Blonde or Brunette? - Page 2

justamom · #1 10-05-2002, 10:06 AM

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.

DeltAlum · #2 10-05-2002, 12:49 PM

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Originally posted by justamom
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.

justamom · #3 10-05-2002, 01:37 PM

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.

KDbutterfly · #4 10-05-2002, 06:28 PM

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.

Allie · #5 10-05-2002, 06:47 PM

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.

XOMichelle · #6 10-05-2002, 06:58 PM

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

AlphaSigLana · #7 10-05-2002, 08:55 PM

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.

RubberSoul · #8 10-05-2002, 09:06 PM

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.......

RubberSoul · #9 10-05-2002, 09:12 PM

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Originally posted by AlphaSigLana
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.

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.

DeltAlum · #10 10-06-2002, 12:10 AM

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Originally posted by justamom
KILLER combination!

I LOVE salt and pepper on men.

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!

Optimist Prime · #11 10-06-2002, 01:51 AM

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Originally posted by AlphaSigLana
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.

ADPi~Ally · #12 10-06-2002, 02:09 AM

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.

AOX81 · #13 10-08-2002, 08:25 AM

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.

sororitygirl2 · #14 10-08-2002, 10:15 AM

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.

APhi · #15 10-08-2002, 11:25 AM

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.