Comments on: Embrace Your “Red Hair”!

By: Jessalyn Reid

Jessalyn Reid — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:51:00 +0000

I’m a natural redhead too and I LOVE the message you’re trying to send but what I don’t love is that you’re implying having red hair is the same as “hobbit feet” or knobby knees. Why does red hair have to be treated as a flaw to be overcome like “overly greasy skin” as opposed to just beautiful because of what it is, not in spite of it?

By: Katy Ivey Day

Katy Ivey Day — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:12:07 +0000

I want to be a ginger!

By: Malinda Wallace

Malinda Wallace — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:58:05 +0000

I’m a natural redhead and I started dying my hair when I was about 16. I had every color hair, from pink, purple, orange, elmo red, burgundy, and finally, when I needed to go back to a natural color for a job, I dyed it deep brown. I had always hated my hair and longed to be a brunette. But, I started realizing that people would only notice the color of my hair and not ME, so I took the long and tedious journey of growing out my hair. So, through all that, at the age of about 20, I learned to embrace my natural red hair. And now, years later, I’ve never looked back!

By: Brittni Brown

Brittni Brown — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:03:38 +0000

I’m a natural redhead, and I would never color my hair (until I gray at least in 20 years) – but I’ve embraced my inner ginger. Yeah, sometimes people go after me and call me carrot top (I always correct them that I prefer the term fire crotch – gets them to shut right up) I’m even infamous at parties for busting out an acoustic guitar and singing a song called “Gingers” – It’s to pay tribute to all our favorite gingers out there – Lucille Ball, Julianne Moore, Conan – I love my red hair, it’s full of personality and that’s the way I like. I live in LA and the last thing I’d want to do is be another blonde especially over the choice of being myself.

By: Leslie Marienda Varney

Leslie Marienda Varney — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:37:05 +0000

I feel as if we’re soul mates. I have just been through the same journey with my own hair. I’ve been coloring it since I was 13, first with Wal-Mart box dyes and then with Ion from Sally at the suggestion of my hair stylist cousin. These past three years I’ve only put demi permanent on my hair and it has allowed my natural hair color to shine through and it’d been so long since I’d seen my natural color that I had no idea it was red. My boyfriend is CRAZY (let me reiterate, INSANE) over redheads. My hair was very dark brown when we got together many moons ago and I was always so jealous that he coveted gingers and I wasn’t one. Insecurities aside, I started wondering what my natural color was. After three years of getting back to my “roots”, he started saying “Your hair is red”. Yes, yes it is (How YOU doin’).. ‘Let’s not half ass anything, go big (red) or go home’, I told myself. It is naturally strawberry blonde, so my most recent hair color venture was a shocking copper red. I LOVE IT!! It goes perfect with my skin tone and my boyfriend is in love with me all over again. Embrace it, someone out there LOVES your natural hair color, might as well join them!

By: Alycia Lourim

Alycia Lourim — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:49:05 +0000

I am so guilty of dying my “beautiful red hair every chance I get. My natural color is finally back and I go”oh yayy im all natural… when I can make the soonest hair apt to dye it dark brown again?” SO yeah I don’t embrace the red hair, not because I’m afraid at being called a ginger, I’d be proud to be one heck — I’m half irish but because I’ve already accepted my crazy curly frizzy locks and that I have to wear glasses, (I get a pair of cute ones every year, including sunglasses -If I’m gona be blind go out in style) therefore, I feel by me coloring it, its my get out jail free card. But I just really wished hipsters would stop wearing fake glasses because every time someone goes “are those real?”… “YES THEY ARE REAL !! AND YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY YOU DON’T HAVE THEM BECAUSE WHEN I GO SEE MOVIES IN 3-D, OH YEAH, YOU GUESSED RIGHT, I’M WEARING TWO SETS OF GLASSES!!” it’s actually rather funny though seeing me wear two pairs of glasses at the movies and frankly if I switched to contacts I feel more naked then I would without any clothes on. I love me, my glasses, curly hair, and the natural red I let come back because I am too poor and lazy to keep up on coloring.

By: Jessica Horton

Jessica Horton — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:34:47 +0000

I love this! For the record, I’m a brunette but have always wanted red hair. I dyed it just before Spiderman came out, and ended up with Mary-Jane red hair a la Kirsten Dunst. Hardest colour to upkeep though!