Drawing on fake freckles has become a huge trend in 2023, with people using eyebrow pencils, eyeliner, fake tan, or even henna to get a freckled face. The trend is kind of like Marmite; some ...
Happy World Emoji Day! Let’s celebrate all of the ginger emojis out there! Because trust me, if you’ve been with us for a while, you will know how hard it was to get there! But ...
Over the last couple of years, we have seen people drawing on their very own set of freckles, either using henna, fake tan, or some form of makeup pencil. As a natural redhead, I have ...
The mystery of redheads’ weird and wonderful ginger genetics is one step closer to being solved, with a new study finding that a grand total of eight separate genes are responsible for red hair. For ...
Red hair has been around a loooong time (an estimated 50,000+ years, in fact), so you’d think humanity would be pretty clued up on its weird and wonderful genetics. But much to everyone’s surprise, the ...
Most people associate red hair with pale skin, but what about those rarest of rare gingers who can tan? Nope, we’re not describing an impossible mythical creature, these tanning ginger beings actually exist. A post ...
Gingers have many a health quirk, such as their superhuman ability to generate more vitamin D and their weird over-sensitivity to heat pain, but are redheads at an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease? A link between melanoma and ...
Knowing that redheads are at higher risk of skin cancer is not a revelation. We’re pale, freckly, and extremely likely to sunburn – tell us something we don’t know. But for the first time, scientists ...
There is a lot of press this week on how having the MC1R ‘ginger gene’ can make you look two years younger on average (Ginger Parrot included, we admit). But in reality, this is ever ...
Those carrying a melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R), also known as the ‘ginger gene’ responsible for red hair, could be at double the risk of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. This is made more terrifying ...