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2008-08-18 Home Front: Politix

Obama's Grey Hair from a bottle.... or the Hildebeast?

Whoa. My morning news perusal has brought me several stories discussing Obama's hair color, and the very important debate about whether he has a little Revlon secret.

New York Magazine posted two images of Obama from Getty; the one on the left is from July 27th, and the one on the right is from yesterday. Their synopsis:

"Barack Obama has begun talking about how he's 'going gray' lately, and it's true -- the man's hair is going silver faster than you can say 'Anderson Cooper with a tan.' So fast, in fact, that we have to wonder at the legitimacy of it. Just last month, Obama's longtime barber said he'd never dyed Obama's hair darker -- implying that the candidate's youthful color is stress-resistant.

But within the last week, the candidate has mysteriously gone nearly fully gray. Look at the above pictures. We hate to call the effects of age into question, but doesn't it look like he's dying his hair to look more distinguished?"

Posted by Besoeker 2008-08-18 13:01|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 The blog entry goes on to quote a photographic expert saying the apparent difference is due toan artifact of -- in the right hand, greyer photo -- a shorter haircut, harsher overhead lighting, and less colour saturation in the print. Note also the difference of skin tone in the two photos. Finally, while darkening grey hair is very straightforward, lightening to silver-grey is exceedingly difficult, not to mention needing to be touched up at least weekly if the subject doesn't want distressing roots to appear.

Besoeker, you can do better than this.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-18 15:50|| 2008-08-18 15:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I have "distinguished" hair, and I'm < 40.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-08-18 17:13|| 2008-08-18 17:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Stress[es?], + family background/genetics, can do that to a man.

E.g. BARACK was photo'ed next to POTENTIAL VEEP JOHN KERRY, AND BARACK DIDN'T LOOK ONE-BIT HAPPY AT ALL???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-08-18 23:25|| 2008-08-18 23:25|| Front Page Top

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