Can somebody please tell me the difference between dark blonde hair and light brown hair. They look the same to me. I tried Googling pictures and all of it just looks brown to me! Is it just arbitrary?
Here's examples of dark blonde:
Here's what I got for light brown:
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
Perhaps the base color is lighter for blonde? To be honest, I think they're pretty much the same thing.
bananas / 9227 posts
@Running Elley: do you refer to yourself as a blonde or a brunette? DH's hair is an ash brown, but in his old passports as a kid (with the same hair color it is now) it's written down as blonde.
coconut / 8681 posts
@SugarplumsMom: I say dark blonde. My license says blonde. I only say that because my hair used to be light blonde and its just darkened as I've gotten older. Most days I feel like its more brown though!
grapefruit / 4400 posts
I don't get it, either! The hubs and LO have the same hair color, which I call "light brown." HE claims that they have "dirty blonde" hair. I honestly cannot tell a difference.
pomegranate / 3244 posts
Ugh, this is my exact hair color and I don't even know how to describe it sometimes! I lean more towards the blonde side mostly because I get some nice highlights from the sun, and because I was a really blonde kid.
pear / 1657 posts
I was just having this cover saying with DH last night! His hair is in this ambiguous territory, but he says it is dark blonde because he was blonde as a child.
Seems like people lean toward what their hair was like when they were younger?
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
This is also my natural hair color (until it turned mostly gray, wah). I used to call it the blah between blonde and brown.
cantaloupe / 6687 posts
If I'm describing someone with that hair I will call them "blondish-brown" but I think it's more blonde. When someone describes a person as having brown hair or being brunette I definitely think dark brown/chestnut colored hair
bananas / 9227 posts
@Running Elley: @MediaNaranja: @MrsKoala: According to Allure magazine:
Your mom may have called it "dishwater blonde," but Taylor Swift's dark blonde, almost brown shade is now the most coveted among Vo's clients. "I call it Victoria's Secret color. It's the most natural and the hardest to get".
http://www.allure.com/hair-ideas/2012/the-most-beautiful-hair-color-ideas-for-blondes?slide=2#slide=9
@HabesBabe: DD has the same hair color as DH. I'm curious to see how people will describe her hair color, especially since she's mixed Asian.
grapefruit / 4400 posts
@SugarplumsMom: LO is half Viet/half white, and the hubs' side of the family calls it dirty blonde. My side of the family calls it light brown. Our friends call it both... so it's about 50/50. LOL.
nectarine / 2936 posts
I consider mine dark blonde, but it is lighter than the Taylor Swift pick above. The others are definitely light brown.
pomelo / 5257 posts
Sometimes I think it depends on perspective. Like I have super dark hair and I've noticed that I tend to think of certain colors as blonde that others would call light brown. If that makes sense, haha.
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
To me, 1 and 3 (Taylor and Behati) are dark blonde (especially Behati . . . Taylor barely squeeks by), and 2 and 4 are light brown.
bananas / 9227 posts
@HabesBabe: DD isn't very fair, she has a little color on her, so I'm surprised that her hair is getting lighter and not darker. I still think it's brown, but I can see that it's the same color as DH's old passport that says blonde and it's lighter than the color of his hair now.
eggplant / 11716 posts
@MsLipGloss: I agree!!
I still consider myself dark blonde, even tho my hair is definitely light brown in indoor light at this point....it seems to get darker every year and I don't dye my hair. But since its always been blonde, I can't let go of the idea that I'm blonde I guess.
bananas / 9227 posts
@Anagram: You're beautiful! I'd describe your hair as dark blonde. I can see a little bit of red undertones. DH and his siblings looked a lot like you and your bro when they were kids - very blonde! His hair has also gotten darker with age.
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