The Irish are generally considered to have a fair complexion.
Having typically Irish skin - fair, pale and more likely sensitive than not - is wonderful when it's in good nick, but if you're experiencing skin troubles or just wondering how to manage your porcelain complexion as you age, this is what you need to know.
A large proportion of Irish skin tones are described as pink or 'cool', while a large percentage of the world's skintones have yellow or 'warm' undertones.
Celtic skin is pale, freckly, sensitive and easily damaged by sun and the ravages of winter weather. People with Celtic skin have blue/grey/green eyes, pale skin, blondish/reddish hair, and skin that burns and peels easily.
Irish people are known for pointy and angular features, characterized by strong-looking jaws and chins, deep-set eyes, and pronounced cheekbones. They also tend to have slick oval heads as well as long and tall pointed noses.
The Irish are generally considered to have a fair complexion.
The findings illustrated that 45% of Irish women described their body type as a pear. 9% of respondents described their body shape as double cherry which is also known as hourglass. 9.4% voted their body type as strawberry while 16.4% said their body was shaped like rhubarb.
The rarest skin color in the world is believed to be the white from albinism, a genetic mutation that causes a lack of melanin production in the human body. Albinism affects 1 in every 3,000 to 20,000 people. What is this? People with albinism usually have very pale or colorless skin, hair, and eyes.
The Celtic peoples have historically lived across mainland Europe stretching from Swizerland and Turkey in the east to Britain and Ireland In the west. They can be defined by multiple physical characteristics such as red hair, blue and green eyes, tartan clothing, and prominent statures.
However, historians have found evidence that among the ancient Celts, blue and green eyes were common, while brown eyes were less common and perceived as exotic. Blue eyes often have yellow, gold, grey, or hazel flecks in them. Green eyes tend to be a more olive green, which can range from yellow-green to blue-green.
In fact, in Ireland and Scotland, more than three-fourths of the population has blue or green eyes – 86 percent! Many factors go into having green eyes. Sixteen separate genes have been identified as contributing to eye color.
More than half the population of Ireland have blue eyes, according to a new study. That figure is higher than any other country on the Irish and British isles. The research was carried out in 2014 by ScotlandsDNA and also revealed that blue is the most common eye colour on the two islands.
Blushing Is Genetic
"People of Celtic and Eastern European descent are most prone to blushing and flushing," says Whitney Bowe, M.D., professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai.
Irish people usually have brown hair. A small percentage has either blonde red or black hair.
Red hair is common in Scottish, Irish, and (to a lesser degree) Welsh people; in fact, the origin of this bright, coppery hair color may come from the ancient Picts, who ruled Scotland when it was called Caledonia…
Ireland's national colour is green, we'll all aware of that. But some of you may not be aware that - historically - it was actually blue. In fact, blue is still one of the official national colours of Ireland today, but you don't see much of it flying around on the most Irish day of the year, do you?
The modern Irish usually have light features – pale blue or green eyes, reddish or brown hair and fair skin with freckles.
Other traits far more prevalent among people of Celtic ancestry include lactase persistence and red hair, with 46% of Irish and at least 36% of Highland Scots being carriers of red-head variants of the MC1R gene, possibly an adaptation to the cloudy weather of the areas where they live.
The traits of loyalty, family pride, eagerness to fight, and self-sustainability are enduring traits that can be applied to the today's descendants of the Scots-Irish settlers. They are the men and women in rural areas, the soldiers, the hunters, the conservatives, the frugal, and the self-sustaining.
Researchers have found that men are subconsciously attracted to fairer skin due to its association with purity, innocence, modesty and goodness, while women feel that darker complexions are associated with sex, virility and danger.
According to an article by evolutionary biology professor Mark Elgar, PhD, of the University of Melbourne, blue-eyed redheads are the absolute rarest, with 0.17% of the population having that combination of hair and eye color.
Those with pink skintones are typically pale skintones, from English or Celtic ancestry- the so-called "English Rose Complexion".
HG1Many different genes are responsible for producing what are considered typical Irish physical traits: curly hair, freckles, faces only a mother could love, etc. But it is suspected that a master gene located on chromosome 7 may be responsible for arranging the overall Irish "look".
Genetics. Haplogroup R1b is the dominant haplogroup among Irish males, reaching a frequency of almost 80%. R-L21 is the dominant subclade within Ireland, reaching a frequency of 65%. This subclade is also dominant in Scotland, Wales and Brittany and descends from a common ancestor who lived in about 2,500 BC.