Red Heads/ Auburn/ Strawberry Blonde/ Whatever...

of course there is a difference between red hair and ginger hair....the latter people often get called 'yeasts' here.

(before long the whole human race will be brown/brown anyway)

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Rick Astley to thread!!

Why none of this applies for men, I don't know. Is it just me, or are there people who find red haired men extra attractive?

Betty and Veronica were always chasing Archie, so I guess they did.

the pale skin! that goes with it.
i dunno, 90% of the girls i dated were redheads. i almost started a support group.

Mind you, I was actually referred to as blond in Sweden, of all places, so maybe I'm not ginger at all. For shame.

My mum's a natural redhead, but that gene being what it is it skipped me, so I just got the pale freckly skin and mousey hair instead.

I've currently gone back to firey dyed red (varies from Miki Berenyi colour to a more natural reddish/auburn shade) after years of black hair. Dyed red hair - dyed a bright firey red or a deeeeeep burgungy - looks hot as. I like having red hair :)

I know what people like ali are getting at though - think of someone like Janet Frame (the writer).

However, it is a bit odd when people tell you they have a thing for red heads. What about the rest of me? Love me for myself alone and not my orange hair.
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(I am sure people of all hair colours have this problem.

the pale skin! that goes with it.

ding! ding! ding!

I think the pale skin can be rather ill-looking at times.

Reading what Anna said about wanting people to love her for herself and not her hair. I've wondered this too. After all, it's only hair.

Sometimes I think that if I want to have a major change of who I am I will have to chop off all of my hair. People see my hair before they see me. But look inside I'm not just hair.

Oddly, I don't have freckles on, for example, my stomach, or very badly on my face - why is that?

Having said that, I know I will meet at least ten of them this week.

Although everything I said above still stands.

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im of sicilian & venezuelan / ukranian descent, so i dont have a lot of freckles. i can get tan in the summer but im not outdoors enough so that i look super bizarre.

one day i hope to find an attractive red haired fellow [there's lots of redheaded guys but many of them are that ugly-cute pale freckly kind] and have more ugly-cute redheaded children. if not, ill settle for a blonde.

I hate freckles, I have them all over my back like horrible tribal scars of bad sunburns past and I wish they'd go away, but they won't.

they're probably nothing, but you might want to see a dermatologist at some point to get them checked out

I keep Garnier in business.

hmmmmm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6725653.stm

bbc finally catches up with south park

freaky (in the good way)
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43014000/jpg/_43014529_big_203.jpg

Christ, British people are fucking weird.

for real. four redheads in my family (if you count me up until about the age of 12) and nobody ever got hassled for it.

" If you are a woman you are fiery and alluring, beautiful."

Yes yes. My partner lives up to every cliche about redheads. She even threw my clothes out on the street yesterday! Then today she beat me at pool - again. Gawd I love her, I will never leave my psychotically sexy siren.

He was shouting 'do the cuffs and the collars match?'

I HATE this. I hate it so much. Why are men so obsessed with the pubic hair of red-headed women?

My partner lives up to every cliche about redheads. She even threw my clothes out on the street yesterday! Then today she beat me at pool - again. Gawd I love her, I will never leave my psychotically sexy siren.

Everyone I've ever been out with suddenly starts to find this joke funnier:
How do you cheer up a deprssed redhead? Wait half an hour.
How do you make a happy redhead angry? Wait half an hour.

Amber (I'm not posting another picture), redhead,

1) Has never had any "ginger" hatorx.
2) Is a calm, rational girl, tenacious to the point of surprising people who ever get into negotiations with her.

"cuffs and collars" is one i haven't heard... when i was a redhead i used to get: "does the carpet match the drapes?". classy.

red=classic. i used to get random peoples (men and women) asking if it was my natural colour and telling me how beautiful it was (it's not my natural colour, and yes, i be vain).

freckles=meh. mine aren't noticeable till i've been out in the sun. then i start looking like i've got some kind of mold on my face.

Proper strawberry-blonde hair is automatic and total off-the-scale hottness in all but the most extreme cases.

Red hair is just hott.

How do you cheer up a deprssed redhead? Wait half an hour.
How do you make a happy redhead angry? Wait half an hour.

-- Anna

That made my partner laugh, then she said 'You're all rotten'.

That red-haired girl dancing to 'Harder Better Faster Stronger' on youtube to thread.

Proper strawberry-blonde hair is automatic and total off-the-scale hottness in all but the most extreme cases.

dingdingdingding!

redhead hate in the uk is the weirdest and most inexplicable (in 2007) thing ever. i mean, i can sort of understand it being somehow archaically tied in to anti-Irish/Gaelic/Celtic feeling of old, but really? Now? WTF?

I suspect also, the disdain has something to do with other physical attributes redheads often display - namely frizzy/unmanageable hair, translucent skin ("ginger skin" as i've heard it called!), freckles, blah.

Me? I fucking loves it.

Redheads have their own website:

http://www.redandproud.com

redhead hate in the uk is the weirdest and most inexplicable (in 2007) thing ever

Esp. as there's more of them here than in any other country in the world

kiwis be loving teh red!!

i got told: "you just don't see reds these days"
kiwi redheads=as rare as actual kiwis

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kiwi redheads=as rare as actual kiwis

I thought there were lots of Scottish ancestry in NZ?

Esp. as there's more of them here than in any other country in the world

surely that makes the hate more 'understandable'

Hmmmm, yes, maybe

the scottish ancestry is mostly in the South Island, and i live in the North Island.

but i think i have english, scottish and irish great great great grandparents... we're mongrels

someone needs to write a story called "the red-headed frenchman"

(xpost) Actually I used to work with girl from NZ who was about the reddest redhead imaginable

someone needs to write a story called "the red-headed frenchman"

I remember seeing a documentary about red hair that said Scotland had the highest %age of redheads - something like 12% - while France had 0.2%!

i have dyed my red hair blonde(r) this weekend

i am not moodswingy and psychotic, i am zen master, ask anyone

i used to get teased for it, not any more now i mostly hang out with people over the age of 20

Most of the anti-ginger teasing I experienced when I was younger seemed to have died down until South Park brought it back a couple of years ago. It is pretty stupid to compare anti-gingerism to racism, you really just need to think of it like other forms of bullying.

My dad always used to say to me "you're very lucky, lots of women dye their hair to make it your colour". That is a lie, though - no-one really dyes their hair ginger except by accident.

I think when I was younger I really wished I had different hair, and I used to dye it brown or purple, but then people would always make fun of it when my ginger roots came through. Now I have gone to the opposite extreme of really loving my hair, and being scared that it will lose its gingerness.

This anti-redhead stuff is very strange to me. Tons of women dye their hair red over here! I was thinking of doing so but mine is so thick and dark, it's just not worth the trouble to me.

My guy was red when he was younger. Now his hair's a sandy brown but his beard's still red.

My dad always used to say to me "you're very lucky, lots of women dye their hair to make it your colour". That is a lie, though - no-one really dyes their hair ginger except by accident.

Yeah, my parents used to say this to me all the time as well, but only when I wanted to dye my hair. Red heads aren't so victimized in Ireland as they are in Britain. I worry now that my hair will stop being so red and become slightly brownish like my brother's. That would be awful.

I remember seeing a documentary about red hair that said Scotland had the highest %age of redheads - something like 12% - while France had 0.2%!

A fellow (slightly obsessive) red head I met in America said that the percentage there was quite high also, maybe 8 or 9 percent, but that's not surprising given the ancestry of a lot of white Americans.

According to Wikipedia, percentage in USA is 2 to 6% - bit inexact, no? Obv. Scotland and Ireland has most, then Wales, but I suspect England has a lot...

This anti-redhead stuff is very strange to me. Tons of women dye their hair red over here!

as mentioned - red, yes. actual ginger ginger though? unlikely...(again, no idea why, but there we go)

I only have ginger hair on my chin for some reason, but I have pale skin & freckles so I suppose I have super-recessive gingerness? Irish great-grandparents to blame perhaps. I have no idea as never met any Irish relatives. I think they disowned my granny when she married my grandad.

Proper order. Bloody grandads. Taking our women, etc.

k-classic

Ah recessive gingerness!

Scotland = 40%(!)
Ireland = 35%

my mom has strawberry-blond hair and yes she is hot. she got teased pretty badly as a kid but that was in small-town ontario in the 50s

my brothers and i do not have red hair, though the blond brother grows a mean red beard. i'm hoping it's just skipped a generation and we'll all have red-haired babies

at the catholic school i went to, you'd get maybe 4-5 redheads out of 180 pupils per year maybe.

Auburn, Strawberry blond, Venetian blond, Redhead, Freckles - all good.

Last night I tried to post an epic rant here about how DUD DUD DUD this is and how I am honestly quite bummed out about the cheerfulness on this thread because maybe now I'll have to accept there are other reasons I get spat on and shouted at, not just by teenagers but by adult strangers who stop and tell me how ugly I am, all earnest like they sincerely believe I might not have noticed and might otherwise have been allowed to walk across the street without feeling bad about myself and that would just be the END, but apparently ILX now has an emo filter which must've kicked in and stopped me posting or reading for the rest of the evening, so I'll just say this:

Once in Co. Down there were 5 of us in a room of 8 people. It felt like I'd come home. I don't see many walking round in Belfast though but I guess we get used to hiding indoors.

(I think it was Philip K Dick who wrote that red-haired women were either really hot or hideous. Thanks, Phil, you bastard. You might even be right.)

Where the hell do you live that adults would stop you and tell you you were ugly?!? Oh wait, Belfast. Remind me never to visit. ;)

I get spat on and shouted at, not just by teenagers but by adult strangers who stop and tell me how ugly I am

that makes me so sad! it kind of makes me want to get together a red-haired army, to come to the rescue of any poor ginger who's being abused.

http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/V/T/spep_912_ginger_kids.jpg

OMG redheads are the worlds' hottestest people. I don't care how homely a man is, the red HAIRs factor makes the "owOOga!" for me.

My dad prayed before each of my bros & sisses & I were born that we wouldn't be redheads! And it didn't happen. FUCK YOU DAD AND YOUR STUPID PRAYERS THAT SPOIL THE WORLD'S BEAUTY.

Red hair and freckles thppt

(before long the whole human race will be brown/brown anyway)

-- Millar (Millar), Saturday, March 22, 2003 5:26 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

day of hilarious thread revivals!!!

Ned Vaughn-red is the perfect red.

redheads=hottest ever.

I'll always have paintbox red hair in some form, even if its just my fringe as it is right now.

firecrotch = dag son

simply scrumptious

way to ruin redhair forever, wrink p.

Red hair here. Natural from birth, a sort of strawberry blonde that darkened as I got older. Then it started going gray. Still have red hair, though... I just have a colorist to thank for it. ;D

The red hair was never a problem for me. The fact that it's thick and naturally curly/unruly: That was a problem. But more so, the problem is the fair skin, especially down here in the South. I've never tanned, to speak of, just burned and peeled. Now I don't even burn. If I get too much sun exposure, I break out into a maddeningly itchy and not very beautiful rash. *sigh*

Doomed to live indoors. Oh well, at least this is where the air conditioning is.