Is natural deep red hair in adults rarer then orange/coppery shades?

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• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone with hair that could be described as both natural AND scarlet or cherry. Natural red hair does have an orangey hue to it.

  I’m not speaking as a red hair owner though. Just a lifelong fan.

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  • alexander1999@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I actually hear that some people met redheads with the scarlet/cherry tones in adulthood. I guess it’s more rare to actually keep it into adulthood without it browning into auburn

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    • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Personally never seen natural cherry red hair. Always a dye.

      I’m not sure humans can make that color. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair

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  • Bratosch@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh brother, we are many fans out there.

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• Norin@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Brand new account with 9 posts about hair color.

  I gotta ask, what’s behind is?

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• dsilverz@catodon.rocks ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
  
  Not sure how much it applies to IRL genetics, but I learned through Blender Principled Hair shader and its official manual (yeah, I'm aware this is a very strange way to learn something related to genetics and biology, and may sound a lot like non-sequitur before the subject of the question) that the ratio between eumelanin and pheomelanin (which seems to plays a role in hair redness) for deep red hair is somewhere in-between (i.e. somewhere around 50% or more) a blonde hair and a black hair (which makes sense if we were to think about it: red hair is neither brighter as blonde hair, nor darker as brown/black hair, it's something in-between). I had to tinker with these values in order to conjure a character (specifically, Lilith, who is often seen/believed among ritualistic practitioners, including by myself, as red-haired) with a black-to-red hair.
  
  Therefore having the exact balance needed for deep red hair to happen naturally seems mathematically/statistically rare (especially due to the biological dynamics between recessive vs dominant genes).
  
  Also, (now talking about something outside 3D art, from more IRL-grounded observation) red-hairedness seems to be often present alongside zygomatic rubor/blush (as in, redder cheek, seen among e.g. some Irish people), likely due to the same genes which give the eumelanin-pheomelanin ratio to be closer to 50%.
  
  Again, I'm not knowledgeable about the subject matter, I'm just sharing something I've observed from my whole neurodiverse hyperfocused perspective, an esoteric artist who've been doing art depicting Lilith in Her anthropomorphic manifestation as a powerful red-haired entity and have been pivoted to 3D art in Blender recently, and red-hairedness calls to my attention precisely because it reminds me of Lilith and how She often manifests during my gnosis.

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My sister has the dark red hair I think you’re talking about — at a glance people would call it auburn, but when the light catches it you see it’s really a dark red (not orange). My extended family going back generations has hints of this, but in everyone else it’s mostly been a red tint to another colour. I don’t know anyone else who has actual naturally red hair.

  She gets the flush cheeks and freckles of the traditional orange redhead too; that seems to go with the hair, as nobody else in the family has that complexion (and yes, she’s my genetic sister).

  Just a single anecdote, but I hope it helps.

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  • alexander1999@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So does it actually glow red outdoors as well as stays red indoors, too? I hear for auburns, it turns brown indoors, but for the redheads that have the deep red that stays visibly red indoors, and it’s not fake, that’s truly something special

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s red inside too.

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• Kurtagag@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dont know but mine is going much darker as I age. Its more like reddish brown now. As opposed to orange. My pubes on the other hand…

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  • alexander1999@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’re saying you actually had the scarlet/cherry tones when you were younger?

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My auntie had red hair, green eyes, freckles galore. She was awesome. Unfortunately she smoked and died very young from cancer. Very painful death. The world needs more redheads.

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  • alexander1999@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Was her hair more of the deep red or lighter red?

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Light bright red.

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