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I'd put my money on "forgot to change the hair color reference in the text." Kawahara does have a few continuity errors in the light novels. For instance, in volume 5 Phantom Bullet, he has Kirito doing a little introspection on his character transfer to Gun Gale Online. To quote:

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Of course, this isn’t a function that increases the copies of a character. The moment it is converted, the character in the original world is completely eliminated and more so, because the only thing that could be transferred was the character, items could not all be brought over, though it is convenient, it was an act that required courage. This time, when I had to transfer over the character that I used in ALO “Spriggan Kirito”, to GGO, I forcibly left almost all of my items in a safe in the new general store that Agil just opened up on the 50th floor on New Aincrad.

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Looks innocent enough. But later, when Kirito does his "You Shall Not Pass" scene to hold off the 30 guild members so as to give the Sleeping Knights a chance to get pass the other 20 guild members and take on the floor 27 boss, there's a reference to Gun Gale Online when Kirito slices the seven spells that were cast at him. And that causes a continuity error.....

How could Kirito store his ALO items in a safe in Agil's general store on the 50th floor of New Aincrad when the 28th floor of New Aincrad hasn't even been opened up yet because the 27th floor boss hasn't been killed yet?