Ways To Describe Black Hair In Writing

A ponytail or pigtails might indicate a young character. Red -- Warm shades.

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Feel free to use this list to expand your vocabulary and be more descriptive.

Ways to describe black hair in writing. You want to keep your character sections down to 3 sentences at max. There must be more words so lets work together on this. Blown on the wind.

Coily coarse kinky curly corkscrew wavy s-curl z-pattern etc. Some examples from my own writing submitted for your consideration. Mentioning skin color hair texture and so on.

And yeah this is in part inspired by a certain very lengthy discussion of race representation and respect in the SFF community that took place recently in the blogosphere. This year I thought a descriptive list for hair might help you when starting to describe your characters. The blondblonde one especially has always irritated me.

Berry russet strawberry red-blonde rusty orange wine carrot top etc. Likewise with the hair or fur of gender-identified pets and animals. Please leave new words to add in.

The list contains adjectives synonyms terminology and other descriptive words related to the color black. Pitch-black is generally a bit too strong for this context I think. I find myself sometimes searching for different ways to describe hair when I write a story so this was helpful.

The wind running through hair. Mar 22 2015 - writingwithcolor - Posts tagged description. Although blond can describe the hair of either males or females many writers prefer blond for males and blonde for females.

Describe a characters hair colorblack hair dark hair brunette redhead blonde gray or whitein interesting ways instead of just stating the shade. Properly describing how hair is cut or styled is critical in describing the appearance of a character in a story or the subject of a work of nonfiction. Kinky is simply a descriptor of the texture of some ethnic namely afro-textured hair.

Alex Nemo Hanse This began as a guide to describing Afro curly hair but of course I got. The problem is sometimes this can end up making your character descriptions to long. The most beautiful writing uses common words in uncommon ways.

Ive just used blonde as a noun and blond as an adjective. Black containing a lot of red may appear as deep burgundy. Theres been a tumblr post going around about not using food as descriptors for non-white characters.

Ebony - A soft absorbent hue not shiny yet beautiful Black. Use the below list to find different terms pertaining to the color black. I cant even count the number of times Ive seen an author describe darkness as inky or velvety.

It is coarser springier and has more of a zig-zag pattern as opposed to a curl. Some phrases to describe hair movement are. List of adjectives synonyms and related terms to describe the color black.

And because this post. Try to avoid falling into clichés. I included colors and words of items that adorn the hair.

Nappy on the other hand has a similar history to that of another n-word. Black lacking all highlighting will be duller ash shade. Flowing in the wind.

Coal - Described as soft and muted used as a cliche Black. But I also just felt like sharing. This is an okay descriptor for a person of any race to use.

Describe the length of their hair. Better than direct replacements however try exploiting the following suggestions as kernels and brainstorm new color descriptions. Breezing in the air.

Words to Describe Hair. Not a claim of correctness or The Best Way or anything of the sort. Black -- Different shades of black vary according to the amount of highlighting or pigmentation shadings present in the hair.

Jet - Described as being luxurious bold and shiny used as a cliche. Also describing physical characteristics is one of the worst ways to introduce a character. AmaT on February 21 2012 318 pm.

Gotta love our boys Janet on February 21. There are a variety of textures and appearances in the black hair community. Lately Ive been getting asked about the properauthenticleast offensive way to describe or write POC characters.

One sentence is the best. Ok so I get asked for advice and my thoughts on a lot of things relating to diversity and representation. Afro Curly Straight Look Texture Style Color Photo credits.

It makes a difference whether your character dyes their hair or keeps it its natural shade. Last year I put together a list of descriptive words for food.

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