How much of the distribution is part of Mr. Hefners, uh, editorial taste, however?
If blondes are still the beauty standard, it is time to update. In my opinion, blonde is entirely too common and rarely ever natural.
A few years ago, my teenaged daughter wanted to highlight her beautiful, shiny, sleek, dark brown hair. On one occasion during that same time period, hubby & I went to see her choir concert. Visually combing the bleachers full of robe-adorned girls, I had no trouble spotting my kid. She was the ONLY non blonde, and the only one whose hair still had the ability to shine.
There were platinum blondes, golden blondes, striped, streaked and fried blondes…and my daughter with the beautiful healthy dark hair. After that night, I told her how she stood out in that crowd. If she wanted to streak her hair and add some crispy dull highlights and look like everyone else - go ahead. She opted to stay natural and unique.
In my own opinion, the most beautiful hair is not chosen by color, but by how shiny and natural it looks. Blonde is pretty if it’s real.
Does anyone else think Eva Longoria uglied herself down a notch when she lightened up a few shades? Now, she looks like everyone else.
Incidently, if it matters, I am on the cusp of dark golden blonde/light golden brown. I could call it either way.
Well, I’m a bit biased toward redheads, probably because I lost my virginity to a redhead on St. Patrick’s Day. Sadly, she was also the last redhead I ever got busy with, due to the general scarcity of redheads. But I still think that a natural redhead is just plain stunning, more often than not.
But blonde is probably my least favorite hair color. Especially platinum blonde. Because platinum blonde seems to go hand-in-hand with breast augmentation, and I don’t like that either. I really like dark brown or black hair. There is something enticing, though, about a brown-eyed blonde …
Back when my baby sister was still in middle school, she was with a group of classmates at some event, and my mom noticed that they all had approximately the same color hair. She came to the conclusion that “dishwater blonde” is the natural American hair color now.
Scarcity? Oh… Wait… You said natural. I was going to invite you into my neighborhood. Every woman I meet these days has her hair dyed red. It’s getting ubiquitous, and I almost want to tell them, “That was, a few years ago, very original and stunning-looking. Now, it’s just one of the crowd…”
(Not a big fan of dyed hair unless it’s dyed a color in which hair does not normally exist.)
The yellowhairs can certainly be attractive, for a while, but it’s always been my mantra that blondes don’t hold up well. On the whole, blondes and redheads tend to age more quickly than dark haired people (male or female).
Also, as has been alluded to, most blondes (now talking about women) are fake. The lovely blonde hair of childhood becomes dishwater blonde before too long, then it’s off to the hairdresser for a life of dye jobs.
Personally, I’ve always preferred dark-haired women. As it happens, my dark-haired wife dyes her hair, because it’s really gray, and she feels the need to look younger at work. She needn’t bother for me, I might add. When you get to my age, gray hair looks pretty cool too.
Well, since that’s not her name, I really don’t think you can count her.
What I hate are the blondes whose hair exactly matches the color of their skin making them look like a bronze die cast instead of a human. It makes me rethink my former preference for blondes.
I agree that blondes get more Hollywood roles.
I must point out that Crouching Tiger had two gorgeous women - Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang!
Not that this is necessarily an indicator, but a blonde has not been the primary Bond girl since 1987.
I’m female and I like to play around with my haircolor (nothing unnatural - I stick to natural shades, so no pinks, purples, etc.).
One thing I’ve noticed is that I get much more attention from the opposite sex when I’m blonder. It’s weird. With dark hair I feel like I’m invisible sometimes.
You took the words right out of my mouth. (or right from my fingers as the case may be.)
My hair is a natural light brown shade. I have colored it darker, auburn and even red once. I never get as much attention from men as when I go back to strawberry blonde. Perhaps those that prefer blondes are just more obvious about it?
No. Perhaps subconsciously and unintentionally, or perhaps not, they assume the blonde is going to be “easier to … talk … to”.
ArrMatey! - Yes, I meant natural redheads. I can usually spot a fake, mostly because there’s just something wrong about a redhead with a deep suntan 
I started out as a blond as a child, and then as I reached adolescence I slowly darkened until I started dying my hair. I spent several of my teenage years trying various shades of blond and red until I hit upon the perfect strawberry blond for my complexion. (I’m of pale mostly-European-mutt ancestry.)
Around about the middle of college, my hair was getting very unhealthy. I had also literally never seen my natural adult hair color, and was curious. So I went to a brunette that mostly matched my roots, and then started the loooooong growing out process. After several years my hair was healthy again, but the color was frankly unattractive - boring and clashing with my complexion. I didn’t even know that your natural color COULD clash with your complexion. So, I’m back to my perfect strawberry blond, and very happy about it.
I’m not sure that this story has a point relating to the OP, so sorry about that. 
Maybe it’s that I dye blond, but for personal reasons, not to match some cultural ideal of hair color.
About 92% of the freshman girls look exactly the same.
It’s stick-straight (often sort of fried looking from daily flatironing) dark brown, and usually around shoulder lenght. And they’re tanned like crazy.
The older the group, I’ve found, the blonder. From what I hear, sorority girls still way favor blonde. Perhaps the dark-hair-dark-skin look will grow and graduate with the current high school crowd.
My grandfather freely admits that when he spotted the big-breasted (evidently dyed) platinum blonde in the tram, he thought she’d be an easy catch. By which he absolutely does not mean “become my wife”. They’ve been married 68 years.