To ask if this hair colour is blonde or brunette?

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My hair colour is dark blonde or light brown ("mousey brown"). I don't particularly like it but I think it's what suits me best.

I have always referred to it as being brown/brunette. However, my colleagues were discussing hair colour and all agreed that they would refer to me as being blonde. I know it's an ambiguous colour but I'm curious, would you say this hair colour is blonde or brunette?

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@lolacola77

Poo brown with blonde bits. It's horrible

your hair looks shite too

@Ijustknowitstimetogo

It’s nothing like brunette! Google brunette images and you’ll see it’s a dark warm brown.

OP picture is dark blond (with lights).

it's clearly brunette

Brown

@Ijustknowitstimetogo

It’s nothing like brunette! Google brunette images and you’ll see it’s a dark warm brown.

OP picture is dark blond (with lights).

OK then, just because it might not be what you’d describe as ‘brunette’, doesn’t mean it’s not brown.

I'd personally call it brunette hair but the hair colour charts at the hairdresser (you know with the loops of fake hair) would put it in the 7 range which apparently is dark blonde...

I think its something to do with the lack of depth to the base colour maybe? A dark blonde is easily lifted to a lighter blonde whereas brunette is stubborn.

Light brown with blonde highlights. The blonde highlights are quite obvious (at least from the back) I guess without them you’d be brunette and almost dark blonde with them? Depends what your natural roots are like.

Brunette

[quote blondebrunette]My hair colour is dark blonde or light brown ("mousey brown"). I don't particularly like it but I think it's what suits me best.

I have always referred to it as being brown/brunette. However, my colleagues were discussing hair colour and all agreed that they would refer to me as being blonde. I know it's an ambiguous colour but I'm curious, would you say this hair colour is blonde or brunette?

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That hair has been balayaged or highlighted so your question is redundant.

It’s clearly a wig

Since when did brunette mean dark brown? It means brown. Any shade of brown

It's what the dictionaries define it as.

A person, typically a woman, with dark brown hair.
https://www.lexico.com/definition/brunette

Blonde otoh is
fair or pale yellow.

There's a lot of hair which is really neither 'blonde' or 'brunette'.

I suppose the OPs is one of the many shades of brown.

I think its something to do with the lack of depth to the base colour maybe? A dark blonde is easily lifted to a lighter blonde whereas brunette is stubborn.

The amount of eumelanin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin#Eumelanin

Since when did brunette mean dark brown? It means brown. Any shade of brown.

My hair's so dark it looks black from a distance. I'd still describe myself as a brunette. Surely the term encompasses all shades of brown from light brown to dark brown?

My hair's so dark it looks black from a distance. I'd still describe myself as a brunette. Surely the term encompasses all shades of brown from light brown to dark brown?

That's not what the dictionary says - though the etymology is just from 'brown' .
If your hair is very dark brown then sure, it's brunette.

Brown with highlights. Its most definitely not mousey . It looks lovely.

Dark blonde.
If you Google brunette hair, you get this:

Neither. I think of brunette as being dark brown or black hair. Yor hair looks a lovely shade of light brown.

Dark blonde.

Brown with blonde highlights. Definitely not blonde.

Light brown. It’s lovely.

I have similar hair to the original pictures. I refer to it as ‘marvellous mouse’ 🤣

When you say 'brunette' I picture Penelope Cruz. Yours is dark blonde or light brown. Not brunette.

I would say brown. It's gorgeous!

Definitely brunette

Light brown with blonde highlights x

It’s brown but the highlights make it look dark blonde