shades and tones

Ability to distinguish hair colors depends on nationalities.
Before " cha-patsu", tinted brown hair generation,
Most Japanese, even hairdressers, did not make out a little difference of shades and colors of hair.
Now, Drug stores are selling hair color products indicating their tone as matt, ash, red, etc.
Other color products have more specific name such as chocolate brown and pinky ash.
Although we have got to know more colors than before,
It is not easy to know blondes and brunettes, which is not familiar to us yet.
My English friend living in Tokyo used to complain that Her hair color never be as she wanted in Tokyo hair salon.
She wanted to have her hair dyed in beige blond but it had always been end up with gold blonde or pale blonde.
Generally, pearly blonde looks bit foolish, I might say, and beige blonde look more intellectual.
European people have more blonde color chips in their chart, as well as we have more dark brown chips.