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Hello redheads!

Just joined the group... I'm more like a wannabe redhead, with all the bottles to prove it, does that count?

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Started Nov 5 2007 by:

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Permalink Reply by DebR Nov 5 2007

Sure, it counts! I figure those of us who use the bottle are just unleashing our Inner Redheads. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Claire Rachael Pitt Nov 5 2007

I am straight out of a bottle too! I have been a wannabe Red for over ten years now :)

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Permalink Reply by CandyButtons Nov 5 2007

Haha, I'm a natural, but everyone thinks I dye my hair because I've got dark eyebrows and I'm not super-freckly.

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Permalink Reply by merrymishaps Nov 5 2007

I'm not as red as I'd like to be, but it's natural so I'm not messing with it. I do get natural blonde highlights from the sun.

It's reddish blondish brownish ... once a friend described me as a "rotten strawberry blonde" since it's too dark to be "strawberry blonde". I haven't really found a better description :)

Candybuttons -- my eyebrows are dark too. I've got fair skin, and the freckles only come out in the sun. People call me a redhead, so I think I qualify to be in this group!

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Permalink Reply by musingsro Nov 5 2007

I dunno....hmmm...as a true redhead, I tend to shirk away from wannabes. On the other hand, it's not just the color of our hair that makes us readheads, it's personality too. So, I would say that counts at least a couple of points. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Carrie Nov 5 2007

I've got the super-pale to go along with my natural red hair. I'm serious when I say I used a tube and a half of SPF 50 on our 10-day vacation to Hawaii this summer (the picture in my profile). I came home as super-pale as I left.

And please don't call me a strawberry blonde.

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Permalink Reply by Tall Red Amanda Nov 8 2007

Holy crap! The sunblock I go through!! And I usually still turn a little pink.

I once spent a mere hour and a half outside in my grandma's pool and I put on SPF 50 TWICE and I STILL got burned.

Still wouldn't trade the red hair, though. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Donna Nov 9 2007

I've got the super-pale to go along with my natural red hair.

I resemble that remark, Carrie! Ummm. do you think in our case it might be genetic, though?

But I am a queen of the sunscreen... and ladies (and gentlemen) as I learned the hard way, don't forget your hairline!

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Permalink Reply by Brainsitter Nov 5 2007

Of course it counts! Afterall, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I'm more on the auburn side, but I've been known to use some drugstore help to pump up the color and shine, especially in the winter months. I've got freckles everywhere but my face, which is odd. And my skin goes straight from blue-white to red. Do not pass tan, do not collect 200 dollars.

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Permalink Reply by CandyButtons Nov 7 2007

OMG, I've never heard anyone refer to it as blue-white, but that is the perfect description for my skin tone! :)

I used to think that I could never tan, but when I lived in California for two years, I got a nice brown color on my arms and feet (I had a watch line and a flip-flop tan for the entire two years I lived there) just from walking around and eating a lunch or two outside every week.

Of course, those lunches outside made me switch from 15 SPF to 30 SPF for my daily moisturizer, because my forehead still got blistered a couple times over the course of the lunch hour!

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Permalink Reply by Claire Rachael Pitt Nov 7 2007

Over here in the UK, those with pale skin like me get called corn beef legs when it gets cold. Meaning red blotchy legs :)

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Permalink Reply by Donna Nov 9 2007

Ooooo.... I get that! :)

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Permalink Reply by CandyButtons Nov 9 2007

Me too!

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Permalink Reply by DebR Nov 10 2007

Me three!

I'm a bottle redhead (Feria Deep Copper, thank you very much) but I have skin so pale I'm practically glow-in-the-dark. I always burn, never tan, and go through sunscreen like crazy. The last bottle I bought was SPF 70. I definitely do the red-and-blotchy thing in the cold. I've had lots of people - even hairdressers - assume my color is the real deal because my skin tone is so much like a natural redhead's.

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