What is Blonde?
[[File:Natural Blond Woman 2019 by Glenn Francis.jpg|thumb|A blonde woman]] [[File:Owen Wilson Cannes 2011.jpg|thumb|American actor [[Owen Wilson]] with blonde hair]] '''Blond''' or '''blonde''' is a light color of [[hair]] or a person with this color hair. The spelling ''blonde'' means a person with this hair color, and the spelling ''blond'' may mean another person with the same hair color. The color itself can have either spelling (''blonde'' or ''blond''), according to [[Merriam-Webster|''Merriam-Webster's Dictionary'']]. Natural blonds have quite fair skins, and their skin is finer (less thick) than people with dark skin. Light skin is natural amongst people living (or whose ancestors lived) in northern climates. It is an [[adaptation]] for their skins to make [[vitamin D]]. This vitamin is essential for health, and people in northern climates may not make enough. [[File:Light hair coloration map.png|thumb|[[Anthropologist]] [[Peter Frost]]'s [[thematic map]] of blonde hair in and around [[Europe]], according to a 2006 study on light hair, published by the [[University of St Andrews]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Frost_06.html|title=Frost: Why Do Europeans Have So Many Hair and Eye Colors?|publisher=Cogweb.ucla.edu|access-date=2025-02-14|archive-date=2018-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227072836/http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Frost_06.html}}</ref>:<br> {{legend|#FFFF00|80—100%}} {{legend|#FFC438|50—79%}} {{legend|#BF8A00|20—49%}} {{legend|#8B6500|1—19%}} {{legend|#201000|Less than 1%}}]] One thing to mention: hair color may change during life, and many children have blond hair at first, but it grows darker as they get older. That's a normal thing. Blondes do not make the [[melanin]] for their hair (and skin) to go dark. It is very unusual to see a blond person with dark skin, but it does happen occasionally. People who are blonde have less pigment in their hair than dark haired people. To be blonde is usually to have blonde ancestors. It is not [[albinism]]. People may als