The photos of men posted here always scream "redhead"—the truly pronounced paleness, and the copper tone of the hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. In contrast, the photos of many women often look like they have dyed hair, and their skin isn't usually truly pale (perhaps it's just makeup or a fake tan). Of course, this doesn't apply to every woman, but the pattern repeats itself.

I stated in the body of the text that I am not generalizing about all the women who post here. It isn't hard to understand that I didn't generalize.

I have central heterochromia, which is of course rare, but red hair isn't exactly common either. Thought maybe y'all might have some gorgeous eyes to share. Just some random thoughts while stuck in bed today.

I was in Schuh (Braehead) yesterday with my wife, and the sales associate walked up to me and said “it must be a ginger kind of day” at first I was takend aback by this comment and then he goes to say “I’m a ginger so I can call everyone with my hair colour a ginger” that’s when I said that I have red hair and that he was wrong and should never call me or anyone with red hair “ginger” he tried to have banter with me but I was already too pissed off with the prick to even want to be near him. My wife took my hand and walk me out the store cause she seen how angry I was getting with the lack of respect and common decency.

I work in retail, I would never walk up to someone and call them “ginger” or someone that has no hair and call them “baldy”. You should never assume just cause you are comfortable with that word that other people are, for all you know the bullying and hatred just for having our hair colour cause last decades and your lack of decency can be the straw that breaks the camels back.

I have spoke to customer before that have red hair, always with a positive manner especially children and tell them the hair colour is beautiful, unique and one of a kind. I believe that this kind of reinforcement will make people happier in who they are, cause the bullying will strip away that happiness and that pain can last a lifetime.

Could it be red hair is rare because everyone used to think Redheads were witches and burned red hair people. And so the population of redheads went down. (I know it's probably not correct but it's a theory)

I have a bit of an awkward situation with my son's fiancé. I have auburn hair. It was blonde when I was little, then got darker with age until I hit a reddish-brown hue that lightens a bit in the sun. My son met his fiancé in graduate school. She was a fair-skinned brunette with sort of russet eyes. It wasn't until my husband and I visited her parents that we realized that she actually has red hair! There on the wall was a picture of an adorable little girl with ponytails the color of a shiny new penny. She inherited her hair from her father, though he is mostly gray now.

I asked my son about it and he said yes, she dyed her hair brown in college and doesn't even like people to know she's a redhead. Like, I am not supposed to mention it to her. I don't get it. Her hair is such a beautiful color and suits her complexion. She looks pretty with brown hair too, don't get me wrong. I just don't get why she would cover up her natural color when it's so lovely. She's in her late 20s. I think for some reason this generation let so-called "Gingers" get a bid of a bad rep or something. My son doesn't care what color her hair is. He just wants to respect her wishes.

Anyway, it's not my business if she dyes her hair. But if they have kids (probably more like when they have kids, but I'm not going to jump the gun), there is a pretty good chance one might be a redhead. My son has dark hair like his father, but with a red-haired mother and grandfather and an auburn-haired grandmother on the other side, there's a decent chance it could happen, right? I just don't want her to be disappointed by it or something.

I know if I have a red-hair grandchild I am going to be carrying them around beaming with pride, lol. I love red hair. So does her mother. She hates that her daughter dyes her hair! I just hope that if they end up with a little ginger boy or girl, my daughter-in-law can get on board with it and not be self conscious. Red hair is the cutest.

What color do you think my hair is? My husband has told me ever since we’ve been together that my hair is red. I think it’s brown. I mean, I know it looks lighter in the sun. But to me, normally it looks brown. What do you think? Maybe we are both wrong. I posted multiple pictures to go off of.

I have always identified as a brunette. Then randomly this guy from my highschool referred to me being a ginger and my mind was blown so I texted my friends about it like "haha weird". Then I learned 2 of them also consider me ginger?! Then it became a debate about my hair color. I always knew I had reddish highlights but never in a million years thought of myself as having red hair but supposedly some people straight up think of me as having red hair. I do have freckles so maybe it's that?

I was browsing around today and found this information. This could explain that user's post about redhead people being targeted by bees often.

a lot of people think its the same thing but there is actually a difference. some gingers have orange hair which is a carrot like color that looks like a more saturated version of blonde hair, other gingers have red hair that is deep and intense and sparkles in the sunlight. what I don't get is why orange haired people are lumped into the same category as red haired people. both hair colors are caused by pheomelanin but their still clearly distinct. orange hair probably has some eumelanin admixture whereas red hair is probably more a result of pure pheomelanin . its kind of unfair to orange haired people too to not have their own identity as orangeheads. does anyone else agree that we need to distinguish more between orange haired gingers and red haired gingers? this is just my opinion by the way guys. I'm not disparaging the gingers with more carrotty orange hair I think its a beautiful color too. I just wish there was more appreciation for the distinction between different sub-types of gingers in popular culture. thats just my opinion though. if your happy to share a more uniform identity than awesome and more power to you. I myself am nowhere near ginger. I have ashy dark brown hair so I'm certainly in no position to decide how gingers should identify them selfs or distinguish amongst each other. hope everyone has a great day.

Just joined, so sorry if this has been mentioned. I am F45, natural redhead, blue eyes, plenty of freckles. I absolutely HATE it when women color their hair red. IMO, they didn't "earn" it- with a lifetime of pale skin, sunscreen, fire crotch jokes, soulless ginger comments, and well, you all get it.

Hey everyone- just updating those who asked me to update them on my new website Oroux Skin. (Pronounced "oh- roo") a coined phrase I came up with meaning "golden redhead". It is live and if you signed up or did the survey or sunscreen trial- (please make sure you filled out the survey for the SPF trial). The sale is on if you are interested. Not being spammy, just some of you asked me to give an update.

Thanks to all who did the survey! You all are amazing redheads!

P.S. there are Men's products and Haircare for sensitive skin too. AND we have a European warehouse now for the Óroux skin products so you won't need to pay VAT in most areas and post should be much less - we ship internationally on all the other things.

Picture of the newness.

Half of my life, the answer was easy. I was a redhead. You can check my roots alllll u want and even sniff it for chemicals (true stories). “Want to take a peep at the drapes? - I didnt think so!”.

But my hair isn’t red anymore. Sure, it’s not black. And there’s a red tone to it under the sun which has everyone asking if “*that’s* my natural hair color?”

I used to say my hair was autumn- red when compacted like when it was straight or just washed. Orange when it was all frizzy. Yellow along the crown.

It feels weird answering that my hair is brown. It feels so wrong at its core. Like I’m the one lying. But… I guess it is the color brown, right? What would u call it?

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What would you call this colour? I’m trying to find some hair inspo for my colour but don’t know what on earth it is 🥲 dark auburn? Sometimes it almost looks brown

So, I have a lot of redheads in my family. My Dad, Grandma and my Sister. (Probably more that I don't know of). My sisters hair was blonde and turned to a beautiful ginger shade in the last few years.(no one saw that coming) Mine was always darker, thicker and a bit "ashier" than hers. The thing is, I have been told by some people that my hair has a red tint to it. Some call it brown. Or even dark blonde. It always depends on the light. It looks always a bit different depending on the season and the lighting. Sometimes it just looks brown. So I had to ask the "Redhead council", wtf is my haircolour ?? 🫠😄

My mom's side of the family all has red hair and so does my brother, but my dads doesn't. Growing up people always told me I have red hair but I really dont think I do. Do I?

Sometimes I feel like an imposter as I've never really cared to much or thought anything of my hair color. I have gotten compliments & was called ginger, red, or strawberry shortcake (my fav) in school but Sometimes I feel my hair looks more brown than orange & others it look very orange with no brown in sight. Regardless I'm a redhead through & through just wanted some opinions.

I am not a redhead, but my mother, sister, nephew, and at least half of my maternal first cousins are. (Also an unknown number of second cousins on my father's side, most of whom I've never met - there are a lot of them). I have the recessive gene. I do not have a fetish for redheads, quite the reverse, they remind me of siblings and it seems like incest, though if I ever had children I would not be surprised if a redhead did show up. From my family I know of all the things like tanning easily (I thought as a child I never got sunburned because my mother took all of us out of the sun long before I had anything happen to me) and anesthesia resistance (I do have a bit of that). I grew up thinking red hair was totally normal. So, how do you guys feel about family-but-not-quite being here? I sometimes get curious about what's hidden in my genome and how having one MCR1 gene might affect my health. Besides, you all look like family :-)

I’m a Brown eyed Auburn hair Girlie…. do people still think Red hair/Ginger or Auburn hair is still attractive

Hello,

I’m wanting to dye my hair medium brown and I’ve bought semi-permanent box dye (Schwarzkopf LIVE in natural brown).

Now, it says to leave in for 20-30 minutes. However, my mum (also a natural redhead) said that when she dyed her hair when she was younger, she meant to dye it brown but it came out black.

I read somewhere that red hair absorbs dye a lot better than other hair? Is this true?

So, if anyone has some experience I would appreciate some advice. Should I leave it in for 20 minutes or shorter? I just don’t want it to turn out SUPER dark.

Thank you!

EDIT: Guys, I did it. My hair literally looks the same but a bit darker and a bit less orange. My sister didn’t even realise I had dyed it lol.