I can tell you something really funny.

My hair is naturally dark brown/black, having a significant amount of Native American in me, but my skin is pretty pale and my eyes are green. I used to color my hair. I've been every shade of red from strawberry blonde to burgundy. Eventually I developed an allergy to hair dye, so now that I'm beginning to gray, I've got no choice but to let it happen. Anyway, before that allergy developed, I was at a stage in my life where I didn't want to fuss with keeping up a certain color. I asked a salon to re-dye my hair my natural shade, so that when my roots came it, they wouldn't show.

Then I told them what it was.

And they were appalled at the idea. They didn't believe me. "Oh, no, dear, that's MUCH too dark for you. It wouldn't look natural."

They absolutely refused to color me any darker than a medium brown.

My own natural hair color was "too dark" to look natural? I think that's hysterical.

I ended up doing a bottle job at home.