On Being a Redhead

Last night I stumbled upon a fun website for redheads. 🙂  They have t-shirts for sale with slogans like:

1.  Yes, it’s natural

2. Got Melanocortin 1?

3. Got Freckles?

4. Consider the hair a warning label (use extreme caution)

5. And of course my favorite, “Would have given Charlie Brown a chance.”

I had so much fun looking around that site. 🙂 If you are a redhead, check it out.

http://realmofredheads.com/

I also found another site that I liked which is dedicated to redheads . It was full of fun quotes: (and might explain a little about me! 🙂 )

“A face without freckles is like a night without stars.”

“If you want trouble… find yourself a redhead.”

“You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair,” said Anne reproachfully. “People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.”
-Anne to Marilla in Anne of Green Gables

“Blondes are noticed but redheads are never forgotten.”
-Unknown

“Of course, part of the ‘problem’ with redheads is that there aren’t enough of them. They make up just two percent of the population. So they’re pretty extraordinary. Redheads are too numerous to be ignored, too rare to be accepted.”
-Grant McCracken, from his book Big Hair

“It’s not just a hair color, it’s a state of mind.”
–Realm of Redheads

“Please just call me red-headed and forgive me.”
-Anne to Gilbert in Anne’s House of Dreams

“Nobody who has known a redhead can say that redheads are tame. Even shy redheads have a burning spark of adventure inside them. Opinionated, hotheaded, logical, loyal, friendly, reserved, whatever the redheads’ personality, you can bet they’ll have SCADS of it!”
–Review of The Redhead Encyclopedia

“I do believe my redheadedness plays a huge part in who I am. If I were a blonde or brunette, I would be an entirely different person.”

“We redheads are a minority, we tend to notice each other – you know, and notice our identity.”
-Juliann Moore, actress

“Redheads are less than 1% of the world’s population. Now that is a minority! And, I thought, one that should qualify me for school scholarships or something like that.”
–Becky McAlpine

“All throughout history, from Reuben to Robbins, redheads have been recognized as a rare breed. Blondes may have more fun, brunettes may be brainier, but when it comes down to raw energy, creativity, and personality … you just can’t beat a redhead well, you can, but beware … she’ll probably beat you back!”
-Redheads Unlimited

“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
-Mark Twain

“The highest percentage of natural redheads in the world is in Scotland (13%), followed closely by Ireland with 10%. In the US, about 2% of the population are natural redheads.”
–Marcia’s Facts About Redheads

“Redheads are dry and easily irritated. And that’s just talking about their skin!”
-a dermatologist

“Yes, it’s green,” moaned Anne. “I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair. But now I know it’s ten times worse to have green hair. Oh, Marilla, you little know how utterly wretched I am.”
-Anne to Marilla in Anne of Green Gables

“I am strong. I am invincible. I am redhead.”
-T-shirt

“When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

“Two women in the house and one of them a redhead.”
-Michaleen Flynn in “The Quiet Man”

“My hair is pretty dark red… And of course, it catches fire in the sunlight. A great time to bring out a redhead’s coloring is right before sunset, when rose-colored clouds and golden light begin to streak across the sky.”

“Ruadh gu brath!”
Scots gaelic for “Red heads forever!”

From a Redhead’s Perspective

…There is more, much more, to being a redhead than the color of one’s hair. After all, hair color changes naturally throughout one’s life. It can also be changed deliberately. But we were born redheads, we live as redheads, and someday we will die redheads. It cannot be taken away from us. Nor can it be obtained by simply dyeing one’s hair. In other words, redheads are born, not made.

…We are not redheads because our hair is red (and every redhead has naturally red hair at least sometime in his life). Rather, I am convinced, our hair is red because we are redheads.

Being a redhead comes from within. Redheadedness is a quality of the person, a state of mind. Red hair is simply an external, physical, manifestation, and a sure giveaway of this state of mind. Because of its beauty, red hair also is a special gift of nature given to redheads in appreciation for our special role in human society. We are only “different” because there are so few of us, anywhere between 2 – 5% of population.

-G. Adam Stanislav

Redheads and the Men Who Love Them

“It’s not the hair that turns men on, it’s the spirit that redheads exude.”

“When a fellow has a home and a dear, little, red-haired wife in it what more need he ask of life?”
-Gilbert in Anne’s House of Dreams

“Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but it takes a real man to handle a redhead.”

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And eat men like air.
-Sylvia Plath

“I used to hate my red hair, but now I love the attention I get with it. I think that very smart, daring men love red hair, and I love that in a man.”

“That… drew me particularly to the flamboyant qualities of redheads. Their hair and the exotic flourish of their skin in sunlight were even redder and more visible in that blue surround.”
-Joel Meyerowitz

“They are probably the worst people to date. They are demanding and obsessive and they can’t make up their minds about anything, so they are very difficult to figure out. But I still love them.”

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall in love with a gorgeous redhead!”
-Lucille Ball

“Redheads have been nicknamed demons by my associates and I think because of what they can do to the human heart. Best thing that’s hit the Earth, ever. Never had too much luck with them though. Advice is accepted….”

“The sun on a brunette’s hair looks red. The sun on a redhead’s hair looks like Heaven on Earth”

http://www.ylcf.org/potpourri/redhead/

My post haircut/sale photo near the Thames, London (as much as I hate this picture, it shows just how short it was cut!)

David took this picture for me at Santa Monica Beach right before I left for London and had my hair cut

Only two things are necessary to keep a redhead happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

How do you get a redhead to argue with you? Say something.

How do you get a redhead’s mood to change? Wait 10 seconds.

What’s the difference between a terrorist and a redhead?… you can negotiate with a terrorist.

Unfortunately I can say from personal experience that all the above sentences on this page are true and if you know me, you know they are true.