Exactly, case! I've been every color, too, with various streaky things going on, etc. I think it's very interesting how people react differently to different hair colors/styles. I'm a natural mouse brown which is a color that just begs to be toyed with!

If it is obvious that your hair is dyed (dark hair and pale skin, roots showing, etc.) then people know that you chose to be that color. People are then reacting to your choice as well as your color.

I suspect this is what people are reacting to with case. Very few people have naturally true-black hair.

One of the strangest things I have ever seen was a young girl with long black hair and about one inch of bright blonde re-growth coming in!

Not only that dar, but they might even treat you like the stereotype, expecting that's part of what you were shooting for with the dye job!

Part of the reason for double-blind testing...

Damn. I just can't formulate a good one-liner about double-blind testing of hair color...

I think all the male attention is your attitude. Do you feel more attractive? When a woman looks like she's feeling hot it doesn't seem to matter what color of hair she has. Like when you get a haircut and no one notices, but they do notice something is different about you.....Are you simply noticing what was there all along? I often don't notice male attention (my friends say so) but if I were to change my appearance and began to look for reactions I might see an increase in attention.(obviously) I'm not going to make a comment about my hair color or the fact that this is in the Philosophy category, but I will say attractive is not a hair color.
(not directed at anyone here i am having conversational flashbacks)
:D And sorry guys, you all tell me to dye it but I like it how it is so your attraction to me can keep suffering. No big deal! If you are liking the women on the basis of hair color you are not going to be my type anyway........ :greenface

Native Americans come close. My Dad was 1/4 Cherokee and had VERY dark brown hair (might as well have been black), and everyone who met him commented on his "black" eyes which were actually a very deep brown. I have some pictures of him when he was a young man, and the girls must have been fainting in his tracks. I wish I'd inherited his coloring, but, alas, I take more after my Swiss Mom.

I hear you, flip, but I do not agree. Men--On the AVERAGE--don't want grey hairs. And that is a response to your third to last sentance, last post. Men want women with vibrant hair color whether it be brown, red, blonde or black. Waning hair color is a halmark of decreasing libido--not my rule, Nature's rule.

I wasn't referring to grey hair because I don't have any. :p I can see how you would assume that meaning though. I have a friend with grey hair though and she never seems to be lacking any male attention. :D
But the topic was about you........are you sure you are not just being more aware? :eyebrow:

Actually, it is surprising how many people <i>can't</i> tell the difference between natural and dyed hair color. I have had a few people just assume this is my natural color (when I was blond, too). It's kind of embarassing to have to tell them I dye it at that point.

I've been a red-head for over 10 years and can't imagine not. The first few times someone referred to me as a red-head, I was taken aback. As in, who me? But I love having red hair. There's just something about it that gives a person a little "savoir faire". It's hard to describe unless you've been there...

:rainfro: Today, i am getting my hair dyed.
Red...hmmmm....not my color.

Or is it??? :handball:

Thank you Brianna, that's a really nice thing to say. :blush:
A few years ago I would have done hot pink without a second thought, but I think I've passed the age where I can get away with it. I don't want to look like a washed up stripper... I haven't done any dyeing in a couple years, although I still have some henna remnants on the ends I think.
I could definitely go for a change... this thread really has me thinking...

I would love to see before and after shots if you do!!

Maybe a stripper but faaaar from washed up. :)