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).
Naturally-occurring blond hair is primarily found in people living in or descended from people who lived in the northern half of Europe, and may have evolved alongside the development of light skin that enables more efficient synthesis of vitamin D, due to northern Europe's lower levels of sunlight.
The highest percentages of fair-haired people can be found around the Baltic Sea (e.g. Denmark, the Polish coast and the Baltic states), making it in effect an almost entirely blonde-bounded lake. Only the German part of the Baltic coastline is remarkably un-blonde.
Blonde hair is most common in people of Northern European descent, so it's more common to see these colours in places like America or Europe. Additionally, it's more commonly found in some parts of Asia and many Pacific islands.
'Chestnut brown' is officially the most popular colour with a 206% increase in saves since last year.
TIL The rarest natural hair color in the world is red, with only 1-2% of the world population having natural red hair. Second is blond, with 3%, then brown/brunette, with 11%, and finally black with… You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
1 in 9 Brits are natural blondes, all thanks to Vikings, who “brought” blonde hair to Great Britain ages ago.
Ireland has the highest number of red-haired people per capita in the world, with the percentage of those with red hair at around 10%.
If you have a natural light shade of brown hair, going blonde should be a snap. The darker the skin and hair, the darker the blonde should be. Stunning brown-eyed blondes are very common in the unnatural world of hair coloring.
The Aborigines have dark skin. Some of them also have blonde hair which tends to be straight, but can be curly. Scientists first believed they were descendants of Eurasians.
There is a village in China called Liqian, in which two-thirds of all inhabitants today have green eyes and blonde hair. Green eyes and blonde hair are a rare combination. The high concentration of green-eyed, blond-haired people in Liqian is thought to be linked to their ancestry.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Red- or blonde-haired Vikings? Genetic research has shown that the Vikings in West Scandinavia, and therefore in Denmark, were mostly red-haired. However, in North Scandinavia, in the area around Stockholm, blonde hair was dominant.
Almost half (48%) of Brits are natural brunettes, around three in ten (29%) are natural blondes and 8% have natural black strands. Alex Fisher, Senior Beauty Analyst at Mintel, said: “As the majority of Brits have naturally darker hair, lightening their locks blonde is the nation's most obvious hair colour solution.
It turns out most Vikings weren't as fair-haired and blue-eyed as legend and pop culture have led people to believe. According to a new study on the DNA of over 400 Viking remains, most Vikings had dark hair and dark eyes.
Germany is almost exclusively blonde with the coastline along the Baltics somewhat darker-haired. Iceland is a very blonde nation, and so is Norway. There is a blonde section of northern Italy that is closer to Germany and the Slavic states.
'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.
#BLONDE! The contest for the most attractive hair colour is obviously won by the blonde color with 35% of the overall vote, followed by the brunette. The bronze goes to Pippi Longstocking (people 30 and above will understand ? ). And the fourth place is for black hair colour.
Green Eyes
There is an ongoing debate, wherein a group of people consider green to be the rarest colour while others say it has been dethroned by violet, red and grey eyes. Some of the factors responsible for causing green eyes include a lot of lipochromes, little melanin and the Rayleigh scattering of light.