Updated 11:40 AM EDT, Thu, Mar 28, 2024

Florida Girl Baffles The Web With ‘Magically-Changing’ Hair Color: Purple, Blue or Another Hue? [Watch]

  • +
  • -
  • Sign up to receive the lastest news from LATINONE

It's the online color quandary all over again.

One 24-year-old from Melbourne, Florida, decided to dye her hair violet one evening. She didn't get the reaction most women expect from their guys after usual make-over's.

Not that Sabrina Abu-Obeid's boyfriend didn't like her new hairdo -- he was just perplexed when the hair color magically changed right in front of him, Buzzfeed reports.

Sabrina's guy decided to capture the whole color spectacle in a video and posted it on Imgur. The clip gathered numerous views in no time, as you might have guessed.

Sabrina is a graduating student from the University of Central Florida. She and her boyfriend, DJ Monopoli, are full-time vloggers and they make up the band TeraBrite.

"He really wanted to show me what he saw so he took out his phone and shot a quick video, which was initially intended for only me to see," she told BuzzFeed. They didn't expect the video to go viral as it did, but it seems like the web has fallen in love with its color games.

Remember the #TheDress? It wasn't too long ago when one article of clothing, made by the British retailer Roman Originals, has attracted so much attention "on the same light." Online debate raged on whether its true color is #goldandwhite or #blackandblue. And, even celebrities, with the likes of Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Ellen DeGeneres, and Justin Bieber, could not contain themselves from weighing in on the matter.

According to CNN, it all started when someone, with a username of "Swiked," posted on Tumbler about her dilemma; "Guys please help me - is this dress white and gold, or blue and black? Me and my friends can't agree and we are freaking the f*ck out," she pleaded. From then on, the dilemma was to the world.

The company responsible for creating the dress, and the global predicament in the process, has long since confirm that the dress was, indeed, black and blue.

While some people (mostly the Potterheads) were so convinced among themselves that the girl with the changing hair color is the real-life version of Nymphadora Tonks, science offers a take on why the eyes of the public have failed to come to terms in such cases.

There are different factors that affect human color perception, as cited in the Wall Street Journal article. These may include pigments that the object's material contains, how much light it reflects, the nature of light in which the object is viewed, the camera sensors, and our very own retinal sensors. All these contribute to the different responses by different individuals.

This was supported by Professor Stephen Westland, chair of color science and technology at the University of Leeds, saying that the divisiveness of the dress and the hair colors should not come as a surprise to anyone because the way people perceive colors varies hugely, BBC reports.

"One in 12 men is colour blind. But what people don't know is that even if the rest of us are not colour blind we don't always see colour in the same way," he said.

What do you think? Is Sabrina's hair blue, purple, violet or pink? Let us know in the comments below!

© 2015 Latin One. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
  • Sign up to receive the lastest news from LATINONE
Close

Curiosidades

Real Time Analytics