What colour is my hair (photo)

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I was platinum blonde as a young child darkening to a lightish honey blonde as a teen. Nowadays I'd probably consider myself mousy, albeit on the lighter end of mouse. I don't think I'm quite dark enough to be brown haired. Three times this weekend I've been referred to as a redhead/strawberry blonde. This has surprised me, as I've never thought of my hair as red at all!

I'm in my 50s my hair is completely natural and I have a small amount of grey, but not much. My hair is probably a bit lighter than usual as I do get natural blonde highlights in the sun, which there's been plenty of this year. There's quite a mix of colours in my hair, it's never been one uniform shade because it lightens so easily in the sun.

So what colour would you describe my hair as?

"I definitely don't have any ashy/cool tones"
"since people keep referring to me irl as having red/strawberry blonde hair, and I didn't think I did."

What undertones did you think it had if not cool or warm though?

For the record I think it has red undertones which isnt the same as being red.

Looks brown to me. Plain light brown

Your hairs the same colour as mine - I’m a redhead.

I can see no red in yours. At all

Mate. It’s ginger.

Or yes strawberry blonde (which I interpret as light ginger).

Yours is very similar to mine. Brown. But I admit that sometimes people tell me it looks reddish. Definitely never been anywhere near blonde though. I've done the opposite to you and started very dark and at almost 50 I'm now roughly your colour. My mum is ginger, so must be where I get the red that sometimes gets seen.

I thought it was kind of generic neutral mid blonde. I didn't think it had especially cool or warm undertones.

I would call that a light strawberry blood as well or a sort of reddish honey blonde maybe

Blonde not blood obviously 🙄

Looks brown to me, cant see any blonde or red in it at all.

Such beautiful hair !

I'm loving the way some people are throwing 'brown' around as if it is kind of insult. It isn't, brown hair is absoluely lovely, and I did have brown hair, I'd have no problem with that. I don't have brown hair though, so people repeatedly saying that really isn't helping me answer my question. If your screen settings are so far out that my mid blonde hair looks brown, you're not really going to be able to see to help me with whether it has red/strawberry blonde undertones or not.

It just looks the same as mine, which is brown, which I like.

Op i think it’s a warm blonde, so will vary from a paler gold to strawberry blonde even to a dark red blonde in darkest strands.
It’s stunning hair.
My great aunt had hair similar to your colour, she was in between a warm dark blonde and strawberry blonde, it was also lovely as she aged and it mixed with silver.

In this pic it has no brown I would say mostly red with some blonde highlights.

The thing is OP you could have a hundred people stand in front of you (so no screen filter) and not all one hundred would agree on the colour. You might not see brown but other people will. It isn't a right or wrong answer it's simply individual perception. You understand that don't you?

I have noticed that people who were very blonde in childhood tend to spend more time than others ruminating on their hair colour in adulthood. As if they can't fully disconnect from the blonde identity.

I’m very definitely a redhead. Born one. It just fades with age

Light chestnut blonde

When you’re constantly complimented and told how beautiful your hair is as a child and then it changes it’s easy to feel like your beauty has faded away. We absorb the messages we are told as children.

I don’t think a single person is saying brown as an insult, I can’t see any comment remotely talking negatively about your hair or brown hair. I think you’re just being weirdly offended about people who don’t think your hair is blonde.

You also don’t think your hair has any warmth so your own interpretation of the colour is hardly the be all and end all.

The number of times you’ve referred to your “natural blonde highlights”.

To me it looks like beige blonde, which is a warmer tone and can look slightly pinkish in some lights. I'd say it's around a level 8, so medium blonde (platinum being level 10, and the lightest brown being level 5-6). I'm not a hairdresser, just messed around with bleaching my hair a lot! It's a lovely colour

Reddy blonde or strawberry blonde.

I don’t think yours is “mousey”. I think of mousey as more like dark browny dark blonde with brown streaks/light brown with blonde streaks- like my daughter’s.

Reddish brown.