This topic came up on cosplay.com...

[ohariko.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1187121]
I'm interested in to see what your guys opinion is because the way I look at it, Lulu's hair is black and nothing more but some morons on cosplay.com thinks it's dark brown: http://www.cosplay.com/showthread.php?t=147188 .The nice easy way for me to remember it is that Lulu is black, Suzaku's hair is brown. Simple, ne? What's your opinion?

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[vspirit.livejournal.com]

I've always thought it to be black because it appears black most times in the anime (except when there's a trick of lighting) but to be honest, that link you posted made his hair look like something between purple black and an espresso brown. It couldn't have posed a good argument on that other board. As it is, I'm now thinking that it's perhaps due to his hair having a purplish sheen to it that when certain lighting hits it, it becomes the dubious color as shown on the page.

But I've been thinking black too long, and there must have been a reason for me to not have viewed it differently even a year and a half later so I find it difficult to budge from it.

[vspirit.livejournal.com]

Or well, you can prolly just put him next to XingKe and see if it's really black. Cos XingKe's hair is most undeniably pure black. No other hues. Now that I'm actually looking, Lelouch's looks like it's black but with a slightly different sheen or hue (I mean in the anime--in the CLAMP art in the ED, it just looks inky black) to it and i suppose that's what makes it arguable to some.