Love a Redhead

• 60 percent of women who dye their hair do so at home. Of them 26 percent choose to go blonde, 27 percent go basic brunette, and 30 percent choose to become redheads. The sale of at home red dye kits has gone up 17 percent since the year 2000.
• Red hair is a genetic mutation.
• Red hair is seen on the heads of only 4 percent of people. Most of these exist in the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, and Australia.
• The highest percentage of natural redheads in the world is in Scotland (13%), followed closely by Ireland with 10%. In the US, about 2% of the population are natural redheads.
• There is a belief that redheads are prone to industrial deafness. This actually could be true as the melanocytes are found in the middle ear.
• The color Green tempers red. Look at a color chart. This is why redheads are taught as children to wear lots of green. As if red hair is a shameful state of being.
• In the early 1600’s, at the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the belief of Pixies (aka fairies) emerged in southwest England. They were then and have since been strongly associated with red hair for their mischievousness and otherworldly talents.
• A 2002 study found that redhead are harder to sedate than any other people requiring twenty percent more anesthesia. Inadequate doses cause people to wake up during surgery and have increased recall of procedures.
• Adults have about 120,000 hairs on their head; redheads have fewer, blondes have more, brunettes have the most.
• Harvard Dermatologist Madhu Pathak calls redheads "three-time losers" because their red pigment is an inadequate filter of sunlight and their skin is more susceptible to sunburn, skin cancer and wrinkling with age. Wear your sun block !!! We are not losers though.
• Red headedness is, genetically speaking, a recessive trait. It may appear after several generations of darker hair.
• Redheads don't turn grey. Red hair turned sandy, then white. They are also found to loose their color later in life than people carrying other hair colors.
• Adolph Hitler reportedly banned the marriages of two redheads as he feared their children would be “deviant offspring”.
• Bees are thought to sting redheads more than others.
• In Greek Mythology, redheads turn into Vampires when they die...COOL!
• Russian tradition declares that red hair is both a sign that a person holds a fiery temper and craziness.A Russian Proverb warns “There was never a saint with red hair.”
• Aristotle was known to believe that redheads were emotionally unhousebroken.
• A French Proverb states that “redheaded women are either violent or false, and usually are both.”
• Common Redhead stereotypes are: bad temper, sexual fire, untrustworthy, being smart and eccentric.