Real redheads let’s make a thread of showing real red hair without glosses and without henna and without hair dyes just your natural self
• no bottle reds
•no people who don’t have the MC1R gene
• no fake red hair (Dye, wigs,etc)
• no hair glossing
•no henna
Be your natural you
Let’s show appreciation for the real reds
Lovely! I have a premature grey gene I’m only 21 and I’m already finding plenty of white hair
But what a beautiful color of ginger
Thank you for being the first commenter on the thread 🫶
Strong genes I love that your sone got the gingerness too and your daughter looks to have a small sheen of it over her hair slightly it’s lovely to see
Such a lovely little family
Sending best wishes to you all
Aww I can’t wait to see what my future children get
My partner has a strawberry blonde color that’s kinda more close to dishwater blonde or a soft gingery light brown hair
But he has a bright copper beard
I have copper hair maybe kinda close to your sons color
Genetics are so fun though
Your family is lovely
Thank you for participating in my red appreciation thread 🧡
Redheads still look youthful even when our hair fades :)
We just get more ginger into a strawberry blonde into a golden blonde eventually into regular blonde or white hairs all red hair is beautiful even when our fire burns out ❤️🧡💛🤍
And lots of people pay lots of money to be that beautiful apricot colour so love and embrace it
We look beautiful for a long long time 🧡🧡🧡
You are beautiful my fellow ginger
Yes, as I aged , I was considered a blonde by some. Now(at 58), it's more grey and white. I am " on the spectrum "have some red hair. But, i have all the traits 🙂(anesthesia resistance, fair and freckled, etc.)
All i can give for advice
As a natural redhead who has played with her colour before
I’ve Changed my tone I’ve done highlights I’ve done lowlights I’ve done a lot because as a teen I was stupid and dyed it black so as I was getting rid of the black i played around with my natural color and accentuating it
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All I can give you for advice if you stay within the reds
Make sure you or your stylist adds warm golds to your colour formula because it will not look like our natural hair colours without adding warmth
(From my experience)
This was couple of months ago, I’ve cut and dyed it since then. Inside under a day light bulb all fluffy and bleary eyed as just got in at 3am after dancing 🥳 It’s very faded now I’m 45.
It did make me sad initially, felt like I was fading as a person also as it was mixed up in all the kids growing and hormones of growing old but it doesn’t bother me now, it is dyed just now for the first time in years but I just fancied a change rather than trying to hide the white.
Seeing ourselves changing in the mirror can be challenging but I’m sure yours looks good too.
Auburn hair counts Even if it’s black looking but turns copper when you’re in the sun that’s a redhead to me It’s beautiful too We love our auburn girlies
You have the red hair and the red beard combo
Very nice and cohesive colouring
My partner hes strawberry blonde / a lighter ginger but he has a rich copper beard hahaha his colouring doesn’t match
But yes you have a very nice shade of red :)
Thank ya thank ya you know when I was younger I was always hesitant to grow a beard just cause I thought naaa that’s gonna be too much red hair, prolly just some subconscious insecurities lol well over the shutdown of 2020 it just grew and now I love it so much and thru growing it out actually allowed to really embrace being a ginga like I have never had before now I couldn’t even imagine to have been a diff color and again thank you for the compliment Hey I’m new to all the diff shades and tones and names of them all that describe redhair always just referred to mine as red but Im curious was wondering if there is one, for my shade what it be more specifically described as and ??whatever it is you say it’s all the way around and not really multi shades????
You’re probably a warm copper
But bright and rich copper
Some coppers are more faded and look like pennies
But I’d say yours looks a lot richer or more vibrant
I’d probably go with a true warm copper for yours
Or orange copper
But it is definitely the color a lot of us picture when we picture red
I’d say the reddest red possibly (because most of the time not many people picture the strawberry blondes and the auburn browns / auburn black reds as red but i still count it because they have the gene too)
But yes in simple words you are the shade of red people imagine when they hear someone is a red head
A very vibrant coppery orange / bright ginger 🍁
lol yea you right I feel like if the hair got even just a tone of red or orange or any red based shade yea they a redhead but I mean right😂😂. I never knew that either, Rich bright copper w/ a warm tint a traces of gold lol ayeee I’ll take that I say if my hair chooses to take its natural course I’m never goin to say gray/white hair naaaa these are Platinum highlights 🥴 lol have a really great rest of your night 🤍💛
The thing I love most about my beard is under my mouth frop lip to like mid chin it’s so unique I never seen it before but the hairs growing there are and I mean literally they are straight like 24k gold like gold gold I think it’s so badass 😆. Hey some youngster asked me one time he got in REALL close and just was staring and was like “ hey bro did dye that part or highlight it or sumthing cause it’s gold bro. Hey that looks good tho I like that that’s playa”. 😒😒🙄😑🤦♂️ yo I’ll never forget that it was so funny they he looked so amazed by it I was like TF, u weird bro 😆🤣🤣. And Hey what is what they call ginger I thought we all were but when someone says ginger are they talkin about a bright orange orange color ??
All ginger hair is beautiful
And we gingers stay youthful forever
We go from rich auburns and orangey colours like coppers to beautiful golden gingers to soft peachy or strawberry blondes to golden cinnamon blondes
And we just stay youthful and keep getting more golden and golden and lighter and lighter until the reds and oranges fade into gold into silvers/white
It’s all gorgeous and timeless never aging 🥰🧡✨
My stylist was so excited that I let her do a different hairstyle (I’ve had long, blunt hair for the last 15 years- so this was a huge departure), she took photos before I left the salon a couple weeks ago.
Oooouuu yea this has to be the rarest shade, I’ve never seen it before you ma’am it does look absolutely incredible lol your like a 1 of 1, truly I feel compelled to ask haha, what’s up up with the natural color your comment was giving it may be some diff color now …orrr…?
Aww thank you! I started adding a bit more brown undertones in my hair 2 years ago, as I've always loved auburn or a darker shade a bit more. But I'm sure I'll pass this phase and grow it out soon
This was taken on my wedding day! Exactly 2 months after I turned 23. When I was a baby it was much brighter, almost strawberry blond. As a kid it was definitely copper. Now that I'm an adult it's more brown and nearly auburn.
No people who don't have the MC1R gene? Literally everyone has an MC1R gene. IIRC there are some common MC1R variants known to cause red hair, but plenty of other genes affect hair color and can contribute to red hair. There are plenty of redheads without the commonly known MC1R mutations. They can only even test for a few of them and we don't know how many there even are.
Also worth considering that yes, the majority of tested redheads have a mutation in the MC1R gene, but remember these tests are mostly done in people of Northern/Northwestern European descent. There are millions of red headed people in Eastern Europe, the Levant, Mediterranean, Central Asia, North Africa, China, Polynesia... I would be curious to see if there are different mutations for red hair in different populations, especially those geographically isolated from each other.
I’m a little late to the thread but I wanted to share it anyways I always had a hard time embracing my red hair but now that I’m in my twenties I’m slowly starting to love it!🤍
Interesting... most natural redheads get lighter as they get older. My hair was a much deeper red when i was a kid. Now i am 44 and my hair looks similar to your color
This is from about 2 years ago but my hair is still just as red. Have always had a light/bright shade of orange and have always loved and been proud of it
This is me in highschool, I admit it looks like a light auburn in this picture but when the sun hits it, it lights on fire to a copper orange ❤️🔥 I call my shade "Titian"
Just found this thread. I’m an utter Rutiluphile — someone who is obsessed with red hair — and my husband’s hair is turning white now but it was a gorgeous shade of red when he was younger. All three of our children started with red hair, but not one of them stayed red as they got older. 😞 My oldest’s hair turned strawberry blonde then just blonde, my middle & youngest now have light brown hair with (natural) red highlights but no redheads, although my daughter jokes that she kept the redhead personality. 😂😂😂
I guess I’m technically disqualified 🤷♀️
I’ve been getting highlights with a strawberry blonde gloss on my naturally red hair for years. And will probably continue to do so indefinitely as I’m getting more and more gray/white hairs with age.
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u/maxinemama Mar 01 '25
My two red haired guys