically blue. It's not quite so simple in all cases though. But, due to the melanin levels I have due to my Mexican side and my darker coloring, I've got a bit of a mixed bag of colors thrown over the top of the blue. Green eyes are a mutation in part caused by moderate amounts of melanin (more commonly seen in people of mixed race, but even then...I don't have them! But they look very green at times). And although green irises are made of yellow and blue pigments (as there are no green pigments that make up eye color) this color will be a solid mixed green (could have a ring of another color in the center, but the true color is always the 'main' color of the iris. ) whereas a blue eye containing blue and yellow pigments is still blue if the yellow is contained to the center of the eye in a ring like many on this thread!

[wandlimb]

I think my eyes are hazel - they look different in different lights. My husband diplomatically says they're khaki! Depending the light they can look tree green, brown or grey, but never blue. I think my hair is about a 7 on the scale, the avatar's hair's a bit too pale.

[SamEatsBrains]

I think my eyes are hazel - they look different in different lights. My husband diplomatically says they're khaki! Depending the light they can look tree green, brown or grey, but never blue. I think my hair is about a 7 on the scale, the avatar's hair's a bit too pale.


Lol, khaki! Love it! Ya, 'hazel' is basically always used to describe a color that is hard to describe!

[ejking2]

Thanks Sam--this is all very interesting and enlightening :D

[MonaMayfair]

Actually Sam, I usually call my eyes "grass green" so you have an idea of the color I mean! :)
My dad is a blue eyed blond and my mom has brown eyes and red hair.

[SamEatsBrains]

Thanks Sam--this is all very interesting and enlightening :D

No problem! Glad I'm not being annoying :3.

[SamEatsBrains]

Actually Sam, I usually call my eyes "grass green" so you have an idea of the color I mean! :)
My dad is a blue eyed blond and my mom has brown eyes and red hair.

Ooooh. With a red-haired mother you have great odds of "true green" Now I'm dying to see lol!

[MonaMayfair]

Ooooh. With a red-haired mother you have great odds of "true green" Now I'm dying to see lol!

I was born with red hair too! But it started turning blonde pretty soon. My baby record book says "Hair - auburn, turning golden" which sounds quite nice! It actually then turned white blonde until I was about 12, then started to darken back to golden blonde.

[Stray_mind]

Huh, maybe my eyes aren't really green either. :confused:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eyes.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eyes.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eye1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eye1.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/clownfishi/eye3.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/clownfishi/media/eye3.jpg.html)

The last picture looks very similar to what my eye colour is. I really like that from different sides my eyes look different. From the side-yellowish green, from above-blue and from the front-greyish green. It's different shaded, just like my hair.

[thistledown]

So the only true green eyes are that grass green? Good to know. My mum has similar to me, my sister had light grey, my dad had grey and my other sister had brown. A total mixed bag.

Vanessa

[SamEatsBrains]

So the only true green eyes are that grass green? Good to know. My mum has similar to me, my sister had light grey, my dad had grey and my other sister had brown. A total mixed bag.

Vanessa

Yup, most just think their eyes aren't 'blue enough' to be blue. Same goes with grey. Grey eyes are genetically blue. They're just not...strikingly blue! Genetically green eyes would be the color of grass and leaves, etc :D. Eyes are funny. They're just as varied as skin and hair color. But they're only made of blue, yellow, and brown pigments. And all the colors (besides green) are chosen by rather simple genes. Eye colors range from the palest of blues to nearly black in color. But, odds are light eyes are mostly always genetically blue. I'm sorta of a genetics nerd, especially about eyes. I used to want to be a Geneticist :P. Being from a Mexican family, naturally most all of my family has brown eyes. The grandparents have brown and blue, then all the children have brown, and all the grandchildren and great grandchildren but three have brown! Out of like....25 kids!

Both your parents have light eyes but your sister has brown!? That's rare/cool :D. Doesn't happen very often!

[Stray_mind]

I love how our eyes, just like our hair, appear different coloured in different lighting. And i also noticed that the shade of eye colour (well, at least mine) depends on what coloured top you're wearing. I call my eyes "the colour of water", because in the sun it appears blue, when there's cloudy-grey and looking from the side it looks yelowish-green. :D Funny eye colour. When i ask people to describe it, they allways say that it's very hard to do that. Today is cloudy outside and my eye colour looks like this:
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn256/angel_corpse_album/P1250432_zps8c183050.jpg

[Misschilly]

Hi, can I call my hair blonette? =)http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx166/Camilla_Abrahamsson/DSC_0033_zps1451c492.jpg

[Ocelan]

Sam, that's really interesting! So I was kind of right when I never really called my eyes flat out green but rather a mixture, but I still don't recognise my eyes as blue either. They very very rarely look blue or gray to me. Maybe in some pictures they do and maybe other people might see them like that, but never when I look myself in the mirror atleast.

I think both my parents have kind of blue eyes, atleast my dad has the grayish blue, but my mom might have nearly the same color as I do. I know my grandma (dad's mom) had "yellow eyes" or atleast she was called the "yellow-eyed shopkeeper" back in the day. Maybe her eyes were like mine with only more yellow in them or maybe they were hazel or amber colored? I don't have a close-up picture of her here. Her eyes were definitely not brown, even though she did have dark hair. In fact she was really blonde as a kid (like many of us blonettes) and her hair kept on darkening when she aged. She only went slightly grayish in her last years but a few years before she died she was still a very dark brunette, like bit too strong coffee color, espresso without the red tones. My other family members then again have dark blonde to blonette hair. I think I'm the darkest one with most red pigment in my hair. My dad and brother are ashy dark blondes. I think we are all quite yellow or warm by complexion. Atleast I am, like a pale Simpson. :P

Misschilly, I would definitely call you a blonette!

[MonaMayfair]

Yup, most just think their eyes aren't 'blue enough' to be blue. Same goes with grey. Grey eyes are genetically blue. They're just not...strikingly blue! Genetically green eyes would be the color of grass and leaves, etc :D. Eyes are funny. They're just as varied as skin and hair color. But they're only made of blue, yellow, and brown pigments. And all the colors (besides green) are chosen by rather simple genes. Eye colors range from the palest of blues to nearly black in color. But, odds are light eyes are mostly always genetically blue. I'm sorta of a genetics nerd, especially about eyes. I used to want to be a Geneticist :P. Being from a Mexican family, naturally most all of my family has brown eyes. The grandparents have brown and blue, then all the children have brown, and all the grandchildren and great grandchildren but three have brown! Out of like....25 kids!

Both your parents have light eyes but your sister has brown!? That's rare/cool :D. Doesn't happen very often!

That's all interesting. I'd never really thought about it, but apart from me and people in my family who have the warm grass/leaf green, all the other green eyed people I can think of that I've known have had cool darker green. That's really pretty too though...

[SamEatsBrains]

Hi, can I call my hair blonette? =)http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx166/Camilla_Abrahamsson/DSC_0033_zps1451c492.jpg

Sure looks blonette to me!

[SamEatsBrains]

Sam, that's really interesting! So I was kind of right when I never really called my eyes flat out green but rather a mixture, but I still don't recognise my eyes as blue either. They very very rarely look blue or gray to me. Maybe in some pictures they do and maybe other people might see them like that, but never when I look myself in the mirror atleast.

I think both my parents have kind of blue eyes, atleast my dad has the grayish blue, but my mom might have nearly the same color as I do. I know my grandma (dad's mom) had "yellow eyes" or atleast she was called the "yellow-eyed shopkeeper" back in the day. Maybe her eyes were like mine with only more yellow in them or maybe they were hazel or amber colored? I don't have a close-up picture of her here. Her eyes were definitely not brown, even though she did have dark hair. In fact she was really blonde as a kid (like many of us blonettes) and her hair kept on darkening when she aged. She only went slightly grayish in her last years but a few years before she died she was still a very dark brunette, like bit too strong coffee color, espresso without the red tones. My other family members then again have dark blonde to blonette hair. I think I'm the darkest one with most red pigment in my hair. My dad and brother are ashy dark blondes. I think we are all quite yellow or warm by complexion. Atleast I am, like a pale Simpson. :P

Misschilly, I would definitely call you a blonette!

Yup! You can have (genetically) blue eyes that hardly ever look blue at all. That's the lovely/fantastic thing about eye color. Every shade is possible even if only largely controlled by two genes! Most people have laughed in my face when I claim my eyes to be blue. Sometimes it's even a struggle to get people to see them as green lol. Most just glance quickly and say hazel or even brown. Color perception is interesting.

I have a yellow complexion as well! I've got a very 'golden brown' skin tone. My mother, being Mexican, is naturally very dark. She's like a bronze color...very orange/red undertones to the skin. Same with my sister. We all got her dark complexion and ability to get a great tan, but we all have different undertones to our skin. My brother is straight up light brown color with seemingly no undertone to it. I have very noticeable yellow undertones which look great in the summer. Nice golden tan. But in the winter I just look yellow :3! My dad is Caucasian and is a pale pinkish beige color.

[SamEatsBrains]

That's all interesting. I'd never really thought about it, but apart from me and people in my family who have the warm grass/leaf green, all the other green eyed people I can think of that I've known have had cool darker green. That's really pretty too though...

I agree. I have a friend from school who's eyes are the darkest green I've ever seen. Probably the only pair of green eyes I've seen. And unfortunately I've only mostly seen them in pictures so I can't really tell. But they are so dark at a glance you'd think she had black eyes, but they're the deepest like...forest green eyes. Very lovely.

[Ocelan]

Yup! You can have (genetically) blue eyes that hardly ever look blue at all. That's the lovely/fantastic thing about eye color. Every shade is possible even if only largely controlled by two genes! Most people have laughed in my face when I claim my eyes to be blue. Sometimes it's even a struggle to get people to see them as green lol. Most just glance quickly and say hazel or even brown. Color perception is interesting.

I have a yellow complexion as well! I've got a very 'golden brown' skin tone. My mother, being Mexican, is naturally very dark. She's like a bronze color...very orange/red undertones to the skin. Same with my sister. We all got her dark complexion and ability to get a great tan, but we all have different undertones to our skin. My brother is straight up light brown color with seemingly no undertone to it. I have very noticeable yellow undertones which look great in the summer. Nice golden tan. But in the winter I just look yellow :3! My dad is Caucasian and is a pale pinkish beige color.

Haha, I must start telling people I have blue eyes just to piss them off or to confuse them. Especially to those who have really blue eyes. :P Oh and one thing, when I was in school and we talked some about eye color genes it was always sad that blue eyes were the recessive trait and brown and green ones were dominant. It was also said that it's not that simple, of course, but now that I get to ask someone who actually knows something about the matter, Sam, are we talking about only the rare grass green here as being dominant or the greenish looking mixed version of the blue being dominant compared to the blue one? Or have they completely taught us wrong in school? :)

And I forgot to mention that I'm a really pale yellow. I have a hard time finding makeup because it's nearly always too dark, no matter how they say it it for light skin tones. I have to get the translucent "porcelain" or "very fair" types. So even though it is in the warm spectrum it doesn't look warm toned because of the paleness.

[kitschy]

Ocelan, I would call your eyes green, green green, not blue, but greeny green green! :D:lala:

[SamEatsBrains]

Ocelan, I would call your eyes green, green green, not blue, but greeny green green! :D:lala:

Lol, most would! I'm just too much of a genetics dork!

And actually, yes, Ocelan's eyes have a great deal of yellow in them and look very green! Much greener than most people I've met who call their eye color green!

But this is coming from a girl who's eyes on most days look as green as the grass, but won't call her eyes green because it's not genetically accurate lol!

[SamEatsBrains]

Haha, I must start telling people I have blue eyes just to piss them off or to confuse them. Especially to those who have really blue eyes. :P Oh and one thing, when I was in school and we talked some about eye color genes it was always sad that blue eyes were the recessive trait and brown and green ones were dominant. It was also said that it's not that simple, of course, but now that I get to ask someone who actually knows something about the matter, Sam, are we talking about only the rare grass green here as being dominant or the greenish looking mixed version of the blue being dominant compared to the blue one? Or have they completely taught us wrong in school? :)

And I forgot to mention that I'm a really pale yellow. I have a hard time finding makeup because it's nearly always too dark, no matter how they say it it for light skin tones. I have to get the translucent "porcelain" or "very fair" types. So even though it is in the warm spectrum it doesn't look warm toned because of the paleness.
Lol, yes. It really bothers people with super blue eyes for some reason! Like no one else deserves to be blue too lol )':. Trust me :P!
Eye color genetics is usually taught incorrectly because of over-simplifying it like that. Green isn't dominant or recessive really. Because there is actually no gene that causes is. There are genes that directly code for blue or brown eyes, but green is a rare combination of multiple mutations of the OCA2 gene and an iris exposed to low-moderate amounts of melanin! There are far too many factors! Blue and green are both dominated by brown however, so that much is true.

And I don't wear makeup these days, but when I did, I could never find a good shade either. I am dark enough, but none of the shades were ever yellow enough! They all looked red or orange :/. It was frustrating!

[SamEatsBrains]

I love how our eyes, just like our hair, appear different coloured in different lighting. And i also noticed that the shade of eye colour (well, at least mine) depends on what coloured top you're wearing. I call my eyes "the colour of water", because in the sun it appears blue, when there's cloudy-grey and looking from the side it looks yelowish-green. :D Funny eye colour. When i ask people to describe it, they allways say that it's very hard to do that. Today is cloudy outside and my eye colour looks like this:
http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn256/angel_corpse_album/P1250432_zps8c183050.jpg

Oh, I missed this post! But yes, "water color" is a GREAT way to put it....because all light eyes (like our blonette hair!) are translucent and reflective and mirror back the colors of the environment around them, where darker eyes do not! Which is why they can look SO different in different lighting situations and while wearing different colors. I love it!
Your eye looks VERY blue in that picture! And very very pretty :D.

[SamEatsBrains]

I've really gotten us off-topic lol! But I think it's really interesting that us blonettes have mystery eye colors as well!

[kitschy]

Lol, most would! I'm just too much of a genetics dork!

And actually, yes, Ocelan's eyes have a great deal of yellow in them and look very green! Much greener than most people I've met who call their eye color green!

But this is coming from a girl who's eyes on most days look as green as the grass, but won't call her eyes green because it's not genetically accurate lol!

Mine are very gray (which I know means they are blue). Eye color is fascinating to me. My son is a very gray/blue and his wife is dark brown from Guatemala - a very genetically Amerind type brown, but my granddaughter is a very light blue/green. I never expected it - I thought the brown would be dominant, but again genetics got the best of my best guess!

https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q75/s720x720/1468717_10201155144189234_1780954796_n.jpg

[SamEatsBrains]

Mine are very gray (which I know means they are blue). Eye color is fascinating to me. My son is a very gray/blue and his wife is dark brown from Guatemala - a very genetically Amerind type brown, but my granddaughter is a very light blue/green. I never expected it - I thought the brown would be dominant, but again genetics got the best of my best guess!

https://scontent-b-pao.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q75/s720x720/1468717_10201155144189234_1780954796_n.jpg

Ya, that's a pretty rare occurence! How cool :D. What a beautiful little girl! Her eyes look so blue even from a distance! Such a gorgeous dark coloring with light eyes!

[Stray_mind]

such beautiful contrast. I love it!

[Lize]

I cut layers into my hair in the summer and got rid of all the bleached bits I had. My hair is now my natural color, which I think falls under the blonette-spectrum. I call it dark blonde myself.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/IMG_1813_zps350b32e0.jpg

Speaking of eye color my eyes have some different colors in them and can look different in different lights, but most of the time they look quite green. In some lights they can look golden. They also have a dark blueish ring around the iris. The color usually looks greener than in the photo which has quite a cold light.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/DSC_8530_zps9eb6f2fb.jpg

[faellen]

I'd also call you a blonde Lize :) wish my hair was that colour!

[BreeTheBoss]

Im honey blonde but it starts to look brownish when I dont wash for 3-4 days. (My parents constantly rag on me b/c they know when its not washed)
But it works with my green eyes :)

[Gaelle27]

Finally got an almost decent picture of my hair in the sun

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1471375_708006482543592_1369842506_n.jpg

And I'm not so certain that I belond here... Whato do you ladies think?
And about my eyes, they are greyish shade of blue I need to get a good picture of them ^^

[SamEatsBrains]

I cut layers into my hair in the summer and got rid of all the bleached bits I had. My hair is now my natural color, which I think falls under the blonette-spectrum. I call it dark blonde myself.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/IMG_1813_zps350b32e0.jpg

Speaking of eye color my eyes have some different colors in them and can look different in different lights, but most of the time they look quite green. In some lights they can look golden. They also have a dark blueish ring around the iris. The color usually looks greener than in the photo which has quite a cold light.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p273/Libelous/DSC_8530_zps9eb6f2fb.jpg

Wow your eyes are gorgeous! Made of very similar colors to mine only yours are much prettier than mine lol! My eyes can and have looked just about the full spectrum of colors as well!

[redtuss]

Lize, I have the same colour of my eyes, although a bit darker in the blue part, but the golden ring I recognise! They also look green most of the time. :) Oh and also - both your hair and your eyes are BEAUTIFUL!

[UP Lisa]

My eyes are Hazel. More Green than anything else.

[Springlets]

I cut layers into my hair in the summer and got rid of all the bleached bits I had. My hair is now my natural color, which I think falls under the blonette-spectrum. I call it dark blonde myself.

Speaking of eye color my eyes have some different colors in them and can look different in different lights, but most of the time they look quite green. In some lights they can look golden. They also have a dark blueish ring around the iris. The color usually looks greener than in the photo which has quite a cold light.


Your hair looks so great Lize, congrats on getting rid of all the bleach! And your eyes are a really striking color! I see no problem with considering your hair as part of the blonette spectrum, in the first picture it looks blonde, in the picture with your eye more people would probably call it brunette- this is the essence of blonette hair. Most blondes will appear blonette at least some of the time. Most of my wedding pictures have my hair looking much darker because it was indoors with dark lighting.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/7b81dbea-d635-4c97-8a30-7cc9b102d1cb_zps7aebf609.jpg

Compare that to the picture taken just hours earlier in my garage when we were packing up to go.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/566b4215-81e1-4422-a0b5-65943ae15fe9_zps6c0b6150.jpg

Amanda Seyfried's hair does the same thing, and I consider her to be mainly light blonde.
Darker (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ee/d3/d1/eed3d160cc2b3f02772e71929e8b570a.jpg)
Lighter (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/6a/f7/dd/6af7ddaf262c872c3df458f116e3aa93.jpg)

This is why, even though I would generally call myself a medium/light blonde, I still have times of looking blonette and why I feel so strongly that it should be a better loved color! :)

As for eye color, I get my eyes from my mom who is Irish with dark hair and very blue eyes. My dad who is German has blond hair with blue/gray eyes.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/232323232fp_96_nu6957_632_258_WSNRCG33_458343335nu 0mrjpicnik-1.jpg
But on an overcast day I guess they can look a little grayish?
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/eb55aa84-6de5-44bb-9e04-f50e94df0344_zps93f21453.jpg

[Stray_mind]

This is my hair in the sunlight (you've probably seen this pic in another thread :) )

http://http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn256/angel_corpse_album/0b475844-2d05-498c-afdf-f9e75776b0b0_zps614252cd.jpg (http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn256/angel_corpse_album/0b475844-2d05-498c-afdf-f9e75776b0b0_zps614252cd.jpg)

And in the shadow

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn256/angel_corpse_album/973888.jpg

Trough last year my hair was chemically dyed dark brown and then dyed over with red dye. My hair is hennaed now, but last time i hennaed was 3 months ago. I am getting back to my natural colour slowly but surely:

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn256/angel_corpse_album/P1250632_zps2d3a99ee.jpg

[redtuss]

Springlets - your eyes are amazing! Nothing that looks grey to me, just blue :) icy beautiful blue. Wonderful!

and Stray mind - I love your colour, it is very pretty!

[SamEatsBrains]

Your hair looks so great Lize, congrats on getting rid of all the bleach! And your eyes are a really striking color! I see no problem with considering your hair as part of the blonette spectrum, in the first picture it looks blonde, in the picture with your eye more people would probably call it brunette- this is the essence of blonette hair. Most blondes will appear blonette at least some of the time. Most of my wedding pictures have my hair looking much darker because it was indoors with dark lighting.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/7b81dbea-d635-4c97-8a30-7cc9b102d1cb_zps7aebf609.jpg

Compare that to the picture taken just hours earlier in my garage when we were packing up to go.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/566b4215-81e1-4422-a0b5-65943ae15fe9_zps6c0b6150.jpg

Amanda Seyfried's hair does the same thing, and I consider her to be mainly light blonde.
Darker (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ee/d3/d1/eed3d160cc2b3f02772e71929e8b570a.jpg)
Lighter (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/6a/f7/dd/6af7ddaf262c872c3df458f116e3aa93.jpg)

This is why, even though I would generally call myself a medium/light blonde, I still have times of looking blonette and why I feel so strongly that it should be a better loved color! :)

As for eye color, I get my eyes from my mom who is Irish with dark hair and very blue eyes. My dad who is German has blond hair with blue/gray eyes.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/232323232fp_96_nu6957_632_258_WSNRCG33_458343335nu 0mrjpicnik-1.jpg
But on an overcast day I guess they can look a little grayish?
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/eb55aa84-6de5-44bb-9e04-f50e94df0344_zps93f21453.jpg
Pure blue! Nothing gray about them. Those are the bluest eyes I've ever seen :o!

[lapushka]

Your hair looks so great Lize, congrats on getting rid of all the bleach! And your eyes are a really striking color! I see no problem with considering your hair as part of the blonette spectrum, in the first picture it looks blonde, in the picture with your eye more people would probably call it brunette- this is the essence of blonette hair. Most blondes will appear blonette at least some of the time. Most of my wedding pictures have my hair looking much darker because it was indoors with dark lighting.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/7b81dbea-d635-4c97-8a30-7cc9b102d1cb_zps7aebf609.jpg

Compare that to the picture taken just hours earlier in my garage when we were packing up to go.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/566b4215-81e1-4422-a0b5-65943ae15fe9_zps6c0b6150.jpg

Amanda Seyfried's hair does the same thing, and I consider her to be mainly light blonde.
Darker (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ee/d3/d1/eed3d160cc2b3f02772e71929e8b570a.jpg)
Lighter (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/6a/f7/dd/6af7ddaf262c872c3df458f116e3aa93.jpg)

This is why, even though I would generally call myself a medium/light blonde, I still have times of looking blonette and why I feel so strongly that it should be a better loved color! :)

As for eye color, I get my eyes from my mom who is Irish with dark hair and very blue eyes. My dad who is German has blond hair with blue/gray eyes.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/232323232fp_96_nu6957_632_258_WSNRCG33_458343335nu 0mrjpicnik-1.jpg
But on an overcast day I guess they can look a little grayish?
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/eb55aa84-6de5-44bb-9e04-f50e94df0344_zps93f21453.jpg

Your hair's more like a mid-tone blonde. Not actually blonette, but a nice mid-tone!

[Springlets]

Springlets - your eyes are amazing! Nothing that looks grey to me, just blue :) icy beautiful blue. Wonderful!


Pure blue! Nothing gray about them. Those are the bluest eyes I've ever seen :o!

Thank you! I've always thought them just blue, but there were two people once who tried to tell me that they were actually gray.


Your hair's more like a mid-tone blonde. Not actually blonette, but a nice mid-tone!

Do you mean in my darker hair picture? I guess it does lighten up down the length, but overall it looks to me like a color that people would find it hard to call blonde, especially in comparison to bleached blonde, like below.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/c78c2805-e025-41e2-b262-9b393045568a_zps639dac22.jpg

Mid blonde to me is like in my signature picture, and my wedding pictures generally show much darker than that.

[lapushka]

Do you mean in my darker hair picture? I guess it does lighten up down the length, but overall it looks to me like a color that people would find it hard to call blonde, especially in comparison to bleached blonde, like below.
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/c78c2805-e025-41e2-b262-9b393045568a_zps639dac22.jpg

Mid blonde to me is like in my signature picture, and my wedding pictures generally show much darker than that.

Yes, even there. It is still a mid-tone, regardless of the lighting, even in the darker picture. Blonette actually is way darker than that and borders on brown! Check upthread if you're unsure. :)

[Springlets]

Yes, even there. It is still a mid-tone, regardless of the lighting, even in the darker picture. Blonette actually is way darker than that and borders on brown! Check upthread if you're unsure. :)

I think I just have a different opinion of what blonette is. :) I did make a thread (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=79074) on hair color levels, so I think your definition of blonette is strictly level 6, which is understandable. But I take into account public opinion, which I think says that everything below level 8 and higher than level 6.5 'borders on brown'. For example, when I first saw this picture (http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5d/1b/9b/5d1b9bc37537684f5dd9743ea5338ed8.jpg) on pinterest, the caption called it dirty blonde, when to me it looks medium/light blonde (much like my own). I just wanted to point out that even for those with light and medium blonde hair, their hair almost always has times of looking not quite blonde (as far as public opinion goes), and therefore have a connection with blonettes.

[EvilPigeon]

I personally think blonette hair is beautiful, and am so disappointed that it does not look right on me :( it is my natural color, which I have been dying since age 12.

[SamEatsBrains]

Level 6 hair would obviously be the 'strictest' blonette but I think most (myself included) would say levels 5-7. Especially because blonette hair tends to look different in different light. I'd say my hair is a 6 or 6.5 but it can look level 5, or level 7.5 even lol.

[Amalthea]

Hi everyone!

I love blonette hair and often pop in to admire this thread!

I'm hoping that I fit in here. My hair colour is a light brown which sometimes looks ashy, and other times has a cinnamon tone. I have lots of blonde highlights, but they only seem to come out in some lights.

I wish I had some better photos, but these are the best selfies I could manage:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee170/nuggits27/summer.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee170/nuggits27/blonette2.jpg

[SamEatsBrains]

Certainly looks blonette to me.

[Rosetta]

I think I just have a different opinion of what blonette is. :) I did make a thread (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=79074) on hair color levels, so I think your definition of blonette is strictly level 6, which is understandable. But I take into account public opinion, which I think says that everything below level 8 and higher than level 6.5 'borders on brown'. For example, when I first saw this picture (http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5d/1b/9b/5d1b9bc37537684f5dd9743ea5338ed8.jpg) on pinterest, the caption called it dirty blonde, when to me it looks medium/light blonde (much like my own). I just wanted to point out that even for those with light and medium blonde hair, their hair almost always has times of looking not quite blonde (as far as public opinion goes), and therefore have a connection with blonettes.
You're definitely right as to the public opinion; just as an example, this girl is calling her newly coloured hair "dark blonde" http://www.lilithmoon.com/2013/10/new-hair-color-dark-blonde.html, though it's actually a very light blonde... And to me, around level 7 is the most typical "blonette".

[Weewah]

I'm blonette! I'm always caving in and bleaching it though. I've got some major roots growing in right now but I hope to power through with the help of honey lightening treatments and thinking about all the breakage I won't have:)

http://i42.tinypic.com/11bmb7o.jpg

[lapushka]

I'm blonette! I'm always caving in and bleaching it though. I've got some major roots growing in right now but I hope to power through with the help of honey lightening treatments and thinking about all the breakage I won't have:)

http://i42.tinypic.com/11bmb7o.jpg

That looks like a mid-tone blond to me, rather than blonette. Blonette is hardly distinguishable from brown.

[LaFlor]

When I went to the salon the hairdresser said my hair was between 6 and 7, I consider myself blonette.

[Springlets]

You're definitely right as to the public opinion; just as an example, this girl is calling her newly coloured hair "dark blonde" http://www.lilithmoon.com/2013/10/new-hair-color-dark-blonde.html, though it's actually a very light blonde... And to me, around level 7 is the most typical "blonette".

Yeah that's especially weird considering she says she used a level 9 ash blonde toner, and in most companies level 9 is at least named 'light blonde', if not 'very light' blonde. People just think in terms of bleached hair colors now, rather than natural hair. I also agree that for most people, level 7 is the most typical blonette color (in that it is considered not quite blonde, but not totally brown either). Level 6 in most people's minds is just straight up light brown.

I've been watching a lot of early 90s movies lately (because they're awesome and remind me of my childhood ;) ). It seems like during this time, actresses were allowed to have softer hair colors, especially more natural blonde colors. I suppose many of the actresses were young so it would make sense that they had natural hair, but considering how many young actresses start bleaching their hair at age 10 or so now, I think it's indicative of how the world appreciated hair color at the time.

Reese Witherspoon in A Far Off Place here (http://skymovies.sky.com/image/unscaled/2013/02/12/SVOD-L-A-Far-Off-Place.jpg) and here (http://www.movie-roulette.com/photos_big/a-far-off-place-1-1.jpeg)
Katherine Heigl in My Father the Hero here (http://images4.static-bluray.com/reviews/4249_5.jpg) and here (http://www.kheigl.com/images/career/film/myfatherthehero/large/stills8.jpg)
Emma Thompson in Much Ado About Nothing here (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3jDgD9J-4Ck/T4UCQCtsaYI/AAAAAAAAAeU/wL4bmhIoMJs/s1600/Emma_Thompson.jpg) and here (http://www.smartdestinations.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kenneth-branagh.png)
Jodie Foster in Maverick here (http://images3.cinema.de/imedia/5610/2185610,tLmch_TO9w6b3b1LveSr9bke6mKyYFU4upoYQPxxlo jUuQZpM6LPlArm0UA5ENB2KSQKrAPtYcJjzPcJVNgyTw==.jpg ) and here (http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/m/a/v/maverick-1994-10-g.jpg)

[Ms. Littlefish]

I'm having trouble figuring out if I'm blonette or light brown. It looks lighter and slightly red in full sun but it was cloudy yesterday. I've also just started growing it in so no sun bleaching has occurred (this tends to put a little strawberry in for me).

http://i.imgur.com/CSsbel9.jpg

Edit: I found one picture from a couple months back with more root exposure and full sun.

http://i.imgur.com/ITn0sAk.jpg

[ejking2]

Looks brown to me.

[knhess]

Hi everyone! I've always identified myself as a dark blonde because as a child I was light blonde and having just a few highlights added to my hair makes me look unmistakably blonde. Here are some photos in different lighting. Would you say I am a dark blonde/blonette or am I actually a light brown and in denial since blonde has always been a part of my identity?

Indoors
http://i42.tinypic.com/fvaeye.jpg

[Nedertane]

Yeah that's especially weird considering she says she used a level 9 ash blonde toner, and in most companies level 9 is at least named 'light blonde', if not 'very light' blonde. People just think in terms of bleached hair colors now, rather than natural hair. I also agree that for most people, level 7 is the most typical blonette color (in that it is considered not quite blonde, but not totally brown either). Level 6 in most people's minds is just straight up light brown.

Wait, level 7 is the blonette point now? I thought that was still dark blonde, and level 6 was where it became blonette?

[ejking2]

knhess, your hair isn't brown. IMO you're a blonde and can be called a blonette.

[Rosetta]

Wait, level 7 is the blonette point now? I thought that was still dark blonde, and level 6 was where it became blonette?

As I understand it, they (dark blonde and blonette) are more or less the same thing, or at least overlap a lot...

[lapushka]

I'm having trouble figuring out if I'm blonette or light brown. It looks lighter and slightly red in full sun but it was cloudy yesterday. I've also just started growing it in so no sun bleaching has occurred (this tends to put a little strawberry in for me).

I'm going to say brown as well, because there's red in it (obvious in the second picture). There's no blonde undertone in the full bright light. I don't differ much from your first picture, but when I get into full blown clear light you can see it's actually blondish.

[Gothchiq]

Hmm, my husband might fall into this category. The color his hair looks to be varies a lot depending on light level and type.

[SamEatsBrains]

Hi everyone! I've always identified myself as a dark blonde because as a child I was light blonde and having just a few highlights added to my hair makes me look unmistakably blonde. Here are some photos in different lighting. Would you say I am a dark blonde/blonette or am I actually a light brown and in denial since blonde has always been a part of my identity?

Indoors
http://i42.tinypic.com/fvaeye.jpg


Outdoors
http://i42.tinypic.com/ehf692.jpg

You can see my demarcation line pretty well here.
http://i39.tinypic.com/10f28ld.jpg

You're blonde! For sure :]. No worries. I'd not even say blonette. Just blonde :]. Pretty!

[SamEatsBrains]

Wait, level 7 is the blonette point now? I thought that was still dark blonde, and level 6 was where it became blonette?

I consider level 6 blonette. 7 is blonde to me and 5 is brown. 6 is the truest 'blonette', hard to place in either category. But anything from 5-7 is blonette to me really. Lighting and such :].

[SamEatsBrains]

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/haircolorlevelchart-1-1.jpg I usually look at this.