Facts about Blondes, Brunettes and Redheads

•  The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least at 80,000; brown and black-haired persons have about 100,000; blondes have the most - around 120,000.

•  Bees are thought to sting redheads more than those with other hair colors.

•  The highest percentage of natural redheads in the world is in Scotland (13%), followed closely by Ireland with 10%. In the U.S., about 2% of the population are natural redheads.

•  A 2002 study found that redheads are harder to sedate than blondes or brunettes, requiring twenty percent more anesthesia.

•  The word blonde was first attested in English in 1481 and derives from the Old French “blont”, meaning "a color midway between golden and light chestnut".

•  Blonde hair is most common in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands.

•  Blonde hair is more common in babies and younger children and tends to turn
darker with age.

•  Worldwide, brunette is the second most common hair color, with black being the most common.

•  The term ”brunette” is the feminine of the French “brunet”, which is a diminutive
of brun, brune - meaning brown, ultimately from the Latin brunus (brown). Brunette
literally means “little brown-haired girl".

•  60 percent of women who dye their hair do so at home: 26 percent choose to go blonde, 27 percent go brunette, 30 percent decide to become redheads and 17 percent choose other colors.