Blonde or Brunette?
 

For all of the girls that have lived both the lives of a blonde and a brunette, which one do you prefere?

Heres the story.... I am naturally blonde, but dark blonde, so I bleach my hair. After months and month of looking like Malibu Barbie I decided to tone it down and go close to my natural color with a rich caramel shade. Great idea, but my hair turned a grey/lilac color :( So the only thing left to do was go to a medium brown.

So after only two days of being a brunette a lot of people have complimented my new look. They have added that it makes me look much more approachiable (as in "non-bitchy") and also added that I have the girl next door look.

So for all you who have lived as a blonde and a brunette what treated you better? Also which do you think made you look better?

Blonde!!!!

Soooooo much better than boring brunette! :D

There went our short-lived romance James. Ah well, the truth always comes out in the wash, lol.

As for me, being in Florida, I hate seeing all the girls who think they have to be blonde in order to be pretty. I personally think dark hair (on guys and girls) is more attractive. I suppose it just depends on your own taste.

P.S. I like the way you phrased the question, Allie. So many people worry about how to please others and they forget how they feel about themselves. :)

Blonde for hookups and girlfriends and brunette or darker hair for wife.

-Rudey
--It's a rigorous science.

I'm a natural brunette but started dying it platnum blonde about 4 years ago. Last week I went back to brown with some reddish tones in it and have gotten soo many compliments on it. I liked the attitude associated with blonde but brown seems a little more 'nicer' as I was told.

Who says I'm boring :p

It depends on your complexion.

I'm a blonde and LOVE it. It gives you a great confidence for some strange reason, like you're SUPPOSED to be having more fun!

But I really prefer dark haired guys...One of my exes was blonde and people called us Barbie and Ken (I didn't think Ken was blonde!) so it sorta gave me a phobia about the whole thing. I also prefer blue eyes, but I don't NOT like a guy because of either!

XOXO~Jenn

I'd much prefer to be a brunette (which is good, 'cuz I am one). I just get suspicious when people dye their hair a colour that is obviously not theirs. For example, Bette Midler is lousy as a blonde. There's a particularly annoying girl on campus-- Greek affiliation withheld-- who's a brunette and dyes her hair blond. Point One: her dark eyebrows and complexion totally give away that she's not a natural blonde. Point Two: she needs to get her roots done far more regularly than she does. Combine the two with the fact that she wears stage level makeup every day and she looks like a Kewpie doll in a wig.

But back to the subject, I'd say go with what makes you happy. Try brunette for a while and see what happens. You can always switch it back. That's the beauty of having an in-between shade. It doesn't look really weird when you fluctuate.

I second the complexion notion. If you are naturally very pale, blonde works best; however, if you are lucky enough to be darker (olive skin) then go with a deep chocolate brown. I am very pale and have red hair and have wondered if going blonde would be fun, but I am too scared to try.

Took the words right outta my mouth when i read this

I've Done it All...
 

I naturally have dark brown hair (which matches my dark brown eyes and dark brown eyebrows but looks a bit odd with my very, very pale skin. Hence, my college nickname "Snow White") but have dyed it several different colors.

Went blonde a few times which you think would work with my pale complexion but instead it made me look even more ghostlike than usual! I was so happy whenever I would have it dyed back to my normal shade but eventually I'll get the itch again and try another go-around at being blonde for awhile.

I do dye my hair now, but only because the summer sun gave me red highlights which I HATE!!!!! Makes me look like a Sun-In victim!

My hair turns jet black in winter

My hair is naturally very dark brown, but I dyed it blonde this summer and I really do think they have more fun. And when I came up to school here, everyone thought I was naturally blonde, so when I showed them the pictures of me as a burnette they told me that I looked better as a blonde. Who knows if that is actually bc I look better as a blonde, or bc they prefer blonde hair color over burnette.

Thankfully I get the best from both worlds, my hair will be med-blond in summer and a dark brown in winter. But I prefer the blond, ya just get more attention that way :p

The only hair colors I HAVEN'T used are the "white or yellow" blond, greens, pinks and purples.
Complexion IS the number one consideration.
ROOTS-UGH even painting your hair needs upkeep.

My number one priority is HEALTHY looking hair...nothing worse than a "fried" look. When your hair is silky, color doesn't matter so much. It MUST look touchable!

My BEST moments were as a light brown with streaks of blond
(summer blond;) ) I am currently close to that color after a short lived revisit to redish hues. As you age, you should soften your shade and for heavens sake, NEVER have flat, solid color. IMO-blond is rather hard to carry off if it doesn't match your complexion.

I asked Hubby about blond preferences and he gave an explanation that I will limit to one word you guys may understand-curiosity.

Oh, that's funny!

I can't remember ever dating a "real" blond. But, look at it this way, in years to come, you'll all end up like me -- greying. Of course you can always see my middle daughter. She's a hair colorist.

Actually, I kind of like my "salt and pepper" look these days. (The daughter in question helped in that, too, but not professionally)

Oh, by the way, my wife plays around with her hair color somewhat now, but when we met she was a absolutely drop-dead georgous blue eyed brunette.

Oh, by the way, my wife plays around with her hair color somewhat now, but when we met she was a absolutely drop-dead georgous blue eyed brunette.

KILLER combination!

I LOVE salt and pepper on men.

I LOVE being a brunette. There's no struggle to get taken seriously, and my complexion is an olive color, so it works perfectly that way too. I don't think hair color has anything to do with how fun you are. Some blondes are boring as hell, and some brunettes live for fun, and vice versa. Some guys prefer blondes, some prefer brunettes, but most realize that there are beautiful and ugly people with both hair colors so it doesn't really make one bit of difference. :D

OK complexion, I'm pale, so thats one reason I don't like the brunette look. To me it looks fake, but it is better than purple hair *sigh* Maybe I can post pics Monday, because I seriously feel ugly. Yeah I know it's only hair... but still, I know we all try to look our best.

Allie, no worries. One of my friends went on a dying frenzy this summer. In an effort to make her hair look cool, her hairdresser screwed up and it was pink. And I mean pink. She bleached the pink out, so it looks fine now, but it happens to everyone!
-M

I have natural medium blonde hair. I went an awesome shade of brunetter last year and with my makeup done I looked way hotter than I do as a blonde. the brown brought out the green in my eyes as well. some girls are gorgeous blondes, but i think i look gross. it's funny that God gave me blonde hair, but i look better with brunette.

I am a total psycho about my hair. I have been every color under the sun and I ALWAYS end up going back to my natural color, which is a very deep coffee shade.

I did the blonde thing (as in ALL blonde, not highlights) 3 separate times in my life......once in H.S. (a caramely shade,) once in college (almost platinum) and once married (honey with platinum streaks.) I can honestly say that I have ALWAYS gotten more male attention (in quality and quantity) as a brunette. I won't even talk about my red experiments. The only way in which being a blonde got me more attention was by what I can only term.....ahem.....undesirables. PLEASE guys, we all have our preferences and I do not mean to offend any really classy guys who may just have a blonde thing going, but I have to say that the guys who knocked themselves out acting like I was some kind of latter-day Marilyn were just total cheeseballs!!!!! I mean, NOT at all the kind of guys I was interested in. In fact there was one guy who was totally my type and I was SOOOOO into him from the night we met (at the time I was a blonde) and he was very friendly but JUST friendly. Later, when I went back to my real color, he changed his tune. He actually was dating this dishwater blonde at the time and he casually said to me one night "I don't know how I keep ending up with these little blonde girlfriends.....my real fantasy type is the dark, sultry babe with long dark hair and dark eyes." (As I recall I told him I knew of just such a girl, but I digress.....) Anyway, we did hook up, so.....hmm.

Since I have never suffered any lack of male admiration, I can't say that I personally have a issue with it, but I do have to say that (as I mentioned in a rush thread) I do get offended by this odd notion that all pretty girls, all TOP-tier girls (particularly as they pertain to sororities) are automatically blonde. That's just idiotic. Ok, I can buy that a chapter is all beautiful, thin, fit, and rich and they only take girls who are beautiful, thin, fit and rich. But I can't buy that blonde is one of those prerequisites.

On one final (kind of funny) note........I just three days ago saw a blurb on the news where researchers have announced that within 200 years, there will be no more blondes (real ones that is.) Yep, they're an endangered species.....natural selection. Makes me wonder if anyone will still be bleaching then.......

Depending on the color of your eyes, this is not weird at all. I have a close friend who has the typical blonde complexion.....light and freckly, with very blue eyes. She's a real blonde too, she does highlight her hair but it isn't light brown that was blonde when she was little, even her roots are blonde. Anyway, she was looking for a change, and she dyed her hair brunette....I couldn't even imagine it because her hair was so much a part of her identity (she usually wore it very long) but when I saw her I was knocked out!!!! The darker hair made her eyes absolutely POP.....Personally I think that there is nothing more eye-catching or attractive than a dark haired person with darker skin (or a tan) and then highly contrasting light eyes (any color, blue, grey, green, honey....) I had pale grey contacts for a while and they looked AWESOME, but alas I had to ditch them because my eyes are just too sensitive.

JAM...

Gee, thanks. My dad has, and grandfather had nearly pure white hair in old age. I'm hoping...

By the way, women can look really stunning with salt and pepper hair, too.

Funny, I'm emceeing a little awards presentation at Homecoming next weekend in Ohio, and was looking back in some very old memoribilia today and ran across some high school senior pictures of four of the girls I dated way back then.

Of the four, three had long, straight brunette hair -- the other one had long slightly wavy natural medium blond hair. She and I are actually still in contact once or twice a year.

So much for the original memory.

There was also a pic of one of my real college loves -- my old 1958 Triumph TR-3A Roadster.

Ah, the memories!

:)

I'm naturally a medium brunette but right now I'm a dark blonde. I highlighted my hair this summer but instead of natural highlights I got a overall lighter hair color. It was a little different as 1st, but now I like it. It lightens up my face more. I'm fair skinned and have hazel eyes. My sister's like my hair color now. I look better as a blonde. I have tried aulburn color, that looked good too. The saying, blondes have more fun, I don't see a change in me. It's a state of mind than a physical characteristic. I;m still the same person I was when I a brunette.

My hair is naturally red. When I was in high school my family went to Myrtle Beach for a week and I bleached my hair as blond as I could get it...that was 10 years ago. For 6 or 7 years I kept it blond but then I started experimenting with other colors. I hadn't seen the real shade of my hair color in so long I wasn't really sure what it was anymore. Before summer started I dyed my hair dark blond and I decided that I was going to let my natural color come out. My mom added some highlights to my hair last month and the red is coming back!

I think that blond was very easy to maintain but my natural color looks much better.

I am a natural blonde and I love it.

I prefer to date men with darker hair, for some reason I am just more attracted to them.

My hair color is an incredibly common story: Blond as a child, faded to light brown as I got older, now I highlight it so that it looks medium to dark blond. I really have to color my hair because the color it comes in naturally now is a very dull shade that my mother (a former hairdresser) refers to as the color of dust. Problem is, I've been doing highlights for almost 8 years now so I'm getting a little bored. Might be time to explore a few shades from my natural color the other direction.

Well, like most of you, I have been nearly every color under the rainbow, I can tell you that I get the most positive response when my hair is it's natural color with no highlights/lowlights/etc. My natural hair color is a really, really, really dark brown(as in almost black) with plummy undertones. (Think Rose McGowan pre-red hair)

According to my hairstylist, it is the color that people think that they are going to get when they dye their hair a black cherry shade.

Here are some comments that I have received under the many hair colors that I have test driven:

Blonde (a caramel-y color with blonder streaks): cookie-cutter cute, boring, ridiculous

Red (the shade that Rose McGowan's hair is currently)- hot, wild, and again with ridiculous

My natural hair color has received the most positive responses out there: exotic, mysterious, intelligent and knockout. So for right now I am sticking with my natural hair color.........that is until I get really bored

My hair sounds similar to AOX's... I was blonde as a child, and in the 8th grade, when I started losing it, I got highlights. And everyone knows that once you get highlights, you end up just getting lighter and lighter every time till you are down right BLONDE. Then I graduated to full blown dye. I was a blonde for seven years... and most people didn't know that it was fake, because it DOES suit my coloring.

But then this year... I just got bored with it. I went to a golden brown and I LOVE it! I have almost invisible roots, always a plus. I think next time I am gonna go a bit darker :)

I'm a brunette and that is what my ex loved most! I wouldn't have it any other way! I would look so pale as a blonde. My dark dark brown hair looks great with my skin tone...plus I look GREAT wearing red (my favorite color). If I were to be a blonde I'd definately have to be more tan and do a ton of coloring. The one time we highlighted my hair it was orangish looking and not at all appealing. I look better in warm tones. And besides...who wants to be blonde with brown eyebrows?!?! YUCK!

redheaded slut is jager and razzmatazz

wow...um...I like all colors of girls hair. A few girls I know dyed theirs pink. Hotties.

HUH?

My hair was very red as a little girl. Now it's more auburn with highlights. My sister has bright red hair. :)

As for my men, I prefer dark hair. Actually at this stage, I like any hair color whatsoever as long as he has hair. :p

*goes to get rogaine* I have jet black hair ;)

The redhead slut is a name of a shooter, not a person. :)

Phew! I was afraid that you were calling names. ;)
BTW, I loooovvvve jet black hair. :)

I gotta admit, I'm a sucker for dark-haired men........I have never really been into blond guys, don't know why. Dark hair is just sexier to me. My hubby has a GREAT combo......brown hair, with just a hint of silver through the sides (VERY hot) and big, gorgeous blue eyes with LONG dark lashes.......mmmmm. I honestly don't care about eye color, to me dark eyes are every bit as pretty as blue or green (and often sexier.) I must admit that most of the crushes of my past had dark eyes......but Brent's are especially beautiful.......so big and very blue!