BLONDE FACT #1: NATURAL BLONDE HAIR IS ACTUALLY PRETTY UNCOMMON. Would you believe that only 2% of the world's population is naturally blonde? Crikey! The UK has one of the highest rates of naturally blonde hair in the world.
True blonde is also a rare hair color, and the Daily Mail reports that only 12.7 percent of women have pure blonde hair, and only 9.9 percent of men do. Surprisingly, many of the genetic differences identified by the researchers correlated with factors other than pigmentation like hair texture and growth.
Because blond hair tends to turn brown with age, natural blond hair is significantly less common in adulthood; according to the sociologist Christie Davies, only around five percent of adults in Europe and North America are naturally blond.
Only 2 percent of the world's population has naturally blond hair.
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Blondes aren't blondes forever. (Naturally, at least.) Many kids born with light hair go dark before their tenth birthday, thanks to rising levels of eumelanin, a natural pigment that regulates the darkness of hair strands.
You may have heard that naturally blonde hair is thinner than other color hair. It's actually a scientific fact that blonde hair is thinner. While non-blonde hair tends to have a scalp density of around 100,000 strands of hair, blonde hair averages at about 140,000 strands of hair… that's a big difference.
Yes, natural blonde curly hair is rare. Only 2% of the population have this special trait.
Finland. The people of Finland have one of the highest concentrations of blond hair in the world. In large portions of Finland, 80% of the population has blond hair (and a full 89% of the population has blue eyes).
Some sources, such as Eupedia, claim that in central parts of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, 80% of the population is blonde, with natural fair-haired people in other Baltic Countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and other parts of Scandinavia) making up 50-79% of the population.
Caucasian blondes are usually slightly higher in oestrogen than brunettes and are likely to exhibit other infantile sexually selected traits (indicating low levels of testosterone) that are considered desirable by males, for example finer facial features, smaller nose, smaller jaw, pointed chin, narrow shoulders, ...
Blonds get white hair just like brunets, but some blondes only appear to get a lighter blond while others experience their blonde hairs getting darker and duller as the white hairs begin to appear. Still, blondes can, over time, have a full head of white hair.
On the surface, the main differences between a coloured blonde and a natural blonde lie in the the colour of the hair's roots, the shade of blonde, as well as the shine and texture of the hair.
How common is strawberry blonde hair? Having natural red hair is rare (like, two percent of the population rare), so coming across someone with natural strawberry blonde hair isn't common.
Stunning brown-eyed blondes are very common in the unnatural world of hair coloring. A few examples are Jennifer Love Hewitt, Katherine Heigl and Ryan Reynolds. In the natural world of genetics the brown-eyed blonde rarely gets to keep their blond locks past the age of 10 years old without artificial means.
Blonde and blond essentially mean the same thing. It's just that in French, blond is the masculine form, both as a noun and adjective; adding the E makes it feminine. So, a woman with blond hair is une blonde, a man, un blond.
Caption Options. Let's remember blonde hair is not owned by any one demographic or race. In fact, natural blonde hair can be found within Black communities. For instance, in Melanesia, a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, blonde hair and dark skin is indigenous.
The rarest natural hair colour is red, which makes up only one to two percent of the global population. You commonly see these hair colours in western and northern areas of Europe, especially Scotland and Ireland. However, natural redheads may not exist for much longer.
The reason for this change is because the amount of eumelanin in your hair increases as you mature, according to some research.
The same study showed that Asian (East and West) hair shape is also mostly straight (46.7%) or wavy (41.3%), with some curly hair (12%) (n = 92). However, African hair shape is mostly curly (94.9%), with some wavy hair (5.1%) (n = 39).
We believe one of the reasons is that super-straight hair — also known as type 1a hair — is so rare. In fact, it's the rarest hair type. Only 2% of the world's population has 1a hair.
'It's extremely rare for people to have hair that is naturally a strawberry blonde color. Basically, strawberry blonde is mostly based on red tones, with blonde highlights dotted here and there. It takes its name from the Italian renaissance.
“In 2023, the 'ash blonde' is going to be less relevant and we are going to be seeing more gold and honey tones,” he says of the bright baby blonde look.
Blonde is Crowned the Sexiest Hair Colour of 2021!
The second sexiest hair colour is brunette, as more than three quarters of people (28.5%) voted this shade.
The darker your natural hair is, the thicker it's likely to be. Brown and black hair generally have thick hair strands. Conversely, your hair is less dense than that of blonde-haired people. According to research, the melanin in dark hair contributes to its thickness.