Sunday, June 21, 2009

Hair dye

What's with Hollywood and hair color? Is a person not permitted to have dull, brown hair? Nobody has natural hair the color of Liam Neeson in Taken or Nicholas Cage in any of his last half-dozen movies, National Treasure 2 for a heinous example.

Frankly, I don't much care for the artificial colors on females, either, because in 99.97% of the cases, it looks as plastic as the bottle from which the dye was dispensed. That said, I understand the societally-imposed, individually-swallowed insatiable search for youth. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. Vanity.

When dudes start dying the dirty-blonde that has started sprouting the silver or hair-plugging, toupeeing or spray-painting the follicles that have long since vacated the premises, something's amiss. If you got the genes where the hairline is racing after faster than a French battlefield, que sera, sera. Get used to it. And DON'T comb-over! Going gray? Steve Martin. Peter Graves.

You want a credible character in film or on TV? Try a credible look. Unless of course your going for a Bozo the Clown feel to your action film. Just me.

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