Red(my hair): Gives the feeling of heat, danger, passion, strength, anger, blood, and war. Red is a stimulant that is informative and alerting. It can increase bodily tension.
Blue(my favorite color): Symbolic of sadness, trust, solitude, and loyalty. Some view the color as therapeutic and conflict-resolving.
Black(my color of choice for clothing): Most related to demonic practices, such as magic, witchcraft, and the devil. People with light hair color who wear black portray an image of determination and inner strength, mostly due to the effects of the contrast. It can be powerful, formal, and intimidating.
Ok, so the black one is messed up. Magic and witchcraft are certainly not demonic. People need to do their research. 😉
The Russian artist Kadinsky captured the expansive essence of blue when he wrote that blue is “the infinite penetration into the absolute essence – where there is, and can be, no end.” People who are strongly attracted to blue tend to be devoted and deliberate in their actions and since blue is everywhere, they feel a unity with the world.
Meaning: Spirituality, religion, art, culture, philosophy, attitude to life itself.
The light blue of the sky is the color associated with calmness and with healing.
A dark blue sky signifies the coming of another night and sometimes a storm.
When our primitive ancestors looked upon the light blue of a new day, they felt safe after shuddering in the fear of the previous night of darkness and the dangers within it.
People who are ill feel at ease when seeing each new light blue sky, and take comfort in knowing they’ve made it through another long night.
Blue’s strongest association is with the sky and the sea. Although a cold and retractive color, blue is said to have a pacifying influence.
Blue also symbolizes peace, faith, contemplation, truth, and heaven.
In heraldry, blue is used to indicate piety and sincerity.
Blue
Blue is the color of the Virgin Mary, and is associated with girls who have similar pure qualities. In addition, it is the color of water and the sea, with all the symbolic references already discussed for that element – that is, blue usually indicates femininity, life, purity, etc., just as water does.
Blue can also symbolize peace, calm, stability, security, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and depression.
According to Henry Dreyfus, indigo blue, ai, mirrors the color of the vast ocean surrounding the Japanese islands. This shade of blue is very commonly seen in Japanese art and clothing.
Redhead Insight?
“The geographical distribution of hair color tends to follow that of skin color. People who have adapted to survival in strong sunlight, by acquiring heavier quantities of the pigment melanin in their skins as protection against excessive ultraviolet radiation, have both darker skins and blacker hair. Inhabitants of temperate lands have lighter skin tones and hair shading from brown to blond. Red hair, like the fair skin that goes with it, is dependent upon a deficiency of melanin (which in the skin is unevenly distributed into islands of freckles).
This is not entirely accurate, as redheads can be found in all cultures and skin types, though with varying regularity
“A natural redhead, owing the beauty of her hair and of her fair skins and freckles to a red hair-color gene coupled with a deficiency of melanin. The lack of melanin means that her hair is so lightly pigmented that the red coloring can dominate; it also means that her skins is only lightly colored except in the spots, or freckles, where the pigment has become concentrated.
” Red hair is the product of a supplementary gene that produces a diffuse red pigment. If the red-hair gene is present with a very active gene for melanin, then the red gene will be completely obscured. Some people believe that a hidden red gene can show its presence by giving a special richness to black hair. Where the melanin gene is weaker, the red-hair gene shows up in reddish-brown or chestnut shades; and if the melanin gene is very weak, or absent, then true red hair will be produced.
“Theoretically the red gene should dominate a blond gene that has laid only diluted deposits of melanin. But there are cases where blond parents produce a red-haired child, showing that one or both carried a submerged red gene. But with rare exceptions, the blond gene is definitely recessive to all darker hair shades. So the general conclusion is: If you have dark hair you are carrying either two dark-hair genes, or one dark and one for another shade. If you have blond hair, you carry two blond genes. If you have red hair, you carry either one or two red genes, supplementing blond or brown genes.
Who Has More Hair?
“Each particular hair adds up to a great many hairs. A single healthy human scalp carries an average of 100,000 hairs, but there are wide variations from this figure. Blondes have as many as 140,000 hairs on their heads, brown-heads have about 18,000, and redheads fewer than the general average – only about 90,000. Each of these hairs (and every other hair on the body) is intimately connected with the whole physical being. Hair does not grow as an independent entity, like moss on a tree. It is an integral component of the body, as much part of us as our skin. Indeed, in some ways it may be considered an extension of skin; it is firmly linked to our blood supply and it reflects, as skin does, the general state of health of our body.
Why Are We So Loved and Hated?
“Just as fashions in length and style of hair change in different places and different periods, so do fashions in color. Red hair in particular has blazed an erratic trail. It has held its popularity in Italy and Greece right to this day. In England under Queen Elizabeth I, sandy-red hair became fashionable for a time, because the queen herself was red-haired when young. Nell Gwynne, the mistress of Charles II, was also a redhead. But at times in England, France, Germany, Spain, and America, red hair has been unpopular and distrusted. At the height of Europe’s witch hunts, in the 16th and 17th centuries, many women suffered the shame and pain of being stripped, shaved, and “pricked” by a witch-hunter, endured torture, and were put to death, simply because they were redheads — and, preferably, young and attractive. The fear of red hair may have stemmed from the belief that Judas, who betrayed Christ, was red-haired. The 17th-century French scholar Jean-Baptist Thiers in his Histoire des Perruques gives this prejudice as one reason for wearing a wig: “Redheads should wear wigs to hide the color of their hair, of which everybody stands in horror because Judas, it is said, was red-haired.” Since Red hair has been associated with the devil, and with Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus, redheads have for centuries had the reputation of being deceitful — and sometimes of being hot-tempered as well. In Germany, barbers advertised all sorts of concoctions for altering the red shade of hair, and in American a newspaper was once driven to explain that 21 men in Cincinnati, who had married red-haired women, were color-blind and had mistaken red for black. But the prejudice extends beyond Christian cultures — at one time Brahmins were forbidden to marry red-haired women, so Judas cannot bear all the blame. More probably the comparative rarity of red hair has made it suspect because it is unusual.
“In this century red hair has, in most of Europe and in the United States, come back into favor. Perhaps the legend that red-haired women are especially passionate has something to do with it, in an age when women are once again credited with sexual feeling. Equally, perhaps, effective semi-permanent rinses have played a part, and the advent of color movies and color television has favored both redheads and blondes.
“That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”….as a redhead.
“There is a theory of the Frenchman Augustin Galopin, whose book Le Parfum de la Femme was published in Paris in 1886. According to Galopin, redheads have the strongest scent of all women, brunettes are next, and blondes the most faintly scented. Redheads, and women with chestnut hair, smell of amber or of violets; brunettes have the scent of ebony; blondes have a much more subtle odor of amber or violets.”