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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read an article somewhere the other day about why men often have red beards even if they don't otherwise have red haired. It said that there are two types of pigment, one for brown and one for red. I'm guessing that your brown pigment is fading away with age, but your red isn't, so you're not going grey, you're getting more red. Like how leaves turn color in fall. [/quote]

Op here.  Thanks for such a nice metaphor! I like it! It might be connected to melanin, or my lack of melanin....[/quote]

Here's the article.  Not a scientific journal or anything, but there's random red hair in my family (including my younger brother's lumberjack style beard) so I thought it was interesting.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-do-so-many-men-have-red-beards-but-not-red-hair[/quote]

Thank you so much for this article!  That explains so much. Some of that might be why my mom kept going on and on that I am just like my great grandma, who was a redhead, and I thought my mom was imagining things.  This pheomelanin that seems to be more present in type I skin also might explain why I have skin cancer(removed and all clear right now, luckily) and burn, never tan skin, like I mentioned. I just did some more research and there are theories that pheomelanin might actually contribute to UV skin damage. Thanks again, I didn't even know until now about this pheomelanin. And my DS will not allow me at all to say it out loud, he is a teen, but his brown hair is kind of auburn in the summer, to be honest probably because he spends a lot of time in the sun.[/quote]

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