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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[piccu.livejournal.com]

Black. I'm not colour blind.

[angel-dunnant.livejournal.com]

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 the idiots on cosplay.com thinks it's dark brown.
How the hell it's dark brown? D:
I'm 100% sure it's black, and sometimes there's a glint of purplish black/grey for the light of Lelouch's hair

[ya-kun.livejournal.com]

Black. Dark brown WTF?

[nomoreprinces.livejournal.com]

All you really have to do is check the official merch, especially the figures. Black.

[ohariko.livejournal.com]

They apparently are.

[angel-katsumi.livejournal.com]

They're black.

[ohariko.livejournal.com]

Ask me that one too. They're arguing intensily on this one thread. It's amusing as hell and they think I'm wrong by saying it's black? Wait until they get the answers. XD;

[ohariko.livejournal.com]

I even showed them the official website pictures. They still didn't believe me.

[sapphirus.livejournal.com]

That reminds me...that I don't understand how Lelouch could end up with such a dark colour (like mom) yet his little sister ends up with a pale brown (though her hair is just as abundant as mom's).

His hair colour though is definitely black. No shades of brown in that.

[tsukihane.livejournal.com]

Black.
I see where the dark purple comes from, shadow/light effects but dark brown? What? D:

[chunky-bunny.livejournal.com]

dark brownhair? I don't think that fits lulu after staring at my own.....

so black all the way~

[piccu.livejournal.com]

What? They're arguing about it? It's indisputably black.

[ohariko.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Duke at one point had black hair? XP

[apapazukamori.livejournal.com]

Maybe Charles' hair is/was light? Or Marianne had light-haired relatives. I know it's possible; one of my cousins has light brown hair, but both her parents have reeeally dark hair. But my uncle has redheads in his side of the family.

[ohariko.livejournal.com]

Yep. I posted a link in the original post. I find it too amusing as hell, I can't wait to see that person's Lulu cosplay and see if he really goes with dark brown. He'll be mistaken for Suzaku.

[nomoreprinces.livejournal.com]

Well then they're just plain stupid and there's no point in arguing with stupid people except for the lolz but even that is short lived as one quickly reaches a state of pity at their lack of intelligence after a couple minutes of laughing at them.

[firebird-88.livejournal.com]

X_x Colorblind? If you're colorblind you should see things in black and white to begin with, and his hair is pretty darn close to black. -___-;; Weird. It does shine purple though, I'm not going to lie. XD

[harlequins.livejournal.com]

His hair, as I see it is black, but with some tones of dark purple/brown but they're not that obvious. Just slight. :/

[spleener.livejournal.com]

It's very clearly black.

[piccu.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, but his hair does look slightly brownish sometimes after checking my scans folder, but still, I will always be black for me :D

LOL btw, added tag for you, so that you won't get a reminder by the mods ;D

[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.

[musumeyz.livejournal.com]

First when I read the poll, I thought: "BLACK! Of course it's BLACK!"
But then I had a look at some pictures and screencaps. It's actually dark brown. Like really dark brown with a greyish hint. (Note: I checked the pictures in GRAPHICS: ASHFORD and GRAPHICS:ZERO, so it has got nothing to do with my monitor.)
It looks like black, yes, especially comparing to Suzaku's hair, but compaired to his school unfirom (which is black and no one would argue about that I believe) it's rather brown.

But then again, on some Artwork it's even slightly purple.

I don't really think it matters, actually. As for wigs, I'd go for a black one.

[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.

[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.

[syrenshaeda.livejournal.com]

I voted black.
From what I can see in the picture in the thread (http://endofdreams.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/lelouch.jpg), it's a rather 'light black', with a brown undertone, at least from my view and compared to the chess piece which looks veeery black. (The school uniform seems to have a blue-ish green undertone, imo XD)
So I can kinda see where they are coming from, but it's black , for sure.