Blonde, Blue-Eyed White Women

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I’m not sorry. I like all the attention I get from being blonde. Not sorry it bother you, either.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a natural platinum blonde, parents are Swedish. My hair is down to my waist and yes I get a lot of attention BUT mostly outside of the US. People in India literally followed me around. In the Middle East, people looked at me like I was alien, like they’d never seen someone like me. In Italy it was ciao Bella all day long, but truthfully they say that to anyone. Here in the US I really don’t think people care. When I wear no makeup and my hair in a bun, I look like a prairie girl on the farm because natural platinum blondes have white eyelashes and white eyebrows. Trust me I don’t wish this on my worst enemy. I would love to have mousy brown hair all day long and zero male attention, so I could have natural brow eyebrows and lashes. I would love to have olive skin and dark hair.

Oh, no! You poor thing! Ciao Bella, for real? And like you are an alien in the Middle East? Wow, my DD was turning heads in Italy too! And we lived in Egypt. But, DD is not a platinum blonde. She was a regular blonde at the time, and most of my friends were blonde many Dutch and English. So, here is the thing, people only touch the hair of kids, if you want to avoid this attention in the Middle East, maybe cover your hair??? As is the custom?
And cut the BS with "I would like to have brown hair," your post reeks of some idiotic narcissist love for your hair! At best, hair touching is slightly annoying, not the thing you do not wish on your worst enemy. How come no adults in my group had their hair touched in Egypt? We lived there for years! There is a bottle of color for you too, so cut the crap. DD died her blonde hair brown! It took less than half an hour!
I have never seen such a vapid post, apart from the one where she is Nordic blonde but not the U.S. blonde, people can tell her apart straight away by her looks and hoity-toity narcissism, which she called posh behavior or something. Are you her? I guess the stereotype is true!

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.

DP but you don't *have* to wear a hijab in any country except Iran and even that is iffy. The pp is just saying that if you honestly believed that your hair was causing a raucous, nothing stopped you from putting on a hijab.

Separately, I have a similar genetic makeup to yours and I have blonde hair, but in Jordan people asked if I was Jordanian. Iraq, Lebanon, etc are similar. Sorry, but we don't have the market cornered on the blonde gene. There are plenty of blondes in the ME. I think you just want to be different. Re: East Asian countries, yes, they are more racially homogeneous and being blonde is different. But in the Middle East, you're not special. I don't want to be mean but your insistence that people have never seen blonde people before seems a little ill-informed and offensive.

I'm have brown hair and I also got followed around in the Middle East. And got called out to in Italy. I'm not some Cindy Crawford type, either. Five feet tall, no boobs to speak of. Just saying that you might have been attributing the attention to your hair, when really it was that Western women are easy targets some places.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a natural platinum blonde, parents are Swedish. My hair is down to my waist and yes I get a lot of attention BUT mostly outside of the US. People in India literally followed me around. In the Middle East, people looked at me like I was alien, like they’d never seen someone like me. In Italy it was ciao Bella all day long, but truthfully they say that to anyone. Here in the US I really don’t think people care. When I wear no makeup and my hair in a bun, I look like a prairie girl on the farm because natural platinum blondes have white eyelashes and white eyebrows. Trust me I don’t wish this on my worst enemy. I would love to have mousy brown hair all day long and zero male attention, so I could have natural brow eyebrows and lashes. I would love to have olive skin and dark hair.

Oh, no! You poor thing! Ciao Bella, for real? And like you are an alien in the Middle East? Wow, my DD was turning heads in Italy too! And we lived in Egypt. But, DD is not a platinum blonde. She was a regular blonde at the time, and most of my friends were blonde many Dutch and English. So, here is the thing, people only touch the hair of kids, if you want to avoid this attention in the Middle East, maybe cover your hair??? As is the custom?
And cut the BS with "I would like to have brown hair," your post reeks of some idiotic narcissist love for your hair! At best, hair touching is slightly annoying, not the thing you do not wish on your worst enemy. How come no adults in my group had their hair touched in Egypt? We lived there for years! There is a bottle of color for you too, so cut the crap. DD died her blonde hair brown! It took less than half an hour!
I have never seen such a vapid post, apart from the one where she is Nordic blonde but not the U.S. blonde, people can tell her apart straight away by her looks and hoity-toity narcissism, which she called posh behavior or something. Are you her? I guess the stereotype is true!

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.

DP but you don't *have* to wear a hijab in any country except Iran and even that is iffy. The pp is just saying that if you honestly believed that your hair was causing a raucous, nothing stopped you from putting on a hijab.

Separately, I have a similar genetic makeup to yours and I have blonde hair, but in Jordan people asked if I was Jordanian. Iraq, Lebanon, etc are similar. Sorry, but we don't have the market cornered on the blonde gene. There are plenty of blondes in the ME. I think you just want to be different. Re: East Asian countries, yes, they are more racially homogeneous and being blonde is different. But in the Middle East, you're not special. I don't want to be mean but your insistence that people have never seen blonde people before seems a little ill-informed and offensive.

I'm have brown hair and I also got followed around in the Middle East. And got called out to in Italy. I'm not some Cindy Crawford type, either. Five feet tall, no boobs to speak of. Just saying that you might have been attributing the attention to your hair, when really it was that Western women are easy targets some places.

Yes to western women, but it is amplified the lighter you are and the less makeup you have on

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a natural platinum blonde, parents are Swedish. My hair is down to my waist and yes I get a lot of attention BUT mostly outside of the US. People in India literally followed me around. In the Middle East, people looked at me like I was alien, like they’d never seen someone like me. In Italy it was ciao Bella all day long, but truthfully they say that to anyone. Here in the US I really don’t think people care. When I wear no makeup and my hair in a bun, I look like a prairie girl on the farm because natural platinum blondes have white eyelashes and white eyebrows. Trust me I don’t wish this on my worst enemy. I would love to have mousy brown hair all day long and zero male attention, so I could have natural brow eyebrows and lashes. I would love to have olive skin and dark hair.

Oh, no! You poor thing! Ciao Bella, for real? And like you are an alien in the Middle East? Wow, my DD was turning heads in Italy too! And we lived in Egypt. But, DD is not a platinum blonde. She was a regular blonde at the time, and most of my friends were blonde many Dutch and English. So, here is the thing, people only touch the hair of kids, if you want to avoid this attention in the Middle East, maybe cover your hair??? As is the custom?
And cut the BS with "I would like to have brown hair," your post reeks of some idiotic narcissist love for your hair! At best, hair touching is slightly annoying, not the thing you do not wish on your worst enemy. How come no adults in my group had their hair touched in Egypt? We lived there for years! There is a bottle of color for you too, so cut the crap. DD died her blonde hair brown! It took less than half an hour!
I have never seen such a vapid post, apart from the one where she is Nordic blonde but not the U.S. blonde, people can tell her apart straight away by her looks and hoity-toity narcissism, which she called posh behavior or something. Are you her? I guess the stereotype is true!

I didn’t read all of this, because clearly you haven’t travelled much. You don’t have to wear a hijab in the UAE, Lebanon, Oman, Kurdistan, or Jordan where I travelled. People in China actually did touch my hair. I went out of my way to say it’s not so great being blonde, but you can’t get over your anti blonde obsession, so I don’t know what to tell you.

DP but you don't *have* to wear a hijab in any country except Iran and even that is iffy. The pp is just saying that if you honestly believed that your hair was causing a raucous, nothing stopped you from putting on a hijab.

Separately, I have a similar genetic makeup to yours and I have blonde hair, but in Jordan people asked if I was Jordanian. Iraq, Lebanon, etc are similar. Sorry, but we don't have the market cornered on the blonde gene. There are plenty of blondes in the ME. I think you just want to be different. Re: East Asian countries, yes, they are more racially homogeneous and being blonde is different. But in the Middle East, you're not special. I don't want to be mean but your insistence that people have never seen blonde people before seems a little ill-informed and offensive.

I'm have brown hair and I also got followed around in the Middle East. And got called out to in Italy. I'm not some Cindy Crawford type, either. Five feet tall, no boobs to speak of. Just saying that you might have been attributing the attention to your hair, when really it was that Western women are easy targets some places.

Yes to western women, but it is amplified the lighter you are and the less makeup you have on

Maybe, I don't know about makeup or not (I don't wear makeup). Just saying that PP thinking her blonde hair made her irresistible to men all over the world might be looking in the wrong direction. And I say that as someone who thinks blonde hair is stunning - I always have - but, just, my own experience traveling tells me that you do not need to be a blonde to get the attention PP is describing.

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Anonymous wrote:I was blonde with blue eyes and a big nose. Guess what? Features are more important than coloring. I pin spite of not being a beauty I’m having a wonderful life. Looks are definitely not everything!

You know if your face was the exact same but the color was brown or black with dark hair you would have a much different experience. You have definitely benefited from your light skin and blonde hair. And that’s okay, but you should acknowledge it.

** cough** Tori Spelling and Tiffany Trump would beg to differ with you. Unattractive is unattractive. Please don't try to make it anything other than what is is.

There is a reason they both dye their hair bleach blonde, they know it softens their ugly and they will be more accepted.

Even with her daddy connections, Tori would not have had the role she had on TV without the blonde hair.
And Tiffany could not pass muster to land her boyfriend without the bottle blond. Guys will look beyond some ugly if there is makeup, short dresses and have blond hair.

Funny. I think they would both look better with brown hair especially, Tiffany. The blonde is actually what works against them because it highlights the akwardness of the shape of their faces.

Blonde hair distracts from a face, dark hair frames a face.

If you put a yellow picture frame on a portrait, you would notice the frame first.
If you put a black or brown frame on a portrait, you notice the face first.

True

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sorry. I like all the attention I get from being blonde. Not sorry it bother you, either.

It no bother me! You need not to worry.

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Brunette / red hair with light eyes is also common in Afghanistan.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m brunette and olive skin, though I have blue eyes. Also part Italian

I have never felt this at all. But, Brooke Shields and Cindy Crawford and Phoebe Cates and Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington and Andie McDowell and Catherine Zeta Jones and Courtney Cox and Jennifer Connolly and Helena Christensen were all very popular so I do not feel like it was a blonde thing... and that was the 80s.

Brunette with olive skin and brown eyes here. I believe there was a turning point with the rise of the celebrities you mentioned above. Prior to that time I remember celebrity idols, baby dolls, barbie dolls, etc... being predominately blonde with blue eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophia Loren types have always been hot.

What I would like to see is a female equivalent to Adam Driver: a woman with a freakishly weird pancake face who is considered hot.

I feel like Anjelica Huston is the female equivalent--they are both jolie laide.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

What is your point? Are you just trying to make redheads feel bad?

-brown haired, brown eyed person with no horse in this race.

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I'm blonde, blue-eyed, about as Nordic as it gets (both parents are Nordic, all four grandparents were also from that specific Nordic country).

I never think about my "palette" unless someone brings it up, which is never. I have had to deal with the occasional person who assumes I am dumb as a rock because of how I look, though, or that I'm a princess type. They find out otherwise eventually. We Nordics let our actions speak for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

What is your point? Are you just trying to make redheads feel bad?

-brown haired, brown eyed person with no horse in this race.

I mean, I'm not in the UK and maybe it's really different there, but I've never felt discriminated against, reviled or hated because of my red hair in the US! Almost invariably, I am complimented on my hair (exception, when I was a young kid). Some men (I avoid to be frank) have a fetish. Traveled for weeks in the UK as a tourist with never any negativity for what it's worth.

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Dark haired Elizabeth Taylor was always my personal favorite standard of beauty.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Not because I look like that, but yes, I love the look. Imitating it is very difficult for other complexions. Perhaps it used to be a beauty ideal. It’s more now. But isn’t it all about scarcity? Green eyes are the most recessive trait, then red hair, then blondes and blue eyes to follow. That might spell a huge return for this type of beauty ideal quite soon.

Blue eyed brunettes are pretty rare.

Blue-eyes/red hair is the rarest combination in the world, more rare than green eyes/red hair or brown-eyes/red hair.

It's also been the target of much hate and reviled in many places around the world. Even with the whole 'red-headed step child' thing.

Or the bar drink the 'red headed sl*t" (Jagermeister, peach schnapps, cranberry)

To be a 'ginger' in the UK was to be reviled. And, in latin American countries they were seen as the devil. Carrot-top, Bozo the Clown, copper-top, ginger-nut, ginger minger, bluey (among Australians), Duracell, Ronald McDonald, Simply Red, Queen Elizabeth. And so on

Ginger is still seen as a derogatory term. South Park came out with the episode "Ginger Kids" that said, among other things, that gingers were sick, evil, and had no souls. "You have no soul!" has become a common accusation directed towards redheads that is often viewed as acceptable in normal society, even at schools and work. This discrimination against redheads is often overlooked, ignored, or discounted because most redheads are white and part of a racial majority in the areas where they are persecuted.

In the UK--60% of redheads have faced discrimination because of their hair color:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6725653.stm

https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/05/why-britain-needs-a-law-against-ginger-discrimination-6427955/

What is your point? Are you just trying to make redheads feel bad?

-brown haired, brown eyed person with no horse in this race.

I mean, I'm not in the UK and maybe it's really different there, but I've never felt discriminated against, reviled or hated because of my red hair in the US! Almost invariably, I am complimented on my hair (exception, when I was a young kid). Some men (I avoid to be frank) have a fetish. Traveled for weeks in the UK as a tourist with never any negativity for what it's worth.

I have relatives and a few friends with red hair and I think it's a strong reaction one way or another. Some people absolutely despise red hair and others love it. I don't think brunettes and blondes garner as much of that 'love it or hate it' thing. The shade and the face/skin tone really matter. Orange vs auburn vs a fiery...if it's off it can go bad and brassy. I think when people start to go grey and try to dye it is when the look can really turn--it's a shade that is hard to get right when coloring and it fades very fast.