Do you think having blonde hair automatically makes you more beautiful?

[Giningit]

I don’t, however someone mentioned being jealous of a woman with various attributes including blonde hair. Even though I grew up in a predominantly white area, I never once envied girls with blonde hair. So is this a thing?

Can I also just say that the Disney princess pantheon has a complete mix of hair types with several dark haired and red haired women portrayed. I think blaming Disney for this is a little unfair....

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I have dark hair and dark eyes but I'm fair but in my home country, blondes are much more unique as the majority of the citizens have dark hair and olive skin. So if a blonde female walks into a bar, all heads are turned. Whereas here, especially at secondary school and college, I got much more attention with my dark features as I went to school/college in a predominantly white area. I never wished I was blonde or had coloured eyes as I'm happy with what I have. I still don't get why ginger people get abused though in school especially? If anything, I love the look on Anne Carlson/ Dani Kind from workin moms.

There was a thread on MN in the last year or so where people were asked why their DC was considered beautiful by others. The vast majority of posters said it's because their child is blonde.

I or another posted queried whether being blonde was a prerequisite for having a beautiful child, and someone replied indignantly that they'd been told off for mentioning their child was blonde

I'll try and find it and link here, but I can't remember the exact title. If anyone can find it, that thread will confirm that MN users appear to believe blonde = beautiful.

Well I'm ginger so I'm completely fucked!

Wow I knew this would turn into a pile in on blondes. I am your typical blonde “as a child”, now the hair is darker and I get highlights put in because I am neither blonde nor brunette. It’s a pain in the arse but I don’t suit being a brunette. Medium skin and green eyes.

I have three very blonde kids. My daughter is blonde and blue eyed ( fairer than me so may even stay blonde for longer) and I hope people don’t talk about her the way some people are on here. Yes she is beautiful, not because she is blonde just because she is. You can have aesthetically beautiful and not so beautiful in every hair colour, obviously.
For my two penneths worth, many Caucasian children start blonde and go darker. So it is associated with youth. Which is why it is more covetable in women than men. As aging is generally a female issue.

Oh and my little girl like to dress as Anna from frozen and asks for me to do hair hair like anna all the time not Elsa.
I agree with the poster up thread who notes there is a wide variety of Disney princesses to chose from. I grew up in the era of little mermaid, beauty and the beast, Aladdin, Tarzan and Mulan. Not a blonde amongst them.

I grew up in a predominantly white area and we were 1 of very few black families. When I was little and until my teens I believed my mother to be the most beautiful woman in the world. I saw an old film with Sophia Loren and thought she might nearly be as beautiful as my mother. But I really didn’t think it was possible for a blonde person to be beautiful 😳.

Obviously I became an adult so don’t think that now!

@Didyousaynutella

Wow I knew this would turn into a pile in on blondes. I am your typical blonde “as a child”, now the hair is darker and I get highlights put in because I am neither blonde nor brunette. It’s a pain in the arse but I don’t suit being a brunette. Medium skin and green eyes. I have three very blonde kids. My daughter is blonde and blue eyed ( fairer than me so may even stay blonde for longer) and I hope people don’t talk about her the way some people are on here. Yes she is beautiful, not because she is blonde just because she is. You can have aesthetically beautiful and not so beautiful in every hair colour, obviously. For my two penneths worth, many Caucasian children start blonde and go darker. So it is associated with youth. Which is why it is more covetable in women than men. As aging is generally a female issue.

I don't think it's a pile on on blondes, but more societies perception.

Like I said, when I was at school, the teachers and parents would fawn over the girl with the long blonde hair...now, I have no issue with the girl in particular, but looking back what those parents and teachers did was really damaging. I remember how shit it made me feel about myself as I had dark hair and eyes. I'd imagine for a bame child having to live with the 'blonde hair blue eyed' look being revered in that way must be even more difficult.

I'm mixed race Asian and white. I have black hair and dark eyes and I can honestly say I have always loved the dark haired look, more sexiness and mystique. Never wanted to be blonde and never will. Just take a look at all those beautiful Bollywood actresses.

Alot of Pakistani and Indian women oil their hair as we want to look after out natural hair and have no intentions to dye it blonde. We definitely don't believe blonde is beautiful.

I think the influences you had during childhood/teenage years would more than likely
reflect your view on blonde hair. I had dolls with dark skin and hair as well as the odd Barbie,
So a good mix. More importantly my female role models just happened to have dark hair. Women that I thought we’re pretty also had dark hair. A couple of my closest friends at school were blonde, however I never envied their
hair colour. As teenagers, being slim and having boobs were the things to covert. I’d say shadeism was more of a issue than hair colour.

“Covet” even!

You can be beautiful with any hair colour

Oh definitely not, brunette is much nicer. I like the shine!
If I was gay I’d definitely be attracted to brunettes, not blondes.

I was a blonde child but brunette teen and adult. Although these days it’s out of a bottle to hide the grey!

DD is blonde but will probably change as she ages, I hope she does because I do think blondes get taken less seriously which is outrageous.

No it doesn’t.

I am white but I've been blonde, brunette, black and auburn. The most male attention was blonde and auburn - we noticed it a lot when we went to Turkey on holiday, it was quite scary actually.
Not a huge difference though between the colours in the UK.

I agree blonde was very coveted when I was a child (99% white area) by people I went to school with.

My DH fell in love with me as brunette, he isn't fussed what colour I am. All of the celebrities he fancies like Kelly Rowland, Alicia Keyes, Selma Hayek are brunette - he isn't interested in Marilyn Monroe type.

How many blonds do you know who are naturally that colour? Holly willouby is,t for a start.

I'm very blond with grey eyes and I'm eastern European I look Scandinavian and very often people think I'm Swedish. I don't think about what kind colour of hair is better although I love dark haired look with dark eyes. I have to say that very often I've been seen as a blond bimbo but I'm completely opposite. Never been interested in girly things etc.

Lots of children are blonde but I've only ever known one adult woman who had naturally blonde hair. A girl I met at uni..her hair platinum blonde and I always assumed she dyed it but it was natural..quite unusual I think.

My sister and brother are very blonde naturally. She is 34 so an adult. But yes I agree it's quite rare to be proper blonde

"I’d say shadeism was more of a issue than hair colour."

Exactly - I definitely felt the effects of shadeism growing up. I definitely noticed very early on how it literally impacts your life/life experiences depending on your 'shade'

I’m blonde- as in white blonde as a child and now in my 50’s I’m dark blonde.all my children are blonde as are my cousins despite everyone’s married to darker skin/ hair . It’s just a strong gene- along with blue eyes. I can positively confirm that it was like a curse as I grew up.people said I bleached my hair- I was stupid because of my hair colour- ridiculous assumptions and oh so funny jokes about dumb blondes. Never said to the male blonde members of the family-

I coveted my best friend’s beautiful dark hair and skin and would have given the world to swap.The only ‘bonus’ to bring blonde is that I won’t go grey!

Of course it's not more attractive. I'm only blonde because of my complexion. I look like I've been dug up with dark hair.

I've just stumbled on this post. As a kid, I used to think all women were blonde and men dark on the TV. There really didn't seem to be many brunettes AT ALL. Although Pamela Ewing was a stunning brunette as was Sue Ellen...... obviously I'm talking 80s so wasn't all lost.

Still, there are far more blonde actress movie stars than dark hair. I say this as a mixed race person, but TV is getting better film not so much.