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    Quote Originally Posted by Ylva View Post
    Thank you, Aerya and cookies! It is pretty unanimously 7-8, then. And the charts sure are inconsistent, I've seen my hair colour resemble anything from "medium blonde" to practically "medium brown", lol.
    Nearly color twins we are, I believe! Mine often matches yours in that same type of soft overcast light.

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    With all the silvery tones I'm acquiring with age, I think I might be a 10.

    What do you think?
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    I was taking pics today for a new signature picture, and I'm curious what level my hair appears to be to y'all. It's just after wash day so it's at its lightest (usually looks darker because of oil), and taken in natural light.



    My brain is very bad at interpreting this kind of thing, so even after seeing everyone else's pictures I can't confidently guess. Makes me remember how my mom and I struggled to describe acquaintances we'd seen out and about whose names we didn't remember, because I'd think of the person as having blonde hair and mom would say the person had brown...

    (I'm not much good at color, either... I know my hair is "brown" and "dark, probably" and that's about it. Is it warm? Is it cool? Is it darkest brown or just regular dark brown? Are the brighter sections still natural highlights or just areas where I don't have a high concentration of black hairs growing in?? It's all a mystery!)

    "A green glass-tipped hairpin dropped onto her shoulder and then the floor. Drat. She had never been good at putting up her own hair." Provenance, Ann Leckie

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lizard Wife View Post
    I was taking pics today for a new signature picture,
    This is a side tangent that doesn't answer your question, but I'm loving your mineral and fossil collection in the background. And you also have a lovely shell collection towards the bottom. My family and I are collectors as well. Yours are so attractively displayed. Mine tends to be used as paper weights or random book stands (if they are sturdy enough). I'm wondering what the yellow (green?) carved pot (?) on the left of the top shelf is? Candle stand maybe?
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lizard Wife View Post
    I was taking pics today for a new signature picture, and I'm curious what level my hair appears to be to y'all. It's just after wash day so it's at its lightest (usually looks darker because of oil), and taken in natural light.



    My brain is very bad at interpreting this kind of thing, so even after seeing everyone else's pictures I can't confidently guess. Makes me remember how my mom and I struggled to describe acquaintances we'd seen out and about whose names we didn't remember, because I'd think of the person as having blonde hair and mom would say the person had brown...

    (I'm not much good at color, either... I know my hair is "brown" and "dark, probably" and that's about it. Is it warm? Is it cool? Is it darkest brown or just regular dark brown? Are the brighter sections still natural highlights or just areas where I don't have a high concentration of black hairs growing in?? It's all a mystery!)
    Level three! as it still reads as darkest mahogany brown to me gorgeous color though! Its both cool and warm

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    Quote Originally Posted by baanoo View Post
    Nearly color twins we are, I believe! Mine often matches yours in that same type of soft overcast light.
    Nearly, yes! I believe you are a pure 8, though?
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    en elli gefr hánum engi frið, þótt hánum geirar gefi.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArtOfNoot View Post
    This is a side tangent that doesn't answer your question, but I'm loving your mineral and fossil collection in the background. And you also have a lovely shell collection towards the bottom. My family and I are collectors as well. Yours are so attractively displayed. Mine tends to be used as paper weights or random book stands (if they are sturdy enough). I'm wondering what the yellow (green?) carved pot (?) on the left of the top shelf is? Candle stand maybe?
    Haha, thank you! It's a good tangent. Some friends and I stumbled upon a shop a couple years back while out and about, please imagine the intensity equivalent of a small child bouncing with their nose smooshed to the glass window front as I went "I need to go into the fossil store". I'm still getting good-natured teasing about it, but it's fine, I accomplished my life goal of getting my very own trilobite. The yellowy-jade-green one is a tealight holder carved with vines; based on other stuff I've seen, it is almost certainly dyed soapstone.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bat View Post
    Level three! as it still reads as darkest mahogany brown to me gorgeous color though! Its both cool and warm
    Thank you, Bat! Much as I whine about wishing my hair was even darker, I really love my color. I wonder if my hair might be picking up a misleading hint of red from the dress in that picture--I haven't really thought of my hair as having reddish tones, which google is suggesting to me mahogany does, but also I admit again that I'm not great at identifying nuances in color--but that reminds me that years back when my sister was getting golden highlights for her hair (to recreate the natural sun and pool damage she used to get each summer as a child) my mom kept insisting that red highlights would look really good in mine, though we never tried it. So maybe!

    Hah, it would be very on-brand for me to have hair that's both cool and warm, practically everything about me is direct opposites co-existing.

    "A green glass-tipped hairpin dropped onto her shoulder and then the floor. Drat. She had never been good at putting up her own hair." Provenance, Ann Leckie

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lizard Wife View Post
    Haha, thank you! It's a good tangent. Some friends and I stumbled upon a shop a couple years back while out and about, please imagine the intensity equivalent of a small child bouncing with their nose smooshed to the glass window front as I went "I need to go into the fossil store". I'm still getting good-natured teasing about it, but it's fine, I accomplished my life goal of getting my very own trilobite. The yellowy-jade-green one is a tealight holder carved with vines; based on other stuff I've seen, it is almost certainly dyed soapstone.



    Thank you, Bat! Much as I whine about wishing my hair was even darker, I really love my color. I wonder if my hair might be picking up a misleading hint of red from the dress in that picture--I haven't really thought of my hair as having reddish tones, which google is suggesting to me mahogany does, but also I admit again that I'm not great at identifying nuances in color--but that reminds me that years back when my sister was getting golden highlights for her hair (to recreate the natural sun and pool damage she used to get each summer as a child) my mom kept insisting that red highlights would look really good in mine, though we never tried it. So maybe!

    Hah, it would be very on-brand for me to have hair that's both cool and warm, practically everything about me is direct opposites co-existing.
    The lightest parts could also be from sun bleaching and the first lift effect on really dark hair is red still It's a very unique color I just got stuck with generic brown hair 😭
    Last edited by Bat; April 25th, 2023 at 01:57 AM.

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    It's cool to see all the ratings on this thread, though I suspect there's either a slight "inflation" in the numbers or I underestimate hair color levels.

    Anyway, lighting and the camera settings mean EVERYTHING. Here's proof. It's about midnight here, so there's no natural lighting--just whatever I have turned on. The left and right pictures were taken about a minute apart. On the left is a relatively dark room with a spot-light style lamp with a mix of LED and old compact fluorescent lights. On the right is the kitchen which still has those old tube fluorescent lights (hey--they last forever and don't use much energy, but they have a pretty bad color spectrum). Anyway, you can see the big contrast between the two, and on top of that, my IPhone automatically adjusted the picture on the right to be even brighter than it should be (I'm definitely *NOT* that blonde!). Not sure where I'd place myself for sure (still a novice)--maybe a 6.5 or 7 (a little bit darker now than before this past winter given a less solar "photobleaching" due to the cloudy rainy winter), though while my hair shines brightly in the sun, it's definitely nowhere near the 9 or so that would be reflected on the right (and at my age, anyone who is a 9 probably is that way because they have white/silver hair and not blonde hair). Oh, and if you're curious where Bagan is--it's in Myanmar (went to that country twice--once for fun and then again a year later for my job--back in the mid 2010s).


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bat View Post
    The lightest parts could also be from sun bleaching and the first lift effect on really dark hair is red still It's a very unique color I just got stuck with generic brown hair 😭
    I laughed a bit pathetically to myself because there's no way I get out enough anymore to get sun bleaching, not that you would have any reason to know that! Then I remembered that I have a picture of such (from almost exactly 3 years ago) when I still had all the ends that had been bleached from sunning my chameleon regularly in the backyard, as you do. Sticking in a thumbnail for the curiosity factor (mine). (I think this was also taken in overcast sunlight? But I was definitely sitting almost literally in the window instead of in the middle of the room. The color looks lighter overall and that's likely partly lighting differences and also that it was genuinely lighter as I hadn't amassed as many coarse black hairs growing in 3 years ago.)


    "A green glass-tipped hairpin dropped onto her shoulder and then the floor. Drat. She had never been good at putting up her own hair." Provenance, Ann Leckie

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