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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.

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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.

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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.

Really? I'm black multiracial and have blue eyes (a lot of black/brown folks where my parents are from have blue, gray, or green eyes). I'd imagine it's even more common among actual white people.

My sister is a blue-eyed brunette. Half of my cousins are browned haired green eyes people. My friend from Romania is a blue-eyed brunette. My friend's dd who is part South American, part Egyptian is a blue-eyed brunette. My dad was the same, my aunt from my mom's side is the same. I am Slavic and Balkan, something there, who knows, a ton of people there have blue eyes and brown hair.

In turkey too- lots of dark hair and light eyes. But I do think it is much more rare than the brown/brown or blonde/blue combo

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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.

True there are blondes in the ME, but few, and even fewer natural. And you do stick out and draw tons of unwanted attention. Unless you are totally ugly, but even then. To say otherwise is laughable.

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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.

Green/blue eyes (teal I guess) brunette. I get a lot of looks- which i do think because it is unusual. Rarity attracts attention.

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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.

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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.

Really? I'm black multiracial and have blue eyes (a lot of black/brown folks where my parents are from have blue, gray, or green eyes). I'd imagine it's even more common among actual white people.

My sister is a blue-eyed brunette. Half of my cousins are browned haired green eyes people. My friend from Romania is a blue-eyed brunette. My friend's dd who is part South American, part Egyptian is a blue-eyed brunette. My dad was the same, my aunt from my mom's side is the same. I am Slavic and Balkan, something there, who knows, a ton of people there have blue eyes and brown hair.

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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.

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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.

Really? I'm black multiracial and have blue eyes (a lot of black/brown folks where my parents are from have blue, gray, or green eyes). I'd imagine it's even more common among actual white people.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Naomi Watts?With her insanely terrible skin?

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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.