What hair colors are possible?

Genes Liable to Hair Color
Predominantly, human hair can be of five different colors: black, brown, blond, white/gray, and rarely red.
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What color 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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What colors can hair naturally be?

Natural hair colors. Natural hair color can be black, brown, red, blond, or white.
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Is black hair color possible?

Black hair is the darkest and most common of all human hair colors globally, due to larger populations with this dominant trait. It is a dominant genetic trait, and it is found in people of all backgrounds and ethnicities. It has large amounts of eumelanin and is more dense than other hair colors.
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Why do I have white hair at 13?

Genetics

If you notice white hair at an early age, it's likely that your parents or grandparents also had graying or white hair at an early age. You can't change genetics. But if you don't like the way your gray hair looks, you can always color your hair.
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Can you be born with blue hair?

Blue hair does not naturally occur in human hair pigmentation, although the hair of some animals (such as dog coats) is described as blue. Some humans are born with bluish-black hair (also known as "blue black" hair), which is black that has a blue hue under the light.
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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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Can Asians have brown hair?

Dark brown hair is predominant in the Mediterranean parts of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and South Asia. Very dark brown hair, easily mistaken for black hair, can be found occasionally in parts of East Asia.
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Can two blondes have a red haired baby?

The gene for red hair is recessive, so a person needs two copies of that gene for it to show up or be expressed. That means even if both parents carry the gene, just one in four of their children are likely to turn out to be a redhead.
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Is it possible to green hair?

Until we can get more exciting varieties of eumelanin and pheomelanin, you'll just have to stick with blue hair dye. The colour of human hair is determined by two varieties of melanin, the pigment which also dictates our skin colour.
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Can 2 brown haired parents have a blonde child?

It turns out that brown hair is dominant. That means that even if only one of your two alleles is for brown hair, your hair will be brown. The blond allele is recessive, and gets covered up. If two brunette parents have a blond child, they had to have instructions for making blond hair hidden in their DNA.
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Can you be born with white hair?

What is poliosis? Poliosis is when a person is born with or develops a patch of white or gray hair while otherwise maintaining their natural hair color. It can affect both children and adults.
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What is the 2nd rarest hair color?

Blonde hair is the second rarest hair color in the world. About 20% of the population has blonde hair. Natural blonde hair can be so beautiful, but it often requires more maintenance than other colors.
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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's the rarest hair eye 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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Are blondes rare?

Being naturally blonde is pretty rare.

Only 2 percent of people in the world are natural blondes. (About one in 20 Americans are.) But that doesn't mean it's not popular. One in three women dyes her locks light enough to be considered blonde.
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What do you call a girl with black hair?

"Brunette" is the most common term used to describe a woman with black hair. While it mostly covers brown-haired women, its definition also extends to include women with black hair. You might also hear people calling them "raven-haired," but that's an old-fashioned phrase.
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Is brown hair rare?

Our fifth rarest hair pick is brown. About 20% of the global population is born with brown hair. Isn't it surprising that so few people have brown hair? People of virtually every background sport varying shades of brown hair, ranging from light brown to brunette.
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Do blondes live longer?

Who lived longer, blondes or non-blondes? The researchers showed that the blondes had significantly lower all-cause death. Still, they had a higher mortality from skin cancer. Contrasted and compared to the non-blondes, the blondes had significantly reduced all-cause death.
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Are there any real 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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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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Is purple hair real?

If you have two pheomelanin genes, you get the red and red-blonde hair types in different strengths, depending on the functionality of the genes. There aren't any genes that would make something that looks purple ...
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Is pink hair possible?

Pink hair may not exist in nature, but having darker roots makes the vibrant shade look less foreign by balancing it out. Plus, it helps your fresh-pink hair flatter your skin tone better, says New York-based hairstylist Arsen Gurgov. Another bonus is good ol' hair health.
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Can humans have orange eyes?

Amber or golden eyes can often be found in animals, such as cats, owls, and especially wolves, but a human containing this pigment is extremely rare. Only about 5 percent of the world's population can say they have true amber-colored eyes.
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