Friday, October 2nd, 2009
This is simply disgusting and sad. I can't believe how rude people can be. What is going on in the UK?
Did anyone else notice how the man giving the interview was trying to 'play it down', minimize it? He was inferring that it cannot be that bad now as an ...
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Felicia Day responded like many of us redheads do respond to the question, does the carpet match the drapes?:
Shocked, offended, slightly embarrassed and then agitated. If you have to ask, you will probably never find out.
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
A delightful case of pheomelanism
Originally uploaded by e³°°°
Redhead Day 2009, Breda (the Netherlands) see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redheadday & www.roodharigen.nl
The pigment pheomelanin gives red hair its distinctive colour. Red hair has far more pheomelanin than other hair colours, but far less of the dark pigment eumelanin.
The genetics of red hair, discovered in 1997, ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
According to National Geographic, which is of course the go-to source of information for all things exotic, approximately only 1 to 2% of the human population has red hair. With the help of Clairol and Henna hair dyes we've seen this number artificially boosted. So, is your hot tempered new ...
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
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It is a pity we missed this year's Redhead Day (or any of the previous celebrations!) but we couldn't wait to share this event with you---even if it is almost year away! Besides, those of us in the United States ...
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