Persians hair: texture and color in 60 observed portraits

Persians: hair texture (andre walker) 1B — straight, medium in 65% of 60; hair color Dark brown in 66% of 70; hair density Average in 47% of 62; hairline shape M-shape (temporal recession) in 47% of 55; graying pattern None in 61% of 71.

Catalog portraits for Persians are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.

Hair texture (Andre Walker)

n = 60 assessable

Andre Walker hair-texture classification covering the spectrum from straight (Type 1) to coily (Type 4), with subdivisions A-C within each numbered type.

Value	Share	n
1B — straight, mediumStraight with medium body.	65%	39
2B — wavy, mediumDefined S-waves; medium texture.	17%	10
3A — curly, loose ringletsLoose, soft ringlets; well-defined curl.	7%	4
2A — wavy, fineLoose S-waves; fine texture.	5%	3
3B — curly, springyTighter, springy curls; corkscrew shape.	3%	2
2C — wavy, coarseStrong S-waves transitioning to ringlets; coarse.	2%	1
1C — straight, coarseStraight, thick, coarse strands.	2%	1

Vocabulary: Hair texture (Andre Walker) (andre_walker_1990s)

Hair color

n = 70 assessable · 4 not assessable

Predominant natural hair color, where determinable. Visibly dyed hair should be flagged via grooming-state metadata.

Value	Share	n
Dark brownDistinctly brown but darker than medium-brown.	66%	46
GrayVisibly graying hair, mixed pigmented and unpigmented.	11%	8
BlackVery dark hair appearing black under normal lighting; high eumelanin.	10%	7
Mixed / uniqueMultiple distinct natural colors (e.g. natural ombre with sun-lightened tips).	7%	5
WhitePredominantly unpigmented hair.	3%	2
Red / auburnRed, auburn, or copper. High pheomelanin; correlated with MC1R variants.	1%	1
Medium brownStandard brown hair.	1%	1

Vocabulary: Hair color (hair_color_qualitative)

Hair density

n = 62 assessable

Density of native scalp hair when ungroomed.

Value	Share	n
SparseVisible scalp through hair throughout most of the head.	5%	3
ThinSome visible scalp; reduced density.	8%	5
AverageStandard density; minimal visible scalp.	47%	29
ThickAbove-average density.	40%	25

Vocabulary: Hair density (hair_density_qualitative)

Hairline shape

n = 55 assessable

Shape of the anterior hairline.

Value	Share	n
M-shape (temporal recession)Bilateral temporal recession creating an M-shape; common male-pattern feature.	47%	26
RoundedSmooth curve hairline; no peaks.	47%	26
Widow's peakV-shaped point at the midline of the hairline.	4%	2
StraightApproximately horizontal hairline across the forehead.	2%	1

Vocabulary: Hairline shape (hairline_shape_qualitative)

Graying pattern

n = 71 assessable

Pattern and extent of visible gray / white hair.

Value	Share	n
NoneNo visible gray hairs.	61%	43
Predominantly gray	17%	12
Salt and pepperMixed gray and pigmented hair throughout; often ~50/50.	13%	9
Scattered fewA few isolated gray hairs visible.	7%	5
Fully gray / white	3%	2

Vocabulary: Graying pattern (graying_pattern_qualitative)

Where these numbers come from

76 publicly documented portraits of notable Persians people were assessed by a vision model against the full 22-vocabulary schema, one value per dimension. Values are what the photographs show, read by a model, not population measurements. Each table counts only portraits where the value could be assessed; covered, obscured and unclear portraits are reported separately.

Notable-people corpora skew older, so hair color over-represents gray and white, and image quality varies. Treat shares as a description of this sample.

These rows are not yet in the published catalog dataset, which currently carries the earlier single-row analysis; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.