Black!
Black hair is the darkest and
most common of all human hair colors internationally. It is
a dominant genetic trait, and it is found in people of all backgrounds
and ethnicities. It has large amounts of eumelanin and is less
dense than other hair colors. Black hair is known to be the
shiniest out of all other hair colors. Sometimes very dark brown
(blackish-brown) hair is also called black because the potency
of eumelanin in the hair gives it the lustrous properties of
black hair, adding to that the rationale that "brown"
does not do the darkness of the shade justice. Black hair can
therefore be slightly rufous, soft black, or blue-black. Sometimes
black hair can appear to shine silver-blue in the sun. In English,
black hair is usually described as "jet-black" or
"raven black". Outside of Europe, many humans have
black or dark brown hair. This is likely the original hair color
of Homo sapiens, and is found in its greatest distribution in
sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the pre-Columbian Americas. Among
West Eurasians (White people, Caucasoids), black hair is particularly
common in people of Southern European, West Asian, and North
African ancestry, regardless of ethnolinguistic affiliation.
They are also found in the British Isles and in part of Central
Europe. Black hair is least common in the Baltic littoral, where
true blondism is believed to have originated.
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