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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[albel.livejournal.com]

This is kind of like the argument back in the day when people were debating whether Roy Mustang's eyes were black or blue because of the shine. If you have black hair in a cartoon you need to give it a colour (blue, purple, brown, gray) to give it shape otherwise, lol, it's just flat black. That's how natural black hair is as well. They make it lighter than black so that, in animation, it can still have black as the shadow and light brown or whatever it is in the anime as the shine.

So, it's really of opinion which level colour of the hair you want to look at to get a main colour. In the end though, I would vote on black. If you want to look at it realistically, I've never seen someone with naturally black hair like how you would get in a dye that's shiney and, in my persona opinion, kind of gross. If Lelouch was real, which he isn't (woe D8), he would probably have dark dark brown hair but...bah, I'd say black.

That's just what I think the problem is. I don't think being colour blind in one eye will make you think the hair is brown rather than black. Or maybe that's just me.