A system for classifying hair colour...

I visited SF on a recent vacation and noticed a tremendous variety of hairstyles and lengths... and tolerance & acceptance on the part of others.  Very cool.  Though it seemed to me that most all of the young Asian women had shorter, shaggy hair.

Sugaree wrote:

Sugaree, your hair is gorgeous!

I have a difficult time choosing just one -- or even several -- haircolors.  It all depends on the amount and type of lighting.

Wow HFO, that is a lot of colors for one head! Have you dyed you
hair before? I also notice your hair is very thick... is the under-layer must
be darker than the top right?

Lol I love the comparison! He looks adorable.

My hair um...seems to be alot of colours...hmm.

Sugaree you are right! You do have the same hair/body color

Yeah, to add to the comment made about dog's resembling their owners,
I posted something earlier here about how my hair color and texture
matches my dog's hair. It's practically the same color! When I'm holding
him in my arms, you can't tell where my hair begins and where Oscar
ends, it's like one big blur.

Hair color can be a subtle thing and many of us do not fit into these predefined color groups.  And things like the light in the environment can change the color of your hair.  Out in the sunlight, your hair might glow with golden or possibly red highlights, indoors it might look drab and dark, and under weird department-store lighting, you might think, 'my god, how did my hair get so brassy looking?'

The color groups have many shades.  The silvery blond of a Farrah Fawcett (back in the 70s) is very different from light golden blond of an Anna Kournukova.  Red hair comes in a wide range of shades.  For some reason where I live, I see a lot of 'blond auburn' haired people.  They are not blond, nor are they red/orange, but their color lies somewhere distinctively in between.

Besides woods and foods, animals can provide a guide as well.  Once at a dog show, and in an instance of an owner resembling their dog, I saw a petite woman with her petite sable sheltie - and yes, they both had that lovely color of collie sable hair.

My hair is Wooly Mammoth blond.  lol

Was at a rock and gem show and there were samples of actual wooly mammoth hair in a fossil display.  The one I saw were this dark golden blond with some reddish overtones and was a rather close match to my own hair color.  For a more contemporary example, Scottish Highland cattle sort of come close:

http://www.lpsi.barc.usda.gov/bnpcu/images/scotcat.jpg

http://stockscotland.com/images/d3p8jpg.jpg

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_my_p_s/0_my_photographs_scotla nd_-_highland_cows_vv17_large.jpg

http://www.camusnagaul.com/photo/albums/userpics/10001/norma l_gallery6.jpg

Alas, I currently don't have the highlights some of these cattle have, but you can see the blond/red varieties.  Must of been quite a sight in paleolithic times to see a herd of gorgeous red blond mammoths traveling across the plains..

 

 

I'm a mix between golden pecan, early American and Ipswich pine!

Ohh! Wood, I'd say for me is the main part would be made out of Ebony, with small pannels of Special walnut inserted in between it and edged out with a thin border of Jacobean. (did I say that right? I'm not familar with woodworking lingo).

I've got a weird piece of furniture with those colors in my head now... o.0 It's funny that the colors sorta correspond with my hair now....

yeah, that's really weird that parallel colour thing. I wonder what wood my hair is...