Hair Colour: All About Blondes

Blond hair is hair of a flaxen or golden colour or of any light shade of auburn or pale yellowish brown.
Most Scandinavians have blond hair.

The adjective blonde has two basic meanings in English:
1. (of women's hair) of a light colour; fair
2. (of a person, people or a race) having fair hair, a light complexion, and, typically, blue or grey eyes.
The noun blonde refers to a person, esp a woman, having light-coloured hair and skin.

Usage:

Although blond and blonde correspond to masculine and feminine forms in French, this distinction is not consistently made in English. Blonde is the commoner form both as a noun and an adjective, and is more frequently used to refer to women than men. The less common variant blond occurs usually as an adjective, occasionally as a noun, and is the preferred form when referring to men with fair hair

Types of blondes:

Ash-blonde - of hair colour: whitish
Natural blonde - with hair whose colouring has not been altered, treated, or disguised
Peroxide blonde - a blonde whose hair is bleached with peroxide
Platinum blonde - a blonde whose hair is a pale silvery (often artificially coloured)
Strawberry blonde is
- A light reddish-blonde or orange hair colour
- The Strawberry Blonde is a 1941 film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Rita Hayworth and James Cagney.
- A strawberry blonde is also a cocktail made with vodka, brandy, and cola.
Towhead also refers to a person with light blond hair. This is based on the hair's resemblance to tow which is coarse or broken flax prepared for spinning. It also refers to a person whose hair lightens considerably when exposed to the sun.
Suicide Blonde is a woman who has dyed her own hair blonde, with predictable results
Example: Courtney Love is a suicide blonde.
Etymology: a pun on 'died by her own hand'

Did you know?

"Suicide Blonde" was the name of the first single from the INXS album X. The song was written by Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farriss of the group INXS. It is rumoured that Hutchence's then-girlfriend, Kylie Minogue, gave him the inspiration for the title whilst working on her 1989 film "The Delinquents". Minogue was required to dye her hair platinum blonde for the role and was quoted by Hutchence in an interview in '89 as saying "I'm going suicide blonde today".