10 Struggles Natural Redheads Understand
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10 Struggles Every Natural Redhead Faces

2. Sunscreen

Celah Convis
Mar 29, 2019
Eastern Michigan University
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Redhead
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Being a natural redhead is fun. It means you're part of a special 2% of the population, so you're automatically special. Not to mention that red hair is so enviable some spend hundreds or even thousands to look like a natural redhead. But with this exclusive club comes many downsides. Here are the 10 struggles every natural redhead has to face:

1. Fair skin--like, really, really fair

Most natural redheads tend to have very fair skin. This usually comes with increased sensitivity, and, of course, getting sunburned way too easily.

2. Having to wear so much sunscreen.

Since we burn so easily, natural redheads have to wear sunscreen more than most people. This means we can't escape the greasiness, the hassle, and the re-applying.

3. Finding makeup to match our skin tone.

Super light skin and the fact that most of us have freckles just makes it harder for foundation to look right.

4. Our eyebrows are non-existent.

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If you're a straight-up ginger, you also have the misfortune of having nearly invisible eyebrows and eyelashes.

5. People doubt that it's your natural hair color

Why would I lie about this? Defending my own hair color is a weird position to be in.

6. People act possessive of your hair

Other people love your hair--which is fine, until they think they have the right to tell you not to cut or dye it.

7. People assume you're related to every other redhead in the vicinity

Yes, redheads only make up 2% of the world's population. But that's still 149,159,928 people, so don't act shocked that there can be two unrelated redheads in a crowd at the same time.

8. People think you're Irish

Believe it or not, the genetic mutation that causes red hair can occur in every single ethnicity on the planet. It's not confined to one nationality.

9. You can't hide it when you blush.

Our skin gives it away every time. And even when you're not embarrassed, you will look like you're blushing half the time because of how easily it is to work up a flush.

10. Things tend to hurt more.

Natural redheads process pain in a different way. This means that going to the dentist sucks even more for us.

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