Same with Swedes and other Scandinavians. My fiancé is of Swedish decent on his mom's side (I think he's third generation out) and while he has typical blond hair—albeit darker than what you see in the movies—he does get a WICKED red beard. Like, legit red. Dark red. Blood red. He can't fully grow it out because he also has the 'fuck that shit, I ain't growing' beard gene too. A full red Viking beard on him would be magnificent.
Oh MAN, that is so COOL. (I'm also pretty jealous. I come from a family descended from mediterreneans and plain ol' black-haired americans, there's literally absolutely nothing exciting about us or our pigmentation. If our menfolk tan, they look like turkish stereotypes, if they stay pasty, they become like an army of lumberjack clones. It also doesn't help us ladies because we also sprout as much dark hair as the fellas (and sometimes, the combo of pale winter skin and dark hair just makes our faces look grey).
I have Celtic in my heritage and I was born with beautiful red hair. Not the gingery red, but the dark red. Sadly, as I got older my hair bleached out to blonde. So, that's an option too. Many blonde haired people may have been born legit redheads but the sun and other genes bleached out their hair.
Oh wow, still it's really interesting how red hair can shift colors depending on a person's environment (dark hair just...stays the same most of the time). It's even got me wondering about some of the people in Morocco (especially where my mom used to grow up in. When I last stayed there in 2004, we constantly saw little girls who were sub-saharan in ethnicity and skin color, but had bright coppery red hair or brassy blonde hair. Just seeing the mixture of bright colors with their dark skin was really cool too see). I NEVER understood the whole 'redheads are ugly' stereotype because it looks gorgeous on both europeans and africans, especially since every shade from red to blonde looks gorgeous!
OMG, I HOPE WE HAVE REDHEAD BABIES. :D
Fingers crossed! XD red haired kids are the cutest (white skinned or brown!)
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Oh MAN, that is so COOL. (I'm also pretty jealous. I come from a family descended from mediterreneans and plain ol' black-haired americans, there's literally absolutely nothing exciting about us or our pigmentation. If our menfolk tan, they look like turkish stereotypes, if they stay pasty, they become like an army of lumberjack clones. It also doesn't help us ladies because we also sprout as much dark hair as the fellas (and sometimes, the combo of pale winter skin and dark hair just makes our faces look grey).
I have Celtic in my heritage and I was born with beautiful red hair. Not the gingery red, but the dark red. Sadly, as I got older my hair bleached out to blonde. So, that's an option too. Many blonde haired people may have been born legit redheads but the sun and other genes bleached out their hair.
Oh wow, still it's really interesting how red hair can shift colors depending on a person's environment (dark hair just...stays the same most of the time). It's even got me wondering about some of the people in Morocco (especially where my mom used to grow up in. When I last stayed there in 2004, we constantly saw little girls who were sub-saharan in ethnicity and skin color, but had bright coppery red hair or brassy blonde hair. Just seeing the mixture of bright colors with their dark skin was really cool too see). I NEVER understood the whole 'redheads are ugly' stereotype because it looks gorgeous on both europeans and africans, especially since every shade from red to blonde looks gorgeous!
OMG, I HOPE WE HAVE REDHEAD BABIES. :D
Fingers crossed! XD red haired kids are the cutest (white skinned or brown!)