Blonde facts for kids
A blonde person is someone with light coloured hair. It can be spelled either blonde or blond, according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary. Some people are blonde because they have less pigment in their hair than dark haired people. To be blonde is usually to have blonde ancestors. Then it is genetic - blondes have genes that make them blond. Sometimes it is not genetic - this is called albinism. People can also use chemicals to make themselves blonde. Bleach is sometimes used to make the color of a person's hair lighter.
Most people are not blondes by their genes. Only some people, mostly with European ancestry, are blondes by their genes, and also some Australian Aborigines have a different gene that makes them blonde. Natural blondes are most common around the Baltic Sea, especially the Nordic countries such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland and Ireland also has a number of natural blondes. According to recent genetic analysis, both mtDNA and Y chromosome exist in Austrians. There is also a large number of blondes in Baltic countries, Slavic countries (especially Poland), northwestern parts of Russia and among European descent that have lived in Kazakhstan since the Soviet Union. Natural blondes are also common in Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, United Kingdom, and Germany. Light hair can also brought on by environmental factors, especially exposure to sunlight.
Images for kids
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Emperor Pedro II of Brazil with blond hair, c. 1846
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Blondes of different shades at WTMD's First Thursday series in Canton, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, in June 2014
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Uyghur girl in Turpan, Xinjiang, China
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Actress Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). A natural brunette, she dyed her hair blonde early in her career
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The male figure of the Etruscan sarcophagus known as the Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Louvre, Paris), 520-510 BC
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Terracotta vase in the shape of Dionysus' head, c. 410 BC; on display in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus
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Attic white-ground lekythos showing a scene of people mourning a recently deceased man, fount at Alopeke (Ambelokepoi) near Athens, c. 400 BC
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Pottery vessel of Aphrodite in a shell; from Attica, Classical Greece, discovered at Phanagoria, Taman Peninsula (Bosporan Kingdom, southern Russia), early 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
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An ancient Greek pottery (terracotta) figurine from Taras (modern Taranto), Magna Graecia, Altes Museum
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A red-figure pottery (terracotta) "kerch" style lekythos depicting a nymph and satyr playing a game of knucklebones, with two Eros figures (standing between Aphrodite) offering laurel wreaths of victory too the nymph and to a youth, c. 350 BC
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Hades abducting Persephone, fresco in the small royal tomb at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece, c. 340 BC
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A mosaic of the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis depicting the abduction of Persephone by Pluto, 4th century BC
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Central panel of the Abduction of Helen by Theseus, floor mosaic, detail of the charioteer, from the House of the Abduction of Helen, (c. 300 BC), ancient Pella
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A lekythos bottle in the Gnathia style depicting the winged goddess of victory, Nike, armed and dancing
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Gnathia ware, southern Italy (Magna Graecia), Apulian vase painting, 310-260 BC, Kinský Palace (Prague)
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A Gnathia-style ceramic vessel from ancient Magna Graecia (Apulia, Italy), depicting a blond winged youth with a Phrygian cap, with lion head spouts, by the "Toledo" painter, c. 300 BC
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Woman's head on an alabastron in gnathia style; Apulian vase painting, Magna Graecia, Antikensammlung Kiel
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Sitting woman holding a crown. Terracotta, Apulian vase painting, late 4th century BC. Museum Santa Maria della Scala, Siena.
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An ancient Apulian Gnathia style "krater" vase from Magna Graecia showing a blond-haired woman playing with a ball.
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Roman fresco from Pompeii showing a Maenad in silk dress, 1st century AD
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Polyphemus hears of the arrival of Galatea; ancient Roman fresco painted in the "Fourth Style" of Pompeii (45–79 AD)
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Heracles and Omphale, Pompeian Fourth Style (45–79 AD)
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Roman fresco of a blond maiden reading a text, Pompeian Fourth Style (60-79 AD), Pompeii
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Dye worker's shop of Veranius Hypsaeus, fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD
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A maenad holding a cupid, Pompeii, 1st century AD
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Ancient Roman bust of Antinous, made during the reign of Hadrian (117–138 AD), National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
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Ancient bust of Roman emperor Lucius Verus (r. 161–169) in the Bardo National Museum, Tunis
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Remnants of a Roman bust of a youth with a blond beard, perhaps depicting Roman emperor Commodus (r. 177–192), National Archaeological Museum, Athens
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Polychrome marble statue depicting the goddess Tyche holding the infant Plutus in her arms, 2nd century AD, Istanbul Archaeological Museum
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Bust of Tiberius Julius Sauromates II (d. 210 AD), ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom in Roman Crimea, one of Rome's client states
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Asclepius (center) arrives in Kos and is greeted by Hippocrates (left) and a citizen (right), mosaic, 2nd–3rd century AD
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Wall fragment with fresco of a Gallo Roman man, from Evreux, 250–275 AD
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A blond man in a Roman fresco from Klagenfurt, Austria, Landesmuseum für Kärnten
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Roman mosaic depicting a feminine personification, from the Boathouse of Psyche in Daphne (suburb of Antioch), beginning of 3rd century AD, Louvre Museum
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A boy holding a platter of fruits and what may be a bucket of crabs, in a kitchen with fish and squid, on the June panel from a mosaic depicting the months (3rd century)
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A Roman fresco depicting the goddess Diana hunting, 4th century AD, from the Via Livenza hypogeum in Rome
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Color reconstruction of statue of a young girl from the Parthenon in Athens, 520 BC. Based on analysis of trace pigments.
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Reconstructed polychromy of a vase-shaped tombstone from Athens, c. 330 BC, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
