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  2. Human hair color - Wikipedia

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    A variety of human hair colors; from top left, clockwise: black, brown, blonde, white, red. Human hair color is the pigmentation of human hair follicles and shafts due to two types of melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin. Generally, the more melanin present, the darker the hair. Its tone depends on the ratio of black or brown eumelanin to yellow ...

  3. Auburn hair - Wikipedia

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    Auburn encompasses the color maroon, but so too do chestnut and burgundy. In contrast with the two, auburn is more red in color, whereas chestnut is more brown, and burgundy is more purple; chestnut hair is also often referred to as "chestnut-brown".

  4. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    The color adjectives used in 1779 are weiss "white" ( Caucasian race ), gelbbraun "yellow-brown" ( Mongolian race ), schwarz "black" ( Aethiopian race ), kupferrot "copper-red" ( American race) and schwarzbraun "black-brown" ( Malayan race ). [11] Blumenbach belonged to a group known as the Göttingen school of history, which helped to ...

  5. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    "Tyrian purple" is the contemporary English name of the color that in Latin is denominated "purpura". Other contemporary English names for purpura are "imperial purple" and "royal purple". The English name "purple" itself originally denominated the specific color purpura.

  6. Hair coloring - Wikipedia

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    Hair coloring, or hair dyeing, is the practice of changing the color of the hair on humans' heads. The main reasons for this are cosmetic: to cover gray or white hair , to alter hair to create a specific look, to change a color to suit preference or to restore the original hair color after it has been discolored by hairdressing processes or sun ...

  7. Ochre - Wikipedia

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    Ochre pigment. Ochre ( / ˈoʊkər / OH-kər; from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós) 'pale'), iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. [1] It ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown.