# Your Favourite Hair Colours **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625 "2000-05-16T00:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/1 "2000-05-16T00:55:45Z")
I’m grasping at straws here for mundanity, but I’m curious. Which hair colours do you like prefer on men, women, and yourself? They don’t have to be natural colours either. 🙂 I have pretty plain tastes, as you can see. MEN-dark brown (bleached tips are good too) WOMEN-medium-dark brown MYSELF-dark brown So, what colours attract **your** attention right away? ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/2 "2000-05-16T01:29:17Z")
On ladies? Red carrot hair. Redheads just make me weak in the knees. On Men? Purple hair (That way I get a slight advantage when trying to catch the eye of the redheaded lass that just walked by. 😉 ) On Me? Brown/Sandy hair aka my natural hair color. I am not a big fan of hair coloring. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/3 "2000-05-16T01:32:43Z")
I’ve seen a few people with sky-blue hair, and that’s my favourite. I’ve never had the courage to try it on myself though. The colours I’ve personally tried being blonde (bleached), red, burgundy, and black. ---
**Author:** ![jjjfishe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jjjfishe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjjfishe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/4 "2000-05-16T01:38:29Z")
Men: Brown hair with blue eyes… so sexy! Myself: Long blonde and blue eyes ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/5 "2000-05-16T01:54:19Z")
Women: Black hair (kinda short), Brown eyes, pale skin. Men: Don’t care, really. Me: Dark brown/grey “highlights” 🙂 Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/6 "2000-05-16T01:57:50Z")
For guys I think blonde or dark hair is good. For girls dark hair For me reddish/brown (more pale brown with lots of red highlights. How it looks in summer after sunstreaks and dying) ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/7 "2000-05-16T01:58:24Z")
I love Irish men (in fact, three of the men on my list of top five men I’d like to go back in time to have sex with are Irish) so I gotta say redheads, but I usually don’t care. On women, I usually don’t notice. And my favorite hair color on me is from when I was little; I used to have bright red hair. Now it’s darken to brown, but it still has red high lights to it. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/8 "2000-05-16T02:00:29Z")
I prefer most natural color on women. I am more of an eye person really. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/9 "2000-05-16T02:09:06Z")
Men: Any color, prefer longish hair, moustache/beard. Like those light eyes too. Women: I was in Poland a few years back, and a popular color among women was this deep burgundy/purple. Really striking most of time. I don’t have the guts (or the skin color) to try it. me: blonde and the beginnings of some gray, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/10 "2000-05-16T03:41:38Z")
i dig **blue** , for all three. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/11 "2000-05-16T09:44:19Z")
On the ladies, I have always had a thing for red hair and fair skin. On myself, any hair will do. ---
**Author:** ![Koffing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Koffing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koffing)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/12 "2000-05-16T11:35:00Z")
Women: Red. Love those redheads. Men: Don’t care. Me: Irrelevant since it’s cut as low as the clippers can cut it. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/13 "2000-05-16T11:44:25Z")
On men, any color, as long as it’s clean, and shoulder-length or longer. On women, any color as long as it’s short, although I’m partial to darker hair. Although long wavy red hair is _awfully_ nice, too. On me, red. Once I had a Marge-Simpson-blue buzz cut, though. That was pretty fun. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/14 "2000-05-16T13:43:20Z")
On men - I like coloured hair, like green etc. but if I had to choose a natural colour, it would be a mediumish brown. On women - Dark brown. On me - Blue, bleached and natural (dark brown). ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/15 "2000-05-16T13:46:58Z")
Women: depends upon coloring - my daughter is what’s called an “autumn” with auburn hair which looks absolutely fabulous, but it’s a color that on me would look like a maladjusted color tv set. Men: shaved head, like my SO, shiny so his wonderful coloring shines. Me: sigh, dishwater blonde which I have highlighted. Ideal: long dark, dark brown or black hair with burgundy henna highlights that looks clean, vibrant and kinda wild. On to more important things… ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/16 "2000-05-16T13:52:11Z")
Me: blonde, though I am naturally brunette. Men: brown hair Women: dark blonde ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/17 "2000-05-16T13:58:58Z")
On me: Mine is now kinda dark blonde, I like it better when it’s lighter but prefer the sun to do the lightening, as opposed to chemicals. On anyone else: No preference. The total picture is much more important. ---
**Author:** ![AndYrAStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@AndYrAStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndYrAStar)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/18 "2000-05-16T17:12:58Z")
On women, I like red hair (of course that’s what everyone says…) or short black hair. Different shades of purple (from natural plum to bright obviously fake purple) can look really neat too. On guys, I have a thing for any unnatural color. I don’t know why, it just drives me crazy (in a good way). My ex dyed his this awesome fluorescent elmo-ish-red color and when he does it up in liberty spikes it’s soo amazingly gorgeous _sigh_ Mine is currently 6000 shades of red, blonde and pink. I’m not sure I like it. Trying to decide what color to do next… ---
**Author:** ![Elthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e274bd/32.png) [@Elthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elthia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/19 "2000-05-16T22:21:27Z")
On me: well, my natural pale blonde is ok, and i’ve had it dark green (which was _interesting_), and cinnamon red (which everyone swore looked more natural than my natural color - go figure). I think I like the red best, but keeping it the right color is hard, and I’m lazy, so I stay blonde. _grin_ On men: Well, I have this odd preference for dark long hair (especially on pretty asians, but hey 🙂 ). But if a guy looks good and SMELLS good, it doesn’t matter. On women: pretty. _grin_ Redheads WITHOUT freckles, asians with long dark hair (there’s that asian thing again), but anyone pretty (femme but not manipulative?). I like Beauty, in both sexes. ‘Strange’ colors are not excluded from that, provided they are beautiful on the person wearing them (orange hair with freckles just looks bad, in my opinion - but that _gorgeous_ blue mohawk I saw the other day was breathtaking). -Elthia ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2000, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625/20 "2000-05-16T22:25:39Z")
Mine is red, going with hazel eyes. I used to hate it as a kid but love it now. In men I’m not a real fan of long hair and colour doesnt much matter, altho brunette or blonde is pretty great most of the time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-hair-colours/19625.md?page=2)