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Red Hair Sorority

Red Hair Sorority

Description

  • These sorority girls think they are above and better than the other students.
  • They give much homage to Pheomelanin, hence the “P” on all of their clothes.
  • Hair color is determined by the amount of a pigment called melanin in hair. An abundance of pigment, called pheomelanin, gives people red hair.
  • Pheomelanin is a lighter pigment found in red hair, and is concentrated in the redder areas of the skin such as the lips. Because people with red hair are less able to make the dark eumelanin pigment, their skin is generally quite pale and burns easily with sun exposure.
  • We must have complete ownership and commercial rights to images, chant, and step created.
  • Must have PSD with all the layers. This means, every part of the image should be on different layers in Photoshop.

Chant

  • I would like a chant created that will help the sorority tell about its history, The history being that they were born this way with the help of the MC1R gene has the genetic mutation of Pheomelanin.
  • Now those are the some of the basic facts of the history, but if we can present them in a more colorful and interesting way is the goal of this chant.
     

Step

  • The step should be creative and shows off the letter “P” for their Pheomelanin. We are open to all other ideas regarding the step.
     

Research & History

Explain how red hair becomes red.
The development of red hair is attributed to a genetic variation that enables the body to produce a greater amount of one type of melanin and a lesser amount of another type in both skin and hair cells. The prevalence of red hair can be attributed to a mutation in the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene. Individuals with this genetic mutation exhibit a production of pheomelanin, a yellow-red pigment, due to malfunctioning melanocortin receptors, which manifestsin red hair and fair skin (Sessler, 2015).