Natural Blond Hair Colors

[UP Lisa]

Would like to see pics of diffferent shades of blond. Ash versus Golden, for instance. I will post mine when I get a chance.

[spidermom]

My shade has always depended on the light:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/spidermom/LONGERSTILL.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/spidermom/nautilus.jpg
Weird, right?

[UP Lisa]

My hair is Red now, but here is my natural color:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/lmreddin/Hair/08bystones.jpg

What would you call it?

[spidermom]

Something between neutral and ash on my screen.

[invisiblebabe]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2192/130/37/30809936/n30809936_37580931_1359.jpg

Mine is dark ash blonde (level 7) with light blonde highlights.

[invisiblebabe]

This is a model with golden blonde hair
http://www.mynewhair.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/simple-down-prom-hair.jpg

[UP Lisa]

I've never thought of it as Ash.....



My hair is Red now, but here is my natural color:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/lmreddin/Hair/08bystones.jpg

What would you call it?

[StormVixen]

I think my hair is a mixed up blonde... reddish-golden blonde with darker ashy-ness in the under layer... but I have also been called ginger... and people have said to me that I'm not blonde... I am seriously confused about my colour!

[UP Lisa]

Before I colored mine, it had been getting quite red from the iron in my water.



I think my hair is a mixed up blonde... reddish-golden blonde with darker ashy-ness in the under layer... but I have also been called ginger... and people have said to me that I'm not blonde... I am seriously confused about my colour!

[Ermine]

See my album. I had highlights but they're grown out enough that I have more natural color than not. It's a medium ash blonde.

[StormVixen]

Before I colored mine, it had been getting quite red from the iron in my water.

hmm that could be a possibility i guess... my sister is a true ginger tho so it is in the genes...

[uptosomeone]

One of my good friends has waist-length naturally white blonde hair. It's thick and oh-so-stunning!

http://i54.tinypic.com/2rf78tz.jpg

[Macaroni]

My hair is Red now, but here is my natural color:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/lmreddin/Hair/08bystones.jpg

What would you call it?

I'd call it dark golden blonde.

[MissEarlGrey]

See my album. :)

[invisiblebabe]

I think my hair is a mixed up blonde... reddish-golden blonde with darker ashy-ness in the under layer... but I have also been called ginger... and people have said to me that I'm not blonde... I am seriously confused about my colour!

Going by the picture in your album, you are definitely blonde. I do see ash in a few places and golden in others, so overall I'd guess you are neutral. I would not call you a redhead, and you are definitely not brunette either. You have pretty hair :)

[Springlets]

Here's an old family picture (sorry, my dad was in swim trunks in it):
http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/10-21-2011045525PM.jpg
My brother, forefront, turned to a medium brown soon after this was taken; my sister, holding the potato, was usually a strawberry blonde; me, the baby, started out with platinum and gradually darkened, but it was always in the ash or neutral range. I have the same hair as my dad, which I can see an ash tone in his in this picture.

http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz17/Blaircorneliabass/232323232-fp-9-nu6957-632-258-WSNRCG3498-937335nu0mrj-1.jpg

[lyria]

golden blonde: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=3369&pictureid=94776

[StormVixen]

Going by the picture in your album, you are definitely blonde. I do see ash in a few places and golden in others, so overall I'd guess you are neutral. I would not call you a redhead, and you are definitely not brunette either. You have pretty hair :)

thankyou :D I think I shall call my hair Rainbow Blonde :)

[UP Lisa]

Wow! That's really your natural color?



See my album. :)

[UP Lisa]

That's exactly what I have thought it was.



I'd call it dark golden blonde.

[In2wishin]

My childhood natural white blonde hair:
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk315/eclctcmnd/Me1-1.jpg

My teenage - younger adult ash blonde:
http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk315/eclctcmnd/me2-1.jpg

My siggie photo is dark blonde/light brown/gray covered with dark ash blonde permanent dye

[spidermom]

Wow In2wishin, I have an almost identical childhood picture! Except my dress was green. See?
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/spidermom/MO2.jpg
(p.s. - the color faded out of the picture over time)

[Shona]

My hair used to be this colour:
http://i53.tinypic.com/2ufftbp.jpg
But as i've gotten older it's darkered and like some other people on here say, my hair truley does depend on lighting!

http://i56.tinypic.com/iwssix.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/feq8ia.jpg

http://i53.tinypic.com/1088hec.jpg

Please excuse the strangeness of my choice of pictures, haha! :p
I'm not sure what i'm meant to call my colour!

[Torrin Paige]

I've always identified as a strawberry blonde and, like many of you, the lighting conditions change up my hair color. In natural light it seems to be mostly blonde while interior lighting seems to make it mostly red. Someone once told me it's honey blonde, which I quite rather like, as honey comes in many shades...all of which are in my hair. :)

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h278/torrinpaige/SANY0101-1.jpghttp://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h278/torrinpaige/SANY1177.jpg

[Oksana]

I was white blonde until my teens:

http://imagehosting.nu/images/user28754pic79335128.jpg

In most indoor light, flash and outside i am now a ash/beige blonde:

http://imagehosting.nu/images/sam1181.jpg

But in certain lights i can pull up quite a warm light blonde :rolleyes::

http://imagehosting.nu/images/sam1120.jpg

[Torrin Paige]

I was white blonde until my teens:

http://imagehosting.nu/images/user28754pic79335128.jpg

In most indoor light, flash and outside i am now a ash/beige blonde:

http://imagehosting.nu/images/sam1181.jpg

But in certain lights i can pull up quite a warm light blonde :rolleyes::

http://imagehosting.nu/images/sam1120.jpg

So pretty. You totally have my dream hair color. However, were I to actually go for it, the damage and upkeep it would take to make it look that way would be too much for my lazy self. I will content myself to admire from afar.

[Springlets]

Shona I'm actually surprised by how little your hair has changed. In the younger picture you look like a warm light golden blonde (almost strawberry) and in your current pictures it looks like a medium beige or neutral blonde. Very interesting, as most people here go from a platinum blonde to a darker blonde. Not everyone, of course, but the majority it seems.

[uptosomeone]

Shona I'm actually surprised by how little your hair has changed. In the younger picture you look like a warm light golden blonde (almost strawberry) and in your current pictures it looks like a medium beige or neutral blonde. Very interesting, as most people here go from a platinum blonde to a darker blonde. Not everyone, of course, but the majority it seems.

I think it depends on the "true color" of the platinum blonde hair of the child. A lot of little kids of super blonde hair, but if you look closely it's often darker (even just a tiny bit) at the roots. Generally this darkens significantly to a dark blonde/light brown color. Oksana's hair was really extremely white blonde at the roots, therefore has only darkened a small amount.

This isn't proven at all as far as I know, but is just what I've noticed from seeing a whole ton of baby pictures of friends/family. It'd be interesting to see if any of the other blondes have followed this rule though!

[Springlets]

Interesting theory, uptosomeone. I would also say it depends on how long you were super blonde. Honestly, Oksana's is the only one I can see that had actually white blonde hair (level 12) and she had it up till she was a teen. Most others had platinum hair (level 11) and probably only while they were a young child. Going through puberty always seems to darken hair by 2-3 levels so Oksana is now a level 10 and those of us who were level 10-9 turned 8-6.

That's my mathematical theory anyway, even though I am not mathematical at all. :)

Here is a good level chart. (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sXI8Dr0DFV0/RqW9BPXfDUI/AAAAAAAABv4/Uk4X5RRyH3c/s1600/The+Level+bobble+heads990.jpg)

[UP Lisa]

Thanks for that chart. I have considered myself a level 7.




Interesting theory, uptosomeone. I would also say it depends on how long you were super blonde. Honestly, Oksana's is the only one I can see that had actually white blonde hair (level 12) and she had it up till she was a teen. Most others had platinum hair (level 11) and probably only while they were a young child. Going through puberty always seems to darken hair by 2-3 levels so Oksana is now a level 10 and those of us who were level 10-9 turned 8-6.

That's my mathematical theory anyway, even though I am not mathematical at all. :)

Here is a good level chart. (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sXI8Dr0DFV0/RqW9BPXfDUI/AAAAAAAABv4/Uk4X5RRyH3c/s1600/The+Level+bobble+heads990.jpg)

[tori93]

this is my natural colour. I do think blonde hair looks so different depending on lighting. In sunlight it looks much lighter. My hair at the roots is ashy toned and then it goes more golden towards the ends :)

http://i52.tinypic.com/121su8z.png

[bluegirl]

Here's my hair, still damp. Taken at two different places; both taken today.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6221/6279650173_a73f86d859.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/72153192@N00/6279650173/)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6279651077_efb5cb6235.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/72153192@N00/6279651077/)

[UP Lisa]

Very pretty hair.




Here's my hair, still damp. Taken at two different places; both taken today.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6221/6279650173_a73f86d859.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/72153192@N00/6279650173/)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6211/6279651077_efb5cb6235.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/72153192@N00/6279651077/)

[UP Lisa]

Can't see the picture.

I would think that what we see outside in natural light is the color that we really have.




this is my natural colour. I do think blonde hair looks so different depending on lighting. In sunlight it looks much lighter. My hair at the roots is ashy toned and then it goes more golden towards the ends :)

http://i52.tinypic.com/121su8z.png

[tori93]

picture in daylight

http://i54.tinypic.com/23v110x.png

[Topaz]

My Sig is an old picture, but the color is still accurate although it's probably a good 6 inches longer now. I've never colored it, it's all completely natural, including those silvers coming in at the top.

I never really knew what color to call it. Anybody???

[UP Lisa]

Still can't see. Can you try again?



picture in daylight

http://i54.tinypic.com/23v110x.png

[Maraz]

My Sig is an old picture, but the color is still accurate although it's probably a good 6 inches longer now. I've never colored it, it's all completely natural, including those silvers coming in at the top.

I never really knew what color to call it. Anybody???


It's a pretty color. Golden brown or honey maybe?

[Topaz]

Thanks, Maraz. I rather like the idea of honey colored hair! :)

[In2wishin]

My Sig is an old picture, but the color is still accurate although it's probably a good 6 inches longer now. I've never colored it, it's all completely natural, including those silvers coming in at the top.

I never really knew what color to call it. Anybody???

To me it looks like a light ash blonde.

[uptosomeone]

I wouldn't call it "light ash", I don't think it's light enough, nor cool enough. It's very warm colored hair. :) If it's brown or blonde in different lighting maybe you could call it blondette, like a mix of blonde/brunette. Otherwise I would go with the aforementioned light golden brown/honey brown.

[lapushka]

My Sig is an old picture, but the color is still accurate although it's probably a good 6 inches longer now. I've never colored it, it's all completely natural, including those silvers coming in at the top.

I never really knew what color to call it. Anybody???

IMO it's a medium to dark blonde. :)

[tori93]

sorry :confused: what about now ?



http://i52.tinypic.com/121su8z.jpg



in sunlight:

http://i54.tinypic.com/23v110x.jpg

[UP Lisa]

Nope:( Not yet.



sorry :confused: what about now ?



http://i52.tinypic.com/121su8z.jpg



in sunlight:

http://i54.tinypic.com/23v110x.jpg

[invisiblebabe]

Interesting theory, uptosomeone. I would also say it depends on how long you were super blonde. Honestly, Oksana's is the only one I can see that had actually white blonde hair (level 12) and she had it up till she was a teen. Most others had platinum hair (level 11) and probably only while they were a young child. Going through puberty always seems to darken hair by 2-3 levels so Oksana is now a level 10 and those of us who were level 10-9 turned 8-6.

That's my mathematical theory anyway, even though I am not mathematical at all. :)

Here is a good level chart. (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sXI8Dr0DFV0/RqW9BPXfDUI/AAAAAAAABv4/Uk4X5RRyH3c/s1600/The+Level+bobble+heads990.jpg)

Hmmm, interesting :)

I was born with level 8 to 9 hair, but it darkened to level 7 by the time I was 4 or 5 years old and has stayed that way ever since. No, I did not go through puberty in kindergarten :D

[tori93]

ah well, i don't know what i am doing wrong. I can see them ..

[Panth]

ah well, i don't know what i am doing wrong. I can see them ..

I can see them all too - the first set and the second set. So, I think it's not you it's her computer / settings.

EDIT: As for me, no picture but I'm about a Level 8 by that chart. I used to be blonder - my favourite party trick until I first got my hair cut at age 7 was to grab my ends, touch them to my roots and show everyone how much darker my hair had got, since otherwise no one would believe me.

[UP Lisa]

I think it's because I'm on Explorer. Hasn't been working well. I'll try Firefox.



I can see them all too - the first set and the second set. So, I think it's not you it's her computer / settings.

EDIT: As for me, no picture but I'm about a Level 8 by that chart. I used to be blonder - my favourite party trick until I first got my hair cut at age 7 was to grab my ends, touch them to my roots and show everyone how much darker my hair had got, since otherwise no one would believe me.

[UP Lisa]

I can see them now...Sorry.

[jojo]

I think it depends on the "true color" of the platinum blonde hair of the child. A lot of little kids of super blonde hair, but if you look closely it's often darker (even just a tiny bit) at the roots. Generally this darkens significantly to a dark blonde/light brown color. Oksana's hair was really extremely white blonde at the roots, therefore has only darkened a small amount.

This isn't proven at all as far as I know, but is just what I've noticed from seeing a whole ton of baby pictures of friends/family. It'd be interesting to see if any of the other blondes have followed this rule though!

My eldest daughter was the exact same blonde as Oksana and she will be 24 in January and still very blonde, mine started off as strawberry blonde, then went golden but turned to a dark blonde as an adult


http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l283/joanna_eglin/rachelblonde.jpg she did give me permission to post this of her

[JellyBene]

One of my good friends has waist-length naturally white blonde hair. It's thick and oh-so-stunning!

http://i54.tinypic.com/2rf78tz.jpg
:thudpile:your friend's hair is INCREDIBLE! It is soooo beautiful! thanks for sharing that inspiring picture

[Springlets]

Hmmm, interesting :)

I was born with level 8 to 9 hair, but it darkened to level 7 by the time I was 4 or 5 years old and has stayed that way ever since. No, I did not go through puberty in kindergarten :D

Lol yeah not everyone's hair changes at puberty. There's a lot of people whose hair doesn't change at all from birth; my friend's hair has always stayed the same light-medium brown that it is today. But most people I know, especially who started out with platinum blonde, don't darken until going through puberty, for whatever reason.

I was only white blonde between ages 1-2, from then on I was a level 11 or 10 and then after puberty I darkened to a 7, but if I get enough sunshine it will turn to a mix of 8, 9 with a few streaks of 10. :)

Clairol Nice and Easy used to have a good chart for hair colors for seeing the difference between ash, neutral, and golden, but they strangely turned them all into terrible computer graphic images that aren't useful at all. But you could still use the pictures on the boxes they use to give you an idea.
http://www.clairol.com/en-US/home-hair-color

[UP Lisa]

I hope this chart will show up.....

http://www.blonde-ambition.co.uk/blondeshades.shtml

[bluegirl]

Actually, IME, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to hair darkening (well, other than genes, of course). Dark vs light roots don't really seem to play much of a part in knowing if hair will darken, in reality. To wit: there are blondes on both sides of our family.

My father and brother were both blond as children. Dad was still very light blond in photos of him as a mid-teen, but my brother's hair had already darkened quite a bit by then. Both had similar roots. My hair is about like theirs is root-wise. Mine's still quite light.

My daughter's hair is very dark blonde, blondette if you will. She started out very light however, as did her aunt (dh's sister). Both had roots that weren't much darker than their strands, but both are now quite a bit darker. :shrug:

[invisiblebabe]

Lol yeah not everyone's hair changes at puberty. There's a lot of people whose hair doesn't change at all from birth; my friend's hair has always stayed the same light-medium brown that it is today. But most people I know, especially who started out with platinum blonde, don't darken until going through puberty, for whatever reason.

I was only white blonde between ages 1-2, from then on I was a level 11 or 10 and then after puberty I darkened to a 7, but if I get enough sunshine it will turn to a mix of 8, 9 with a few streaks of 10. :)

Clairol Nice and Easy used to have a good chart for hair colors for seeing the difference between ash, neutral, and golden, but they strangely turned them all into terrible computer graphic images that aren't useful at all. But you could still use the pictures on the boxes they use to give you an idea.
http://www.clairol.com/en-US/home-hair-color

Yep, I do know a girl who has stayed platinum blonde (maybe level 11 or so) throughout her life and she is in her early 20s now.

My mom was blonder than I was as a little kid, but she turned to medium brown by age 9 or 10 and stayed that way (well, now she has gray in there and dyes it, but you get the idea).

I have to be out in the sun quite a bit for it to lighten more than half a level (unless I spray it with a hair lightener, then it lightens really easily).

I guess hair is just weird. :D

[Manzanilla]

Im natural blond, but I dont know if you consider me blond or light brown? My photos are in my album!

[schweedie]

This is probably the most accurate shot I have of my colour:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=8201&pictureid=107365

In direct sunlight:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=8201&pictureid=107244

[uptosomeone]

Im natural blond, but I dont know if you consider me blond or light brown? My photos are in my album!

The opinions will probably vary on that...I think you're right on the border of both. Personally I'd call you blonette (there is a thread for that too! ;))



:thudpile:your friend's hair is INCREDIBLE! It is soooo beautiful! thanks for sharing that inspiring picture

I know, isn't it!? I can't have hair like hers in thickness or color, but as far as healthiness goes she's my hair inspiration.

[racrane]

My hair also changes with the light but it's still pretty blonde. I have the lightest touch of red when I go outside. :)

So many pretty shades.

[RoseOfClare]

Currently
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a291/catlinrose/nov2011.jpg

Dec 2010
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a291/catlinrose/dec10.jpg

[blondie9912]

My eldest daughter was the exact same blonde as Oksana and she will be 24 in January and still very blonde, mine started off as strawberry blonde, then went golden but turned to a dark blonde as an adult


http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l283/joanna_eglin/rachelblonde.jpg she did give me permission to post this of her

Jojo, your daughter looks so much like you!

[invisiblebabe]

Im natural blond, but I dont know if you consider me blond or light brown? My photos are in my album!

You're blonde. :)

[Springlets]

RoseofClare beautiful hair! I think it's interesting how in the first picture your hair looks more ash/cool and the second it is much warmer, at least the length is. It's just what this thread is for! :D

[RoseOfClare]

I definately agree!! It varies from blonde to blonde

When I was younger I was born with strawberry blonde hair and then it went to toehead white, by the time I hit puberty I went gold.

My mother was born with JET BLACK hair went toehead and then became a dark blonde. And all her siblings use to be toeheads and they are all now brown!

My sisters hair hasn't changed at all since she was a baby.

And my brother use to be a toehead as well now he's an ash.


Actually, IME, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to hair darkening (well, other than genes, of course). Dark vs light roots don't really seem to play much of a part in knowing if hair will darken, in reality. To wit: there are blondes on both sides of our family.

My father and brother were both blond as children. Dad was still very light blond in photos of him as a mid-teen, but my brother's hair had already darkened quite a bit by then. Both had similar roots. My hair is about like theirs is root-wise. Mine's still quite light.

My daughter's hair is very dark blonde, blondette if you will. She started out very light however, as did her aunt (dh's sister). Both had roots that weren't much darker than their strands, but both are now quite a bit darker. :shrug:

[RoseOfClare]

Thank you! I love how many diff shades of blonde there are in the world its so rare to find 2 that are the same! My hair became much cooler in shade during the summer but I also switched to more natrual products durin the summer as well. Also had just washed my hair in the first pic, A lot of things vary with my hair shade. From washing time, to braiding, amount of oil in my hair, even lighting. Some of my hair is actually translucent which I think is a major factor too.

Name Springlets definately suits you,, upon looking at your profile pic hahaha:D



RoseofClare beautiful hair! I think it's interesting how in the first picture your hair looks more ash/cool and the second it is much warmer, at least the length is. It's just what this thread is for! :D

[Springlets]

Thank you! I love how many diff shades of blonde there are in the world its so rare to find 2 that are the same!
Name Springlets definately suits you,, upon looking at your profile pic hahaha:D

Yes, I was just looking up Adele and what people would call her hair color and most of them came up with lots of interesting names like ginger biscuit and such. Obviously not straight up red or blonde, and I think that's exactly how most natural hair is- unique!

And lol thanks about my name. :)

[UP Lisa]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v644/lmreddin/Hair/08bystones-2.jpg

I finally got this to load!

[Lilli]

This is probably the most accurate shot I have of my colour:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=8201&pictureid=107365

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=3627&pictureid=101829

Again, mine is just about exactly the same color as yours, Schweedie, though yours is in much better shape.