I have never had blond hair, and often wonder if I would be treated differently if I colored my hair blond.
My hair was blond for a while when I was younger. Plus I always thought that all hair was "blonde" but that's only female hair, as male hair is "blond"!
Well I wasn't aware of that!  Thanks for the insight.  I am native american, but my granddaughter was born blonde.
Cool! That was due to the low levels of dark pigment called eumelanin.
Blond
Blond
Blond or fair hair is a hair color characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The resultant visible hue depends on various factors, but always has some yellowish color. The color can be from the very pale blond (caused by a patchy, scarce distribution of pigment) to reddish "strawberry" blond or golden-brownish ("sandy") blond colors (the latter with more eumelanin). Because hair color tends to darken with age, natural blond hair is generally rare in adulthood. Naturally
wearing black," Iyall said. "I guess we were considered new wave, but for me Romeo Void was a reaction against the regimentation of everyone having to be bleached blond and everything being about despair and no future, when I thought the do-it-yourself thing should encompass all the different kinds of emotions, and all the different colors. [...] I was proud of being American Indian, so I purposely never bleached my hair blond."
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