Ginger Children (Proper Orange Ginger)

[bednobs]

let me satrt by saying this is not an anti-ginger post. when i was at school there was one ginger (carrot top) boy there, and i don't know any ginger people now really. However, i have noticed a LOT of ginger children recently - there are about six at my daughter's nursery, 3 in my road, there were 4 in special care when she was there and so on. I see ginger children everywhere. My serious question is this - are there just more ginger people around? Do people grow out of orange ginger as they grow up? Or something else at work?

[katerich48]

You may be right. As I noticed my ginger cousins hair the other day is much lighter now - not nearly so red more of a "strawberry blond" Maybe it fades with age...

[nungate]

Mine did. My husband had bright ginger hair when he was younger, it has since "dimmed" to a lovely champagne blond colour. When I was pregnant I was convinced that the baby would also have ginger hair, but she didn't, she's a brunette, though I suspect her children might inherit the ginger hair

[237SJ]

We have quite a lot here as we have had an influx of Irish Traveller kids. Quite a lot of those have ginger/sandy hair.

[ummmm]

I think maybe as adults we notice them more.

They do grow out of being orange. My OH was orange until his late 20's. Now, although he's still ginger, it looks browner.

My uncle who was also orange has gone grey but looks blonde.

[paddywak]

My niece has two grandsons, 6 and 3 who are both gingernuts and they show no sign of changing colour. Their dad, a Scots lad, his two brothers and sister in fact all his close family that I've met all have ginger hair. Having said that I can't recall any locals with ginger hair.

[237SJ]

We get quite a lot of Hasidic Jews at work. Quite a fair few of them have sandy hair. I have always wondered where that comes from being that they claim that their homeland is in the Middle East (which would mean that they are dark, not ginger/sandy)

[askyourgran]

I used to have a class mate with ginger hair (carroty) she had very pale skin and was shy and quiet. When we did PE she used to have Thermogene (a pink smelly sort of heat inducing cotton wool, not unlike loft insulation.) tucked all around her chest inside her vest. Poor lass. My neice was born with a gingerish tone and her mum was a bit put out. Now she's eleven and it's a lovely pale blond. Today I saw a young lad with a very dark auburn hair it was lovely.

[pixie373]

Mine has gone lighter, from orange to strawberry blonde. Have a ginger and an auburn daughter, so will see with them. My mum's also went from ginger to strawberry blonde.

[Sharingan]

Here you are, everything you ever wanted to know about red hair but were afraid ( or not) to ask:)
http://www.eupedia.com/genetics/origins_of_red_hair.shtml

[ummmm]

Highest in Ireland....what a surprise :-)

[Ric.ror]

My light ginger hair has faded to a blonde now
I think it's the grey that lightens it
I don't care I'm not dyeing all this mop just for a bit of grey at the sides

And I used to be a hair model!!!!