Meaning of 赤味 in Japanese

東の空が赤みを帯びている。
There is a tinge of red in the eastern sky.

家では赤味がかった髪とそばかすのせいで、母が侮蔑を込めて 「にんじん」と名付け、皆にもそう呼ばせています。
At home, because of his reddish hair and freckles, his mother scornfully named him "carrot" and had everybody else call him that.