Why does hair change colors indoors and outdoors?

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Sorry for fuzzy hair look, it was windy, I took the pics , at work and on the sunlight. Why’s the color difference between indoors and outdoors so big?

[Pyrofox]

Color is defined by what shades of light aren't being absorbed by an object and instead are being featured. The same applies to hair. Essentially your hair is reacting like thin luminescent glass threads. Light is entering but for some reason your hair is reflecting all the colors of the spectrum but the light of the sun/lights near you. As a result it reflects said color.

That being said as to what color we humans can see that depends on did your eyes and brain develop the proper color cones to be able to receive and see said colors. This broadly speaking is what makes up the difference between normal vision, partial color blindness, and total color blindness. With the latter being pretty disorienting and can make being in a silent room very unsettling.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

So, how do I know which one is my color, the one indoors or the one outdoors?

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

My eyebrows are dark brown, they don’t change color in the sun.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

So, when I am outdoors and people see me they ask me if my hair is dyed, I guess because of very drastic difference between my eyebrows and hair.

[Pyrofox]

Indoors would be the real color. Outdoors its the color that is being reflected by light sources outside.

[Pyrofox]

Got pretty lucky though to have pearlescent hair... Some really rare genes.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Thank you ^_^ What does pearlescent mean?

About the genes, uncle and grandpa from my father’s side were redheads. My father looks like his paternal father, but he has red undertones in his hair. Probably I inherited some of it and its only shown in the sunlight.

[Pyrofox]

Pearlescent like the sheen or luster on a pearl.

[Drewtate]

Lighting. My girl's hair changes color between the summer and winter months. Apparently its a white people thing with blondes and redheads.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

I am a brunette and it still changes though.

[love_conquers_lust]

Light refraction

[msc545]

It has a lot to do with the color temperature of the light. I'm not sure how to explain color temperature precisely but I know it makes a big difference. If you want to know more, you could easily look this up on Google.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I believe that sunlight changes our hair color to lighter color and while days we are in indoors our hair color goes darker.

[Guido]

Natural light vs artificial light

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Artificial is the sunlight, where my hair looks reddish.

The first photo is artificial light.

[Awantika03]

Light💡 effect

[Sevenpointfive]

eww, no to hair dye

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Hmmm…. it’s not dyed. It’s taken minutes away outside the building and inside the building

[Sevenpointfive]

you got me then. just stay inside lol

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

Why? Does it look bad outside?

Actually when I am outside everyone asks me if it is dyed or not 😂

[Sevenpointfive]

it looks unnatural outside for some reason? like a new color i've never seen. very fifth element

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

That’s not a nice thing to say. Who decides what is a natural hair color and what is not? If it is my hair color it means it is natural.

I don’t think it’s unnatural, lots of people have reddish hair.

[LaFemmeFatale_1]

You sound like a man who’d execute redheads if he lived in Middle Ages.

[Still-alive]

[Sevenpointfive]

you must be joking! redheads are the most sought after women because of their hair. myself included. i love them.

[Wise4myage]

Sunlight can have an affect on hair color.