27 Hair Color: What It Looks Like and How to Match It

27 hair color is the honey blonde on most extension charts. It looks simple until you set it beside #30, #4 and #613, which sit close by and get ordered by mistake.

This guide covers what 27 means, how it compares with 30, 4 and 613, who it suits, what else the number means online, and how to match it before you order.

Extension brands number their shades. The low numbers are blacks and browns, the middle of the chart holds the auburns and darker blondes, and 613 sits at the pale end. 27 lands in the middle, on the blonde side.

Three suppliers describe it three ways. Vin Hair calls it a warm golden blonde with a honey and caramel undertone (14 August 2026). Lyn Hair calls it a honey or strawberry blonde with light auburn undertones (8 September 2023). iSee Hair calls it a mix of brown, blonde and a little red (5 September 2022). The common ground is warm, mid-light and honey.

The same Vin Hair page also labels 27 honey brown in one passage, so even a single supplier is not consistent. None of the three gives 27 a level number. We don't either. Our guide to hair color levels shows where the codes we sell fit on the 1 to 10 scale.

These four codes show up together in mixes, which is why they get swapped. Here is how suppliers describe them.

iSee Hair calls 27 the lighter of 27 and 30 and the more natural one on most people. It calls 30 the darker, more dramatic shade (5 September 2022). Lyn Hair describes 27 as brighter and sun-kissed and 30 as richer and browner (8 September 2023).

Buyers argue about this in public. One braiding group thread this month asks for a shade between 4 and 27 because the client found 30 too orange. The pale end has its own page: our guide to 613 hair color.

Vin Hair says 27 works best on warm, neutral and medium skin tones, and that cooler tones can wear it with darker roots or a cooler blonde (14 August 2026). It says the shade blends with light brown, medium brown and dark blonde hair. Very dark or black hair needs lightening first.

The skin tone advice is the weak part of these guides. iSee Hair links 27 to medium skin in one section and to light skin in another. Treat any pairing as a starting point and look at the client.

Three ways stylists use it:

• On its own. A single-color 27 weft or tape for a client whose natural hair is light brown or dark blonde.
• Mixed with 4. A brown root fading into honey. This is the 4/27 mix that turns up in search results.
• Mixed with 30. A red-brown and honey blend for a warmer, deeper look.

Natural hair from Vietnam is dark. To get any blonde, a factory lifts the pigment with bleach and then colors the hair to the target shade. Each chemical step costs the hair some strength, which is why the factory that does it matters.

Our 613 guide covers the stages of lifting in detail. 27 is a different endpoint, but the starting hair is the same.

The number 27 is on products far outside human hair extensions. Shopping results for this search on 12 October 2026 show two examples.

• Dye boxes. Revlon Colorsilk lists 27 as Deep Rich Brown. Sanotint lists 27 as Havana Blonde. Each brand numbers its own chart.
• Braiding hair. Most image and video results for 27 are synthetic braiding hair and box braids. That market buys by the pack and often mixes 27 with other numbers.

This guide covers the 27 code on human hair extensions. If a client brings a box of dye or a braiding pack, ask what brand and chart it comes from before you match anything.

We have exported Vietnamese hair to 50+ countries since 2011. As of 12 October 2026 our store does not list a standalone #27 product. Our colors there include #1 Jet Black, #1B Natural Black, #2C Dark Brown and #613 Light Blonde.

Custom colors are matched against a physical color ring we ship before the order is finalized. Made-to-order products take 10 to 12 working days. Our one ready-to-ship product is the #1B machine weft, 100g, 16 to 26 inch, which ships in 1 to 2 days.

Channel NewsAsia and NPO Netherlands have both filmed inside our factory, and both broadcasts are public: AZ Hair on Channel NewsAsia, our NPO Netherlands feature.

A phone screen shifts blondes toward yellow or orange. A supplier photo is lit however the supplier chose. Two minutes at a window gives a better answer.

1. Stand by a window. Shop lighting flattens warm blondes.
2. Take a section from the back of the head at mid-length. Roots and ends often read differently from the middle.
3. Hold the 27 swatch flat against the hair. Then try 30 and 4 in the same spot.
4. If the swatch looks redder than the hair, it is closer to 30 than you want. If it looks browner, try a 4/27 mix.
5. Check a second section near the face. That is the one people see.

• Ask for a physical sample. Our smallest order is one 100g bundle, so a test costs one bundle.
• Ask for video in daylight. A person holding the hair near a window shows more than a studio photo.
• Ask how their 27 sits next to their 30. A supplier with one swatch cannot answer that

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