# How many redheads on the Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466 "2005-01-24T20:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/61 "2005-01-25T22:32:33Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > And so… well, sometimes I decide to stop fighting it, and flow with it. I think the “leave it alone” looks best. Maybe a few highlights would be okay; but don’t go as blond as you’ve done. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/62 "2005-01-25T22:35:07Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > For years, like my mother, I tried to fight it. “blonde! I want to be a blonde!” I would scream, but only end up with a weird, brassy colour. Why fight it? To quote from an on-line profile I recently admired: “Blondes may have more fun, but redheads _are_ more fun.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/63 "2005-01-26T00:17:08Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > Why fight it? > > To quote from an on-line profile I recently admired: > > “Blondes may have more fun, but redheads _are_ more fun.” > > Stranger Well, there were “personal family” reasons for not wanting red hair, which, now that I am an adult, are silly reasons, but as a child, if my mother and grandmother said it was bad, by default, it was bad for me, too. My (now disowned for reasons other than this) grandfather had an affair with a red headed woman. That was all we knew about her, and so it became a symbol of distrust and loathing. Now, I love it 😃 I was actually the first in our family to dye my hair back to red, and flaunt it. I was shunned for a while, but then I told everyone, “look. I’m me, not the mystery woman. I have red hair, and I’m not ashamed of it because one red head was a tramp. I’m not the woman who hurt you, I’m me, and I’m proud. Take it or leave it.” Eventually, they took it. I did force it blonde this year for something different, but a couple of weeks ago I dyed it back. I just couldn’t stay away. 🆒 (Besides, anyone notice how much my “blonde” looked like my cat’s “orange”?) :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MsPrufrock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@MsPrufrock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsPrufrock)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/64 "2005-01-26T00:47:32Z")
Mmm - I love red-headed guys! My friends are always on the lookout for me! I SO wanted red hair when I was little but I’ve grown to love my dark brown (though I do like to dye it a plum hue every once in a while). I’m jealous of you all who don’t have any grey! I just turned 24 and I keep finding a new grey hair here and there. Have been for the last 6 years - bah! ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/65 "2005-01-26T01:21:22Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > Hm, good point, **Homebrew** , I prolly shoulda made that clear. > How many of us _natural_ red heads are on the Dope? My hair started out as strawberry blond and got gradually darker; it’s a dark auburn. ~pouts~ Spoilsport ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/66 "2005-01-26T02:07:50Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Now, I love it 😃 I was actually the first in our family to dye my hair back to red, and flaunt it. I was shunned for a while, but then I told everyone, “look. I’m me, not the mystery woman. I have red hair, and I’m not ashamed of it because one red head was a tramp. I’m not the woman who hurt you, I’m me, and I’m proud. Take it or leave it.” > Eventually, they took it. Good for you. There can never be too many redheads, though I’m awfully partial to brunettes, too. Aw, heck, I just like women, actually. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/67 "2005-01-26T02:11:12Z")
Yum, redheads. Whether male or female. I love them. I was strawberry blonde as a child, but my hair gradually darkened to the classic mousy brown. Any attempt to lighten it brings out red, similar to **Anastasaeon’s** situation. I also get red sunstreaks. I have a very pale complexion, as many redheads do, and I sunburn quickly and tan rarely. When my hair is dyed red, the only real clue that it isn’t natural is my dark eyebrows. Both sides of my family have mainly Irish backgrounds, and redheads are scattered sporadically through the family line, although I don’t think any are alive now. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/68 "2005-01-26T02:27:02Z")
Bright red until age 2. At present (40 years) auburn brown, or as the husband put it after five minutes of hemming and hawing: “You’re a redhead in the summer when your hair gets sun-bleached, but in the winter you’re more of a red-brown”. No grey on the drapes (yet). Green-grey eyes. The… uh… carpet is multi-colored medium shag (including yes, some grey) and on the straight side, but not perfectly so. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/69 "2005-01-26T07:50:34Z")
In response to demand for cites. Me [at my very best](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dwsimm2000/detail?.dir=/8cf7&.dnm=923a.jpg&.src=ph) And a [closeup of the eyebrows.](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dwsimm2000/detail?.dir=/8cf7&.dnm=3fa4.jpg&.src=ph) Like many I was really red haired when young, like through high school, and then with age it got more brownish red. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/70 "2005-01-26T08:10:22Z")
You’ve definitely got the red, **David**. And your eyes are an incredible color. I had posted these before in another thread, but here’s my [cite](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/whistlersmommy/album?.dir=/75cb). The lighting isn’t all that great (fluorescent) but I think the color show ok. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/71 "2005-01-26T14:21:26Z")
See how easily this thread changed from a poll into a red head picture thread? How was I the first one to do that… IANARH, but I love them. MY old girlfriend dyed her hair red because she knew that I loved it. (This was not some stalker trying to get my attention, we had been together for years.) Her parents made her turn it back blonde…\ Some people just don’t appreciate beauty. ---
**Author:** ![WCOT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e5b9ba/32.png) [@WCOT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WCOT)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/72 "2005-01-26T16:09:02Z")
Another natural red head checking in, and i think that red-haired ladies are the most attractive, but all the ones ive dated were less than even-tempered, so i might start putting some stock in that stereotype about red headed women. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/73 "2005-01-26T16:23:01Z")
I have recently acheived medium red-brown, according to my stylist, the self and often proclaimed genius Hector, may he live long and dye well! Sorry, Hector. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/74 "2005-01-26T16:42:39Z")
> [@WCOT©](#): > > Another natural red head checking in, > > and i think that red-haired ladies are the most attractive, but all the ones ive dated were less than even-tempered, so i might start putting some stock in that stereotype about red headed women. It’s true. 😉 **Salem** , I am mighty jealous of your hair. I just can’t get mine to that length, it’s too damn thin. [Here’s me.](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/reddhedd_34/album?.dir=cad5&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos) ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/75 "2005-01-26T18:39:57Z")
'S not fair! Three out of four grandparents are redheads, both my mother’s siblings and all of _their_ children, and half of my father’s side of the family…why’d _I_ have to get the defective “dark blonde” gene? Fortunately, Clairol’s “Peruvian Flame” color has helped me to remedy nature’s mistake. Anyway, I think I look more “natural” as a redhead than as a blonde. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/76 "2005-01-26T19:08:49Z")
I don’t have red hair, but I really really want auburn hair. I’m afraid to do anything permanent though, as I fear I won’t like and I don’t want to deal with the roots. I tried the stuff that’s supposed to last like a month, and it just didn’t take. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/77 "2005-01-26T19:11:43Z")
> [@tremorviolet](#): > > [Yeppers.](http://tremorviolet.funtigo.com) And I haven’t gotten a single grey yet either despite being almost 38… Nice arms! Wish I had a pair like that. 🙂 Natural redhead here. I’d say mine’s a medium copper, and [tmi]the carpet is even brighter.[/tmi] Proof: [Me](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Requiax/me.jpg) [the hair](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/Requiax/cousinit.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/78 "2005-01-26T19:12:20Z")
Another redhead—a little too red to be called auburn. More coppery, maybe? And blue eyes. I’m happy to hear about fellow reds NOT going gray early, as my mother insists that I’ll be gray by the time I’m 40. At 27, I’ve had a couple of light, almost blond hairs, but nothing I could really call gray. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/79 "2005-01-26T19:33:23Z")
My head hair is quite dark auburn, but in summer it bleaches a little and becomes reddish. My beard and body hair is much lighter than my head hair, so much so that I’ve had people asked if I’ve dyed my hair. (No.) This is what comes of being Scottish/Korean. ---
**Author:** ![Hirundo82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/919ad9/32.png) [@Hirundo82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirundo82)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466/80 "2005-01-26T23:55:39Z")
> [@unclviny](#): > > The perfect Woman (physically) is 5’ 2" tall, 125 lbs., long red hair (none of this Auburn stuff RED!!!), Alabaster skin (freckles are a major plus!) and has dark (Emerald) Green eyes. > > Unclviny I think I’m dating your perfect woman, and I would tend to agree with you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-redheads-on-the-dope/286466.md?page=5)