My hair is long, straight, and - for all intents and purposes - black, and it's earned envious comments from several people. It's actually an extremely dark brown, but you can't tell unless it's exposed to very bright sunlight. What's funny is that I don't take any more care of it than most people; if anything, less! I think I got lucky with the genetic lottery...

...are you me? The only difference is, people know my hair is brown when I go out in the sun and my red highlights show.

Naturally red?

Yep.

My hair is the same, except I have curl!

According to TheOtherWiki, in RealLife black hair is considered to be the shiniest of all human hair colors; due to the chemical ''eumelanin'' it contains. Extremely dark brown hair can also sometimes achieve this effect (as seen above).

This troper noticed that, of all things, one of her DOGS has shiny midnight black fur- yes, complete with blue highlights.

This troper takes ''immense'' pride in her long, gleaming obsidian tresses.

While mine is currently mostly this colour, I have lots of bright silver strands in it. Apparently my hair is losing colour but retaining shiny.

This troper's debate team coach is a curly-haired version of this.

This troper recently saw a picture her husband took of her from behind. Her hair looks like someone spilled a bottle of ink.

My friend has hair like this, with that and his beautiful blue eyes, hes pretty lucky.

While this troper loves her dark, long, wavy hair, she has only been blessed with brown/black hair that happens to be very shiny, not ShinyMidnightBlack hair as she desires. Unfortunately, her hair is the exact brown/black color that, if dyed SMB, would look off. It gets darker in the winter though.

I've got shiny black hair that gives off brown, white-blue, and red highlights in the sun. I'm thinking of streaking it bloodred, just because I can.