What is the Origin and Reason for Red Hair?

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Thanks for watching! Please let me know your thoughts below...

[@claudiaclark6162]

I have brown hair with natural red highlights and blue gray eyes If I stand in the sun My hair glows red

[@johnlincicum6390]

I have auburn hair, a darker red hair and blue eyes. My maternal grandmother was part Irish and part Choctaw Native American Indian with Black hair with a silvery white streak in her hair in her 60's and dark skin, plus she was originally left handed, but forced to be right handed because she attended a Catholic school. She was born in Tyler, Texas. I don't remember what color her eyes were. She passed away in 1979, I was only 4. I have a very high pain tolerance and definitely need more anesthesia. I woke during a colonoscopy when they weren't even halfway through the procedure! I also turn red, get sunburnt, but then it quickly turns to a tan. When I went to Kuwait in 1996 from August to December, I never used sunscreen. I didn't need it. When I moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico from Illinois, I was darker than some of my Mexican friends.

[@pjmoseley243]

Is Bonny prince harry a celt?

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

Red hair and gray eyes here. Red/gingers do indeed experience pain and medication effectiveness very differently. It is conjectured that the ancient ancestors of the Udmurts were the original population with this trait, and spread it east and west. The Udmurts have genetic cousins in the Baltic nations, too. The trait survives in the west, but not in the east.

[@thejollygreendragon8394]

Personally, looking at the top of your head when you said, red hair is the best colour hair, you are being biased

[@tammygraham9644]

Hated it as a kid as everyone made fun of me. Now I'm laughing at 65 with very minimal gray hair! Lovin' the red!

[@Sarappreciates]

Same, yes!! I'm about to turn 52, and most of my friends are going gray while I still have my red that's darker in the winter and brighter in the summer, so I get to keep enjoying both shades for a bit longer. I worked in a nursing home years ago, and the redheads there would wink at me and point to their red locks, one of them in her 90s! (Her hair had faded to a strawberry blonde.)

[@mylamberfeeties875]

Lol I'm 51 and I am just liking my hair

[@tammygraham9644]

@@mylamberfeeties875 laughing all the way to the beauty salon. (which, btw, I've subtly assessed that they don't like natural redheads bc we won't be spending all that money to color our hair!)

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

Yep!

[@Quietly501]

Same here. 🎉

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Im not Red Haired 👨🏻‍🦰 but its the most fascinating and beautiful Hair Color of the world. It looks the color of fire. I envy natural born red haired so much!

[@colinchampollion4420]

I have Strawberry blonde hair with green eyes~ naturally and I am Mexican ~ both my parents are both from Mexico😉👌!

[@fullmoonmaiden777]

YOU ARE SO B.L.E.S.S.E.D.!!!​@@colinchampollion4420

[@johnlincicum6390]

​@@colinchampollion4420 probably from German decent. A lot of Germans moved to Mexico.

[@colinchampollion4420]

@@johnlincicum6390 get it from my Sp a nish Celtic ancestry

[@DJCole34]

@@colinchampollion4420that place is European colony, like All of America and Australia.

[@judithwood6419]

Also in England and Scotland, they have red hair, squirrels, red haired cattle and red haired deer.😊

[@manekakapoor1612]

You forgot about ginger cats, Irish Setters and Rough Collies.

[@cymro6537]

We also have red squirrels ,deer and red haired people in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@manekakapoor1612]

@@cymro6537 Angharad Rees was a friend of mine and she was a beautiful Welsh redhead.

[@cymro6537]

@@manekakapoor1612 Ah yes, she was lovely

[@thurmanmerman2720]

Red squirrels are practically extinct in England

[@sandratracy1378]

I was born a fair skinned red head with blue eyes. Now that I'm almost 60 it's mostly blond with white and some remaining faded red. I never appreciated my red hair until it started to fade. I really enjoyed your presentation. Thank you!

[@sarahhunter1114]

My grandma is 95 and she still has all her red hair. It’s faded, but it isn’t grey. I didn’t get her genes sadly🤦🏼‍♀️ 43 and already greying.

[@orionxtc1119]

The Udmurts in Russia...look them up...mostly red hair

[@jpslaym0936]

I too was freckled and had strawberry blonde hair as a kid and called redhead As I aged the color changed to dark blonde which isnt as unique.

[@yensid4294]

I bet you were stunning (& still are )😊

[@ToreMix7400]

​@@sarahhunter1114The fading of colour is common to all. Even blondes and dark haired people go grey or gray-white with the years..

[@wendythompson1529]

Just to make it clear. As a child, I was tortured with no mercy. But by high school, I loved my red hair and am proud of my originality. I would never give it up.

[@malcolmstead272]

Red hair is cool and beautiful!

[@LuvPureCom]

I've always had naturally red highlights that really come out when I spend time in the sun. Unfortunately with my (coordinating) skin tone, my skin tends to turn red in the sun too. Since I already had the skin for it, in my 20s I dyed my brown hair red. I still remember the color - Burnished Copper. I LOVED IT!!! Not just the look, but that people stopped asking me if I felt alright - because "You look a little pale." 🙄 Like my teen years weren't self conscious enough, I had 2 nurses leave a patient to escort me out of the room because they said I looked like I was going to pass out. That was the last time I left the house without a full foundation for years. Red hair was definitely the answer for me. Besides, I like being different and unique. You're so very lucky! I'm glad you embraced it as early as those often torturous teen years. 😊

[@vickielane7387]

I hear You! I was about 5 or 6 at the penny store (2 for a penny actually) I was called carrot top so many times that this time....I looked up at the old man and said carrot tops are green. He chuckled and called me a little shit 😂😂😂😂😂

[@clairecarscallen]

@@vickielane7387Great comeback, especially from a little kid.

[@roberth4395]

If I were you I would not take insults personaly. If they did not bully you for your hair color, then they would have bullied you for something else. Bullying is also the bully projecting his or her insecurities on you. When I was a kid I was bullied of having full lips and behind by a boy who had line lips and no fat on his behind. It was him projecting his lack of features on me due to envy. The same thing happened to you. Red hair is the most beautiful, it is also the most popular hair dye for a reason. The person who called you names wanted your hair that is all.

[@darrylblanch8463]

Yep, I'm a ranga (redhead). Over 6 foot, red curly hair, pale skin, green eyed Aussie 👍🍻🇦🇺

[@orionxtc1119]

The The Udmurts in Russia are mostly red haired...

[@raniqueblackman8096]

I know you are very handsome!!

[@annakeye]

Kia ora ranga man. I'm under 6 foot (actually 5ft-ish) long, wavy red hair, green eyed NZer. Oddly however, as pale as I was all my life, and had only one spot that ever tanned, and that was a big birthmark across my upper foot and ankle, that was fairly pale until summer. In my 50s, I started to tan anywhere the sun hits, except my fingers. I have no explanation for this but I find it incredibly weird.

[@wendythompson1529]

Green eyes... lucky you

[@bridgetboyle687]

So you and I are unicorns. 6 foot tall, red hair, green eyes, in my case female puts me at less than 1/10 of one percent of the entire population of the planet. My hair straight so you’ve got a marker even more rare then I. Oh I’m also ambidextrous.

[@Magneticvortex-kk4gb]

Red haired women are just gorgeous

[@MeanOldLady]

It's too bad that it so very rarely applies to men, dammit!

[@YoLo-bb2vc]

@@MeanOldLady Mother Nature: "its a balance, make the women highly attractive to progress the chances of the gene survival yet keeping the male redhead ugly to prevent over population of that gene"

[@PaulKMF1]

I hate them

[@louisehogg8472]

@@MeanOldLady I used to work beside an Irishman who had lovely long red hair, plus moustache. I always felt he looked like a Viking, but probably a Celtic warrior was closer.

[@TschatschoSchwabo]

Red haired girls: Rusty Roof - Wet Cellar ❤😊❤

[@scimiles8473]

I have strawberry blonde hair, fair skin, freckles, and green eyes. My ancestry estimate from testing is 100% Norwegian!

[@sarahhunter1114]

Wow, 100% is so unique. Maybe it’s just because I’m American the vast majority of us are mutts🤣

[@RosaGlez-ls1oz]

Same here, and also I need extra anesthesia dosis, but... ¡I'm a latin from Spain! 🤷

[@LisaEtter]

I'm green eyed and red hair and very fair skin. I was born in Ireland and adopted and sent to the US at 6months old. I blame the vikings for the eye, hair and skin.

[@nufosmatic]

0:59 - I am a redhead. I've always had to take much larger doses of over-the-counter painkillers to have them be effective. I don't use Tylenol as the recommended dose has no effect whatsoever and taking more than recommended is toxic. I went into the hospital to have a suspicious patch excised from my forearm. The plan was to sedate me lightly where I would be essentially awake for the procedure. The anesthesiologist, as it happened, was also a redhead, and we chatted at length about the redhead-vs-pain study which had recently come out. During the actual procedure he had trouble keeping me sedated and pain-managed, so they finally decided to just put me out.

[@Makoto03]

Redhead girls are so gorgeous and Red Head characters in fiction always look cool.

[@TroyDowVanZandt]

I found a picture taken at my grandparents' ca. 1960. All the women seated at the table had red hair: my mother, my paternal grandmother, and my great uncle Frank's wife. Some northern European men definitely have a thing for redheads.

[@neilreynolds3858]

What's not to love? They're friends and family.

[@russbetts1467]

Me Too! The World would be a Greyer place without Redheads. They are a big turn-on for me and I'm now a pensioner, who still gets a thrill, every time I see one. My local Supermarket has two Redhead Till Girls working there and we always have a quick chat. My father was a Gingernut and never looked his age, even at 83. I inherited his Genes and also don't look my age, as I still have Ginger Highlights in my Greying hair and still have a pink complexion. People think I'm 20 years younger than I am. I'm not complaining. I shaved off my White beard, because it made me look and feel old.

[@larrywilliamson5325]

Well, it’s no secret that red haired women are wildcats in the sack. 😉

[@michellemurphy895]

I had Auburn hair, I was teased so much, when I got my first paycheck at 13 years old I went straight to the hairdressers and got blonde highlights. Well, when I got home my mum let me have it 😂. My hair was actually a gorgeous dark auburn, during St. Patrick's day we had lots of Americans in the parade in Dublin. One lovely lady came up and told me how beautiful my hair was. I've never forgotten those kind words.

[@kamillion44]

I am a redhead and used to hate it when I was younger but after becoming a cosmetologist, so many wanted red hair! Now I wear it proudly and I am 60. Both my parents and both grandmothers were redheads! Two of my three children, are redheads. My daughter is left-handed and bright blue eyes, my son, also a leftie, has bluegreen eyes and I, however have hazel eyes! We are all very fair skinned with little to no freckles! My daughter has none, my son, a few across his nose as do I. The anesthesia thing is remarkable. I have woken up during every surgery I have ever had! Takes 8-10 shots of novacaine at the dentist to even get remotely numbed, for the three of us! We definitely are a bit different!😉 God bless all you fellow redheads! We are rare, indeed! 💞🤔Thanks for the video and I look forward to seeing more on the topic of red hair and hazel eyes. I have a book called "The Redhead Encyclopedia"! Very informative and so incredibly interesting! ❤️ 🥰🙏🏻✝️❤️

[@brendajoycewhite5747]

A doctor told me that I was strange I woke up during surgery,, the ask the anisthgialigest if I was waking up, I said No Duh, you are just stabbing and cutting me with knifes. The second time after they gave me more drug I woke up again and told them funny stories of my cats and dogs. Same here with the dentist, I can't take gas, alergec, can't breathe,my heart stops .I am also left handed.😊

[@joeharris6552]

Red heads need to fight for their right to exist on the planet as they are being Genocided all across the West. Red heads need a living space/country of their own so that they will be preserved forever.

[@gaius_enceladus]

There are so many gorgeous red-haired women! I got a new pair of glasses recently and one of the women working at the optometrist had the most lovely long, flowing red hair! It was wonderful! I complimented her on it!

[@mwilson7842]

I'm red hair, green eyes and 61 percent Irish according to DNA test. My grandmother was a Scot Armstrong too 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but with dark hair. My husband has a red beard and reddish tones in his Chestnuts brown hair. Our daughter is blue eyed, strawberry red hair. Lots of red hair on my side of the family, cousins and such, and we grew up in an Irish part of town known as the Cork Hill neighborhood. Such good memories. Davenport, Iowa USA. Love to you.

[@arrigune]

I'm Basque, dark eyed and haired with strawberry reflections that appear when the sun appears behind the clouds. I have also freckles that multiply when the sun hits a bit. My husband, Catalan, dark haired, green eyed, has reddish beard 😂. I think there must be lots of variants of this gene creating interesting mixtures.

[@winterishere9828]

I'm irish in Ireland, my family are half dark haired, half red haired and all have blue eyes. I'm dark haired but am plastered in freckles.

[@paulgreen2416]

I'm off mixed ancestry, father was Irish, and my mother is of African, East Asian, Persian, and a bit of Pacific Islander and Welsh. My partner is of Irish, Italian, French and English, so we both have very dark features. Our son is a carbon copy of me, but with dark blond hair, fair skin and blue eyes. We put it down to our Irish ancestry. When he was a baby we'd always have little old ladies looking at us then our son and commenting 'hasn't he got beautiful blue eyes'. I know exactly what they are thinking. How have 2 dark featured, brown eyed, people produced this blond blue eyed child?? Well, I have a bit of a warped sense of humour so never one to waste an opportunity I'd reply in a very low voice 'We were looking for a brown eyed one but the midwives were coming so we settled on this one'. Then just walk away.

[@wendythompson1529]

I'm sorry but a true Irish is fair skinned, black hair and blue eyes. You are Scandinavian

[@brendajoycewhite5747]

Maybe we are related in the distant, my great grandmother on my father's side had red hair, blue eyes fair skin name Armstrong, he also has Livingston in this line, on his mother's side she was black Dutch and Irish, she had dark hair brown eyes olive skin, my Dad came with black hair dark blue eyes, a lighter skin tone than my grandmother but not light like my grandfather he was a strawberry blonde, blue eyes. I was a strawberry blonde, green blue eyes.both of my Son's were blond with red face hair.1 had dark blue eyes and 1 with blue green eyes.

[@corinnedefazio9178]

My family are dark Southern Italians and yet every generation we have a child with bright red hair and blue eyes. We say these genetics were injected into Italy with the Viking and Northern invasions. My red-haired family members have always been the sweetest, kindest most even-tempered people.......unlike us hot-headed ones with typical coloring!😊

[@stuartwaldron3710]

I'm officially blonde (according to my enlistment papers), but for some time, I was deeply red. Now I'm grey!

[@stanleywilliams4429]

When you go to spear a wooly mammoth it helps you blend in for the purpose of camouflage.

[@PhilLesh69]

There was a bartender at the Cafe Deluxe in Tysons Corner Virginia who I swore was from ireland. Everyone asked him where in Ireland he was from. He had an accent that sorta could be mistaken for a Gaelic inflection. He had red hair. He had many other northern European facial features, skin tone. His answer was surprising. "I grew up in a wee little town called Nablus. Have ye ever heard of it?" He was a Palestinian. A Christian Palestinian, but Palestinian, not Irish or Scot. Apparently during the crusades there was a lot of intermarriage and cross-migration and setlling between Europe and the middle east. Entire new bloodlines were established mixing the two peoples together.

[@drewc9947]

Palestinians are only about 10% Arabic genetically. It's the same population that's been there since before the time of Christ. I knew a Lebanese girl who had light hair and blue eyes.

[@alisskanetos1229]

Mixed race is not a new bloodline, it need several generations of purposeful breeding, or being very isolated for some time to establish as such. I have noticed that Americans (North) have a hard time knowing what a European looks like, maybe you are becoming Arabs, which means mixed breed. :)

[@OligosFew]

The description of King David as youth is that of a red hair, also Jacobs brother Esau, the Hebrews have been drawn as having red hair by the Babylonians/Assyrians..So for red haired genetics to be in the land of israel from ancient times is not a far stretch and more likely than having come from Europe.

[@bobh3300]

@@OligosFew Maybe it went the other way. Perhaps the red hair gene was brought back to Britain, Scotland and Ireland via the Crusades, rather than being _brought to_ Palestine.

[@letsdothis9063]

​@@alisskanetos1229 do what? None of that is correct. 😅

[@tina-g8p]

I'm half italian by my dad , mom is Irish, welsh , scottish. I have red hair and love it.

[@donnaashbrook8169]

My daughter has the most beautiful red hair, not from me nor her father. My father, a Scottish Canadian had the same colouring, and my mother had Viking blonde hair and blue eyes. I would have thought that the red hair , pale, freckled skin and blue eyes would have been recessive, but her colouring is very striking, lucky girl! I think my reddish brown hair and grey green eyes are possibly more Viking than Scottish but ,hey, whatever, we are all unique! I love ancestry posts and would really like to explore mine, but even though my dad was killed in the war just before I was born, he was a Cameron, so I guess that’s a starting point! Keep up the great posts!! Donna.

[@rachelb2231]

Dad born in Cornwall, UK he had strawberry blond hair, blue eyes. Mom had brown-black hair, green eyes. Out of us 6 kids, 3 of us, including myself have red hair/ blue or green eyes. My husband had light brown hair, brown eyes. Out of our 4 children, two are blond, blue eyes. Out of my 5 (so far!) grandchildren, 2 have red hair, 2 blond, 1 brown. In my family, the redheads are dominant 😅

[@ForageGardener]

That's not how dominant or recessive genes work. Recessive genes pass even if only one parent has them, but they only can display when both parents have them. Dominant genes can be spread by only one parents side, however if a dominant gene doesn't display, it's lost forever

[@ForageGardener]

Recessive genes spread even when a person doesn't show they have it. There are dark skinned African Americans carrying around recessive genes for blonde and red hair as well as for pale skin and light colored eyes. This is from some previous mixture with Europeans at some point. It's very common for dark skinned African Americans to have seemingly inexplicably lighter skinned children, and even for their children to be born looking nearly indistinguishable from any other blonde haired blue eyed European, although still having facial similarities with the parents etc. Recessive genes cam carry on for many generations unseen before reappearing when someone mates with another who carries the same recessive genes

[@davidhickman647]

Germanic and Slavic people have red hair as well. It is NOT only the Celts. I have brown hair but a red beard.

[@xijinping880]

every caucasian ethnicity can have red hair its just more common among modern celts

[@fdwr]

Ditto. My red hair darkened to brown, but as a teenager later, my beard hair came in red.

[@guysome3263]

The native German population of today is mostly genetically comprised of Celtics.

[@letsdothis9063]

Same. My hair isnt exactly brown, but light brown i guess. I grew a beard for the first time two years ago. Now everyone calls me redbeard.

[@nanoyabarrett8852]

I’m a redhead with brown eyes and have a majority of Germanic dna as well as some Asian. Germanic tribes covered Scandinavian areas today

[@mr.purple1779]

It is noteworthy that the samples of Malta MA1 on the graph of the main components are located close to the Udmurts, a little stretched to Mansi. And also the Tocharians were just ANE, or ANE + Paleo-Siberian. So the redhead is probably really from the Paleolithic.

[@SqueakyBarbarian]

I have no idea what you said, but it deserves a like😊

[@jpslaym0936]

Or from another galaxy, say Anunnaki with elongated skulls. That phenotype seen both in Egypt and South American “royalty” burial chambers

[@LovingIntelligenceIsAll]

@@jpslaym0936 and what about the Giants with red hair and two rows of teeth? North America...

[@louisehogg8472]

@@jpslaym0936 they wrapped babies heads, like footbinding in China.

[@mikehodgkins1954]

I am a 70 year old Englishman with red hair which is grey in places but still definitely red. My brother and sister (both now sadly deceased) were also redheads but my father had black hair and my mother had fair hair. I did a DNA test a while ago and the results say I am 17% Scottish which probably explains my love of whisky!

[@ronaldwinfield307]

I am a rufus. For some reason I have a hair color that is partially red partially blond & partially brown. I am naturally fair skinned but don't freckle much. I tan like a blond. I am actually very tolerant of pain & am easily anesthetized. Because I am partially blond I will watch your blond video. I attribute the reddish portion of my hair to Franks & Picts.

[@OligosFew]

What is a Rufus?.

[@ronaldwinfield307]

@@OligosFew A Rufus haired person is partially, blond, partially brunette, & partially red. He/she is not really a Strawberry Blond because the strawberry blond misses the brunette factor. He/she is not really an Auburn because an Auburn is missing the blond factor.

[@OligosFew]

@@ronaldwinfield307 oh that's me and my family, indeterminate hair color. Depending on light, time of year and other factors out hair color gets described as strawberry, dishwater, ash blond, or light brown, our men grow red beards.

[@ronaldwinfield307]

@@OligosFew You & your family are a Rufus population. A lot of Northern Europeans are like that. We should consider ourselves lucky.

[@barbaramorgan3702]

I am a very proud Redhead. I married a redhead and have 3 redhaired sons and 2 redhaird Grandchildren. BTW my maternal Grandmother was a rehead her roots were in Scotland. A very proud Aussie

[@claudiaclark6162]

I have brown hair with natural red highlights and blue grey eyes I have two Red haired Blue Eyed Grand babies and My Husband is Strawberry and Blue eyed We both have Scottish Irish English and Welsh ancestors.

[@colinchampollion4420]

I am Mexican and have natural Strawberry blonde😮!

[@claudiaclark6162]

@@colinchampollion4420 I'm U.S. but I still have British ancestry.

[@colinchampollion4420]

@claudiaclark6162 but I am pure Mexican with red-hair & White-skin😁👌😉

[@MagicWandn]

​@@colinchampollion4420 well hate to break it to you but you got to have euro ancestry to have those meaning you ain't pure mayan/aztec. If you want to say your pure Mexican as a nationality then there is no pure Mexican. sorry. And mexicans are usually like 80% indigenous and 20% european on average..

[@colinchampollion4420]

@@MagicWandn I am 70% European and the rest Jewish, Middle-Eastern, and the rest Indigenous-Mexican yet I am a natural blonde, green-eyes, golden-tanned-White skin, & stand 6'1 & both my parents are from Mexico😉👌!

[@susanc8036]

Red head here and mother of two beautiful red heads!

[@Nekog1rl]

Auburn hair here, with hazel eyes. Mostly Scottish and Irish ancestry (though Welsh and English on my dad's side). Interestingly enough my dad had black hair and blue eyes (a rare combination) and Mom's hair was black and she had hazel eyes. So obviously both my parents were carriers of the relevant recessive genes. Thank you for this video! Love from Minnesota.

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Interesting, thank you. Hi from Scotland :)

[@BETOETE]

English too mate, Specially Cornwall, Devon and northern area.

[@johnransom1146]

Also auburn with hazel eyes here

[@darrelhenley-mc9dw]

My grandfather surname Scott had raven black hair and blue eyes he was also 6.7 and well portioned for some that large.

[@angelafoxmusic7265]

I had very red hair as a child and freckles. 2 of my brothers were the same. As we grew older our freckles disappeared, but we still had very fair and sun sensitive skin. Our parents both had black hair. Glaswegian mother Liverpudlian father. Now in old age (I'm 64) my hair is more browny ginger and taking a long time to go grey. I have to have stronger anaesthetics because I wake up during surgery. It's happened 3 times...😳

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

blonde and red hair are more common in northern Europe because in hotter climates with more UV radiation black hair protects the scalp from getting skin cancer, hence why Mediterranean's have black hair, but in cloudy places like the British isles or northern Russia red hair is more common

[@wesbrown78]

Red haired pure blood Celt and proud

[@Matija901]

dark haired semi pure blood balkanoid and so on

[@MoniqueangeliqueLumpkin]

ME TOO

[@DeborahParham-ve1vp]

Blue eyed redheaded men with Celtic blood are magical. Especially the left handed ones.

[@wesbrown78]

@@DeborahParham-ve1vp I’m left handed to 👍

[@DeborahParham-ve1vp]

@@wesbrown78 Then you are indeed very special.

[@Pedant_Patrol]

The giants had red hair.

[@SoberOKMoments]

Had dark brown hair (now snow white), but have a red-haired daughter and several "ginger" cousins. My daughter has a red-haired son and a red-haired daughter. Our ancestry - and that of our partners - were mostly Scottish, Irish and Scandinavian.

[@Auggies1956]

One of the Egyptian king's mummy has red hair. Ramses maybe?

[@serahloeffelroberts9901]

You are correct, Pharaoh Ramses the great. Even though he was 90 when he died, his mummy still had abundant red hair

[@autumnchadwick8469]

Red (auburn) hair, blue/gray eyes, super pale skin with pink undertones. Scottish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Basque, Italian & German ancestry. High tolerance to anesthesia & pain killers. Never lost a single fight in my life.

[@lindsaystutzman1106]

So interesting!!! My mother was a redhead, I’ve got reddish brown hair and I have a strawberry blonde child. My mother’s side of the family about 1/3 have red hair. I have minimal freckles on my nose and my child has a lot, but my redhead mother had no freckles.

[@veepotter307]

My paternal grandfather was from a large family, and historically from Scotland . The family came to America several hundred years ago. There were 14 children in the family, 7 red heads and 7 brunettes. The frequency, unfortunately, did not occur in subsequent generations.

[@KaquolMeliReno]

My great grandmother, my Dad, my late husband and and my granddaughter had/has red hair. My hair is blond, with blue eyes.

[@franceseyre2093]

I'm 75 now, and most of my red hair is gone, but I have enough red strands that my hair isn't grey or white, but more like a strawberry blonde. Love it.

[@Poodle_Gun]

"A redhead baby can appear seemingly out of nowhere!" I HATE magic!

[@neilreynolds3858]

We're changelings.

[@badfairy9554]

Why? Magic is cool.

[@markeby6985]

It’s just genetics. A recessive gene is hidden until combined with another one. My paternal grandmother had deep red hair but both her children were dark haired. My mom’s side has lots of blond. My sister and I were both dark haired but in the summer sun I would get streaks of blond and she streaks of red. I have a red headed granddaughter with a red headed grandmother on the other side and my sister has a red headed daughter (1 of 3) with a red headed husband. I had 1 dark haired child and 2 light brown with one close to blond at birth. Most of my blond haired relatives turned light brown with age but not the red heads. The red and blond flecks I had in my younger days beard were hints of my recessive genes but turned grey/white early.

[@sh.4409]

My paternal grandad was Irish and one of eight. Not one of them had red hair or their kids. I take after my great, great Gran on my paternal grandmothers side who was also Irish. There are no redheads on my mum's side and they are Scottish. My kids don't have red hair either. There is just me.

[@bonniearmstrong6564]

It is a recessive gene.

[@charmainedudley7747]

Holy cow, you have THE MOST AMAZING accent!!!! ❤Absolutely love it!!! Yip Red hair, Blue eyes & freckles (my Dad & a few of his siblings have red hair, blue eyes & freckles) - nightmare growing up. Always in trouble at school. I always felt 'ugly', different, wild ... and then I grew up and embraced been unique! AND realised hey "Redheads ARE beautiful. We Rock (well except when we're sun-burnt & full of blisters)!' Greetings from sunny South Africa!

[@roganmuldoon3357]

I was born to Scottish father, English mother (both dark haired as far as I knew), reportedly with a ginger 'fuzz', but this all 'fell out' by my second month leaving me bald for another couple of months before my hair grew back as a nondescript 'brown', but with sort of hazel eye colour and easily sunburnt pale skin. It all evens out if/when we get to the grey hair stage in life!

[@manekakapoor1612]

My husband had red hair, it's now blond. Our daughter has red hair. My husband is Scottish, so was my maternal granny, she had black hair though.

[@AngelaMcmullen-h7d]

I have strawberry blonde hair & blue eyes. My surname is McMullen, which can be traced to Scottish ancestry (MacMillian) and can also be traced to the pics. Which I find amazing ❤

[@LovingIntelligenceIsAll]

Picts! hail!

[@LovingIntelligenceIsAll]

Picts! hail!

[@omerta316]

My mother's a redhead. I have dark brown with tiny bit of red in my hair and beard while its slowly turning white since 24 or 25

[@Epsillion70]

I actually have blonde hair with a red-beard. I am Northern English (York) on my mothers side and Scottish and part Norwegian on my fathers side. Growing up in Australia I had platinum blonde hair and I grew up thinking I would have a brown beard like my father.

[@E.K.2003]

@Epsilion Sounds like you've got one gene for the beard and a separate one determining your head hair. Look that up. I believe that's true!🇺🇸

[@Poodle_Gun]

It looks red to me

[@entwifey]

My family has a ton of red hair - were English from Yorkshire - ancestry dna says I’m 10% Irish but I can’t find an Irish on my tree.

[@E.K.2003]

@@entwifey There was a lot of migration back and forth throughout the British Isles and Ireland. So you'd likely have either s few scattered Irish ancestors or one or two five or six generations back. For the life of me, I'd like to find out where my 3% Italian came from. Norwegian/Swedish/German, Anglo Scottish/ Irish. 🇺🇸

[@entwifey]

@@E.K.2003 add in some danish and that’s me. No Italian though 😝

[@mommyharris1111]

This was a really good episode! I’ve been doing a lot of studying on this myself because my family originally comes from Southeast Asia and I come from the Randolph family, which was the family of Thomas Jefferson. We have red hair runs all throughout our family and I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of this mystery. There are so many abnormalities with family lines that have red hair. One is the rare blood types, the other is the dibucaine inhibition, die early if they are not very careful with their diet(cysteine build up), and a lot of twin births the family lines.

[@bella_fern]

I have copper brown hair and my husband has brown-black hair, we had a daughter with beautiful bright red hair last year! Now I’m here 🎉😊

[@gerryhouska2859]

Red hair makes women irresistible.

[@mimiandthemuse]

I absolutely love red hair. Im a brunette, but for a couple of years, i dyed my hair bright red. Loved it.

[@klimatbluffen]

Red-haired women are by far the most beautiful women on earth. In addition, it is a bit of a challenge to live with them. and a real man is not afraid of challenges.

[@anned372]

☺️

[@allison.guy6673]

Red hair and hazel brown orange eyes. I have a very high pain tolerance. It takes more anesthesia for me. My mom, dad, and brother all have dark hair and tan. I must be a throwback from past generations. I always say hell hath no fury like a pissed off redhead.

[@HarryMarsee-fw9ot]

It was flaming red as an infant, child and early teen; but, by the time I as 30 it had faded a good bit to strawberry blond. I am 72% English, 16% Scot and the rest is Northern Europe (probably German).

[@OB17358]

Having high pain threshold and needing more anesthesia is true. Am also sensitive to lots of meds. Also have fewer rods and cones in my retina with light sensitivity.

[@camerongunn7906]

My wife is a redhead. I have loved redheaded women my whole life. I actually told my sister at 12 that I would marry a redhead. It's just enchants me.

[@chriselliott368]

There was a tribe of Central North Island Maori who had red hair. I used to see them occasionally when I first emigrated here in the '70's but they seem to be becoming much rarer. Haven't seen one for years. There are reliable records of the first Maori who came here discovering a tribe of blond-haired, blue-eyed people living here, and I heard a Maori woman who was given her genealogy as a child back in the '50's and was told her tribe originally came from Persia (Iran), many, many generations ago. When DNA testing came out, she did the test and, yes, she had Persian DNA .....

[@LovingIntelligenceIsAll]

wow, interesting!

[@hurricanekate6839]

I am a green-eyed, very freckled redhead. I am Irish and German on my dad's side, but I have, surprisingly, my Italian mother's coloring (except she didn't have freckles). Her father, grandfather, and many relatives many generations back, all pure Italian both maternal and paternal, were all redheads. And this is southern Italian -- Naples and Salerno -- not northern Italy, where I understand people are fairer in coloring. I'm guessing it is somehow due to a Viking/Norman ancestor? (BTW, no redheads on my dad's side of the families -- all blue-eyed and with either blonde or light brown hair, which is what my siblings had.) I've been researching this for a couple of years but would welcome ideas from my brother and sister redheads. Redheads rule!

[@celtichistorydecoded]

Really interesting, thanks.

[@neilreynolds3858]

Fair hair and fair skin were not uncommon in the classical world around the Mediterranean even before there were any Germans but Celts were everywhere.

[@linjoy9627]

I have a natural chestnut colour of hair. When seen in daylight even though it's dyed blonde these days there is still a load of red/gold in my hair colour. I had freckles as a small child. I watched another science documentary saying that there seems to be a relationship between red hair and left handed people. I'm also left handed, my husband was watching me put cat drops in the cats ears, there are two types of drops one for each ear. He was holding the cat as he watched me decide which was his right ear. He asked have I always had problems telling right from left? I said I would watch people when I was little and copy them (mirror image) them. I wonder if that is true of other lefties? I'm a retired anaesthetic nurse and was always told red headed people bleed more during surgery!

[@jbr84tx]

I was a redhead, but now that I"m older I've turned into a platinum blonde.

[@heliotropezzz333]

I have 4 half siblings. All had red hair. One of them (my half brother) had 4 children all with red hair. The other 3 half siblings (half sisters, two of which were twins) had no red haired children but had red chaired grandchildren (one each). The hair of 2 of my brother's children, both boys, turned darker as they reached their 30s. I was born with reddish hair but it turned dark around the time I reached my teens. Why does hair colour change like that? The family is of Irish ethnicity on both sides. My brother's wife has dark hair. My mother had dark hair. All 3 of my half sisters developed skin cancer but not to a deadly extent. We all have the same pale freckled skin but I'm not very tolerant of hot weather and have stayed out of the sun more than they. My half brother was also not a sun bather.

[@CCTippers]

I’m Auburn with dark blue navy eyes, olive fair skin. So my grandmother was Irish and then there’s more Irish on my mums side, she has a pale freckled skin, and was auburn when younger, so I’m English with a lot of Irish and a little Welsh from my Gt grandad . Very interesting.

[@mikaelabaras8189]

Hi, i’m a redhead. My ancestors come from ireland (O’ Mullins), france and italy. That explains my ginger roots. My 2nd cousin is a redhead with blue eyes and my uncle and aunt were also Redheads. That is from my dad side. From my mom side, my grandmother used to be a readhead as well. You see how much the gen is present in both sides of my family. Just to let you know, my mother has dark hair with italian roots and my father is a brunette with ginger beard ( all his hair is now grey) and green eyes, his appearence is full irish/scottish.

[@camron4705]

I've noticed some red hair in my beard, and my brother also has red hair in his beard. I looked into why this might happen, and I learned that even if it's a recessive gene, some people who carry the red hair gene may have red hair appear on their body, especially as they get older. It's interesting because we don't have any known redheads in our ancestry.

[@russbetts1467]

Not yet, you don't. Someone is in for a big shock, sometime in the future. My late father was the only Redhead in a large extended family. His Mother was one of Nine kids and none of their kids had Red hair. Genetic Throwbacks... don't you just Love them? They keep the strain going.

[@LovingIntelligenceIsAll]

always been blonde with green-blue eyes like my Danish dad… And his hair went white. As my hair goes to silver and probably white, I'm noticing faded dark red tints, streaks, in my silver hair! I love it.

[@LAM_AUT_ECU]

I have mostly brown hair, nowadays increasingly grey. Nevertheless and this has always puzzled me, if you look closely enough, I have hairs of all colours: black, brown, blonde, white, and yes, red, very intense red, not cheddar cheese red, blood red, creepy red, as if it were dyed. My eyes are hazel and if you photograph them with a flash, they are green on the outside and increasingly brown towards the center. I am mostly of Spanish-Italian ancestry but I had a DNA test done a few years ago and a 2% "Northern European, likely Scottish or Norwegian" came in the results, though it must be said, another note explained that results below 4% were likely statistical errors. How about that?

[@fullmoonmaiden777]

I am light-skinned with reddish-brown hair and am allergic to the sun. Since childhood I burn when exposed to the sun's rays. It's painful and itches to the point where my skin breaks out in tiny bumps that turn from white to red. I stay covered completely from the sun and heat, another thing that triggers the pain.

[@neilreynolds3858]

My fiancée's daughter has that and she's full Russian. It doesn't stop her from vacationing in Thailand though. Strange that.

[@sarahpeace6330]

I'm 60 and have red hair which has turned white. I was from Yorkshire. My family were paternally from Yorkshie. Materially from Scotland and Ireland.

[@Janet694-f1x]

I am, or rather was a red head as it's becoming white now I'm old. I have green hazel eyes also. My family were Lancashire folk - beacause of HVIII's censuses we could track back to that time. Ancestry shows me to have Anglo Saxon, Angle, Scandinavian and Celtic DNA along with a sprinking of others. Being the Celtic fringe of England there was much mingling with Irish, and Scots through the centuries. The Vikings were driven out of Ireland and came across to the area where my family farmed and created peaceful settlements. My eye colour and hair probably stemmed from the Celtic and Scandinavian input. (I was the only one with the colouring, the others were grey, or blue eyed, brunettes.

[@Stoic_Horo]

I have green and brown and blue and grey and gold eyes my nana had grey eyes, we have NO Scottish as well. My hair has strands of every color blonde, red, ash, black! From family surname Lancaster New Zealand! Def high pain tolerance.

[@juliemackenzie559]

I'm a redhead. I was strawberry blonde as a toddler. Then changed to auburn. Now I'm a senior, its grown much lighter and back to a shade of strawberry blonde. I've always liked the color of my hair and I think it makes me more attractive, not less. I've never experienced any abuse because of the color of my hair. And I am not silver yet.

[@jbharco40]

I remember when I had my wisdom teeth out. The doctor said he had to give me more anesthesia than most people as I kept moving around. My Father was Welsh and my Mother French and Cherokee. I do have a high tolerance for pain.

[@byronryan4216]

😮

[@affnt]

I’m Irish French and Cherokee. I’ve popped up too soon out of anesthesia and terrified the staff. My hair was flaming auburn until puberty when it took on this really dark near black auburn. It’s such an odd color. But it’s noted in my medical chart now because they identified I have the gene. But it’s weird. I have olive skin that tans & freckles.

[@karlayork877]

I'm one of five daughters of a red-headed mother. I was blonde as a child, but my hair turned red (fairly light) when I was eight. Daughter #3 was red (brighter than mine, but still on the lighter side,) well before starting school. Daughter #4 was remained blond until about fourteen. Daughter #5 was born with almost black hair (father's color) but turned red as an older baby. Only daughter #2 remained blond, but she's the one who got the freckles! Can you shed any light on why a redhead may start out blond and turn red later? Or why, as an older woman, my hair is now a gray-brown mix with little white, while #3 (who lost her red at a much younger age than I did) has gorgeous pure-white hair?

[@oltedders]

My first mustache was red, then grew out to be dark brown. My hair is dark brown, red, blond, and black. I'm in my 70s now, and my beard has changed to all white except for the hair that is black.

[@Robert-xs2mv]

I die my beard all the colours of the rainbow on a weekly basis, currently it is green. Yellow next week……lol

[@oltedders]

@@Robert-xs2mv I want to dye my beard turquoise.

[@Robert-xs2mv]

@@oltedders what’s stopping you? Anything I’d better then boring old white. And what others think is non of my business or concern, but I only get positive feedback, every one else just holds their opinion, as they should. Remember mother’s teaching, if you have nothing positive to say, just keep silent.

[@Robert-xs2mv]

@@oltedders go for it. Make sure you use non permanent hair dye, at least at first

[@oltedders]

@Robert-xs2mv Thanks, I think I would have to keep up with coloring it once I start. I'd hate for it to fade to gray.

[@zonk3835]

I have red hair in my beard and my brother has a fire red beard with blond hair. Really interesting how natural colors have been identified in the genome

[@paulc7590]

When my sisters and I were little we were at our paternal grandparent's house. One of my grandfather's friends came over and called him Red. We went running to our mom to ask why that guy called Pappy Red. She said Pappy had red hair when he was younger. I never saw it. He had white hair all my life. I have a cousin with red hair but no other redheads in our family.

[@The.Artistic.Squirrel]

I have a bright chestnut coloring to my long hair: my mother is Polish Jewish, Italian & French and my father is Norwegian, Swedish, German & British

[@CENTRIX4]

Europe And Red Heads Percentage Ginger MC1R correlates with density of cloud cover and levels of precipitation.. Droplets in cloud cover block Ultra Violet UVB and this in contact with the skin is required to produce Vitamin D3. Red hair allows the band of wavelengths of UVB that penetrates a very dense cloud cover and a very dense drizzle also penetrates red hair to reach the skin on the skull to increase Vitamin D3 production in the body. Thus MC1R Ginger is a biological adaption to the very low ambient Ultra Violet levels on the earths surface of Northern Europe within the Atlantic Climate Zone.

[@louisehogg8472]

Fair skin must help too, whereas blonds tend to tan, that is darken and that must block some UV? Still only enough UV from May to September in Scotland though. So much so that vitamin D deficiency is 'normal' here. I take a supplement all year round, to prevent cold sores emerging in December. Prior to starting that, I chose to go outside for half an hour every lunchtime, with face, hands and head exposed. And the cold sores (low immunity/low vitamin D) didn't start until a month later that year. Apparently you need oily fish three times a day to get enough vitamin D in your diet during the winter. Dad, whose family are much more redheaded than Mum's, maybe 2/3 redheads, also has a mild version of hemochromatosis. Not enough to need bled, but enough to prevent anaemia in the days when they used to kill most cattle in the winter and couldn't get iron in their diet all winter as a result. With green veg not having enough light to grow, or grass to feed the cattle. His family originated on Skye, which is a couple of hundred miles further North. So he was adapted for low light (eyes), low UV light/vitamin D, AND low dietary iron (indirect consequence of the low UV light). He does of course get depressed, which also goes with the red hair.

[@cyclonetaylor7838]

Up here in northern Canada a lot of metis people ( my mum included ) have red hair. I believe it mostly derives from our Scots and Cree heritage.

[@alisskanetos1229]

A 51 year old red head with green eyes here, still got my colour :) I'm a Swede

[@MagnusItland]

I have red hair. Doctors and dentists are surprised by how often I don't need painkillers when others do. It is not toughness, I literally perceive low-level pain differently. It feels like a signal sensation, like holding an ice cube in your hand, or something that is uncomfortably hot but not scalding. I don't like it but it is fundamentally different from "real" pain, which I believe is just as bad for me as for others. (Root canals, for instance, or a shattered hip that I had this winter.) So it is not a generic "-3 to pain perception".

[@vidtuby]

Madrid, Spain, is redhead heaven!

[@PowerfulRift]

Why?

[@vidtuby]

@@PowerfulRift History---Celts---Nordics--etc.

[@itsapittie]

Before I turned gray, my head hair was golden blonde but my beard was very red. I’m not sure whether that makes me a redhead or not.

[@Sarappreciates]

I'm a redhead, and I think the "hotheaded" myth comes from less Vitamin D absorption, causing possibly higher rates of depression, triggering higher rates of irritability. Some friendly food for thought.

[@mylamberfeeties875]

Crazy cuz I'm out side half naked my whole life im swampy cree half native with bright red hair 51 I don't burn but tan due to my heritage

[@Sarappreciates]

@@mylamberfeeties875 Lucky! I burn like crazy, and even more so since I started a medication I need. I've been rocking my sunhats.

[@xijinping880]

you are wrong redheads have more vitamin d absorption since they usually always have pale skin

[@louisehogg8472]

I thought we were BETTER at vitamin D, due to maximising UV light absorption? Agree about the depression tendency though. (I'm fine now, but Dad has always had problems as do his redheaded relatives, sister, nephew etc)

[@Sarappreciates]

@@louisehogg8472 Redheads mostly come from misty, foggy areas with less direct sunlight. Less sun means less Vit D. Also, as a redhead with fair skin, I burn easily in the sun, so I avoid it like the plague. Hence, I take D supplements.

[@auswolf9507]

Pale skin, freckles with Auburn hair with red beard and blue eyes. I am Australian born but have Irish/english/german ancestry from what I could find out. My daughter got the same auburn colour hair as mine but has grey silver eyes. Her mother has Irish, Scotish, English and Australian aboriginal ancestry in her family. Brown hair with green eyes.

[@ElectricSoul828]

Its beautiful hair

[@karenburns3368]

I have natural red hair and green eyes, I am English but have Irish ancesestors. I dye my hair bleach blonde but absolutely love the colour on other people.

[@glenndavis1868]

Funny how you start talking about blonde hair and show a bleach blonde. I am a redhead and can attest to the high pain tollerance, high threshold for pain meds, but I do tan easily (probably due to my mother being a 304). I also am Rh negative so how my body processes toxins and pain killers is also quite different than most of the population.

[@_Solaris]

You definitely threw a curveball in there 😂

[@FatPuppyPublishing]

I'd like to know what the gene in charge of my family's "changing hair" is from. I was born red headed, turned blonde by a year old, then had a weird mix of blonde, red, and brown from about 13 or 14 to about 20. Then my hair went mostly dark auburn with a mix of brown and stayed that way until my 40's when my grey hair started showing up more solidly. My mom was born and changed the same way. My little brother was born toeheaded, but turned dark brown headed with an auburn and brown mixed beard. Apparently my dad was also born red headed before eventually turning golden headed and his hair eventually turned black (his dad Irish, his mom Italian). One of my b9ys has also been born redheaded and it currently blonde. Looks just like me and my brother and mothers side of the family (almost completely Scot and Irish with some Dutch thrown in about 400 yrs ago). Everyone always talks about single colors. But where is the coat of many colors coming from? Is that a viking or Scot or Irish trait? Or something else?

[@andstuff152]

Ha that's true about the high pain tolerance. I remember being in kindergarten and playing mercy and was winning pretty easily agains all the other boys, but then this scrawny red headed girl wanted to go against me and she didn't beat me but I couldn't get her to say mercy for nothing either, no matter how hard I tried, ticked me off🤣🤣

[@neilreynolds3858]

Nah, you're just all wussies...

[@NoreeneBailey-Treece]

Auburn in winter strawberry blonde in dinner was my natural color. I'm older now. My ancestry is Norwegian, orcadian, Scottish and Iceland. I have blue eyes. I can suggest it takes a lot to put me under for surgery yet i have a really high pain tolerance.

[@tanaadams7793]

Red hair blue eyed!

[@erinnproseee]

I have very very bright almost orange natural hair. I used to hate it but now I love it!

[@christopherreynolds1961]

I have dirty blonde hair, red facial hair, and black chest hair. I'm a genetic mess

[@danielebowman]

I’m mixed race. I’m brown skinned with black hair, but when I was born my skin was lighter and my hair finger, it faded to blonde after, then by 4 years old it was light brown then dark brown/black by the time I was 5. No idea how that works.😂

[@tc-s3510]

❤

[@kevinmurphy65]

Hair was auburn but my beard was red...fire red and I am as pasty white with freckles as one can be. Could this also be a legacy of the Yamnaya?

[@Deovin46AL]

My forearm hair has a copper hue to it, more noticeable when the sun hits it. Before my facial hair turned gray there were quite a few copper whiskers mixed in with the brown and blond ones.

[@fgialcgorge7392]

I had completely straight white as snow hair as a baby, straight strawberry blonde as a kid, slightly wavy dirty blonde as a teen and young adult, now dark brown and curly as an adult and a dark red beard.

[@delven121]

Yep had red hair mixed into my beard when I was younger....My male line is the R1b-M269 with further detailed down to R-FT436282

[@dn6927]

My mother was a natural red head, many freckles and pale. Her mother was from England. You mentioned Scotland and Ireland, but not England. Im curious as to the percentage of England's red head people. I didnt get the red hair

[@nathanielacton3768]

About a decade ago I came across an article translated from chinese that suggested that the Chinese have historical records of a tribe of people with red hair and fair skin that they would trade with off their western border and they were known as fierce warriors where in particular the females fought alongside males in battle. I Did some searchin just now and it's possible I was reading about peoples known as the Tocharians. This was as far back as 1800bc.