What about our gorgeous, thick hair? Dolly Parton sings about it, it’s the focal point flowing in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and Arial’s best feature in the Little Mermaid - It is also scientifically proven that each strand of red hair is generally thicker than other shades. It’s also pretty difficult to get a perfect shade of red if you want to be one of us; the dye molecules in red hair dye are larger than other hues – meaning they can’t penetrate the hair as deeply as other colours, sorry.

It’s no secret that redheads grew up being teased for having no souls or whatever. I remember once my future BFF of primary school told me (ON MY FIRST DAY) my hair was ugly. I was wearing a green polar fleece and camo cargo’s with blue pulp shoes that day, way to burst my bubble of coolness. Anyway, we became friends, had a gang of mates who hung out on a seesaw and started a band lol, we were 9.

I asked some of my friends to share their favourite and not so favourite thing about being a redhead, this is what they said:

👩‍🦰 Pros: Gingers are kind of out there looking and I'm into it. Different shades of ginger, too - no two gingers are the same. Cons: You burn in the sun, and people can be quite fetishy about redheads...

👨‍🦰 My fave thing I think is when you get older and cooler than all the bullies that made fun of you for something you couldn't change.

👩‍🦰 There’s not many of us so it’s different and fun, green makes us look good, kids think your magical or Ariel (The Little Mermaid), we stand out in a crowd - so never get lost at a festival, and our hair looks super good in the sun!

👩‍🦰 I guess that red is seen as both powerful and sexy in adulthood. It glimmers in the light more than other colours and each strand of hair is a uniquely different colour, haha mine is anyway. Hot and fiery. I love that it’s a colour that is hard to match with dyes making it more unique, and that every redhead kinda gets each other -like a mutual bond and understanding. The bad: I’m not sure what it would be like nowadays as a kid with red hair but back when we were young it was the target for teasing. The word Ging-er. And the fact that we can burn and blush easy. Love the freckle part now, but hated it as a kid.

How to make a redhead bebe?

Both parents have to be carriers of the MC1R gene - red hair is recessive, so even if you aren’t a redhead, you may be carrying that gene. If one of the parents is a redhead and the other isn’t but carries the redhead gene, there’s a 50/50 chance you’ll have a red hair baby. If both parents are carriers but don’t have red hair, you’ve got a 25% chance. If both parents are ginger - jackpot! But sadly, if even one parent doesn’t hold that lucky MC1R gene, there’s no chance of seeing red.