Why do blonde people have thinner hair?

It's actually a scientific fact that blonde hair is thinner. While non-blonde hair tends to have a scalp density of around 100,000 strands of hair, blonde hair averages at about 140,000 strands of hair… that's a big difference. It's that higher hair density that makes blonde hair thinner than other natural colors.
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Do all blondes have thin hair?

While blonde hair individuals usually have finer hair strands but a high density of those hairs. This is believed to be due to the amount of melanin in the hair. The more melanin, the darker the hair, the thicker the strand. Less melanin means lighter hair and a finer strand.
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Does blonde hair make it look thinner?

'When blonde hair gets too light, it can become almost translucent. Adding some darker blonde tones will make thin hair look thicker and in better condition.
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Is blonde hair more fragile?

“Hair has three layers, the medulla, the cortex and the cuticle and in naturally blonde hair there is no medulla.” This makes blonde hair finer, more fragile and more susceptible to dryness.
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Do blondes lose more hair?

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 rarest color of hair?

Red Hair. Red hair is the rarest natural hair color. Experts estimate that somewhere between 1-2% of the world's population has red hair.
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What hair color has the thickest hair?

Brown hair, the most common naturally occurring hair color, is also the most coarse and thick hair type.
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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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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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Do natural blondes go GREY or white?

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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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What hair color is most slimming?

Darker colors tend to be slimming in almost every area, and hair is no different. If you're looking for something striking, a single, unified color is a good option. This doesn't mean you have to dye your hair jet black. A shade or two darker than your current color would work.
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Which hair color is best for thin hair?

Best hair colors for thin hair
  • Neutral blonde. ...
  • Brown pink ombre. ...
  • Dark chocolate. ...
  • Muted dark blonde. ...
  • Tip: Ask your hairstylist to add a shadow root to create depth at the root area for a 3D effect. ...
  • Auburn. ...
  • Light blonde with turquoise highlights. ...
  • Ash gray.
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Will dying hair make it thicker?

One of the most well-known is that women often notice that their hair feels thicker after hair colouring, especially those with fine hair. In reality, the hair colouring process does not make hair fibers physically thicker but it can make hair fibers rougher, which can create the appearance and feel of thicker hair.
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Where do blondes originate from?

Naturally-occurring blond hair is primarily found in people living in or descended from people who lived in the northern half of Europe, and may have evolved alongside the development of light skin that enables more efficient synthesis of vitamin D, due to northern Europe's lower levels of sunlight.
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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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Why do blondes darken with age?

Follicles are structures in the skin that make and grow hair. With aging, the follicles make less melanin, and this causes the color to darken and then turn to gray.
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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 is the rarest hair eye combination?

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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What color eyes do most blondes have?

That makes the link between lighter eyes, hair, and skin tighter. So that's why you see people with blond hair typically have blue eyes!
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Which country has most blondes?

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 percent of blondes are fake?

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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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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Who has more hair blondes or redheads?

Both male and female blonds have more hair, with an average of 130,000 hairs, compared to 100,000 for brunettes and 80,000 for redheads. Redheads are often stereotyped as hot-tempered.
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Is brown hair healthier than blonde?

If you've been lightening your hair for years with highlights or single process, going darker will give the appearance of softer, shinier, healthier hair. The reason being darker colors fill in porous hair better making it look less, well, fried.
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Is blonde hair thicker than brown?

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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