Brunettes Unite!

[purple_omelette]

Thank you purple_omelette I like that forest analogy.. usually it looks like I've been dragged through one!


You're right about that. Yours is a wonderful shade of brown and it looks so healthy

Aw, thank you! I certainly have learned to take better care of it over the years.

[Lady Winchester]

Since my hair is now medium brown that looks more golden brown in the sun, I guess I'm officially a brunette now (but I'm not posting pictures to prove it, since I hate pictures of myself). It used to be strawberry blonde to red until I lost it to chemo. When it came back, it grew in a darker blonde that kept darkening until it got to my current color. Though my hair has darkened (though I'm not sure if it was from chemo or just darkened naturally), my eyebrows and body hair are the same color they've always been. I haven't been a brunette since my senior year of high school (which is over thirty years ago, though I still remember it like it was yesterday) when I dyed it both golden brown and chestnut brown. I dyed it the darker color when one of my classmates thought it was red instead of brown (which was probably due to the lighting in the classroom), so I dyed it a darker shade to neutralize the red tones.

Though some redheads dye their hair after their hair starts to fade and lose its vibrancy, I'm fine with it and won't dye it again until it starts to go gray/white (if that ever happens, since I'm turning 51 at the end of July, and still no gray hairs), since it would totally wash me out. I'll be keeping my current color when this happens, since it will be too much work to go back to my old color (which is why I haven't done it, since my roots would grow in medium brown and I would look like any other brunette that dyes her hair a lighter color, even if its only a few shades lighter).

[angel-baby]

Officially joining y'all

I was a blonette teen, went through several phases of bottle black and bottle blonde, and recently decided to just embrace my natural hair after joining LHC.
I was hoping that my blonette shade would have somehow stuck around, but after 6 months of growing out my roots I am definitely a brunette. I love blonde hair so it took some time to be cool with that, but now I think that brown hair is super pretty. I'm getting a brown gloss on my midlengths and ends (currently faded rose gold) in a couple weeks to get as close to my natural color as possible and finally enter my brunette era for real!

[cowgirllong]

I think everyone should embrace their natural texture and color. I used to put henna in my hair, but I think it is all either grown out or faded out. Natural hair has the most beautiful highlights in it.

[Dark40]

Yay!!!

Your hair is beautiful!!

My color can be so weird. Sometimes it looks almost black:



And other times, well, this is pretty red:



What would you call it?

Yeah, mine too also both my natural hair color and dyed hair color looks black to me....and also to other people as well! But my natural hair color is dark medium brown, and my dyed hair color is just brown with a little of red tint to it.

[Kitt3n]

I wasn't sure if I'd be in the Brunette thread or the Auburn one. My hair is dark but has some reddish in the sunlight.