There is definitely a stigma that comes with being ‘a ginger’ (or strawberry blonde, as I prefer to say) and we all know it. Lets be honest, redheads have had it tough since they arrived in this world. Being a ginger is much more than having a rare hair color, it's basically a lifestyle. A lifestyle that only a good 2% of the population get to experience.
Here are 20 struggles that only my fellow redheads will be able to relate to:
1. Everyone calls you: "Ginger, Red, Carrot top, Ging-er, Ginge"– and SO many more!
2. Constantly being asked, "Is that your natural hair color?”
3. SO. MANY. FRECKLES!
4. Being asked if you have a soul.
In the most serious tone.
5. The "tsss" sound people make when they touch your hair."
Yeah you are right, my hair is on fire. (It sounds just like the Hannah Montana meme)
6. Everyone assumes that you have a temper.
This may or not be true.
7. If you don't wear mascara, it looks like you don't even have eyelashes.
8. Having only one sunburned arm (and possibly leg) after driving with the windows down.
9. “Do the drapes match the carpet?” and “Fire Crotch.”
Seriously, people?
10. NEVER being able to hide from your embarrassment.
You just can't help but turn the color of a tomato.
11. Learning that SPF100 sunscreen doesn’t even keep the sunburn away.
12. Having to match your outfit with your hair.
13. Blending into the sand on the beach.
14. Having hope that someday all of your freckles will blend together making you tan.
15. Having to explain where you got your hair color from.
16. The only shades of makeup you can ever wear:
(Make sure to get the one with the SPF in it)
17. Having to listen to the hairdresser tell you that people pay a lot of money to get your hair color.
EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.
18. People always commenting on how you should date another red head.
"It would just be so cute."
19. Having to be your Bio teacher's example of the recessive gene.
20. When the sunscreen just isn't enough.
21. People always commenting on how you are almost “extinct.”
22. When random people come up to you and touch your hair.
It doesn’t feel any different than other other color of hair... but okay.
But despite all of these struggles you actually kind of like being a...
