Realm of Redheads | Redhead Revealed Interviews

The Member Spotlight:
August 2004 Edition

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Siobhain
At times, I didn't care for being called carrot top, until I realized how absurd this statement was, carrot tops are green after all. However, I did learn early on, to appreciate people for what they are on the inside, for as all of you born with this red hair know, many assumptions are made about us, more often than not, very unfair assumptions, all based on the color of our hair.

I am very happy to have red hair now that I am an adult! It is one more thing to make me part of a unique group of people.

Irishfire
[Were you teased a lot?] Freckle Face Strawberry from the cereal stands out the most in my memory. As we progressed through grammer my schoolmates were rather hard on me. Having such pale skin in the 60's and 70's when having a tan was the symbol of beauty was very difficult. That would explain all those years in my teens and early 20's baking for hours for a burn that would turn to tan. This was before they let us know how bad that was for us. Fortunatly my red hair won out and I had lots of boyfriends but I always broke off with them after several months. Afraid of more rejection I think. "Don't get too close to me..."

wolf_lover13
I definitly feel a bond with other redheads. This past year I was honored and tickled pink when my step-brother and his wife gave birth to a fiery redhead. It was a huge surprise to the whole family considering neither parent was redheaded. Call me crazy but even as a infant I think she feels the bond we have as redheads. When I hold her she quites right down. The most funny part of it was everyone told my step-brother that I marked that baby for red hair. All I know is that if I did, I am very glad of it. Because it is great to have another redhead in the family.

SarahBear
I love my red hair. My cousin suggested dyeing it the other day. I just about dropped the box I was carrying in horror. I might streak it sometime, but I'm staying a redhead.

RavingRed
[Many of us are approached by others whose first comments are about our hair. Tell us some of the comments you've heard.] Are you a true redhead? Are you Irish? Do you have that redhead temper?

All my life my father called me "Red", now that he passed on I very rarely hear "Red". I loved being called "Red"!

firemyst
for me i always enjoyed being a redhead, and when kids tried teasing me or called me names.....i would smile and tell them that i love my red hair. after a while kids realized they could not get to me.

decemberelement
I did not like growing up with redhair in a little southern town. I was teased horribly. I remember once around the age of 8, in the lunchroom, a boy told me in a snide manner, as I walked passed him, that I looked like strawberry shortcake. I turned and said to him, "Well, atleast I look like someone famous." I then turned and held my head up as I walked on. I was so proud to have remembered the come back my grandma, rest her soul, told me to say to the shortcake teasing.

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