Why do loads of men have ginger beards?

I'm convinced it's almost an exclusively Irish (and perhaps British Isles; moreso Scotland) thing.

I'd never seen a man with jet-black hair and dark eyes with ginger freckles and a ginger beard before going to Ireland. They're everywhere there, to the point where I don't think anyone who's from there would even notice there's a difference.

There's also a lot more people who go gray very young in Ireland, I think. Loads of people I know in their early 20's, sometimes younger, have gray hair. Think it ties in with the ginger thing, somehow, but I'm no expert.

I could be totally off the mark, but I'd reckon it's an Irish genetic distinction of some kind. I think it's pretty cool!

liah wrote: »

There's also a lot more people who go gray very young in Ireland, I think. Loads of people I know in their early 20's, sometimes younger, have gray hair. Think it ties in with the ginger thing, somehow, but I'm no expert.

I hope not :pac:

My facial hair actually goes through different colours depending on what stage of growth it is at. My personal favourite is my blonde phase before I turn strawberry blonde!

I read somewhere that ginger hair doesnt go grey- it goes sandyish and then yellower and yellower til its eventually white! something about the pigment or something!

Its just my chin which goes ginger, the rest is black!

front of chin is white now,lower chin is brown with some ginger, my upper lip is ginger, side of face is brown..yet iv a smig running from bottom lip along the centre of my chin thats brown, ive blue eyes, brown hair with an even mixture of grey, it seems to have stopped getting greyer too...

Mrmoe wrote: »

I'm more curious about ginger pubes which has been pointed out to me with much hilarity on more than one occasion.:o

At least if you have got that far, you are on to a winner!

Galvasean wrote: »

Couple of chicks liking the ginger beard. Luckily I'm sporting one at the moment.

Spoiler

To hide spots actually. Dont get too excited ladies.

I was sporting one recently too due to a lack of razor blades in the shops and the snow trapping me from going anywhere else. I called it the Human Snood.

Think girls may have liked it as it helped cover my face :pac:

pretty sure everyone has a range of melanin in their body hair...in the same way pubic hair is often a different shade to head hair, so facial hair can be pretty different to head hair.I have jet black hair bu tin the sun my beard goes every colour from red to blonde to silver...