My friend's parents both have black hair. How does she have natural red hair?

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Leon

She is half-Chinese. Her mother is full-blooded Chinese. My friend's father met the mother in China, so the mother shouldn't have a recessive gene for red hair.

Answer
There are very rare genes for red hair amongst Asians that descended from the Tocharians of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang province rather than the Mongolian Han Chinese. There are Melanesians with copper red hair and blonde hair. It is possible for rare alleles to persist in populations only to emerge as the phenotype on the chance combination with another rare allele.
http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/2012/05/blond-hair-in-melanesia-genetically.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/case-closed-blonde-melanesians-understood/#.UceG7JyDk8s
Kurds are known to have red hair. Pashtuns, another ethnic group found in parts of Iran and Afghanistan, are known for producing redheads.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2502chinamum.html
The gene for red hair is present in many Middle Eastern and Central Asian ethnic groups.â From anthropologist S J Carter http://en.allexperts.com/q/Computational-Biology-Bioinformatics-3310/2008/1/happen-1.htm

I have bright red hair, should I colour my eyebrows the same?

Ocean

If you google LedaMonsterBunny, you'll see that sometimes she'll colour in her eyebrows the same colour as her hair. My eyebrows are naturally black/Dark brown and im just wondering if i should colour them to match my red hair.

Answer
No.
DYEING EYEBROWS
Myth 7: Dye your eyebrows to match your hair color.
False: â Your hair color and eyebrows should not be a perfect match. A slight contrast is good,â says Warren, makeup artist to the stars. To lighten up your brows and fill them in for a natural look, use a brow pencil or powder one shade lighter than your hair color.

Never dye your eyebrows or eyelashes. This can hurt your eyes. You might even go blind. FDA does not allow using hair dyes on eyelashes and eyebrows.

That's why someone invented eyebrow pencils. If you want to change the color of your eyebrows, shave them, then line them with eyebrow pencils. Google celebrities with different color hair and see what eyebrow colors they have. Google Lady Gaga and check out what color eyebrows she's got with her so many wig changes. Have you seen Miley's eyebrows? She's now blonde!

Example from one salon to a client: "i have been a beauty therapist for 8 years and have never experienced a client react to an eyelash tint..
The client came in to have her hair done and while she was having this done asked about the eyelash tint.. she told me that she had a reaction in the past when she had it done so i gave her a patch test. about 40 Min's later she said that by now she would have reacted to it and said she would like to go with it and have it done.. so taking her world for it i done the tint she then asked for her eyebrows too..
this was on a saturday, monday morning i got a phone call from my boss saying i had to come in as the client had a reaction anyway when i got there i was a bit shaken as i didn't know what to expect the client was very sore.. she then said that she didn't want to take further action and that she just wanted me to know to be more careful for next time :s . . . . i think I'm going to give up my job too as my confidence has gone down the drain :( "

Watch Mirror Mirror - observe Lily Collin's eyebrows, that had become her trademark. Glamour magazine in Sept. 2012 issue was focused on her, by guest editor, Victoria Beckham.

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