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[kleenexwoman]

I'm pretty sure that at one point in my life, some old gypsy woman in my family, most likely angered by my parents' cavalier attitudes to their cultural responsibilities, pointed a withered, gnarled finger at me and muttered, "May she be forever entangled with redheads!" Because it always happens.
I think that if my love life imploded tomorrow and I had to find another boyfriend/girlfriend, I would be incapable of dating a blonde or a brunette. It would just be too weird. My brain would say "Not for you." (Blondes and brunettes belong together in color-mixed pairs. Otherwise you can't tell them apart. I'm serious, I sometimes have shitty face-recognition skills.)

How many of you guys have red hair?

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[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

Mine's from a bottle, does that count?

[terrie.livejournal.com]

Same!

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

...oooooh. Good question. I don't know. Pics so I can ruthlessly and shallowly judge?

[foxywriter.livejournal.com]

I, too, spend copious amounts of money every year to correct what mother nature did not give me.

My SIL is a natural redhead, though. My mom is already counting on future grandchildren with curly red hair.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

All the women on my dad's side of the family are redheads. I didn't quite inherit the gene, but my hair gets auburn-y when I stay out in the sun or use vinegar on it.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a moderately dirty and exceedingly dumb joke I heard the other day. If you have a few brain cells you can waste on it, I'll proceed.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I need all of my neurons. I've been killing them off at an unprecedented rate. I believe the U.N. is going to issue me a reprimand for ethnic cleansing quite soon.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Don't tell me they sent out a task force to investigate the used wadded-up snot-rags cluttering your wastebasket.

I did Model UN for several years, and about the only thing I got from it that the UN was any good for was cutting out from session early to get drunk and go make out with the cute girl from Kenyon who reprsented Kazakhstan. Ah, to be young and decadent again.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

The U.N.: world's most powerful hook-up club. I always wanted to do Model Illuminatus, but my school didn't bite.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Come on, don't tell me the representatives from Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Vatican don't sometimes get drunk at the end of the week and spend all three of their sabbaths in a huge super-illicit menage a trois. Actually, that would make for a good dirty story. You wanna write it, or should we collaborate?

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

Sadly, the only pic I have online was taken before I dyed it. Here you go. I swear I wasn't going for the emo look, I just couldn't get a decent photo of myself smiling at that angle.

[dr-ninjapants.livejournal.com]

I wish I had your curse. I looooove redheads but I've never been 'entangled' with one. Actually the guy at work that I'm in love with is a redhead. Not like a full-out redhead, his hair is mostly like reddish brown but all his facial hair is red and he's got the complexion. OMG.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

That sounds really cute.

One of my friends has light blondish-red hair and then darker brownish-red facial hair, and I think it's one of the most stylish things ever.

Hmm...

[wolf-heart9.livejournal.com]

I'm naturally a brunette (chestnut hair, which is kind of brown with a light reddish hint), but you've seen the pictures. I've been just about every color in the book...

Re: Hmm...

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Your hair has been blue! I'm not really sure what that means. I think it means fun. :)

Re: Hmm...

[wolf-heart9.livejournal.com]

Blue, purple, green, red (natural shades of red and unnatural shades of red), black, magenta, teal, turquoise, mahogany, auburn...bleached (but that's never lasted because that's when the freaky colors go on)...I've never been blonde except for the bleaching.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Aww, lucky. I have none in mine, or not that I've noticed. (Then again, I usually sit up front so I wouldn't know if anyone's hair color was sky-blue pink.)

[anivad.livejournal.com]

FREE YOUR MIND.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I WILL WHEN REDHEADS STOP FLOCKING TO ME.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

BUT HOW ELSE DO YOU EXPECT YOUR ASS TO FOLLOW?

[benprime.livejournal.com]

oh redheads! You could have been cursed much worse, to be sure. Some would gladly give up redundant body parts to have such a curse.

(my hair is greying brown but I inherited freckles from my mother who was a redhead. When I was younger, my facial hair was red in parts but.. no longer)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

:) I'm quite happy with my curse. After all, I could have been a werewolf instead.

[imrihamun.livejournal.com]

Reddish - more in summer than in winter. My most recent summer photo is, arg, from 2006. I posted it in the most recent entry on my main journal, which I added you to. (In fact, I added everyone from this journal over to cobaltnine, because I'm going to condense the two into one in the next few weeks.)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

I see the entry, and yet I cannot see your face! Only words. :(

I ARE TRUE BLUE FIRECROTCH

[drworm.livejournal.com]

Should I mention how many people have made ewwww faces at red body hair? Or thought my hair was dyed or a wig or something?

My grandmother cursed me into the red hair. It was not a kind curse either, at least from her point of view. :( But then she died, so...

Also, my dad's beard used to be very red while his hair was dark brown. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that you aren't supposed to trust a man whose beard is a different color from his hair.

Re: I ARE TRUE BLUE FIRECROTCH

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

:( I like your body hair. ...I like the fact that I can tell whose hair is whose if it is not attached. This is important to me for some reason.

Your dad is half redhead! This is unusual. Perhaps people thought it was because men with dyed hair were not to be trusted?

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Me! Not pure orange red, but certainly closer to red than any other color (especially in the beard). Whether this is from Jewish genes, Celtic genes, or the fact that my parents probably hadn't had sex from the time they got married (early 1976) to the time they conceived me (autumn 1979) and their equipment was a bit rusty, I don't know. (They both had dark brown hair and I had two grandparents with blonde hair and two with black.)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

What, seriously? I remember yours being very brown. Weird.

Jewish redheads are surprisingly common--it's gotten to the point where if I see red hair, I think "Jew" before I think "Irish" or even "Firewitch!"

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

Nope. It's reddish brown, leaning more toward red than toward brown. My beard and, um, other body hair guarantee this. (Meaning my arm and leg hair are almost transparent and my pubes match my beard.)

It could have come from either side. I really don't know. Neither of my parents know of any blood relatives or ancestors with red hair. Which is why I claim (or blame) rust.

[josephwaldman.livejournal.com]

I mean, yours is reddish too, isn't it? Certainly not pure brown. Or am I just colorblind? (It would be awful to be colordeaf -- i.e. nonsynesthetic -- music would be so goddamned boring.)

[charlie-ihsan.livejournal.com]

so... that seems strange.

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

It just happens. Also, your icon makes me want to touch your head. textuuuuuuure.