What is "brunette"?

Brunette - origin and what it actually is

• Brunette is a hair color. Perhaps you already knew that before this article. But what does a brunette actually look like?
• You will find a first answer to this in the origin of the word "brunette". It comes from French and is related to the words "brunâtre" and "brun", which translates as "brownish" or "brown".
• But then why not just say "brown"? Even brown-haired people like to refer to themselves as brunette, but brunette rather describes a hair shade of which brown is only the basic color.
• So brunette is not a color that always looks the same. On the contrary: there are different types of melanin.

What melanin has to do with hair color

• The melanin is what color ours hair. The different variants of melanin determine which color it will be with us. The decisive factor for us is the amount of pheomelanin and eumelanin.
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• Blond-haired or red-haired people have particularly large proportions of the pigment pheomelanin in their hair, whereas brown or black hair has a greater number of the pigment eumelanin presuppose.
• The mixing ratio of these two pigments determines which hair color a person ultimately has. But there are also people who lack any melanin. In this case, the hair is literally colorless or pale. In which case it is colloquially referred to as an "albino" respectively "Albinism" spoken.
• This is also an easy way to explain the graying of your hair: Your hair does not get really gray, it is just that melanin is increasingly lacking in old age in order to form the usual hair color. "Gray" hair is not really gray. The impression arises with hair that is partly pigmentless and partly still pigmented. In general, the amount of pigments has decreased significantly in this case.