I'm really loving "Tawny"
From the back I've always been "blondish"
From the front, sort of brown.
(Hair gets much lighter as it grows)
If I oil it's weirdly redder.
Do I get to join?:pray:
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Oh awsome! I saw a link to this thread, and I had to investigate.
Me too! I belong here! Dark strawberry blonde I always called it. It gets very blonde at the ends that have seen a few years of sun, the roots are a ruddy brown, and there are always red and gold highlights throughout.
And my eyes, I grew up calling them blue, but DH thought I was kidding, because they are obviously green. Well there's a green ring in the middle, ok...
Tawny!
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Welcome all you tawny-haired peoples! It's great to know that I'm not alone!
Now that we're all here and accounted for . . .
I have a question for everyone. What colors of hair toys do you prefer? What metals, woods, or colors do you find stand out in your hair, and which metals, woods, or colors do you find blend into your hair?
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Oooh, I believe I am a tawny too! If asked, no two people will determine my hair color to be the same shade. My hair has a wide spectrum of variation, depending on the season and lighting.
My eyes also change color, but only various shades of blue. :bluesmile
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My hair is pretty solidly blond, but I just had to stop in to say the "not quite blond, not quite brown" tawny color is one of my very favorite hair colors!
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I think that I fit into this hair color category, though I did post in the blonde thread as well. My eyes can change color too, from green to blue and sometimes even brown if the lighting is right. I usually call my hair blonde though.
I have a a pretty pink ficcare that stands out nicely in my hair. Most of my hair toys are of the stand out variety, I have some black sticks I use a lot. As far as blending in stuff, I have some olive green hair sticks that blend surprisingly well. Oh and that tortoise shell stuff blends pretty well too.
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I clicked on the thread, because I read the title and didn´t know what 'tawny' meant. And lo and behold, I think I belong here. Can I join? :)
I´ve seen color samples and am quite convinced that I´m medium blonde, technically, but in reality there are all kinds of colors there. My eyes are also not-really-blue, but also neither green nor grey. The best description I can give is 'blueish, but not bright blue'
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My favorite hair toys are bright colors, generally. I have an especial tendency towards blue and green. Dark colors (like ebony wood, or any jewel tone) also look really good in it, generally. I don't generally do white, but that's probably just because it makes my hair look darker in comparison, when I want it to look lighter and brighter.
I generally don't think my hair looks best against purple in most lights, though. I don't really know why. It's not good for my complexion, either. Yellow is also not so good, though I have a yellow and black stick that I wear pretty often, and it doesn't look *bad* or anything.
Blue and green are definitely my favorites, though.
Oh, ETA! Forgot to answer part of the question. I definitely prefer hairtoys that STAND OUT against my hair color. To blend in, any light or medium shade of wood (brownish wood, not, like, bloodwood or tulipwood or any of the interestingly colored woods) generally works to blend in. I don't own much in those shades, as a result. I think walnut, oak, ash are good examples. I do own a big maple stick that I like a lot, even if I don't wear it often because I forget about all the toys I have.
Blending in (a "blonde" shade Linziclip):
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../IMG_4268c.jpg
Oddly, this is a mottled olive green and bronze-y finish, but still blends in. I'm positive my hair isn't GREEN, though.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../IMG_3961c.jpg
Standing out:
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../IMG_4091c.jpg http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../IMG_4098c.jpg
Here's that maple stick I was talking about-- it has a purpleheart topper. It stands out, but in a different way.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1.../IMG_3103c.jpg
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hurricane_gia
I have a question for everyone. What colors of hair toys do you prefer? What metals, woods, or colors do you find stand out in your hair, and which metals, woods, or colors do you find blend into your hair?
I'm not an expert in hairtoys... but, I love tortoise barettes or similar to tortoise. And I prefer the old ones (1900-1940).
I think they look great in my kind of hair color, but they aren't wrong for other colors though.
Tortoise both blend in and stands out, maybe because of the shape they use to have.
I have made some barettes with ribbonbows (in a nice old way, not 80's overdone satin bows), and then I like them black, cause that stands out in a nice way. Red or other colors looks blaha but would be great in dark/black hair.
For metals, I think gold would be what is supposed to look great on me, but I don't like gold. I love silver with marcasite (hope its their name in English) or false diamonds (ok, 20 pieces of big diamonds is ok to :)). Can't see that I do not look ok with silver, even if I'm "warm" in tone. For colors (in clothes) it is the warm ones that suits me best. I have just one silver toned barette with false diamonds, I more often ware the tortoise ones, or the ribboned.
If I buy a hairstick, I think I would chose a faux tortoise or black (same reasons as the barettes and bows).
Maybe wood if nice texture (I don't like teak).
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I generally don't think my hair looks best against purple in most lights, though. I don't really know why. It's not good for my complexion, either.
Purple looks really bad on me too. If used in eye makeup, I look really sick or as I've been hit.
I think it is generally a cold color. (I dont know if there are warm purple, like there are warm and cold blue or warm and cold red.)
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blue, green, silver, and teal hairtoys look best on me. Petrol, peacock, ocean...I have recently figured out I'm a summer in coloration, so anything that suits my skin and eyes - from pale ice blue to deep jade - looks best.
My eyes change color, too, from dark blue to grey-green to yellow.
However, today I'm wearing my bronze sandals and my gold and black Ficcare. Sometimes I like gold or amber/saffron colors, then my eyes really look puma-colored.
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I'm pretty sure this is where I belong. In darker light my hair looks quite brown but under bright lights I'm quite blond. I have pictures taken of me on the very same day where my hair looks like I must have colored it between photos.
The last performance I did, people were coming up to me after saying, "Wow, you've gone so blond!" Yet photos taken of me that day have me looking very brown. I'm often asked if I've colored my hair for this reason. Crazy!
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Count me in. Someone here once referred to my hair as the color of a lion's mane. I have tempted the idea of hennaing, but I do love this color:) I have been toying with a henna streak tho...underneith...that would look cool i think. the hair behind my ear on one side...giving it lots and lots of thought tho
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Yep, I've been interested to find that a lot of Tawnies also have Hazel eyes. It's like we're difficult to define all the way around!
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I think I'm a dark Tawny colour
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hurricane_gia
Yep, I've been interested to find that a lot of Tawnies also have Hazel eyes. It's like we're difficult to define all the way around!
My eyes are kind of a bluish green. Sometimes they look very, very green, other times more blue. It used to be a lovely trap I would put my husband in whenever I was feeling particularly playful in that ornery kind of way. I would ask him what color my eyes were. We've been married 28 years now and he still gets a bit flummoxed when I ask him what color my eyes are. To tell you the truth, I don't know exactly what color to call them myself.