#Dark red hair skin
Brown-haired people have medium-thick strands of hair.īrown-haired people are thought to produce more skin-protecting eumelanin and are associated with having a more even skin tone. Often, natural blond or red hair will darken to a brown color over time. A small amount of brown eumelanin without any other pigments causes yellow ( blond) color hair. A small amount of black eumelanin in the absence of other pigments causes grey hair. Black eumelanin is the darkest brown eumelanin is much lighter than black. The two types are black eumelanin and brown eumelanin. There are two different types of eumelanin, which are distinguished from each other by their pattern of polymer bonds. Brown hair has more eumelanin than blond hair but also has far less than black. The pigment eumelanin gives brown hair its distinctive color. ĭark brown hair also may occasionally be found among Indigenous Siberians and Americans (formerly) especially for mostly populations in Southeast Asia due to pigment changes (such as the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam) for example particularly when they are young, as well as in many other groups This is also true of Southern Cone of South America ( Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, central-southern Brazil), Colombia, Andean Region of Venezuela, Costa Rican Central Valley and Puerto Rico. Very dark brown hair, easily mistaken for black hair, can be found occasionally in parts of East Asia. ĭark brown hair is predominant in the Mediterranean parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and South Asia. Similarly to blond hair, brown hair occurs commonly among Australian Aboriginal and Melanesian populations. Brown hair, mostly medium to light brown shades, are also dominant in Australia, Canada, South Africa among White South Africans and the United States among European Americans from the Northern, Central and Eastern European ( British, Scandinavian, Baltic, Dutch/ Flemish, German (including Swiss-German and Austrian), Slovenian, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian) as well as Southern ( Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese) and Southeastern European ( Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian). In northern and central Europe medium to light brown shades are the most common, while darker shades prevail in the rest of the continent. 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-brown hair."īrown-haired individuals predominate in most parts of Europe. One is more likely to say about a man or boy, "He has brown hair" or "He is brown-haired" than to say, "He is a brunette" (or brunet). 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.
Merriam-Webster defines "brunet" as "a person having brown hair"-with which they may have "a relatively dark complexion-spelled brunet when used of a boy or man and usually brunette when used of a girl or woman".
In modern English usage, however, it has lost the diminutive meaning and usually refers to any brown-haired girl or woman, or the associated hair color.
The form "brun" (pronounced / b r uː n/) is still commonly used in Scotland, particularly in rural areas, and is also the word for "brown" in the Scandinavian languages. All of these terms ultimately derive from the Proto-Indo-European root * bhrūn- "brown, grey". 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 of which is brune.
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