Blonde and blond essentially mean the same thing. It's just that in French, blond is the masculine form, both as a noun and adjective; adding the E makes it feminine. So, a woman with blond hair is une blonde, a man, un blond.
(of a person, people or a race) having fair hair, a light complexion, and, typically, blue or grey eyes.
(of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
To describe a male or his hair color, use blond. He is a blond. He has blond hair. To describe a female or her hair color, use blonde. She is a blonde.
Dirty blonde hair — also referred to as "dishwater blonde" — doesn't get as much attention as platinum, honey, or strawberry shades these days. But if you've been blessed with naturally dark blonde strands, consider yourself lucky.
In clear terms, “blond” is an adjective used for masculine nouns (i.e. the blond boy) while “blonde” is only attributed to female nouns (i.e. the girl is blonde.)
Dr. Piotr Sorokowski set up an experimental study exploring male hair color preference. The results of his research showed males did, generally, rate pictures of blonde hair as “more youthful,” and also maintained a preference for these women with regard to overall attractiveness.
The reason has roots in evolutionary psychology. Both blonde hair and blue eyes are recessive traits, so both parents must carry the gene for blonde hair to pass it on to their kids.
It's most common to describe blond children as towheads. A true towhead has hair so light that it's nearly white, which is why most towheads are kids.
You probably know blond as a hair color. It literally means “light-colored,” and was first recorded in English in the mid-1400s. It derives from the French blond, which refers to “light brown” and similar hues.
Both lighter brown hair and lighter blonde hair are seen as more attractive than darker or black hair. Lighter hair increases men's ratings for youth, health and attractiveness in a woman.
A light blonde hair color is a color that ranges anywhere in the lighter and whiter end of the blonde spectrum: vanilla, ash, platinum, white, champagne, silver, and a whole lot more in between these muted shades.
True blonde is also a rare hair color, and the Daily Mail reports that only 12.7 percent of women have pure blonde hair, and only 9.9 percent of men do. Surprisingly, many of the genetic differences identified by the researchers correlated with factors other than pigmentation like hair texture and growth.
Finland. Finland has the highest blond hair population by percentage of the total population. Nearly 80% of the population has blond hair, and an astounding 89% of the population has blue eyes. Blond hair and blue eyes are one of the rarest combinations in the world.
Naturally-occurring blond hair is primarily found in people living in or descended from people who lived in the northern half of Europe, and may have evolved alongside the development of light skin that enables more efficient synthesis of vitamin D, due to northern Europe's lower levels of sunlight.
Take this 2011 study from dating app Badoo, for example. A couple of thousand UK men were polled and 33.1% of them revealed they found brunettes more attractive than blondes. Though 29.5% found blondes more attractive, brown-haired beauties still edged ahead of the pack.
2 Answers. Blond hair and blue eyes are characteristics associated with people from northern European countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Denmark, etc. These people are said to look "Teutonic" which is a term the ancient Romans gave to a northern European tribe known as the Teutons.
The international scientific team found a total of 124 genes that play a major role in determining human hair colour and, unexpectedly, discovered that women were twice as likely to be naturally blonde than men. In comparison, they also revealed that men were three times as likely as women to have black hair.
In American and Canadian English, blond is generally preferred over blonde in all cases—even in reference to female hair color—though a minority of writers continue to observe the gender distinction. In any case, using blonde in reference to male hair is simply a misspelling.
Eupedia sources the highest percentage of natural blondes are in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland, but did you know only 3% of people in the world are natural blondes? In America, one in three women lightens their hair to be blonde.
Blonde fact #4: Not all blondes have blue eyes
That's why so many people around the world have black strands and brown eyes. Lighter tint gives rise to lighter coloured eyes, including blue, but also varying tones of green and grey. So, just because you have blonde hair, it doesn't mean that you have blue eyes too.
Strawberry blonde is lighter than red hair. 'It's extremely rare for people to have hair that is naturally a strawberry blonde color. Basically, strawberry blonde is mostly based on red tones, with blonde highlights dotted here and there. It takes its name from the Italian renaissance.
True Strawberry Blonde
At its best, strawberry blonde is a delicious, warm combination of blonde and red. The shade, which is sometimes called Venetian blonde, is a pale but vibrant take on red. It's flattering to a range of fair and medium skin tones and can lean either warm or cool.
Cinderella blonde is the soft platinum hair shade we're seeing everywhere right now, and it's so damn flattering.