Surely not all red heads in ads have naturally red hair

Mum has light brown hair and fair skin. In contrast, dad has olive skin and jet-black hair. I'm a redhead! WTF! Dad grew a mustache after I was born to disperse the indiscreet remarks. It's red! He's beyond funny. Black hair and ginger whiskers. That's my dad.

My cousin is a natural red head with green eyes :)

Still on redheads, they carry a mutated version of the MC1R gene, which in addition to giving their hair its unique colour, also means they process pain differently and require higher doses of inhalational anaesthesia than non-redheads.

I was born a "toe-head" as they used to say, white-blonde hair, just like my parents, brothers, and most of my relatives. As I aged it turned "dirty blonde" then med brown. JUST LIKE almost everyone else in my family on both sides. I had to go through some chemo in my late 30s and I was without a spec of hair on my entire body for 6 months. My hair started growing again and it came back kinky (I had bone straight hair) and FLAME ORANGE! It toned down to a darker red over the course of 2 months then slowly replaced itself with light brown hair again. I asked my Mom if anyone in our family, both sides, ever had naturally red hair. "Just one, your great Grandmother, but we don't have color photos of her of course, but she had bright red hair like that her entire life until it turned white". I kind of miss that color, but not the corkscrew little ringlets that first appeared. Was it the chemicals used in my chemo cocktails or latent genes?

I had red (auburn) hair for one year (10th grade). The next year, it turned back to light brown but with a very noticeable blond streak that people thought I paid for. Before that, at any time, if you looked at individual strands of hair, you would see: red, blond, dark brown, light brown strands. Then after I got the blond streak (which went away), my hair was uniformly light brown. Very weird.

I AM RARE!!! AND i have blue eyes, the rarest hair/eye combo

someone high up in the ad-industry is a redhead then

She is beautiful.

Those nose rings are so gross.

My daughter is a redhead, she hates but I wish I had hair as beautiful as hers.

Red heads unite! I have auburn hair, and it's more brown than red...though I like to enhance it. My dad had the same color and I love how it has lightened over the years. Instead of going grey, he went from auburn to strawberry blonde to white.

My mum and her dad had red hair, but for my granddad it turned white when he was 12. For my mum, it turned white right after she graduated college.

I have a child with red hair. My father has red hair, and one of his sisters have red hair.

I have identical twins with the most glorious red hair! I have "strawberry blonde" hair. My grandmother had red hair, my husband has red hair, his mother had red hair.

I was born with red hair and it stayed red until I was about 5 or 6, then it went blonde, and now it's drab brown. What a fall from grace :c

Funnily enough, in the last... let's say 5-8 years, I've seen an increase in red-headed children where I work. It's a family-park, so I really get to see a lot of children. Interestingly, it's very often a darker, more brownish red, tending towards dark copper. Beautiful color. I've always wanted to have read hair, but it seems I'm just a boring-old blonde. My nephew might be a tad reddish, though - too early to say.

I have redheads on both sides of my family, so does my husband... was hoping for a redheaded child, but all 3 kids are blonde like us. (although we're both green eyed, our twins ended up with blue eyes - go figure!)

huh. i have red hair but the only other person in my fam who has red hair is ma mom, dad's is black, brothers dark brown.

I have a cousin who is strawberry blonde, her mother hated it when she was described as ginger, saying no she's auburn. I got no brownie points at all for offering her an auburn biscuit.

I'm a redhead! Everybody tells me how pretty my hair color is all the time (it gets annoying after a bit but you know, compliments, so im not going to complain)

i have red hair!

I have friends with a redhead child , and neither of them are . I've got friends who one is a red head , the other isn't and they have three red headed girls .

My sister, cousin and nephew (brother's son) are the only redheads in my family. My niece is the only blonde (all her dad's other kids are blonde as well)

I'm brunette, but my hair can turn red if I'm out in the sun a lot.

I guess the majority of red-haired people are caucasian, esp. north-western European. Since the western world is big on capitalism, "thanks" to the US, and thus on advertising and has a higher percentage of red-haired, I'm not surprised the number of red-haired ad actors is much higher compared to the global population. Though 30% is still surprisingly high.

My mother, sister and brother are all redheads, I have dark brown hair but when I wanted some bit lightened they had to bleach it so much to get the red out it broke up. My only child has red/brown hair also.

My grandma and dad are red heads and so is my son. I'm not, sadly.

because red hair is so hot!

Some people say gingers are monsters, and it angers me when they do.

Well guess what. Oh no wait it's auburn. Still red!