Question: Marsha (29, Tampa, FL) Asks: Do men prefer blondes? I’m a brunette and my friend is a dirty blonde; I think I’m more physically attractive than her, but she still gets more looks than I do.
Answer: After receiving this email, I realized that I’ve had this conversation many other times but pushed it off as trivial. Obviously, it is weighing on some of your minds. To answer the question, I began comparing women I speak to with those I’ve actually asked out on dates. I came to the conclusion that: I don’t prefer blondes when it comes to getting digits, but I do look at them first.
I usually make visual contact with blonde women first, but I end up closing the deal with brunettes or black haired women more often than not. It would be easy to blame magazines and movies for making us only want blonde women; but I think it has more to do with the idea that people simply relate that hair color to ideas of being young, fun and energetic. When it comes down to actually discovering a woman though, I’m more intrigued by the exoticness and adventure. I get a sense of this from dark-haired females.
So, if you’re not a blonde, don’t change your hair color just yet. You may have to work a little harder to get in his front door; but after you are, take him on an exotic adventure!
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I completely agree! And not just b/c I’m a dark haired girl:) I think men look at blonds first because it’s different. I actually watched a documentary (on a Delta flight) about blonds vs. brunettes. In the end, blonds got more attention at first glance, but men believed that brunettes were more interesting and intelligent:)
Hmm…I guess it’s true that men do look at blondes first. As an artist and visual person, blonde hair is more eyecatching. There’s more contrast, and it’s rarer (with the exception of California mabye) to see a blonde than a brunette. It is a bit frustrating as a brunette to realize this fact, but it just makes us have a bit more of a challenge to prove that we are more worth it. I think as long as a woman is confident (blonde or brunette) she shouldn’t worry about the competition, just be herself and the guys will come to them. =)
I agree with both of you! I myself prefer brunettes. And i think most of my friends do too.
Interesting, I often wondered why it was that I would pick up blondes, but I’ve only ever really dated dark haired women.
You might be right about that blondes give a perception of fun, youthfulness whereas the brunettes tend to seem more intellectual/deep!
Nice post! Cheers!
i’m afraid i disagree with all of the above posted suggestions. .
the fact that brunettes give the impression of being exotic, interesting, deep or any of the above mentioned qualities, is just as definite as blondes being younger than brunettes, i keep looking for the logic in what you say but i just can’t find it, with all due respect, it all just sounds like hunches that were somehow injected into some part of the planet population’s systems when they were far too young to notice they weren’t logical.
please, what am i missing here?
Here’s a bit of irony; a man who ONLY dates/marries a blonde? what happens when that blonde becomes white haired? does he run off and date a dyed brown hair girl? could be!!!! so I say, BE YOURSELF and not try to go blonde for “attention” ONLY go blonde because thats how YOU feel not him.