Why gingers are evil

Because they were getting less sun — and hence, less vitamin D — their bodies evolved to have lighter skin, which would absorb more of the vitamin. Along the way, that mutation in the MC1R gene occurred. But it wasn't just one mutation: There are three different mutations of the MC1R that cause red hair.

Two of them occurred in West Asia roughly 70, years ago, while another sprung up in Europe around 30, years ago. Scotland is the most redheaded country, with 13 per cent of the population sporting fiery locks. Experts attribute this to virile, redheaded Vikings hundreds of years ago. Virile Vikings are likely behind all those Scottish and Irish gingers. Redheads comprise only about 1 to 2 per cent of the world's population, but they make up a whopping 13 per cent of Scotland's inhabitants, and 10 per cent of Ireland.

So how come there's such a high concentration in those two countries? Many Vikings likely had red hair, and their trade routes took then around northwestern Europe, including Scandanavia and the British Isles — where, it seems, they spread their seed from the s to about People have been dying their hair red for millennia.

La Rosa was inspired to dig into Cleopatra's past after reading a rumor that the Egyptian queen was a redhead. Though she definitely wasn't born that way, there's evidence that suggest she adopted the color using henna dye, as many of her contemporaries did. And Cleopatra, who ruled over Egypt for more than twenty years, also chose to be on the throne with dyed ginger locks. In fact, the British Museum even houses a mummy from around BC that has 'tufts of ginger-colored hair' — and has thus been nicknamed 'Ginger.

Molly Ringwald, whose red hair in '80s films like The Breakfast Club was iconic, is actually a natural brunette. Cynthia Nixon, who was copper-haired throughout Sex and the City, is naturally blonde, too. Some of Hollywood's favorite red-headed celebs are faking it. It may feel like a betrayal to learn that some of Hollywood's most iconic redheads are in fact — gasp! And blondes. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

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View all. Bing Site Web Enter search term: Search. According to the Huffington Post, each strand of red hair is generally thicker than those other shades which compensates for the fact that redheads have less hair.

Apparently on average we have 90, strands while blondes have ,, and brunettes have , Growing up as a ginger child will give you thicker skin. However, not enough thick skin to make you less sensitive to anesthesia. This is true. A growing body of research shows that people with red hair need greater doses of anesthesia and are often resistant to local pain blockers like Novocaine. The reason I would not sleep a week before getting my wisdom teeth out was because of the scarring horror stories of redheads waking up sooner after surgery than others with different hair colors.

Even worse, some redheads have reported to wake up during the procedure itself, feeling everything! At least once a day, an elderly woman asks if my color is real, and sighs once I tell her the truth. The Huffington post claims that as a redhead ages, his or her hair initially tends to turn blonde, which then eventually turns white. Many hairstylists claim that red hair will never turn grey, but instead simply fade to white through the shade of rose gold when the time comes.

This is a myth, for sure. From my appearance, I look like I should be pictured on a Lucky Charms cereal box. The fact is, though, I am not Irish. Every St. We should count ourselves lucky, though. In the past we got far worse abuse — we could even have been killed for being born with red hair!

Well, popular imagery is a good place to start, and defining the colour red in terms of what it represents. Red is traditionally a colour associated with anger, blood, passion and consequently, sin.

Think of old Christian paintings; the colour of the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge is red. Cue absolute terror. View our Halloween costume for redheads tutorial for Chuckie. The only ginger villain throughout the James Bond series so far, anyway , the egg-shaped Goldfinger also featured in the top 40 Best AFI villains of all time. By far his greatest moment, and what sets him apart from other villains in our list, is his sadistic tendency to not only tell the entirety of his evil plans while Bond is strapped to a table about to be cut in half with a laser, but to cut him in half from the crotch upwards.

By a long margin, Syndrome from The Incredibles is the most likeable and yet sadistic of the ginger villains. And he does a fantastic job of it, too.