Are there any real blondes?

Being naturally blonde is pretty rare.
Only 2 percent of people in the world are natural blondes. (About one in 20 Americans are.)
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How common are natural blondes?

Because blond hair tends to turn brown with age, natural blond hair is significantly less common in adulthood; according to the sociologist Christie Davies, only around five percent of adults in Europe and North America are naturally blond.
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What is the percentage of real blondes?

Only 2 percent of the world's population has naturally blond hair. If you narrow your sample to white people in the United States, that percentage goes up, but only to 5 percent. But look at women in leadership positions and you'll see a lot of golden tresses.
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What race has naturally blonde hair?

Naturally blond hair in Solomon Islanders rooted in native gene, study finds. Researchers have identified a gene that is responsible for blond hair in 5-10 percent of the indigenous population of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
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What race is the most blonde?

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.
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What is the rarest hair color?

Red hair is the rarest natural hair color. Experts estimate that somewhere between 1-2% of the world's population has red hair. Red hair is more common in Scotland than anywhere else in the world, where 13% of the population are redheads. Red hair is known for the variance of its many shades.
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Do blondes go GREY or white?

If You Have Blonde Hair

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.
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How long do blondes live for?

BBC NEWS | Health | Blondes 'to die out in 200 years' The last natural blondes will die out within 200 years, scientists believe. A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202.
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Where do blondes originate from?

Blond hair is most commonly associated with the peoples of Northern Europe. However, blond hair can also be found in communities in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
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Is blonde curly hair rare?

Lots of traits are statistically rare: Left-handedness (just 10 percent of the population!), curly hair (11 percent!), and blond hair (4 percent!), to name a few. But of the more than seven billion people on the planet, only 2 percent can claim to have this one special trait.
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Can 2 brunettes have a blonde child?

Brunettes Can Give Birth To Blondes

If one parent is blonde and the other brunette, they might have a blonde child. This can only happen if the brunette parent carries the blonde allele. If he carries only brown alleles, he can only pass on brown alleles, and they'll dominate causing his child to have brown hair.
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What is the rarest eye and hair color combo?

The title of rarest hair color/eye color combination belongs to red-haired folks with blue eyes. According to Medical Daily, both blue eyes and red hair are recessive traits, so the likelihood of both traits appearing together is actually pretty slim.
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How can you tell a natural blonde?

For one thing, assuming she isn't wearing makeup, a natural blonde almost always has a paler skin color and lighter eyebrows, sometimes lighter lashes. She also has light-colored body hair, including public (if you find yourself in an intimate situation).
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What is the rarest type of blonde hair?

Strawberry Blonde Hair

This color mixture results in a beautiful coppery color that's exceedingly rare. Strawberry blonde hair is caused by a variation of the recessive gene MC1R. Therefore, both parents must carry this gene for the offspring to inherit a strawberry blonde natural hair color.
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Are blondes brown eyes rare?

Is it possible for an adult with naturally blond hair to have brown eyes? Inheritance of eye color is more complicated than we had once thought. So the answer is yes, but the combination is extremely rare.
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Are blondes weaker?

Even undyed/unbleached blond hair tends to be weaker than other colors. As a general rule, brown hairs are thicker than blond ones but thinner than red. Naturally blond hair is usually the finest (and therefore the softest) and also the most easily damaged.
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What is the rarest eye color?

Of those four, green is the rarest. It shows up in about 9% of Americans but only 2% of the world's population. Hazel/amber is the next rarest of these. Blue is the second most common and brown tops the list with 45% of the U.S. population and possibly almost 80% worldwide.
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What hair color is most attractive?

Most women think brunette hair is the sexiest, as 25% of those polled favoured this option. Womens' second preference is blonde, which was voted as the sexiest hair colour by 19.6% of women. Again, red took third spot, accounting for 11.8% of womens' votes.
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Why do blondes darken with age?

With aging, the follicles make less melanin, and this causes the color to darken and then turn to gray.
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Is white blonde hair natural?

But are they natural? Probably not. According to Fact Retriever, one in three adult females dye their hair a shade of blonde, and only one in twenty white American adults is naturally blonde. That means that while 'bottle blondes' are incredibly common, natural blondes are extremely rare!
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Is green eyes blonde hair rare?

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.
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What country has the most blonde hair and blue eyes?

Finland. In the Land of the Midnight Sun, about 89% of Finnish people have blue eyes. Also known for their fair skin and blond hair, their love of sauna and penchant for coffee, the people of Finland have a distinct Nordic look that scientists have been studying for years.
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Do blondes go bald faster?

While you may have heard that blonds suffer more hair loss than brunettes, the reality is that your natural hair color doesn't have any effect on your likelihood of experiencing hair loss.
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What is the least common hair color?

Red hair has the highest amounts of pheomelanin, around 67%, and usually low levels of eumelanin. At 1–2% of the west Eurasian population, it is the least common hair color in the world.
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Will hair stay blonde forever?

3. Blondes aren't blondes forever. (Naturally, at least.) Many kids born with light hair go dark before their tenth birthday, thanks to rising levels of eumelanin, a natural pigment that regulates the darkness of hair strands.
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