Do you have red/reddish hair in head being not redhead?

[gold_fenix]

Well in my case untill 3 years I had reddish brown hair hair and in the beard i have some reddish hair but now I have very dark hair

[Beorn]

Do you have red/reddish hair in head being not redhead?

I think so...?

Nah, I have a family history of gingervitus and shine like a true Pict Warlord in the dying embers of the winter sun.

[PerpetualBurn]

My beard has noticeable tints of red in it.

[Logan]

Not that I ever noticed, more a light brown.:coffee:

[Money Shot]

The hair on my face and head is dark with some greying. Well white.


My body hair is much finer and ginger. I don't appear to have as much hair as I do since it is so fine and reddish.

[jerney]

Yes, I have a ton of red highlights in my hair. Blonde hair dye usually won't stick to my hair because of all the reddish tones and it turns the blonde to a coppery color instead. Oddly enough, I also have a ton of blonde highlights in my hair.

[Allenson]

Yes, my head hair has some red tones to it and my beard is very red, though I'm not a true redhead...

[SaxonCeorl]

My beard has a slight reddishness to it. Maybe I should start saying I have strawberry blonde facial hair. That would sound manly.

[Boudica]

Yes, my hair gets a bit of a reddish tint in the late fall/winter, it turns my hair to a chestnut looking color..

[Queen B]

Yes. My hair are brown, but have a reddish shade.

[bluesky]

only on some parts of my head they are like reddish they even may appear goldenred/copperish if that color now exists :D but in the sun it looks pred. brown and a little bit reddish

[Tabiti]

Yes, I can spot some "copper" hints on my very dark chestnut hair.

[rhiannon]

I was a strawberry blonde as a child. As I got older, my hair became more golden-blonde....which is only possible when there is red in the hair.

[Laudanum]

Nope..

[larali]

I am SO confused about this. I have brown hair. But it has definite reddish tones, just like my mom's does, and my two daughters. It looks auburn in the sun, and when I dye it blonde it turns bright red. Neither of my sisters' hair does that. So I'd say yeah, I have red undertones, But when I got genetically tested, it told me I have "typical" chances for red hair, i.e., no red hair gene. So it would be great if somebody could explain that to me.

[Anthropologique]

Strawberry blond as a child, now dark auburn.

[Artek]

I had reddish hair as a child, but now they are dark brown.

[Tarja]

It's common for men all over the UK to have red flecks in their beards, even if they aren't red-headed. As for me, I'm one of probably very few Scots with neither any sort of red tint to my hair nor a single ginger in my family. :D My Dad's beard (if he ever let's it grow in, which is seldom) doesn't have any red to it, actually. He is an atypical specimen!

[Fortis in Arduis]

It's common for men all over the UK to have red flecks in their beards, even if they aren't red-headed. As for me, I'm one of probably very few Scots with neither any sort of red tint to my hair nor a single ginger in my family. :D My Dad's beard (if he ever let's it grow in, which is seldom) doesn't have any red to it, actually. He is an atypical specimen!

I was going to say there are two main types of pigments:


HideGenetics and biochemistry of hair color

See also: Human genetic variation, Race and genetics,and Human genetic clustering
Two types of pigment give hair its color: eumelanin and pheomelanin. Pheomelanin colors hair red. Eumelanin, which has two subtypes of black or brown, determines the darkness of the hair color. A low concentration of brown eumelanin results in blond hair, whereas a higher concentration of brown eumelanin will color the hair brown. High amounts of black eumelanin result in black hair, while low concentrations give gray hair. All humans have some pheomelanin in their hair.

Pheomelanin is more chemically stable than black eumelanin, but less chemically stable than brown eumelanin, so it breaks down more slowly when oxidized. This is why bleach gives darker hair a reddish tinge during the artificial coloring process. As the pheomelanin continues to break down, the hair will gradually become orange, then yellow, and finally white.

The genetics of hair colors are not yet firmly established. According to one theory, at least two gene pairs control human hair color.

One phenotype (brown/blond) has a dominant brown allele and a recessive blond allele. A person with a brown allele will have brown hair; a person with no brown alleles will be blond. This explains why two brown-haired parents can produce a blond-haired child.

The other gene pair is a non-red/red pair, where the not-red allele (which suppresses production of pheomelanin) is dominant and the allele for red hair is recessive. A person with two copies of the red-haired allele will have red hair, but it will be either auburn or bright reddish orange depending on whether the first gene pair gives brown or blond hair, respectively.

The two-gene model does not account for all possible shades of brown, blond, or red (for example, platinum blond versus dark blonde/light brown), nor does it explain why hair color sometimes darkens as a person ages. Several gene pairs control the light versus dark hair color in a cumulative effect. A person's genotype for a multifactorial trait can interact with environment to produce varying phenotypes (see quantitative trait locus).



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_hair_color

Pheomelanin is what you don't have.

I have a fair amount which is why my hair needs lots of ash toners if it is lightened with peroxide.

So yes I'm a red pheomelanin brown haired guy, rather than an ashy brown with no pheomelanin.

[Barreldriver]

Depending on how the light hits my hair it shows a bit of a reddish undertone, more oft than not though it just shows dark brown.

[Germanicus]

Depending on how the light hits my hair it shows a bit of a reddish undertone, more oft than not though it just shows dark brown.

Ditto.

[The Alchemist]

Yes, unfortunately i've got some red in my hair and i really dislike it, so i paint it in ash!!!!!! I like every hair colors, except red :|

[Lithium]

My beard and body hair are ginger. I guess thats normal because I have 3 redheads in my family :D

[d3cimat3d]

I had dark red hair as a kid. Now all I have is some freckles and very bright red armpit, leg & beard hair. :D

[AussieScott]

I have brown hair with blond and red tinges.

My Beard is weird, my moe is blond and ginger, under my lower lip it's blond, then there is red tinge through all the brown. From the edge of my moe along the cheeks to my side burns it has red, blond and ginger.

[billErobreren]

no I'm naturally an ash blonde a total opposite of a red head or a strawberry blonde :D but fortunately my eyebrows went from see through to a warm yellow maybe one day they'll be orangey

[Daos]

I have chestnut hair, but under direct sunlight it looks auburn. I do have red hairs in my beard though, but I also have black, brown, blond and white hair in it.:p

[Caeruleus]

I have chestnut hair, but under direct sunlight it looks auburn. I do have red hairs in my beard though, but I also have black, brown, blond and white hair in it.:p

quite the rainbow I must say :D:thumb001:

[Daos]

quite the rainbow I must say :D:thumb001:

Most are brown, so it's not really noticeable, unless you are standing much to close to me - in which case I might punch you... http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/m/matrixfight.gif

[lI]

I am SO confused about this. I have brown hair. But it has definite reddish tones, just like my mom's does, and my two daughters. It looks auburn in the sun, and when I dye it blonde it turns bright red. Neither of my sisters' hair does that. So I'd say yeah, I have red undertones, But when I got genetically tested, it told me I have "typical" chances for red hair, i.e., no red hair gene. So it would be great if somebody could explain that to me.
You might have some of the other red hair genes that aren't mentioned in 23andMe's Traits section but are listed in Spittoon's article:

http://spittoon.23andme.com/2009/08/11/snpwatch-researchers-find-link-between-red-hair-and-avoiding-the-dentist/


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I haven't got any of these red hair genes myself which is quite unfortunate since I happen to consider red the prettiest hair colour ever :puppy_dp:

That does make sense though - my actual hair colour is light ash brown which is sort of the opposite of red.

[AussieScott]

My son has red hair. :D:D