Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean you sound like you have brown hair, not “dark blonde.”
Dark blonde hair can be darker than some brown hair. Blonde and brown are different colors. You are mixing up level with hue.
This is not accurate according to hair colorists. They use a scale from 1 (black) to 10 (lightest blonde) and a colorist would distinguish between a light brown (level 6) and a dark blonde (level 7). There are not separate scales for blonde or brown hair and blonde hair can never be darker than even the lightest brown hair.
It gets somewhat complicated with tone, as reddish or golden browns can be more light reflective than dark ash blondes, so that might be what you are referring to. But most colorists will view the red or gold tones in hair to be highlights and just evaluate the base color. And a base brown will always be darker than a base blonde.