The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans

Well I have to say it's unusual. You don't see that often. I lived in London for six years and saw loads of trannies and drag queens etc but they usually wore make up etc and tried to look a bit feminine. This guy was like a truck driver in a skirt :D

Anyway, as to whether Poles prefer Russians or Germans I can only speak for my own husband who is Polish, and he much prefers Russians. He really likes them. I suppose it's the thing of all being Slavs and having some sense of 'brotherhood'. However, he wouldn't have any big problem with Germans, he just feels more of a connection with Russians.

I've seen trannies, drag queens, and all that but I've never seen a trucker with a skirt. Anyway, that's what I feel with my friends who're Slavic, as well. Matter o fact, the Russian friends are the ones who said I look like I could be Russian.

At the moment, with you hair very short, you'd pass for 100% Polish I think. A lot of Polish guys wear their hair very short in summer. Some of them shave their heads completely and then let it grow back. It's a kind of superstition they have that it helps the hair growth, you know, stops you from going bald.

Yes. I've heard that superstition. I've wondered about that. People of Slavic descent tend to bald "earlier" than let's say, the Irish. But my grandfather who was full Pole didn't recede until his fifties, so I guess that varies.

A lot of polish boys in uk have shaved heads or variations of it

That's probably most Poles.

Oh, I don't know, Poleboy, I've seen a few sadly bare heads in Ireland! It could be more the hair type, there's a particular type of Polish very fair hair, that's very fine and fluffy, like the downy feathers on a duckling. Those poor guys go bald very early.

Irish being one of the most dominant cultural backgrounds in the US, most I've seen have really thick, wavy to curly hair. Typically brown despite the stereotype. That was my concern about fitting in actually. My nose seems smaller than most slavs though.

Well I'm living here with my Irish hair and nobody has attacked me yet :D The girls would probably love you because you'd look different but if you wanted to you could just keep it very short. But honestly it wouldn't be a problem.

That's cool. Haha. Then there's my height. I already have people 'towering over me'.

Polish guys are average height, 5'10 is the average apparently but there are loads of shorter guys here. Really, I see them every day. And in the south of Poland they're shorter than average. Go and live there, grow your hair and you'll look like a Viking amongst them! They tend to be short and dark.

That was a good laugh. What about the Plock area?

Remember, Poleboy765, that there have been huge movements of population in the last few years. First as part of the post-war border changes and then there was industrialisation. That means there isn't such a regional 'look' as there once was.

Yes. That also explains variations in Krakow. I want to choose a smaller city where I can enjoy the view, but not be in the middle of no where. Suggestions?

Torun? Bialystok? Opole?

Possibly. What do you yourself like about these areas? Have you been to these places? If you would be ok with it would you talk to me via messages?

Feel free to message. I've been to all of those places and like each of them in their own way. But still prefer Warsaw above anywhere else here.

Thank you, Jon. Anyway, I have found I am a mixture of northeastern Polish and Southern Polish by looking back in history. My family started in Mazovia, then migrated further down.

In the end, I've yet to find ONE "typically" Polish look, rather, an admixture of various neighboring influences, i.e. more "Germanic" nearing the former Silesian/German border, more stock "Slavic" tending towards Ukraine etc...

So i m polish i have background(maybe 25%) that s include austriac belarusian and lemko(łemkowie is small etnich grup and they are also slavic). i have brown hair light brown eyes and yellow tone sikn not pale but also not very tan.So my point is people can have any hair color i would say that most popular is light brown and dark blond but there are many light blonds,dark brunette ,redheads exist but they arent so many .Eyes are more hard to define . Reserach says that 70 % poles has light eyes we'r talking about gray blue green .30 procent has dark eyes hazel light brown brown.Skin is pretty simple slavic people are like in middle,we arent so tan like italian or greeks but we arent so pale like swedes norwegians.if you cures about hight we are tall nacition men usually are 5"11 women 5"6.

I can usually recognize Polish people by their facial bone structure, for both men and women. Italians tend to have rounder faces and more acquiline features. Germans are often extremely tall and large-boned, with squarish body types and faces, even if many have dark-colored eyes or skin:-)

What's odd is I never see anyone with my eye color. My iris is green, and my pupils are blue and there's no brown whatsoever. Haven't seen anyone with this same exact eye color. I figured I'd mention it while we're on the topic of eye color as well. Under certain lights they look grey.

One of my polish boyfriends had eyes like that

My father was born in Poland, I get my red hair, blue eyes, and my facial features from him.

I don't think red hair is that common here, though. It must be something that runs in your family. :)

I'm American, but I'm mainly polish (dna analysis: 86% polish, 6% german, 6% russian, 1% finnish, 1% south Asian). Red hair is pretty common in my family.

I am American. Eastern Europeans typically approach me assuming I speak their language... I think either polish or russian... When I say I don't speak the language they talk to me in English.

Do I look so Eastern European that without knowing me you would assume I spoke the language?

Perhaps it's something about your features rather than hair colour.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Polish men look like baked potatoes. Polish women look like roses.

Thank God, there's you, a beautiful pink prince, who balance it out.