What level is your natural hair

[Bat]

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.)

I'm basically a hermit yet my hair gets sun bleached goes to show how strong the sun is

[Bat]

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).

Even your darkest you look to be an 8 it looks very similar to Banoo's color