Is there a name for people with black hair? As in what would you plug into this type of sentence: “I’m the short one, she is the ____” or “I’m totally going to ask the tall _____ over there to dance with me”.
I’ve always called them brunette.
They never seem to call me back.
I always figured “brunette” covered anyone with black or dark brown hair. Although, I’ve also heard people say that there is no such thing as “black” hair, it’s just really dark brown. And one of these people is an Asian friend, and I consider her hair black.
Maybe it’s just who I know, but I know a lot of people with dyed blue-black hair… and I wouldn’t consider them brunette.
See, I would.
Perhaps you could call them raven haired?
Raven-tressed.
(You probably do not want to use blackhead.)
OW!! now I have chocolate chip cookie crumbs in my sinuses… thanks a lot!!!
I’m an ethnic with “raven tresses” and I’d agree with that. For being so common a hair colour in many parts of the world, it’s incredibly complex and difficult to replicate with commercial dyes. My hair, at least, is different shades of a very very dark browns and hair that appears “black” tossed with natural red and brown highlights. My sister has the more traditional straight glossy dark hair. We both show up with blue hair on cheap cameras, though! (I have a really funny picture from law school prom of me and all my Indian girlfriends someone snapped on a crappy camera, where the 7 of us have blue hair) I know when I start going grey I’m either going to have to henna to match my natural red highlights, as my mother has done, or change my hair colour to chestnut brown, because I’ve never seen a really natural black dye job that replicates my hair colour, or that of most Indian people of my acquaintance.
Yep-that would be my term of reference.
How about sanguine? Of course, it doesn’t really go with the Wednesday Addams look.
I’ve heard raven-tressed, a ravenette and my personal favourite; ‘schwartzkopf’. 
P.S. Now I want cookies…
How about “fucking hot?”
Agreed.
Except for the blue haired bit I could have written anu’s post. I have the same issue.
And yes, when you dye, you do have to go to chestnut. Perhaps as Asians flood the market more they will start making hair dyes more to our taste; right now most hair dyes work on the premise your hair is one or two shades at most. Mine is also incredibly complex.
I used to be irritated, now call me brunette and I will be perfectly happy.
The problem I’ve seen with the black dyes is that they are really just blue-black as a base, on top of the problem you’ve high-lighted, which is that the colour does not come out multi-dimensional.
It’s only since I’ve started really looking at horrible black hair dye jobs that I’ve quit colouring my hair (beyond henna, since I have old highlights I’m growing out). I don’t even know if Asians in the market will make anything better…I just think it’s a near impossible colour to replicate without almost every foil a different colour of dark brown and black mixed in. And the commercial blacks just don’t look like natural black hair.
Makes you wonder about all those people with black hair who are always trying to make it blonde. I’m going to enjoy it while my hair’s still pigmented.
I think in cultures which are primarily Caucasian, the term used in the past was “black”, as in “black Irish”.
I think we need to resolve this question through proper analysis of hard evidence.
Opal, would you please post photos of yourself with red hair, yellow hair, brown hair, and black hair?
I believe we can call upon the Eagles to settle the issue: