Thursday Thirteen

Do blondes really have more fun? Do gentlemen really prefer them? Let's take a look.

1.Scientists claim their research shows that bleaching hair does wonders for a woman's self-image.

2.Women apparently feel more attractive,are more likely to ask someone out on a date and become more adventurous in the bedroom.

3.Bottle blondes are also apparently more likely to complain at unfair treatment and more inclined to put their foot down with friends and relatives, according to the study into the effects of hair dyeing on mood.

4.A blonde head of hair has usually much more strands than red or dark hair heads.

5.Many people believe all Swedish women are blonde, that Sweden is populated by blonde bombshells more than any other country. However, True Blondes make up only approximately 50% of Sweden's 9 million population.

6.Supermarket shoppers prefer Blondes as cashiers. A UK based Somerfield Shoppers Survey, found blondes were much busier than their darker haired co-workers. Apparently, the research stated that Blondes appeared much calmer.

7.A study of 3,000 women discovered that on average brunettes earn £4,250 more each year than blondes.

8.Another reason men may have preferred blonde women is that light hair color is a marker of youth. Since many Northern European children have blonde hair, which darkens as they mature, blonde hair could arguably be associated with youth and therefore, fertility.

9. Alfred Hitchcock preferred to cast blonde women for major roles in his films as he believed that the audience would suspect them the least, hence the term "Hitchcock blonde"

10.In European fairy tales, blonde hair was commonly ascribed to the heroes and heroines.

11.There are many varieties of blonde hair, including platimun, dirty and peroxide.

12.Canadian anthropologist Peter Frost, under the aegis of University of St Andrews, published a study in March 2006 in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior that says blond hair evolved very quickly at the end of the last ice age by means of sexual selection. According to the study, the appearance of blonde hair and blue eyes in some northern European women made them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for males made scarce due to long, arduous hunting trips; this hypothesis argues that women with blonde hair posed an alternative that helped them mate and thus increased the number of blonds.

13.According to Francis Owens, Roman literary records describe a very large number of well known Roman historical personalities as blonde.