To think ‘mousey’ hair is the worst hair colour to have?

[Marnie56]

I am one of these people with naturally ‘mousey’ hair - until I was about 10 I had light golden blonde hair and as with a lot of people it gradually got darker. Since I was about 14 I’ve had highlights religiously every few months. So my hair is still ‘blonde’ but only because I spend so much money on it!

I absolutely hate the fact that without highlights I would be this ‘nothing’ colour - it’s not a nice brown/brunette colour and it’s not blonde. I don’t even know what I would look like if I let my highlights grow out and I never got them again but I can’t imagine it would look nice!

I know a lot of people get some sort of colour in their hair, balayage etc but most people would still look fine if they had their natural hair colour - I think all hair colours look nice apart from this weird mouse/dishwater.

Anyone else feel like me? Am I just destined to have to get highlights every few months forever so I look remotely nice!?

If you have let your hair go ‘natural’ and it is mousey and looks good I would be very interested to see it! I don’t think I can think of any celebs with that sort of hair!

Why should it matter @managedmis it’s the colour that matters not the face

My mum has mousey hair. She was saying for years how much she hates it. I must admit I do envy the fact that she doesn't need to cokiur her hair every 4 weeks to hide the damn greys like i do (been going grey since I was 24ish). She does however have the right skin tone for it, i think the warm undertones of her skin match it well.

I renamed it a long time ago "burnt caramel" - sounds nicer than mushroom. Also Taylor Swift has mousy hair.

@animousey
Nope. Mouse is the colour blonde children darken to as the grow up.

It's a form of dark ashy blond, and is not brown (so no red in it). Your hair has red so looks like a pale/medium brown

Most people with naturally blonde hair have darker roots so I don’t know why dark roots would repulse people so much.

I have my hair highlighted blonde and the hairdresser paints on light brown roots to give a more natural appearance. That is very common.

Also not everyone with blonde hair is mousy to begin with. I started off chestnut and only went blonde when a grey streak came through. Lots of redheads also go blonde.

I love mousy brown hair. It is cool toned which is relatively rare and gorgeous.

Mousetrap and non-descript here. Have had occasional highlights over the years.

I’m told the technical colour for my hair is dark blonde but in reality it’s mousey. I don’t dislike it really. It’s got a lovely shine, it holds its condition better than some other natural colours but it’s so boring. It can be nice in summer when it lightens up a bit but it will never return to the golden locks of my childhood and teens :(

Ive googled mousey blonde, mousey brown, light brown and ash blonde and ash brown and they all look the same to me they also all look like my hair depending on the time of year and lighting.

I have just googled ash blonde and light brown and they are massively different!!!

I'd say Amimousey you were a shade darker than murky, sorry I meant mousey.. It's absolutely gorgeous! Mine is mousey, or shite coloured as I prefer to refer to it!

mousey not murky 😅

People with very dark brown hair like me don't enjoy it so much when they start going grey.
yes this ! within a couple of weeks my roots start to show. I look like I have silver tinsel distributed through my hair.
I personally have always preferred the look of mousy colour than blonde.

Here’s my rat coloured hair. The top colour and the underneath. It doesn’t always look so light but the lamp is shining on it.

These are all my hair - no filters or dyes. Just summer growth v winter growth, different levels of cleanliness and different levels of light (sun, cloud, spot light, lamp)

I know. I have it. I feel a bit drab if i dont make it either darker or lighter. Either brightens me up a bit.

@MillieEpple that’s the thing I like about caramel hair. It looks different at different times. Yours looks like it has a lot of red in it in some lights.

Every single man has mousey hair. And hardly any women do. So expensive being a woman 😑

Huh? No they don't?!

Oh well just my observation, it seems to me that all menns hair only ranges from light mouse to dark mouse, while we women have every hair colour from blonde to chesnut to red. Personal observation.

Is it something to do with it being a common colour in the UK? And so seen as boring?

In lots of countries it would be really unusual and people would notice etc

Exactly. When I went to Barcelona there were adverts for learning English with a man with mousey hair on it. In a country where everyone has dark hair a dark blond is very exotic. And as I said above my PILs love my 'mousey' hair because to them it is clearly 'blond' because everyone in their countey has black hair.

Interestingly when I was in Scandinavia my hair was average in comparison to the men but dark in comparison to the women. Scandinavians are suppose to all be blond but really they too are mousey, just likethe Brits.

The trouble is the term, because when a personality is described as 'mousey' it's intended as an insult. But mousey hair is much more interesting than other shades, it varies with the seasons and how people react to it depends on their background. As a child in Scotland my hair was blond, as a teenager it was called 'mousey', as an adult living in the south of England with a bunch of foreigners it was 'blond' and for some English people 'red' (because all Scots are ginger and my hair went very light with all the sundown south). I love my dark strawberry blond hair and will never dye it. The white hairs that are just appearing at 50 give it natural highlights and who wouldn't want a hair colour that everyone reacts differently to?

@WiserOlder

Every single man has mousey hair. And hardly any women do. So expensive being a woman 😑

Only if you choose to do expensive things to your hair.

No-one forces you to, I've probably spent less than £100 on my hair in the last 5 years. I'm still alive and gainfully employed.

Wiser... you mean you’ve never seen a man with red hair? Or black hair? Or dark brown. That seems implausible.

Wiser have you never seen a black or Asian man with black hair?

You've never seen a man with red or blonde hair?

That's. Where do you live? Craggy island?

Every single man has mousey hair. And hardly any women do. So expensive being a woman

You obviously don't really look at people do you? Men have all different colour hair, just like women, and a lot of women have mousey hair, not everyone feels they must dye it.

I agree regarding the greys. My hair is naturally black, and I started going grey at 16. I’m 31 now and I’d say 1/4 of my head is grey - is need to dye my roots every three weeks to hide it, so I’ve started to lighten it. Had my first ever set of blonde highlights last week, and hopefully going to finish as a honey blonde.

I like mousy though - my husband and eldest son have this colour hair and they are both extremely handsome (not bias I swear .. )