Show me pictures: What is dishwater blonde/blond hair? What is olive skin? And what is strawberry blond/blonde?

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References to dishwater blonde easily found on the internet:

- In a New York Times article about types of blond from 2000: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/09/style/mirror-mirror-message-in-a-bottle-language-of-blond.html

- In a literary journal essay: https://www.pacificareview.com/thirteen-covers-erin-langner

- On a blog about writing, in a post about describing hair: https://writersinthestormblog.com/2014/07/writing-about-hair-the-thick-and-thin-of-descriptions

- In a recent Real Simple article: https://www.realsimple.com/dishwater-blonde-hair-8727893#:~:text=Dishwater%20blonde%20is%20a%20medium,hair%20from%20natural%20UV%20exposure.

- In an Allure magazine article from 2024: https://www.allure.com/story/natural-blonde-hair-color-trend

References to ditchwater blonde found on the internet:

- This thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1322631.page

Hmmmmmm. I wonder which is the correct term? Hard to say.

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious.

I have dishwater blonde hair. That’s what I have called it my whole life. Dirty blonde is the same thing. Ditchwater is not a thing.

lol.

It’s just very dark blonde hair. In the summer it gets much lighter from the sun. In the winter in a dark room it looks darker than some browns. When I was a small child it was platinum blonde. It was quite dark by the time I was 8 or 9.

But ditchwater IS, in fact, “a thing” - and we know this because someone on this very board uses it and presumably her circle of real life friends/family/acquaintances uses it as well (otherwise she would have been “corrected” before now).

The fact that YOU have never heard of it doesn’t make it not “a thing”, just as the fact that some of us have never heard of “dishwater blonde” doesn’t mean it’s not “a thing”, right?

You can’t have it both ways. Sorry.

NP. The lack of any online evidence of people using "ditchwater blonde" indicates that it's not a thing. I can only find a few mentions of it online, and it's always people asking "Is it dishwater or ditchwater" because they've heard the phrase but are unsure what they are hearing. Meanwhile, you can find millions of references to dishwater blonde, everywhere from beauty magazines to literary references.

It's really obvious the PP had just misheard the phrase "dishwater blonde" (or maybe her mom or some other person had misheard it), convinced herself it was ditchwater, and then proudly ridiculed everyone on the thread for saying it wrong. But if she'd just bothered to google it one time, she would have been corrected and realized she'd been saying/hearing it wrong the whole time.

The insistence on doubling down on this is nuts. It's okay to get words wrong sometimes. My brother thought the word misled was pronounced like miser for decades before he realized his mistake. It's funny! But he doesn't go around insisting that everyone else is wrong and that his imagined/made up pronunciation is actually the correct one, because he doesn't have a personality disorder.

Online evidence? That’s your standard? LOL. Find me the cultural evidence (literature, film, etc.) of “dishwater blonde” and report back, please.

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I think the "ditchwater" person is a troll and is having a great time on this thread.

"dishwater" blonde feels like an old timey WASPy phrase

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious.

I have dishwater blonde hair. That’s what I have called it my whole life. Dirty blonde is the same thing. Ditchwater is not a thing.

lol.

It’s just very dark blonde hair. In the summer it gets much lighter from the sun. In the winter in a dark room it looks darker than some browns. When I was a small child it was platinum blonde. It was quite dark by the time I was 8 or 9.

But ditchwater IS, in fact, “a thing” - and we know this because someone on this very board uses it and presumably her circle of real life friends/family/acquaintances uses it as well (otherwise she would have been “corrected” before now).

The fact that YOU have never heard of it doesn’t make it not “a thing”, just as the fact that some of us have never heard of “dishwater blonde” doesn’t mean it’s not “a thing”, right?

You can’t have it both ways. Sorry.

No. One person doing something doesn't make it a thing.

1. You have no evidence that only one person does it
2. What is the exact number of participants required for something to be a thing, since apparently you’re the arbiter?

Dumbass, it's never been ditchwater. Someone hard of hearing misinterpreted it.

+1. Rosanne Rosannadanna has entered the thread.

Correction: Emily Litella. RIP Gilda

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Anonymous wrote:I think the "ditchwater" person is a troll and is having a great time on this thread.

"dishwater" blonde feels like an old timey WASPy phrase

Pretty sure that's the same person in the sports snacks thread hoping kids choke and die on peanuts. Trying to be as outrageous and annoying as possible.

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious.

I have dishwater blonde hair. That’s what I have called it my whole life. Dirty blonde is the same thing. Ditchwater is not a thing.

lol.

It’s just very dark blonde hair. In the summer it gets much lighter from the sun. In the winter in a dark room it looks darker than some browns. When I was a small child it was platinum blonde. It was quite dark by the time I was 8 or 9.

Sorry no that is not a term used in common households. What an insult to say someone has dishwater hair color? Are you serious? It's an insult. Yes heard of dirty blonde or dark blonde but no not dishwater. It's like saying you have bathwater color hair or skin? Seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious.

I have dishwater blonde hair. That’s what I have called it my whole life. Dirty blonde is the same thing. Ditchwater is not a thing.

lol.

It’s just very dark blonde hair. In the summer it gets much lighter from the sun. In the winter in a dark room it looks darker than some browns. When I was a small child it was platinum blonde. It was quite dark by the time I was 8 or 9.

Sorry no that is not a term used in common households. What an insult to say someone has dishwater hair color? Are you serious? It's an insult. Yes heard of dirty blonde or dark blonde but no not dishwater. It's like saying you have bathwater color hair or skin? Seriously?

Weird that a term you never heard of before this thread is now not commonly said and/or insulting. Bored today?

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious.

I have dishwater blonde hair. That’s what I have called it my whole life. Dirty blonde is the same thing. Ditchwater is not a thing.

lol.

It’s just very dark blonde hair. In the summer it gets much lighter from the sun. In the winter in a dark room it looks darker than some browns. When I was a small child it was platinum blonde. It was quite dark by the time I was 8 or 9.

But ditchwater IS, in fact, “a thing” - and we know this because someone on this very board uses it and presumably her circle of real life friends/family/acquaintances uses it as well (otherwise she would have been “corrected” before now).

The fact that YOU have never heard of it doesn’t make it not “a thing”, just as the fact that some of us have never heard of “dishwater blonde” doesn’t mean it’s not “a thing”, right?

You can’t have it both ways. Sorry.

"Raspberry Parade" is not a song just because a lot of kids think those are the lyrics.

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My daughter thought the name Penelope was pronounced Pen-uh-lope until sixth grade. She was absolutely shocked when she learned the correct pronunciation while watching an old movie, I think Pippi Longstocking or Dr. Dolittle. I digress. The point is, being wrong about something doesn't make it a thing. Pen-uh-lope is not a thing.
Dishwater is a thing
Ditchwater is not a thing

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter thought the name Penelope was pronounced Pen-uh-lope until sixth grade. She was absolutely shocked when she learned the correct pronunciation while watching an old movie, I think Pippi Longstocking or Dr. Dolittle. I digress. The point is, being wrong about something doesn't make it a thing. Pen-uh-lope is not a thing.
Dishwater is a thing
Ditchwater is not a thing

Ha i did that with Calliope. Thought it was calley-ope, with the ope said like nope. That doesn’t make it a thing.

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We always called it mop water or mousy blonde

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Anonymous wrote:Olive skin is a racist term.

It is offensive for "white" people to describe other people as "olive" or "almond-eyed. "

Good grief. Millions of "white people" with olive skin. Go away.

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Anonymous wrote:Olive skin is a racist term.

It is offensive for "white" people to describe other people as "olive" or "almond-eyed. "

What??? Olive skinned people are white. Olive skin is a trait where white people tan nicely and don’t have pink undertones. Like Italians.

I’m pale but have olive undertones. No one would call me olive skinned though since I’m so pale.

This. Also, I am a white person with almond shaped eyes. It is a compliment regardless of race -- they are my best feature.

What an ignorant thing to say when, for centuries, women of Asian descent have been sold tools and techniques to “fix” their eyes to achieve a more hooded, rounded look. Go on YouTube and you’ll find tutorials to this day.

Honestly, the ignorance.

Don't be indignant on our behalf. Asian women don't need other's faux outrage and manufactured drama over a term for an eye shape. We are not offended by the term.

Women everywhere in the world, from every culture, from the dawn of time, have been modifying their looks to appear like other people who don't look like them. White women want to be darker so the spray tan, asian women want to be whiter so they bleach their skin. Young women cover themselves in makeup and skin treatment to pass as older, old women use fillers and botox to pass as younger. Curly hair people straighten, straight hair people curl. Hair dye. Implants. Nose jobs. Lip fillers. Eye jobs. Colored contact lenses. Hair extensions to get straight Caucasian hair. Hair extensions to get thick luscious Mediterranean hair. Fashion trends. Etc. Etc.

The entirety of women's beauty is one big cultural appropriation. Every female culture and color participates in cultural appropriation through their beauty choices and fashion trends.

Stop with the fake outrage and manufactured drama. This kind of nonsense had its moment when everyone was locked in their houses during covid going crazy from too much online.

That moment is over.

DP. And you do not get to speak on behalf of those of us, our mothers, grandmothers and greatgrandmothers, all Americans, who HAVE experienced this prejudice concerning their features.

Yeah, I've not met an asian person anywhere who is offended by the term almond shaped eyes.

The vast majority of us see that term as either a nuetral or a compliment.

We just don't get offended like the internet trolls like to on our behalf.

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Anonymous wrote:Olive skin is a racist term.

It is offensive for "white" people to describe other people as "olive" or "almond-eyed. "

What??? Olive skinned people are white. Olive skin is a trait where white people tan nicely and don’t have pink undertones. Like Italians.

I’m pale but have olive undertones. No one would call me olive skinned though since I’m so pale.

This. Also, I am a white person with almond shaped eyes. It is a compliment regardless of race -- they are my best feature.

What an ignorant thing to say when, for centuries, women of Asian descent have been sold tools and techniques to “fix” their eyes to achieve a more hooded, rounded look. Go on YouTube and you’ll find tutorials to this day.

Honestly, the ignorance.

If they've been doing this for centuries, then it's not about trying to look white. A lot of the East Asian cultures were not really exposed to may westerners or their standards of beauty until the 20th century.

Also, the attempt to make their eyes "rounder" is about making it look bigger, not necessarily rounder. The fat on their hooded eyes make their eyes appear smaller, so the technique is to create a "crease" to give the allusion of making it look bigger.

For example, the aperture of my eyes (East Asian) is actually bigger than my white DH's. But, because I don't have the big crease and my eyes are not as sunk in, my eyes appear smaller than his.

Taylor Swift is an example of small eyes with a crease, but because her the crease is small, her eyes appear smaller. She had eye surgery to lift the fat from her eyes -- Blepharoplasty . It didn't make the aperture any bigger; it just made the illusion of her eyes being bigger. This is also what a well placed eyeliner can do.

Exactly.

I cannot imagine the person getting so offended by this is actually asian or knows asian women bryond casual relationships.

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Anonymous wrote:As someone who is not Caucasian, I have to ask. What do these things look like? Google for once is about as confusing as the terms themselves.

What do you consider:
A) Dishwater Blond/Blonde
B) Strawberry Blond/Blonde
C) Olive skin

Was younger curly haired Taylor Swift a strawberry blonde? Is George Clooney olive skinned? Who is dishwater blond/blonde?

I have never ever heard the term "dishwater blonde" it is not a thing

Yes it is. Look it up.

Maybe in a trailer park but in elevated social circles NOONE uses that term. Period.

Hey! You a slurring the trailer parks.

No one from the trailer parks calls it ditchwater, unless they are referring to actual ditches.