34 Brilliant Facts about Brunettes

Although the word “brunette” is used now to mean both men and women, when referring to a man, “brunet” is the
correct spelling. “Brunette” can refer to either brown or black hair.[5]

Brown and brunette are the same hair color. Traditionally, women are brunettes, and men with the same colored
are simply said to have brown hair. Brunette is a feminine term for brown hair.[16]

The word "brunette" is from the Proto-Indo-European root *bher- meaning "bright, brown" and may be related to
bear, beaver, or burnish.[6]

Of all hair types, brown hair is the coarsest and the thickest.[7]

Even though "brunet" is the masculine form of "brunette," it is quite uncommon in English. It is more common
to say he is "brown-haired."[16]

When it comes to the number of hairs on their head, brunettes are right in the middle with around 100,000
hairs. Blondes average about 120,000 and redheads have around 80,000.[19]

Brunettes take less time getting ready in the morning than blondes, with brunettes averaging about 66 minutes
to 72 minutes for blondes.[14]

When shown pictures of the same woman with blonde, brown, and red hair, men rated the brunette as the most
physically attractive.[11]

The actress Audrey Hepburn received praise from critics during the 1940s and 1950s for bringing a different
kind of sex appeal to films. In a time period where most actresses were blonde, she refused to dye her dark
brown hair.

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

- Marilyn Monroe

The sequel to a 1953 film titled Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was called Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.[16]

The Italian-born and brown-haired actor Rudolph Valentino became the first international male sex symbol of
the big screen during the 1920s.

A lock of Abraham Lincoln’s dark brown hair sold for $11,905 in 2007.[17]

Brown hair replaced blonde hair as the most desirable hair color for women during the 1600s in Europe.[16]

Most women with visible hair loss in the United States of America are brunette.[15]

Brunettes find it harder to quit smoking than anyone else

Brunettes are more likely than anyone else to become addicted to nicotine. The high levels of the pigment
melanin in brown hair also make it difficult for the liver to metabolize the nicotine, which keeps it in the
system longer and makes it easier to become addicted.[15]

Brunettes are more prone to non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer that starts in the lymph nodes, than anyone
else.

In the 1600s, people used lead combs to darken their hair, not knowing it could lead to kidney failure and
death.[16]

Since it began in 1959, 76% of the winners of the Rose of Tralee Festival have been brunette. The Rose of
Tralee is a festival in Ireland that gathers women with Irish ancestry from all over the world and crowns one
of them the Rose of the festival.[12]

Brown is the most common hair color all over the world except for in the middle of Sweden and Finland where
only about 20% of the population is brunette.[8]

When a facial mapping expert in the United Kingdom used a computer program to make composites of the perfect
female and male face, both of them had brown hair. The female most closely resembles Natalie Portman, and the
male looks most like David Gandy.[1]

Charles Darwin once conducted a study with the goal of determining whether more people with brown hair
existed because they were more likely to be dependable and settle down and get married. He found the results
inconclusive.[9][15]

The majority of men in Spain, France, Italy, the United States, and Brazil state they prefer dark-haired
women.

Brunettes are perceived as intelligent.

Brunette women are rated as more intelligent than women with other hair colors after first meeting them.

Men tend to rate brunette women as less approachable than other women.

Female lions prefer mates with dark-colored manes.

In a survey of 3,000 men, the majority of them stated they’d rather be in a serious relationship with a
brunette than with a blonde because they perceive them to be more reliable.

Brunettes are less likely than other people to suffer skin problems because of the increased amounts of the
pigment melanin in their hair.

While most women who dye their hair blonde or red do so to spark interest, the majority of women who dye
their hair a shade of brown do so to cover up gray hairs.

A book published in 1996 and titled New Women’s Dress for Success states: “…while blondes may have more fun,
brunettes are more successful.”

An old Roman recipe for dark hair dye included charred eggs, boiled walnut shells, leeks, and leeches.

Some people argue that black hair does not exist and is just very dark brown hair.

When including people with black hair, brunettes make up 90% of the world’s population.

More shades of brown hair exist than shades of any other hair color.

When it comes to shades, brunettes are the most diverse.

Brunettes appear to go gray earlier than other people because the lighter strands are more visible in darker
hair.