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Beauty By Numbers.
Beauty By Numbers
Brunettes
Blondes may have more fun, but brunettes seem to capture the lion's share of other accolades. A look at some of the extraordinary numbers behind the most common hair color. -- SARAH VAN BOVEN
60: Percentage of American women who are natural brunettes. 1955: Year the movie Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, a sequel to the smash hit Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, opened to tepid reviews. 74: Percentage of brunettes who consider themselves popular
with men, compared to 93 percent of blondes. 76: Percentage of men who say they prefer brunettes over blondes. 87: Percentage of men who say they have more intelligent conversations with brunettes than with blondes. 1: Rank of brown in Clairol's list of top-selling hair-color shades. 81.8 million: Number of hair-color kits in brown shades that the company sold in 2006. 2004: Year in which Ashlee Simpson said, "I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette." 2005: Year she dyed her hair blonde. 56: Number of Miss America
winners since its inception in 1921 who had brown hair, compared with
19 blondes and four redheads. 2004: Year Nicole Kidman told
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