Red hair facts for kids

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Woman With Red Hair

Female with red hair

Redhead beard sunlight

Red hair intensifies in sunlight

People with red hair are referred to as redheads. Natural redheads often have very light colored skin. They often also have freckles.

Examples of redheads

Images for kids

Woman with red hair
Man with red hair
Woman with mixed reddish-brown hair, Papua New Guinea. Melanesians have a significant incidence of mixed-fair hair, caused by a genetic mutation different from European blond and red hair.
A Roman fresco depicting Bacchus with red hair, Boscoreale, c. 30 BC
Hades abducting Persephone, fresco in the small royal tomb at Vergina, Macedonia, Greece, c. 340 BC
A Uyghur girl in Kashgar, China's Xinjiang region, with auburn hair
A close-up view of red hair
Polychrome Roman marble statue depicting the goddess Tyche holding the infant Plutus in her arms, 2nd century AD, Istanbul Archaeological Museum
Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1470–1475, by Sandro Botticelli
Elizabeth I of England, ca. 1588
"The Accolade" by Edmund Blair Leighton
Barbarossa (Redbeard), Ottoman Admiral
Fagin in a watercolour by 'Kyd'
Hundreds of redheads together at the Redhead Day, September 2007
Mary Magdalene is commonly portrayed with long red hair, as in this painting by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys

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