Fun Scientific Facts About Your Natural Hair Colour!

Redheads!

• Less than 2% of the world’s popular has red hair
• Redheads are more sensitive to pain
• Many redheads tend to be left-handed
• Redheads tend to have less body hair, but much thicker strands on their head.
• Redheads are less likely to go grey
• Despite plenty debate about this- redheads are not likely to go extinct.

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Blondes…

• Being naturally bloody is pretty rare…Just like redheads, only 2% in the world are natural blondes. 
• Blonde hair comes from a teeny-tiny genetic mutation
• Blondes aren’t blondes forever…Many kids born blonde go dark before their 20th birthday.
• Blonde hair and blue eyes is just a stereotype! 
• There are 50 shades of gray … and 30 shades of blonde.

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Brunettes!

• Brunettes will have a harder time quitting smoking!  The Brunette hair comes from Eumelanin, which is a type of pigment.  How much Eumelanin you have in your family DNA will determine how dark your hair is.
• With that, the more Eumelanin brunettes naturally have prevents their liver from metabolizing (or breaking down) nicotine in a timely manner.
• Men find brunettes more attractive and smarter than those with other hair colours.  There was a study done back in 2011 that proves these findings.
• Brunettes are more likely to suffer hair loss.
• Tattoos go better with brown hair.  A study found that people are more accepting of tats on Brunettes.

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