Why do loads of men have ginger beards?

kangaroo · 06-01-2011 04:06AM

Josh_Calvert wrote: »

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...

I may not go out for months at a time (due to a disabling illness and having adapted to an indoor life) and I get different shades in my beard and a partly/mainly ginger beard with brown (originally blonde) hair, as I said.

Jimmy Iovine · 06-01-2011 04:30AM

I used to have very red hair when I was younger. It's been getting steadily darker over the years now to the point where I have to stand under a direct light to notice my original hair colour.

My dad has black hair and also a black beard, which he shaves every day so it doesn't really matter.

My brother has brown-ish hair and it looks like he's gonna have black facial hair. He's at the point where he's shaving his imaginary stubble trying to act hard.

When my stubble is about 3-4 days old it's fairly dark and looks good but then it hits the "Wayne Rooney" stage and I have to shave it out of embarrassment.

It's still better than my uncle and his black facial hair though. He has to shave every single day and even then it usually grows back by the afternoon. Looks a bit like Ryan Giggs only way worse. Must be torture having to shave it so often. I'm lucky that I can get away for a day or two before it's noticeable

Jimmy Iovine · 06-01-2011 04:54AM

Galvasean wrote: »

Couple of chicks liking the ginger beard. Luckily I'm sporting one at the moment.
To hide spots actually. Dont get too excited ladies.

Just saw the spoilered part there. I've noticed that I seem to get more spots on my face when I leave my "beard" grow for a week or so. Often i don't bother shaving at all for a week and then my face breaks out. If I keep it shaved every day or so then I don't have any spots at all. I'm at a loss as to why this happens

Josh_Calvert · 06-01-2011 04:57AM

hair folicles blocked with oil Id imagine...

kangaroo · 06-01-2011 05:03AM

A dermatologist once recommended to me to grow a beard. It was something about avoiding having bits of redness from short hairs growing inwards. [Aside: I was sent to the dermatologist because a doctor thought I must be concerned about something; it might have helped if he had diagnosed my illness (ME/CFS) which was five years undiagnosed at that stage and getting worse. I wasn't worried about the state of my complexion (most of my acne was on my back)].

parker kent · 06-01-2011 02:16PM

Jimmy Iovine wrote: »

Just saw the spoilered part there. I've noticed that I seem to get more spots on my face when I leave my "beard" grow for a week or so. Often i don't bother shaving at all for a week and then my face breaks out. If I keep it shaved every day or so then I don't have any spots at all. I'm at a loss as to why this happens

I noticed something similar before. I put it down to shaving being a form of exfoliation or something similar.

Apolloyon · 06-01-2011 02:19PM

I think I must be the poster child for this kind of phenomenon as my beard has always been ginger/brown and now in the last few years has gone ginger/brown/grey. Oh well at least I have my hair...brown...oh all right grey with a bit of brown!

Dravokivich · 06-01-2011 02:56PM

Similar thing happens to me as well alright, tend to only shave every 5 / 7 weeks.

Bit mad when it grows because it starts off dark, gets ginger when it thickens then tends to have a bit of greying along the chin...

babo9 · 06-01-2011 03:37PM

Tell me about it! I have pure blond hair and a full ginger beard, thing is too I have fast enough growth and I have a sizable bushy beard in about 10 days, so it starts to stand out a mile away after about 5 days!

It's always funny if I bump into someone who knows me reasonably well (but not well enough to know about the red beard!) when I haven't shaved for about 10 days - "do you realise you have a ginger beard?"
What do they expect! - No, No not at all, that's news to me

fullstop · 06-01-2011 03:39PM

Maybe Xabi Alonso is actually Irish....

strobe · 06-01-2011 03:43PM

fullstop wrote: »

Maybe Xabi Alonso is actually Irish....

Well he's from the Basque Country, born in '81, every chance his real Da was an IRA man hiding out in the town. :pac:

fullstop · 06-01-2011 03:58PM

strobe wrote: »

Well he's from the Basque Country, born in '81, every chance his real Da was an IRA man hiding out in the town. :pac:

Paddy Alonso :pac:

HavingCrack · 06-01-2011 04:48PM

This thread makes me feel so much better, I'm not alone :pac:.

NoDice · 06-01-2011 05:42PM

A few of my friends, incl my OH, have dark hair but a few scattered ginger hairs too. I think it's really cute!! Love beards (on fellas

).

GrumPy · 06-01-2011 07:10PM

Well I can only speak for myself, but I guess it's cause I'm ginger.

Dante · 06-01-2011 07:13PM

I have black hair and blue eyes and there's no gingers in my family, yet after a few days my beard goes ginger.

Luckily enough I still have a soul though.

Asphyxia · 06-01-2011 08:11PM

I always make fun of my boyfriend because of this

When he grows his beard out he has tiny bits of ginger in it haha! I find it really cute though but he gets really embarrassed.

A the moment he is sporting a goatee type look and it really suits him, I think if his beard didn't have the light ginger bits he would look strange having it so dark.

evil_seed · 07-01-2011 11:26AM

Ginger flecks in my facial hair but it has been going darker and I've been growing greyer by the day since 19 yrs old. I'll be a badger in 3-4 years haha.

Nevyn · 07-01-2011 08:58PM

strobe wrote: »

Well he's from the Basque Country, born in '81, every chance his real Da was an IRA man hiding out in the town. :pac:

The Basque region along with Breton and the Rhine region are all considered 'celtic'.

CDfm · 08-01-2011 12:52AM

It all sounds like a Henna misadventure to me.

http://www.hennaforhair.com/science/index.html

I will bet that it only happens to guys who go rooting thru the cabinet and use the nice expensive looking bottle herself bought. This might be a purely Irish thing.

JohnMearsheimer · 08-01-2011 01:00AM

Another one here. I have browny/sandy hair and a ginger beard. The hair around my moustache and chin area is blonde. I was blonde as a baby but I have no idea where the ginger comes from.

Wibbs · 08-01-2011 12:44PM

I had similar when younger. Ginge in the beard and running through the head hair too. As I aged the ginger went grey first. Where I have grey now it used to be ginger.

CDfm · 08-01-2011 01:35PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Where I have grey now it used to be ginger.

Grey does have its plusses.

terlywerly · 09-01-2011 09:01PM

My husband is the exact opposite. Red head (and the only one in his family, I keep telling him he's adopted

) but whenever he grows a beard its dark brown?? And he's had a fair few grey hairs appear in recent years too but none in his dark beard. Very odd

Why do loads of men have ginger beards?

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