Diosa, I’ve heard that most people who appear to have black hair have really dark brown hair. (Under a light, mine looks dark brown, but it’s just easier to say I have black hair.) But is that true of all black hair? Ever?
ebony locked?
My understanding (and I’m open to being corrected here) is that there is no TRULY black hair- it is all dark, dark brown. Take my dog for example. She’s very clearly got what is traditionally a blue black coat (I used to dye my hair that blue black color back in the day). Blue black (as opposed to a more natural, golden under toned black) is pretty much as black as black can get. But when my dog is in the sun, her fur is definitely dark brown. Heck, even with just a camera flash, you can see how she’s actually brown.
Speaking as a person with very dark brown hair and the son of a man with black hair - there is a difference.
Your dad’s hair was actually, literally black? How can you be sure of that? My understanding is that this doesn’t actually happen in nature.
Uh … isn’t Asian hair true black? Or, as close to true black hair as humans naturally get?
Well there’s an adjective - hoary.
Emphasis mine. Sure, colloquially, we would call that black- but under bright light, it’s dark brown just like all other “black” hair
My wife is of Asian descent and I have to say that her hair is pretty much jet black.
My little noirette wife 
I always thought “brunette” included black.
I’m Asian, and my hair looks pretty black to the naked eye. My sister has very dark brown hair, and under the sunlight, you could see the brown for hers but not for mine. I suppose my hair may be dark brown if you look under the microscope or something. But in person and under most lighting, it looks jet black.
Anyway, it seems weird not to have a term for it simply because the hair isn’t technically black (but looks very much so). After all, we still make a special distinction for redheads, and I don’t think their hair is actually red. Why don’t we also call them brunettes - a rusty subset of them, since that’s what their hair looks like under strong lighting. A rusty brown. Or why don’t we say that blondes just have very light brown hair.
I kind of like noirette. It’s better than being a blackhead.
Jet Vixen as opposed to the traditional red furred vixen.
In charm school, I was taught that girls who had brown or black hair, but who had an eye color other than brown were brunettes. Girls who had brown or black hair and brown eyes were supposed to be brownettes. And we were supposed to choose our clothing colors according to our eye and hair color. They didn’t say anything about what the boys were supposed to be called.
Incidentally, hair has one or two color pigments in it. One produces brown or black hair, and the other produces blond to red hair. http://www.hair-science.com/_int/_en/topic/topic_sousrub.aspx?tc=root-hair-science^amazingly-natural^color-palette&cur=color-palette
Damn it. That’s not what I hoped to see.
It is, however, exactly what I expected to see.
I ask one of her friends.
Or “I never made it that far without biting. Lets ask Mr Owl…”
It’s mostly literally grey/white at this point, but his hair never looked Brown under any light. My hair is dark enough that it’s mistaken for black half the time, and it’s noticeably different from his.
There is really such as thing as CHARM SCHOOL? I thought that was made up for cartoons. Seriously.
What would this have been called? Where was it held? How did you come to enroll? Etc.
I don’t care what she’s named, back hair on women is nasty.
“Vixen” is one of my favorite words.
I’ve always understood that brunette refers to the darker shades of hair. So black- and brown-haired people are brunettes, a brown haired person is a brunette, and a black haired person is technically a brunette, but isn’t usually referred to as such.
Me too. Followed closely by “minx.”
As for the hair color thing, I got nuthin’.