Take a quick look at my profile picture. You’ll notice that I have red hair and a face full of freckles. And though I haven’t always accepted these traits, I’ve never thought of either as ...

Vernon François‘s hands have touched the heads of the most beautiful and brilliant women — Solange Knowles, Lupita Nyong’o, Cynthia Evrio, and Ava Duvernay, just to name a few. His skill and expertise ...

A young Indian woman wants to know why she looks Irish. With red hair, green eyes, white skin and freckles, Pooja Gantra could easily be mistaken for an Irish lass, but the 24-year-old was born in ...

Dating site Match.com is pulling an ad campaign after receiving a barrage of complaints for suggesting red hair and freckles are “imperfections.” The posters, which sprung up in London tube and train ...

If you’re a fair-skinned, freckle-faced redhead, hot summer days can be a nightmare, with hours spent dodging the rays under a floppy hat and applying sunscreen with cartoon characters on the bottle ...

A new study has revealed why redheads should be wary of staying out of the sun if they want to avoid developing melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer. Genes that give a person red hair, pale skin and ...

Scientists are beginning to uncover why redheads — and probably others who carry a genetic variant common to redheads — may be so vulnerable to cancer: For those who carry an allele, or gene variant, ...

For the first time, researchers have proven that gene variants associated with red hair, pale skin and freckles are linked to a higher number of genetic mutations in skin cancers. The burden of ...

Whether you call them gingers, the devil’s spawn or just-plain sexy, be sure to call redheads out of the sun because along with their fiery tresses comes a powerful propensity to develop melanoma, a ...

The fair skin that frequently accompanies red hair keeps many redheads out of the sun, and a new study says that makes a lot of sense: Along with their fiery-colored tresses comes a propensity to ...

Whether you call them gingers, the devil’s spawn or just-plain sexy, be sure to call redheads out of the sun because along with their fiery tresses comes a powerful propensity to develop melanoma, a ...