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I live in the U.S. Midwest and I've been a natural blonde my entire life - six decades.
My hair was platinum-white when I was in elementary school and it turned golden blonde when I was a teen. It has remained blonde, although there's some grey mixed in now.
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I am blonde but I was a lighter blond as you were, as a child, like PJ Singer. What my parents called Scandinavian blonde - as opposed to German blonde which is somewhat darker, according to my family, at least. (I am both German and Scandinavian)
Now in my 50s, I have some grey and since my hair is kind of dishwater blonde, I put some highlights in it. I still think of myself as a natural blonde, though.
Want to see blondes? Visit your local Lutheran church on a Sunday morning.
I still see quite a few "true blondes" in this country. Esp. the blonde females who are some of the most beautiful in the world with that spectacular bright "yellow" hair color.
Although from what I have read, redheads are becoming more and more rare. Also people with blue eyes are dropping in numbers here on Planet Earth.
Sounds like my story! I'm 67, of Norwegian and English descent, and still definitely blond, as are our two grown daughters (and most of our grandchildren, who are still very young).
I was a naturally bright blonde until I cut my hair off into a very short cut at about age 48..... now I am more of a dishwater blonde with some silver streaks showing up.....
Very few people are born white albino and have white eyebrows after the age of 14, but some do. Most people that claim to be blond were only blond for a fleeting moment in childhood, and hair colour quickly turned brown after 14, also known as "dirty blond"; the Germanic hair colour.
Celebrated blonds have an extra advantage over all others, including white men, because they have blond recessive genes. I can't imagine how a Chinese dark eye, dark hair, and Asian features would relate to a real blond, but I suspect it would not be normal ... along the lines of catty.
Dark blond hair is pretty common in adults. Many adult women just dont like the mousiness of it so they dye it. On adult men, it is often cut short and is less notiacable.
Many people mistake the mousy, dark blond color for brown, but it woulnt be classified as such according to levels of pigment. So some of what people thought think is light brown is really a "dishwater" blond, as true brown hair is much richer, having more pigment.
If you mean toeheaded or very light golden blonds, yeah, those are less common, but havent they always been?
As for these going "extinct" because of ethnic mixing, that is not how genes work. I'm no expert and I'll spare you many details, but the more people mix, the greater the genetic variation and the greater variety of gene expression and "phenotypes" (which is what leads to an appearance....although I may be mixing terms up).
There are other myths too, such as "dark is dominant". People think there is a brown eye gene or something....no, there is not a single gene that determines eye color or hair color, etc.
I actually think the more people mix, the greater variety people will see in their own children. It will be a great future, because if humans can have children of what we now would call "different races", then racism may be lessened, as we will recognize a greater variety as "one of our own". I think we will also see MORE occurances of blond hair, light eyes, etc, because more people will be "carrying" the genes for it.
The actress Carly Schroeder is one of few natural blondes I have ever seen in Hollywood. There's a woman at my job that has natural blonde hair too. It's definitely rare. You'll have much better luck in Sweden finding a mate like that.
Not really. A lot of the blondes in Sweden are bottle-blondes. Even one of Sweden's princesses bleached her dark-brown hair for awhile, but now she's back to her natural color.
You are a strange person. Blonde hair really isn't that uncommon.
This. OP, my blonde gf had 3 blonde kids. She's of northern Swedish and Finnish heritage, and also Dutch. People are cranking out blonds left and right, not sure why you have trouble finding them.
They're very rare where I live (San Francisco Bay Area). Mostly because a large percentage are Asian, Latino, or black. The white people tend to be of Irish or Italian descent (typically brunette groups).
I'm a quarter Scandinavian myself, but also a quarter Israeli and half West Asian. Dark blonde as a kid, not anymore. I have jet black hair now. I do have blue eyes though.
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