Blonde Hair Anyone?

[lashay06]

I'm neutral to it. Some look good with blonde hair while others don't. I do have to agree it depends on the complexion and undertones in the hair and skin.

 

[MissMarie]

Speaking of this, has anyone ever seen Bruce Weber's Spring Break photo spread in the April '04 issue of W? There was a mixed race preteen girl with type 1 natural blonde hair. I personally have never seen a person of color with natural blonde hair until that issue. This spread is forever memorable to me because it showcases gorgeous young people of color with different hair types and it's photographed beautifully. I'll post some photos if anyone's interested.

There are groups of people in the Pacific Islands that are brown-skinned with light, sandy or blonde-ish hair. Check out the thread in OT on the blue-eyed little boy, some posters have put up cute pics of light-haired kids from there http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=116279&page=13

Those kids are cute. The blonde girl looks like she could be Australian/ Pacific Islander (or mixed with that) as much as she could be in the African diaspora.

eta: my little cousin had light/blonde-ish hair

now that he's older it kinda looks beige when he hasn't had much sun, lol

 

[thiccknlong]

I've only seen 2 people that can carry off a bright blond color and both are very VERY light...a lady at the clothing store last week and beyonce the singer....beyonce tans some and it still looks good on her ...the lady in the store was very VERY pale, her skin was as light as the blond ...

other than that, black ladies please, PLEASE lay off the bright blond ...highlight your hair with it , but to be str8 up blond , unless you are PALE..is just taky

 

[WhipEffectz1]

I've only seen 2 people that can carry off a bright blond color and both are very VERY light...a lady at the clothing store last week and beyonce the singer....beyonce tans some and it still looks good on her ...the lady in the store was very VERY pale, her skin was as light as the blond ...

other than that, black ladies please, PLEASE lay off the bright blond ...highlight your hair with it , but to be str8 up blond , unless you are PALE..is just taky

Some of the black women that insist on wearing "blonde bombshell" hairdos just don't get it. It really does look tacky if you have too much melanin!

 

[caribeandiva]

i agree. a more natural color looks better.

 

[happylocks]

I think we can wear just about any hair color and look good in it. I think the photo of eve is beautiful her weave looks soft and healthy. I love seeing nice blond afros

 

[BroadstreetBully]

I think artificial blonde hair only looks good on like 2% of the world population regardless of race. Sounds extreme, but unless you're born with it, it can just come off as fake looking, or just doesn't bring out your best features. Of course people of color are included in that 2%. I feel the same way about black hair. Two opposite ends of the spectrum, and only a certain few can pull them off.

 

[esoterica]

long live my thread!
at least serena is looking better this year with her dark hair.
eve is still a HAM last time i checked.

 

[Lusa]

I think artificial blonde hair only looks good on like 2% of the world population regardless of race. Sounds extreme, but unless you're born with it, it can just come off as fake looking, or just doesn't bring out your best features. Of course people of color are included in that 2%. I feel the same way about black hair. Two opposite ends of the spectrum, and only a certain few can pull them off.

You're on point there. There some people of other races and skin tone that should NOT be blonde either. I really don't understand the fascination.

 

[deejoy]

Depends on skintone. It washes some people out. Shoot some white women look stupid blonde.

 

[*Michelle*]

I think artificial blonde hair only looks good on like 2% of the world population regardless of race. Sounds extreme, but unless you're born with it, it can just come off as fake looking, or just doesn't bring out your best features. Of course people of color are included in that 2%. I feel the same way about black hair. Two opposite ends of the spectrum, and only a certain few can pull them off.

Co-signing!

 

[Finewine]

long live my thread!
at least serena is looking better this year with her dark hair.
eve is still a HAM last time i checked.

I know! "This is the thread that never ends. yes, it goes on and on my friends. some people started reading it not knowing what it was, but they'll continue reading it forever just because....this is the thread that never ends"

i honestly don't know how i got sucked back into it

 

[Finewine]

I hate to call kids ugly, but uhhh, that blonde hair looks horrible on her despite it being natural. A reddish/honey blonde rinse would probably make that hair (and her) look so much better. Just my HO, please don't shoot me!

Ok, here are some pics from the spread. I forgot the best setting to use on my digicam so the quality is not up to my standard. The actual photos are really gorgeous, I wish everyone could see the real thing. Here goes.

 

[ajoyfuljoy]

very few black people I think can pull off the blonde. i think it's different for movie stars and stuff, of course they have to have a different look and find a way to stand out in the crowd, but it just doesn't look good on most people.

I think Beyonce does it well, but I honestly think she looks nicer in the darker shades, more like a deep honey or caramel colored hair.

 

[KhandiB]

Eve Rocks it the Best

 

[Mook's hair]

I remember about 13 years ago, my darker skin sister and I were dying our hair golden blonde. Anyway, we were at my oldest sister house and they had cut the water off because they were working on the lines. Well little did we know they had cut the water off until we tried to rinse the dye out. We had no water to rinse the dye out of our heads,so my sisters boyfriend told us to get into the car and he would drive us to my house, which was about 15 minutes away. Here we are on the highway and my sister's boyfriend car breaks down. Yes, my sister and I still had the dye in our hair. Long story short, we stuck on the free way with a broken down car and dye in our hair that had been in for at least 45 minutes. We spent about an hour on the freeway trying to fix the car. My sister and I was sitting in the back seat laughing talking about "ooo gurl..if we don't hurry up and get this stuff out of our heads, we are going to look like two black Lucille Ball's. Almost 2 hours and some later, we got to my house and rinsed it out. It was Murder...Our hair was orange and was tore up(damaged). That was the last time I ever looked at dye..

Sorry so long!

OK. I know thatOriginal Post is old (2005). But awwwww man. That's nuts. I would have just used anything that was in the refridgerator. I'd have been pouring soda / Milk/ Apple sauce / Orange Juice / Beer / Anything of a liquid nature to get that mess off my head.

That's wild! I might have even dunked my head in the toilet like Malcom Little did.

 

[hottopic]

I remember about 13 years ago, my darker skin sister and I were dying our hair golden blonde. Anyway, we were at my oldest sister house and they had cut the water off because they were working on the lines. Well little did we know they had cut the water off until we tried to rinse the dye out. We had no water to rinse the dye out of our heads,so my sisters boyfriend told us to get into the car and he would drive us to my house, which was about 15 minutes away. Here we are on the highway and my sister's boyfriend car breaks down. Yes, my sister and I still had the dye in our hair. Long story short, we stuck on the free way with a broken down car and dye in our hair that had been in for at least 45 minutes. We spent about an hour on the freeway trying to fix the car. My sister and I was sitting in the back seat laughing talking about "ooo gurl..if we don't hurry up and get this stuff out of our heads, we are going to look like two black Lucille Ball's. Almost 2 hours and some later, we got to my house and rinsed it out. It was Murder...Our hair was orange and was tore up(damaged). That was the last time I ever looked at dye..

Sorry so long!

OMG. I would have cried.

 

[PinkSkates]

Most black women I see with blonde hair look foolish.erplexed INCLUDING EVE AND MARY J. BLIGE. They look like clowns with those blonde weaves and lacefronts.

 

[hothair]

*shrugs* I look great with my honey blonde hair (lacefront/ natural/ straight/ braids whatever)- I actually influenced a lot of conservative friends I know to express themselves more with colour - not all blonde and they look great! I agree there are some bad colour jobs but that could be for ANY hair colour or type. OBTW: I'm brown-skinned
I was never one to worry overmuch what other people think of me

 

[sunnydaze]

Most black women I see with blonde hair look foolish.erplexed INCLUDING EVE AND MARY J. BLIGE. They look like clowns with those blonde weaves and lacefronts.

Yup, IMO no one pulls that off. Take Eve for example, on the videos after airbrushing and such, her hair looks pretty good up against her skin tone, but real life photos she looks like a ghetto hooker with that mess on her head.

...and I can count on one hand the number of women in real life that I have seen who have blond hair that actually looks good..even decent. It always looks like straw.


Its like just cause you can dye your hair blond doesn't mean you should!

 

[SignatureBeauty]

LOL!! This thread is funny! But I know how you all feel, My Mom who is Dark as hell went out and bought not only a blonde wig but a PLAITNUM BLONDE WIG! Baby I was hot, and I was embarrassed because she looked like a D**n fool, I mean it was horrible, It was long too I was like why don't you go and buy the Damn Blue contacts to match! And she Really thought she was looking good, I was like you can't be serious. I believe your hair color should compliment your skin tone.

 

[Golong]

I was in Barns and Noble and saw this young girl with beautiful back length light brown w/ a hint of strawberry blond textured hair. Of course I was drawn to it like a moth to a flame. I made my way over to her slowly to get a better look. She was young, 14/15,and looked mixed to me (black/white) and she was with a boy who look like her so I figured they were bro & sis. The boy asked wheres mom and the girl pointed (I turned my head like I was lookin for her too ). Mom had her head down in a book, back towards us. Her hair was mid-back lenght and blonde. I figured the mom was white and dad black, When mom looked up and turned around I had a physical reaction, I jumpped & gasped because she was Grace Jones dark with blond box braids . I couldn't believe my eyes. So I had to stick around and see the dad. He was very pale, small statured, blonde hair- blue eyed man. I figured she must have some issues to do that to her self inorder to want to fit in w/ the familyerplexed . THe hair color and texture must complement the skin tone

 

[LynnieB]

i don't usually like the look at.all. and i'm cosignin to what was previously mentioned; it usually looks like an out of control 12-alarm fire went off on someone's head. it looks horribly dry, hard and as fragile as spun glass erplexed

anywho - i happened to see a lovely medium brown skinned woman with a platinum twa that was fiya!!

it really really looked good, maybe because there wasn't much of it. her hair was no more than about 1.5-2 inches long. it did not look like hay at all.

so i guess there's always an exception to e'ery thing and that moma sure was.

eta, of course i'm referring to natural hair hehe. i still don't really like blond weave, wigs or extensions (maybe there's an exception there too but I sho nuff haven't seen it in my travels yet).

 

[esoterica]

Yup, IMO no one pulls that off. Take Eve for example, on the videos after airbrushing and such, her hair looks pretty good up against her skin tone, but real life photos she looks like a ghetto hooker with that mess on her head.

...and I can count on one hand the number of women in real life that I have seen who have blond hair that actually looks good..even decent. It always looks like straw.


Its like just cause you can dye your hair blond doesn't mean you should!

stop it! you're killing me over here! she does though.

 

[PeaceFlow]

LOL!! This thread is funny! But I know how you all feel, My Mom who is Dark as hell went out and bought not only a blonde wig but a PLAITNUM BLONDE WIG! Baby I was hot, and I was embarrassed because she looked like a D**n fool, I mean it was horrible, It was long too I was like why don't you go and buy the Damn Blue contacts to match! And she Really thought she was looking good, I was like you can't be serious. I believe your hair color should compliment your skin tone.

I know this is bad but I saw a article with a Black darkskinned woman with a platinum, PLATINUM(!!!) weave. She looked like she had a bit of money and looked after herself well but it was a definate nono!

I so wanted to upload that pic but threw the magazine by accident, I am now in the process of buying a back copy on ebay LOL! I think it would illustrate this topic well. I tell you one thing, your mum is a brave woman to be chocolate or darker and go shiny platinum lmao

 

[neonbright]

So what happens to the black women born with blonde hair? I ahve a cousin with naturally blonde hair, she put a black rinse once and it look horrible, blonde hair is for her.

 

[sunnydaze]

So what happens to the black women born with blonde hair? I ahve a cousin with naturally blonde hair, she put a black rinse once and it look horrible, blonde hair is for her.

I want to clarify that I think artificial or dyed blond hair looks bad. If your hair comes out of your head blond,then most likely it matches your skin in some way.

 

[glamazon386]

Good point. But I also think it is not just the shade of blond, it is also the tones in the skin. If you have bronze, goldtone skin, I think the blond can work.

I agree with this. I've had some shades of blonde in my weaves/wigs and got plenty of compliments (Even from my dad who never comments on my hair ever) on it but it has to be the right one. I usually get black mixed in with it so it tones it down a little. I have golden/warm undertones in my skin. My mother on the other hand who is lighter has cool undertones. She usually hates my hair and loved that color on me so much she wanted to try it on. She stole one of my wigs (the wig was black at the top and then the bottom half of it was blonde) and she tried it on and it didn't look good on her at all. I thought bc she was light she could have gotten away with it but it looked a HAM. I was able to get away with it though.

 

[nomoweavesfome]

this thread is funny! I still say it depends on the individual.

 

[tniccoleh]

This thread is interesting!! It does depend on the individual though...sometimes I'll see a black woman with blonde hair and go.."Wow...that color looks great on her!!!"...then other times I'll see someone and think..."Wow.....what was she thinking...." so it depends.