# Okay, guys: blonde, brunette, or redhead? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198 "2012-01-30T15:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/21 "2012-01-30T18:24:25Z")
I’m really surprised that blonde is so far behind in the poll. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Hmm I assumed they were (or could be considered) one and the same…? The thing about brunette is that it covers such a wide variety of colors, it’s almost useless as a classification. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/22 "2012-01-30T18:37:07Z")
Red hair doesn’t always work, but when it does, it works _very_ well. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/23 "2012-01-30T18:38:09Z")
Blondes have always grabbed my attention. My wife is a light brunette (or dark blonde), but I dig it when she takes to the bottle to lighten it even more. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/24 "2012-01-30T18:44:02Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Red hair doesn’t always work, but when it does, it works _very_ well. Well said. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/25 "2012-01-30T18:48:00Z")
In principle, redheads, and that’s what I answered in the poll. In practice, though, real redheads are rare enough that the hottest women tend to be brunettes, just because they have more opportunities for extreme outliers. Although, to be honest, I’ve also seen some women who look incredible as verdes, too. Though that’s generally pretty obviously not natural. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/26 "2012-01-30T19:42:03Z")
On the traditional 1 to 10 scale red hair adds 2-3 points. Natural of course. Currently I am dating a very pale natural blonde. Not a deal breaker. Been with mostly brunettes and married one. Of course red hair on a guy is just freaky ;). ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/27 "2012-01-30T20:03:16Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’m really surprised that blonde is so far behind in the poll. > > The thing about brunette is that it covers such a wide variety of colors, it’s almost useless as a classification. ```auto Always figured it a myth that gentlemen prefer blondes. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/28 "2012-01-30T20:06:36Z")
The correct answer is Yes. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/29 "2012-01-30T20:06:42Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’m really surprised that blonde is so far behind in the poll. Blondes have more fun, but brunettes have more sex. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/30 "2012-01-30T20:28:52Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Of course red hair on a guy is just freaky ;). Not true, I once had a luminously red-headed boyfriend and he was lovely. Also easy to find in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/31 "2012-01-30T20:32:34Z")
Don’t have a strong preference, although redheads catch my attention due to being uncommon. Obvious bleached blondes are a turnoff, but naturals (or well-done bleached) are fine. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/32 "2012-01-30T20:37:59Z")
It doesnt matter to me at all. My partner has naturally dark brown hair and often had it dyed blond. I like both of them. Hell, my own hair has been just about every color. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/33 "2012-01-30T20:38:13Z")
Brunette easily. Brunette women will be scores more attractive than a blonde woman (natural or otherwise) of the same body size/shape. Redhead women are so few and far between where I live that I really can’t even say how they stack up against blondes or brunettes. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/34 "2012-01-30T20:51:10Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Always figured it a myth that gentlemen prefer blondes. Don’t get me wrong – I love blondes, even if it’s a fake color. The most beautiful woman I ever met is blonde. I just got out of a meeting with a coworker, and I was thinking about this thread. She could conceivably be considered any of the three colors. I guess she’s a copper. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/35 "2012-01-30T20:53:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Yay! Brunettes lead over blondes! (Natural **very dark brunette** here. 🙂 ) I’ll say it then, how you doin’? I love dark haired women, the darker the better, though maybe not raven black. ---
**Author:** ![Gedd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gedd/32/4938_2.png) [@Gedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gedd)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/36 "2012-01-30T20:57:34Z")
Doesn’t matter much to me. My wife was a natural blonde but her hair turned light brown when she got pregnant with our first kid. A month after our son was born it went back to blonde. When she got pregnant a second time it went light brown again, and stuck there. To be honest I don’t spend a whole lot of time looking at her hair, I like other parts of her better 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/37 "2012-01-30T20:59:12Z")
So much of it depends on the hairstyle itself, and of coarse the woman standing under it. A page boy cut is really cute, but only in black, and especially on an Asian woman. Long straight fine hair is great in any color, but works best in blonde. It’s also amazingly sexy in blonde with black roots, which is a legitimate style now. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/38 "2012-01-30T21:04:24Z")
How do you translate “La nuit tous les chats sont gris”? Although it does work better with the feminine form. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/39 "2012-01-30T21:56:32Z")
As far as hair color, here’s my preference, from favorite to least: Black Brown Red Dirty Blonde Bald Platinum Blonde Of course the given person can make those change around a lot. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198/40 "2012-01-30T22:06:48Z")
Brunette is my preference. Works for my wife since she is one. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-guys-blonde-brunette-or-redhead/611198.md?page=3)