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Brown hair is the second most common human hair color.
Brown hair varies from light brown to almost black hair. It is characterized by higher levels of the dark pigment eumelanin and lower levels of the pale pigment phaeomelanin. Its strands are thicker than those of fair hair but not as much as those of red hair. People with brown hair are often referred to as brunette , the feminine form of the diminutive form brunet from brun (brown/brown-haired), the masculine form. Brown hair is common among Indo-Europeans and West Eurasians, especially those Central and Southern Europe, West Asia, and North Africa, where it transitions smoothly into blackish-brown and black hair.
Etymology and grammar
Brunette literally means "little brown-haired girl" or "young brown-haired woman", but in modern English usage it has lost the diminutive meaning and refers simply to any brown-haired girl or woman, or the associated hair color. Although brunet is the masculine version of the popular diminutive form, used to describe a little boy or young man with brown hair, the use of brunet is uncommon in English. One is more likely to say, of a man or boy, "He has brown hair," than to say, "He is a brunette," (or brunet).
Lighter or darker shades of brown hair may be referred to as "light brunette" or "dark brunette," though in such cases one is generally referring only to the hair color, not using the term as a metaphor for the person; one would be unlikely to say, "She is a light brunette." Rather, one would say, "She has light brunette hair."
The term brunette is the feminine form of the French word brunet which is a diminutive form of "brun" meaning brown/brown-haired, the feminine being "brune". Brun is derived from the Germanic "bhru-no." The Indo-European root phoneme is "bher."
Biochemistry
The pigment Eumelanin (literally meaning “good” melanin) gives brown hair its distinctive color. Brown hair has more eumelanin than blond hair but also has much less than black. There are two different types of eumelanin, which are distinguished from each other by their pattern of polymer bonds. The two types are black eumelanin and brown eumelanin. Black eumelanin is the darkest, brown eumelanin is lighter than black. Black eumelanin is mostly present in non-Europeans and aged Europeans, while brown eumelanin is mostly present in young Europeans, and people of other ethnicities. A small amount of black eumelanin in the absence of other pigments causes grey hair. A small amount of brown eumelanin in the absence of other pigments causes yellow (blond) color hair. Brown-haired people have medium-thick strands of hair.
Brown haired people are thought to produce more skin-protecting eumelanin and are associated with having a more even skin tone. The range of skin colors associated with brown hair is vast, ranging from the palest of skin tone to an olive complexion. Brunettes can have dark or light eyes. Occasionally, natural blonde or red hair will darken over time, resulting in a brown-haired individual with light colored eyes.
Varieties of brunette-brunet
Brown hair comes in a variety of shades from the very darkest of brown (almost black) to light brown showing small signs of blondism. Shades of brown hair include:
- Deepest brunette - The darkest brown, which can be a very dark chestnut, sometimes appears to be off black at a distance.
- Dark brown.
- Milk chocolate brown .
- Chestnut brown - Dark brown with a visible wine auburn highlight.
- Light chestnut brown - Medium to dark brown with very subtle chestnut tones.
- Medium brown.
- Medium (golden) brown.
- Light golden brown.
- Light auburn brown.
- Light golden reddish brown - A warm light brown with red tones.
- Light ash brown.
- Lightest brown.
Culture
Modern fiction
Anita Loos, the author of the novel and play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , wrote a sequel entitled But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes . A film of this was made, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes , starring Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain.
Wonder Woman, the Amazon warrior of DC comics, who made her first appearance in 1941 is a blue-eyed brunette. Lara Croft, the fictional explorer of the Tomb Raider franchise has brown eyes and hair.
Art and fiction
The Lady of Shalott from Lord Tennison's poem is depicted as a brunette in most paintings. Leonardo De Vinci's most famous painting the Mona Lisa is also brunette. In the French folk song Au Clair de la Lune, the likable Lubin visits his brunette neighbor at Pierrot's suggestion.
See also
- Human skin color
- Melanin
- Moreno
- Orange
- Black hair
References
- ^ Brunette Hair Style Photos
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