# I hate being a redhead! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 5, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970 "2001-04-05T19:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/41 "2001-04-09T02:10:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > \*\*Lads, how do you think I’d look as a brunette? \*\* Awful. Never give up on beind a redhead. One Question: Why the worries about fashion? Wear what you like. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/42 "2001-04-09T06:54:20Z")
Erm, did you miss the whole point of this thread? That I **can’t** wear what I like 'cause none of the fucking shops are selling it? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/43 "2001-04-09T07:59:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > Yojimbo, that link reminds me, there’s a whole bunch more LondonDope photos waiting to go up. Now where is Tracy’s email address??? Doh!! Try not to ask me to do stuff when I’m drunk 😉 Sent it to the mail addy in your profile. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/44 "2001-04-09T09:39:48Z")
**ruadh** – wasn’t manny saying you might consider moving back to the States as black is all they wear on the East Coast. As you do that anyway, I think he was just posting BC – before caffeine ?? \ I’m in philosophical mood today. Spurs were simply outplayed, the squad needs building and the youngsters need more time. We also have two or three more kids to blood so we’ll be in a better position to see what kind of foundation Spurs have later this year. At least Glenda now sees the scale of the task. Glad he’s talking about playing football – I’m of the Spurs old school: There’s no glory without style. **YA HEAR ME GEARGE GOONER GRAEME** Shame really, I thought the omens were good as Spurs always win the cup when a year has a foot and mouth crisis in it (1967). \ **Saint Zero** – It’s genetic. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/45 "2001-04-09T09:51:01Z")
Green was quite fashionable last year. I got myself a lovely green net dress with embroidered autumn leaves from the sale rail in Jigsaw. (No really, it is very nice. No, it does not make me look like some awful woodland elf woman). Pastels suck the big weasel. Are there any bright pinks and the like? I’ve had most shades of red hair in the L’Oreal spectrum, and bright fuchsia pink suited me very well when I was in my light red/strawberry blonde phase. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/46 "2001-04-09T09:58:17Z")
I dunno. I worry I get this subliminal traffic light thing going on. Get enough mixed signals as it is. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/47 "2001-04-09T14:08:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cervaise \* > > > [@](#): > > > > **(spooje)** After veiwing the photos from the link, I am of the opinion that ruadh would look devastating in just about any color outfit. > > > > **(ruadh)** Thanks spooje 🙂 but well, you’re wrong. > > I clicked the link too, and **ruadh,** you’d look spectacular wrapped in newspaper. _That_’d be a way to get us guys to read something besides the sports section! 😛 “Don’t go tryin’ some new fashion, don’t change the color of your hair…” Seriously, there aren’t enough gorgeous redheads in the world. (Try new fashions if you must, but…;)) ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/48 "2001-04-09T14:53:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > Seriously, there aren’t enough gorgeous redheads in the world. It’d be a pity to damage yours . . . 😉 Fuck. That didn’t work. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/49 "2001-04-09T20:46:14Z")
Ok, I’m a red head, and I wear powder blue and powder pink with great success - I just adjust my makeup. If you hate these colours, however, that’s not much help. Stick to black, (I also wear a TONNE of it), and Red - there are too few of us in the world already. Al. ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/50 "2001-04-12T19:18:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > **Ok, I’m a red head, and I wear powder blue and powder pink with great success - I just adjust my makeup.** Well, I’m also completely hopeless at makeup. If it weren’t for those free consultations Clinique offers every so often I’d never know **what** to wear. I certainly wasn’t born with that gene that gives you the ability to coordinate your eyeshadow to match your outfit every day. I do have some successful news to report though - took the visiting best friend out today on an expedition to Dublin’s best charity shops and managed to find two work-appropriate blouses plus a **really** cute skirt-suit for myself, all in greens and browns and all for £12.50 (that’s about $14 US). Now if I only had some interviews to wear them to ☹ ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970/51 "2001-04-12T19:41:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\ ***ruadh** – wasn’t manny saying you might consider moving back to the States as black is all they wear on the East Coast. As you do that anyway, I think he was just posting BC – before caffeine ?? > > \*\* Nah, I was just generically trying to increase New York’s population of gorgeous redheads. Can’t blame a guy for trying! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-being-a-redhead/60970.md?page=2)