Where ... the blond begins?

[Pansarkamrat]

The first pic is dark blonde, the second is light brown.

Thats true when i think about. You are right.

[justTosee]

Where ... the blond begins?

With people being obsessed about it.

[Roy]

In Croatia where blond hair is in minority we still consider blond only hair that is yellowish. If it doesn't have yellow shade, it is (light) brown.
Stears is not considered blond in Croatia, for example. He is ash brown.

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I am considered blonde, but only during and after summer. My hair is lot darker (light brown) during winter. In summer it's golden blond. I sunbath a lot.

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Stears' hair colour is not what springs to my mind either when I think ''blond'' either. At least I doubt that people would flat-out call him ''blondyn'' in Poland. Yeah, his hair is light, but ash brown.

[The Blade]

It depends on person to person who you ask as well as the context. The question does not have a clear answer. It is like asking where does "tall" begin?

No, there are no various definitions of blondism. Just some surveys combining blond and light brown hair as light (without equaling them, of course) + people who have wrong perceptions of blondism.
If there's no yellowish colour, then it's not blond no matter how light one's hair colour is.
Even wikipedia mentions it:
''Blond or fair hair is a hair color characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The resultant visible hue depends on various factors, but always has some yellowish color. The color can be from the very pale blond (caused by a patchy, scarce distribution of pigment) to reddish "strawberry" blond or golden-brownish ("sandy") blond colors (the latter with more eumelanin)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blond
These people are Northern Europeans (5 Swedes and 1 Dane) and yet in their case only one has blond hair naturally and all the others have various shades of brown:


This is sandy blonde, btw:

[Septentrion]

I have seen different opinions on this subject. Where the blond begins? I thought it would be an interesting idea to discuss as even when it comes to something as fundamental there's no consensus for.


This guy and this girl are already blond as far as the Polish concept goes.

The very definition for blonde hair is a very wide one. It covers various shades from brownish-blond to golden-blond to ashen-blond to reddish-blond to whitish-blond/snow-blond. Usually people have the perception that blond hair has to be very light. Even light brown hair have some "yellowish" tinge in it. So as a whole, blondism begins somewhere in some light brown hair shades to the lightest blond which are close to white.
However my personal perception for blondness is very strict, due to the fact that I live in a country where light brown and dark blond hair is common. So my judgement is wrong, but that is what I am used to call blond.
Example: Ingesson (Sweden)
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/...1,1000_AL_.jpg

Hughes (England)
https://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/d...620x/36314.jpg

Kahn (Germany)
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-co...13/05/kahn.jpg

Schmeichel (Denmark)
https://media.gettyimages.com/photos...re-id453058956

Coorevits (Belgium hot blonde!)
http://beauty-around.com/images/samp...-coorevits.jpg

[Chevalier]

Actually it doesn't really matter.
However, I find it pretty annoying that some people can't tell the difference between light brown and blond hair. Also between dark brown and black hair.

My father, for example, had light brown hair when he was young (he was blond as a child but got darker with age) - yet some people still call his hair blond.
Then there are people who call my dark brown hair "black". I guess these people have never seen any East Asians in their entire lives...

Heck, my hair color is probably closer to red than to pitch black.

(Cultural differences also play a role. Someone who has only seen black-haired people will probably call a light brown haired person "blonde". On the other side, Scandinavians will probably say that my hair really is "black".)

[TheMaestro]

Northern Greece

[Joso]

Northern Greece

Yeah, because they are very slavicised and north pontid and baltid/gorid are very common phenotypes there.

[TheMaestro]

Yeah, because they are very slavicised and north pontid and baltid/gorid are very common phenotypes there.

This has nothing to do with genetics or slavics, this is a TA meme, between Zeno, Benny etc.

[Septentrion]

It starts in some lighter shades of light brown. Although many of us tend to call « blonde hair» only the lighter blonde types. Which is absolutely nonsense.
Example of a dark blonde Danish individual:
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qim...56d0dbc19854e4