Read a review saying it was interesting and provocative, but highly questionable as science.
I’m not a fan of blond with roots. In fact, until a few years ago when I read how uncommon it was for women of a certain age ( 30+?) to have natural blonde hair, I had no idea so many women dyed their hair. (Yes, I am pretty much clueless on countless things.)
I have no idea why most women would dye their hair - at least if they are not going grey, and this inveterate ogler does not find blondes inherently more attractive. I suspect - as with the urge to cover up grey, going blonde has an element of retaining the appearance of youth. I guess I have to admit, tho, that a platinum blonde does kinda draw your attention. You figure she wants to draw attention, so it might well be worth a closer look.
And, if you DO dye your hair, I don’t understand why you would want it to be an obvious fake dyejob. Roots or weird (IMO) colors. But, I’m pretty sure the young lovelies aren’t doing it to appeal to this old man!
This bothers me because I see it thrown around all the time with no scientific evidence to back it up. For one, most natural blondes are very young, younger than that most biological evidence points hominid males being attracted to. I am very suspicious of any report which says that men are attracted to signs of “youth” and then describe features that are common in children or adolescent females.
Secondly, in every single poll I’ve seen of human males with their preferred hair colors, brunette wins by a large margin.
One thing that does seem to be true of blondes is that the men who like that look, really really like them. There is a facebook application called Human Pets where you can buy and sell people and “California” beauties seem to skyrocket in price very quickly. However, less people will be competing and willing to pay more, compared to other beauties who will have larger groups of people competing but not as hard.
PS, that “Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature” that was linked earlier is full of such misinformation and stupidity it really makes me mad! If they had taken five seconds to run that by a reputable Primatologist they wouldn’t have said half that garbage.
You can have my fakey blonde hair when you rip it from my cold, dead head!!
I’ve had fake blonde hair for 12 years (almost half my life), and I’m not going back any time soon. I have good reasons. Blonde makes my hair look fuller. My hair is very thin and fine, and when it was dark, you could see my head through my hair. Yuck. Also, at least a few times every year, someone I’ve known for months/years hears me say something about my hair being fake, and they don’t believe me until I insist. A LOT of people don’t think it’s fake at all, even when I have some roots showing. Lastly, I like it! It’s very “me.” My husband always wants to see me go natural, but hey, it’s my hair, so…no.
And those of you who aren’t hating on the fake blonde–thanks! Glad to know you approve.
But there’s a big difference between “my hair is naturally a non-blonde color and I have lightened it to a nice, natural looking blonde” and “my hair is naturally a non-blonde color and I have lightened it to an unnatural looking blonde that I let roots grow into and it ends up not really looking good with my skin tone.”
I think the latter group is what most are talking about.
I was in a club recently and it seemed that the vast majority of the female clubbers (or scrubbers) had unnatural looking coloured hair. Either hair like in the OP or dyed jet-black or dyed an unnatural red or the like.
30-something straight guy. Sigh, yes bleach blonde hair is attractive, it draws our eye and gets you noticed. It’s like an advertisement. That doesn’t guarantee we’ll like the girl once we get past the hair though.
I find blonde hair on women to be unattractive most of the time just because the woman in question hasn’t taken into account her complexion when choosing to go blonde. I think blonde looks best on very fair-skinned women, and it can be aging, in contrast to all this business about youth.
I was blonde as a very young child, though it changed to reddish blonde before starting its inexorable slide into brown, yet I can’t carry off a blonde shade now–even the nearest match I could get (going from photos) to my childhood color looked terrible.
I do like dark hair with contrasting blonde highlights, though I don’t much care for the dark roots/blonde hair look. It isn’t really my business, as it isn’t my head, so I wouldn’t say anything to someone with their hair so dyed. Her head, her business.
One of my aunts has been dying her (brown) hair blonde since before she had her first child–for thirty years no one had seen her with brown hair. She suddenly decided to go back to brown a few months ago, and she remarked that everyone telling her how great she looked made her wonder how bad she looked before!
Blond men, now–definite win. Maybe because a man who is still blond as an adult is nearly always blond because that’s what’s natural to him? Perhaps, though I’m not one of those who thinks someone’s natural color is what they should stick with if they don’t care to.
For me, I don’t mind a non-natural looking hair color on a lady as long as the style and cut suits her face and manner. I am reminded of the many episodes of Alias where Jennifer Garner was walking through some nightclub or disco with bright red or green hair, and I though it looked good on her.
The blonde hair with the heavy dark roots, though, just looks like someone was too lazy to keep up with her hair or too cheap to have it done for her.
And Naomi Watts … she would look good in any hair color.
While I prefer pretty much all other hair colors in women to blonde (I’m blond myself, mind you), I don’t particularly find it a turn-off as far as attractiveness goes. However, I will say that the blonde thing is really, really, really overdone. Of all the girls/women I see at my school, a good 50% of them are bleach blondes. Natural-looking blonde coloring with contrasting in it looks good. Uniformly bleached-blonde hair does not.
To be honest, I like a really fake-looking whitish blond better than ordinary natural blond hair. Granted, around here, just about any color other than black is obviously fake, so coloring your hair doesn’t seem any stranger than using a certain color of makeup or clothing.
One thing I don’t like, though, is the reddish-brown henna coloring that 98% of the women in Japan were doing a few years back (that fad has thankfully passed). I must not have been the only one, since every time I saw a woman with long, straight, black hair, she inevitably had a foreign boyfriend.
Yes . Your bf prob chasing after one of those chicks
Since you come off super uptight and ugly yourself.
Sorry but your attitude is offensive and shows anger towards blondes period.
You one of those brunettes that never lived a happy life to worry about rather guys wanting to bang fake blondes. Well since all blondes become brunettes and many guys like blondes the answer is yes. Most see blonde from the far while you on the other hand are not noticeable and angry!!!
I have brown hair but think blonde is also nice. Get a life , get a job…get laid…stoping being so jealous. You sound lame and are prob really ugly yourself.