The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words its like a thesaurus but gives you a much broader set of related words rather than just synonyms. Mentioning skin color hair texture and so on.
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Use the below list to find different terms pertaining to the color black.
. There are basically five different hair colors - blonde brown black red and grey. Finding the perfect words to describe hair doesnt have to be difficult. You want to keep your character sections down to 3 sentences at max.
If I were to describe my hair Id call it coarse medium-strand high densityvoluminous combination type 4 in a nutshell type 4 means micro-textured hair - very small curls like the diameter of a narrow straw tight small coils like an inkpen spring tight kinks tight s-curls tight z-pattern and so on medium length and natural black color with a dark brown tint in direct. He can be tall or short thin or fat. Berry russet strawberry red-blonde rusty orange wine carrot top etc.
The list contains adjectives synonyms terminology and other descriptive words related to the color black. Golden blonde - light brown hair with golden highlights. Feel free to use this list to expand your vocabulary and be more descriptive.
While playing around with word vectors and the HasProperty API of conceptnet I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Black lacking all highlighting will be duller ash shade. They are a waste of money and time.
Here are some adjectives for black hair. List of adjectives synonyms and related terms to describe the color black. Not all of us are thugs.
One sentence is the best. The things most affected by race are hair eye and obviously skin color. A combination of different phrases is able to give a reader a full description of the hair for example using a description like.
These are some tips to help with writing an African Americans pov. But I also just felt like sharing. She was all arms legs and sharp angles with skin whiter than bone and dyed red-purple hair cut like a boys.
Mousy is a slightly negative word to describe hair. He can have any facial shape a large or small chin or nose. Subtle Ways of Describing Black Characters.
Beyond the basics you can use words to describe a characters hair that reflects who they are as a person. Mousy - drab mid brown hair. Red -- Warm shades.
How to describe a characters hair color. Please dont think that the black best friends brother has to be a thug in. Brown hair brown sugar Blond hair honey blond.
Uniformly brilliant nicely textured lustrous and thick smooth but thick thickly lustrous thick and longish otherwise coal untidy but beautiful therefore coarse damply tangled almost coal curly shiny artfully. Tips used in writing hair descriptions Combination of words You should know well how to combine different phrases to give a detailed description of the hair you are trying to describe. The problem is sometimes this can end up making your character descriptions to long.
Black containing a lot of red may appear as deep burgundy. Making your characters hair more distinct will make them easier for readers to visualize especially if you introduce many characters at one time. Descriptive Hair Phrases.
We are normal people with normal lives sure I joke around about drugs but I dont do them. Another black-clad pseudo-bohemian he. Braided black hair or straight hair will let a person knows.
Bangs obscured her eyes like a sheepdog Flaked with snowy dandruff Bleached bottle baby Braid like a thick black rope Bundled at the nape Bun resembled a cow patty Cascading down her back Chemically damaged Coiled in a top-knot Crowning glory Curls foamed luxuriously Tendrils danced on the breeze Disheveled Downy hair. Also afro styles should be kept to those of african descent. And yeah this is in part inspired by a certain very lengthy discussion of race representation and respect in the SFF community that took place recently in the blogosphere.
Easy to do right. And dont describe their hair as wild unkempt or untamed as well as any other words that imply that their is unclean or requires controlling remember. Recently I found myself talking writing with a variety of published authors.
Hair can be curly and blond sleek and black coily and auburn and even dyed wild colors. Not a claim of correctness or The Best Way or anything of the sort. Dark blonde honey blonde sun kissed.
1 Allude to the Physical qualities of people of colo r. How many times have you heard brown hair or blond or black or red described in heard it all before terms. Black -- Different shades of black vary according to the amount of highlighting or pigmentation shadings present in the hair.
This is one of the few bits Ive written that includes a description of hair. Wooly is also a word with negative connotation. Cameron first saw Tilda on the train at the Five Points station early Sunday morning after the clubs had closed.
Strawberry blonde - pale yellow hair with a hint of ginger. Character Descriptions - Hair Color. Its worth noting that there is very little obvious difference in facial structure between a black person versus a white person.
Ok some of us are thugs but most of us arent. Check out these creative words to add flair to your writing when explaining hair. Some examples from my own writing submitted for your consideration.
But that does not mean your hair. For more information that would take another thousand words.
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