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This Is Why So Many Non-Ginger Lads Have 'Strawberry Blonde' Beards

This Is Why So Many Non-Ginger Lads Have 'Strawberry Blonde' Beards

Hidden gingers.

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

One of life's great mysteries has finally been solved: why do non-ginger lads have melanerpes erythrocephalus in their beards?

(Sorry, that's to make me look clever so boss man skims to the next article).

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One of life's great mysteries has finally been solved: why do non-ginger lads have red in their beards?

A few years back (when everyone started growing bristles), hundreds of lads were surprised to find themselves with a full-on fuzz of 'strawberry blonde' variety, despite not having ginger hair or any ginger relatives.

I'm struggling for pictures to be honest, so I Googled 'Everyday things that are ginger in colour' and this came up.

Random.

Clearly, red-heads are God's chosen people and that's why He saw fit to bless all you boring non-red-heads with a touch of the good stuff, right? Well, no, actually. The answer, unsurprisingly, is in your genes.

Petra Haak-Bloem, a genetics expert, told Motherboard: "The genes that determine hair colour are so-called 'incomplete dominant hereditary traits'. This means that there isn't one single gene that's dominant over the rest, but all genes influence each other."

Can't be Bond with that on your face. Shave it off! Credit: Pinterest

The genes you end up with don't just come from your parents, but also from grandparents and great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents and... you get the idea. So, even if there are no gingers in your immediate family, there probably will be some distant cousin of your great auntie Maude who was a red-head.

Alternatively, check what colour hair the milkman has got and if his is suspect, then your mum has some explaining to do.

This theory also covers why your pubes or even your chest hair can be a different colour to the hair on your noggin.

Science.

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