HAIR COLORS - THE COLOR PALETTE

Because we were just on the subject, I wanted to know from Stina if she had a color palette with the names of the shades for the different hair colors. And she was able to help me with that, too.

She herself, unfortunately, didn’t have a map to give me but referred me to a helpful website: miapia.de refers to their color-set of hair extensions. I reproduce this color list here because it gives a good first impression.

I refer explicitly to the miapia.de homepage because I am sure that not everyone can imagine what shade is, for example, “summer truffle”. On their homepage, you will find the corresponding photos.

The miapia-list of hair extension colors

Ebony
Midnight Brown
Chestnut
Choco Jambo
Summer Truffle
Toffee
Cashew
Savanna
White Cocoa
Buttercup Honey
Sunkissed Ivory
Coconut Dream
Lemon Sorbet
Plum
Coco
Dragonfruit
Strawberry
Blueberry
Sugar Melon
Apple Green
Mandarine
Lemon

Below you will find the more conservative names for the individual hair tones.

Hair colors: Natural tones

Here are the natural tones from light to dark:

light blond
light blond
light blond
medium blond
dark blond
light brown
medium brown
dark brown
black

Hair colors: Ash

The natural hair color is formed by melanocytes, which take care of the pigmentation of the hair. When the amount of yellowish-red pigment becomes too low, the hair loses its luminosity. This color direction is called ash and comes in the following varieties:

light ash blond
light ash blond
light ash blond
medium ash blond
dark ash blond
light ash brown

In tints labeled “ash”, there is a slight blue color component to cover orange tones in the hair.

Hair colors: Matte

Matte shades are used by hairdressers when it is necessary to cover red tones. That is, when the melanocytes produce too much of the yellowish red pigments. There is always some green in such tints. They come in the shades:

light matte blond
light matte blond
medium matte blond
dark matte blond

Hair colors: Gold

Accordingly, hair with a high proportion of yellowish-red pigments is either golden or red-golden. If the hair is to be pushed in that direction, the hairdresser helps with a color shade that contains a trace of yellow. Here the colors finally get sounding names:

golden blond
cognac
hazelnut blond
mocca
golden brown

Hair colors: red gold

When the red pigment content is even higher than the yellowish one, it is called red gold. The hairdresser can help nature a little with tints that contain orange. The common names for this are:

copper gold
titian red
mahogany copper
light chestnut brown
medium chestnut brown

Hair colors: purple

Now it’s getting really red, even in the tints. The standard names from light to dark are here:

light rosewood
dark rose wood
purple brown
light mahogany

Tints

Just for the sake of completeness, let’s mention tints, which are mainly used for medium and dark blond hair:

Hair colors: violet

malaga
samos

Hair colors: brown

Brown
fawnchocolate brown

Hair colors: Pearl Cendre

“Cendre” comes from the French and means “ash”. Within the standard color palette, it appears in two variations. Dark blond hair can be colored with

dark cendre (in the direction of black)
blue-black (a name that speaks for itself)

Hair colors in literature

Now I openly admit: I was a bit annoyed by this list. I read a lot, but have never come across the sentence, “Her light ash blonde hair fluttered in the wind.”

Probably in this context it makes much more sense to try to make comparisons, which, incidentally, have the great advantage of evoking associations in the reader: