Posted on 08/16/2024 3:05:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Treated with hostility in the past and considered witches or vampires in the Middle Ages, redheads in the modern world are thriving and celebrating their unique traits; the Redhead Days Festival marks one of the occasions to embrace the distinctive nature of gingers.
Redhead Days Festival; celebrating the unique traits
Held annually on the last full weekend of August, this year the Redhead Days Festival will take place on August 23-25 in the city centre of Tilburg, the Netherlands. Growing in size every year, the festival anticipates tens of thousands of redheads from more than 80 countries to unite in the world´s largest, oldest, and most spectacular redhead festival.
“The festival is based on three core values: connection, pride, and recognition,” stated the organizers. The festival was founded accidentally by the painter Bart Rouwenhost in 2005. Rouwenhost sought out 15 red-haired models for an exhibition in Asten; with the help of an advertisement in the Brabants Dagblad, 150 redhead models turned up instead.
Is snus the future of a smoke-free Europe? Tobacco-free synthetic nicotine Having trouble saying no, Rouwenhost invited all of the models to take a group photo; attended by the national press, the event made a huge impact on the community of redheads, and so demand for future festivals was created. Since then, the Redhead Days Festival has been uniting redheads across the world, reaching as many as 1, 672 gingers in one photo, as noted in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The festival is free of charge and features a programme of activities, including 50 Shades of Red, where redheads find their exact hair tone, photobooths, a kids’ area with bouncy castles and face painting and a merch shop. The festival is free of charge and lasts three days, with Sunday being the group photo day, in which thousands of redheads make an image to remember for a lifetime.
Redhead Days Festival; 10 unique traits of redheads
Redheads are technically mutant; born when the MC1R gene, responsible for one´s skin and hair colour, is blocked, hence the body begins to produce more melanin that is responsible for the red tone, resulting in red hair and freckles.
2. Redheads are extremely rare; redheads make up just 2 per cent of the world´s population.
3. The rarest combination in the world is red hair and blue eyes; there are only 13 million out of 7,6 billion with these features.
4. Most redheads live in Ireland and Scotland, making up to 30 per cent of their populations.
5. Redheads are more susceptible to pain since their bodies struggle to process analgesics and they usually require more anaesthetics.
6. Redhead men are 50 per cent less likely to develop prostate cancer than non redheads.
7. Redheads are sensitive to cold, due to the MC1R gene which over-activates a temperature-detecting gene, making redheads feel colder than others.
8. Redheads have the lowest hair density out of all hair colours.
9. Non-redhead couples can have redhead children; the gene that makes one a ginger can be hidden in the DNA.
10. Redheads are not going extinct; even if there aren´t many redheads visible, a big part of the population carries the gene that can make a redhead baby; the characteristic will continue to be a rare and beautiful trait.
Written by a redhead with blue eyes.
My ancestors were from Spain-most from the Spanish Pyrenees-Basques. I have dark red hair gray/green eyes and no freckles. One uncle and an aunt had that coloring, as do 3 of my 1st cousins. And yes, we do have the same volatile Latin temper as our brunette family members-blame those Romans...
My redhead filed for divorce. Crazy she is.
That sounds like a temper... like a redhead.
My favorite is Dervla Kirwan from her Ballykissangel days.
Line about a character suspicious of Scully in the X Files: “And they say she is a redhead but that red?”
Gillian Anderson: After we shot the pilot and The X-Files was picked up for series, our executive producer Chris Carter said: “She’s going red.” And that’s how Scully became a redhead. For the next nine years I dyed it on a semi-regular basis, but then the show ended in 2002 I defiantly became a blonde and have been one ever since.”
Ginger’s they call them gingers
Grandpa was a redhead — light red/blonde.
None of his eight kids had red hair.
Several of his grandkids have red hair in different shades.
Aren’t they adorable? I don’t know who they are, but I’ve saved the photo from a random internet search for several years. They’re probably all grown now.
I’ve been a dirty old man since I was in my teens.
| Well, I WAS a red-head. It's creamy white now, but hubby says there are still red roots. You don't lose the attitude with the hair color turning. LOL! |
I’ve always been a sucker for red heads, married a two of them and missed out on a few of red heads unfortunately..
Wow. According to the article, that’s one fine ‘mutant’! Beautiful.
Not true.
My great grandmother was a redhead. Right off the boat from Ireland. I got those genetics. I was a carrot top as a kid and eventually went blonde then bald.
One feature of red heads is reactions to medications. Red heads react very differently to meds than most everyone else. I get the side effects but not the cure.
When I went on blood pressure meds, I had to play a roulette of finding a medication that actually worked.
Notice that the crazy starts at 4.
I messed up and didn’t include you in my response. Wait till the end, it’s worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
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