Comments on: Can Your Hair Color Predict Skin Cancer? http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/05/can-your-hair-color-predict-skin-cancer/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:49:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: silkenpaw http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/05/can-your-hair-color-predict-skin-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-37990 silkenpaw Wed, 06 May 2009 07:02:25 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=5171#comment-37990 Hey Middy: LOL! Not so easy to get rid of a recessive trait, though, is it? Just ask any animal breeder :) You think you got it licked and generations later, there it pops up in all its sneaky glory :) Even if it _does_ give you cancer or other nasties. (I looked up the Snopes article, by the way. I can't believe that anyone actually bought the blonde extinction story... People will believe anything.) Hey Middy: LOL! Not so easy to get rid of a recessive trait, though, is it? Just ask any animal breeder :) You think you got it licked and generations later, there it pops up in all its sneaky glory :) Even if it _does_ give you cancer or other nasties.

(I looked up the Snopes article, by the way. I can’t believe that anyone actually bought the blonde extinction story… People will believe anything.)

]]> By: Sarah Bellum http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/05/can-your-hair-color-predict-skin-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-37984 Sarah Bellum Wed, 06 May 2009 02:45:00 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=5171#comment-37984 @Janis and Guiness: Did you guys not click the link that explained that the "extinct blondes" story was just an urban myth? Mid Brain was making a JOKE! @Janis and Guiness: Did you guys not click the link that explained that the “extinct blondes” story was just an urban myth? Mid Brain was making a JOKE!

]]> By: Janis http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/05/can-your-hair-color-predict-skin-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-37976 Janis Tue, 05 May 2009 16:40:05 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=5171#comment-37976 Eh, I doubt anyone's going extinct. I don't see a thing different today that wasn't present in human history for the past zillion years, and there's always been blondes. Recessive genes mean nothing -- all that means is that EVERYONE can carry the genes for something without even evincing the characteristic. I've got brown-green eyes and nearly-black hair, and I have blue-eyed genes in me. I could reproduce with someone as dark as myself and have a blue-eyed kid. *shrug* People don't think this stuff through enough ... Eh, I doubt anyone’s going extinct. I don’t see a thing different today that wasn’t present in human history for the past zillion years, and there’s always been blondes.

Recessive genes mean nothing — all that means is that EVERYONE can carry the genes for something without even evincing the characteristic. I’ve got brown-green eyes and nearly-black hair, and I have blue-eyed genes in me. I could reproduce with someone as dark as myself and have a blue-eyed kid.

*shrug* People don’t think this stuff through enough …

]]> By: Guiness http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/05/can-your-hair-color-predict-skin-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-37973 Guiness Tue, 05 May 2009 15:04:24 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=5171#comment-37973 I believe the reason for Blondes to be extinct in 200 years is due to Blonde being a recessive gene. I believe the reason for Blondes to be extinct in 200 years is due to Blonde being a recessive gene.

]]> By: Romney http://thebeautybrains.com/2009/05/05/can-your-hair-color-predict-skin-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-37967 Romney Tue, 05 May 2009 12:54:25 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/?p=5171#comment-37967 Science can only go so far. You have to take people's behaviour in account too. Pale redheads burn easily, but they are likely to avoid the sun. Science can only go so far. You have to take people’s behaviour in account too. Pale redheads burn easily, but they are likely to avoid the sun.

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