[LMB] OT: AKICOTL: Hair color and perceptions of it.

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Sylvus Tarn" <sylvus at rejiquar.com>
> Your detested strawberry blonde is someone with red and a very little
> black pigment (e.g. blond), so it does make sense.
>
no no, its not the color we detest but the in-acurate name.   my sister says 
the name is as bad as "carrots" and insists on being red-blond.   (she read 
anne of avonlea and fell in love with the scene where anne breaks her slate 
over a boys head for that very word :)  )

speaking of adjectives, is titian a light or dark or coppery red?

> Red hair, which is the rarest of colors (and, not surprisingly, a
> recessive) is the red pigment only.  Until the advent of
> outside-your-village travel, this allele was found pretty much only in
> celtic lands,
>
not so much rare as a european aversion to red hair, and refusal to marry 
one.  when my new-york born very redhaired mom got old enough to date, her 
Czech red-haired mom advised her to die her hair, bec. how can a 'ginger 
hair' get married?  she did, though :)
and her two other siblings were blond and black haired.  go figure.

> More factoids (which I know you specifically didn't ask for, but I
> thought interesting) is that redheads have the fewest nos. of hairs on
> their heads, at about 90k or so.  I think the number tops out at 120k or
> so.
> sylvus tarn
>
having a read haired husband and two sons, and one blond son, i can 
confidently say, based on this oh-so-wide survey, that red heads have fewer 
hairs per inch than other colors.  when the boys get their summer 
short-short haircuts, you can see the scalp through their hair, but not the 
blond.  not the dark haired cousins, either.

which means that when only a few hairs fall out, red-heads have a fast case 
of receding hairline :(

ziviya 



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