"Make me look old"

Everybody remembers Blu, right? So I sit down in the hair salon chair yesterday, when everyone's favorite hair-stylist eccentrique says, "okay, you're scheduled for a cut and color, is that right? What would you like to do?"

"Well, Blu, I've been thinking about this. Do you think you could make me look old?"

"Old?"

"Right. I was thinking of coloring my hair a silvery-gray. Almost white. You know how guys in their sixties look? Or, I guess a better example would be a guy whose hair goes gray or white prematurely. Something like that."

"...Ah... so... you... want to bleach your hair?"

"Sure, if that's what it takes."

"Well... I could bleach your hair completely white, then add a silverish tone on top of that... if... is that what you mean?"

"Yeah. I guess. Sounds good."

"Mm. Tell you what, I'll bring out a swatch palette of hair colors and you can... listen, you really want to look old?"

"I take it you don't get that request very often."

"No. Never. Everyone wants to look young. This is a first."

"It's not really that I want to come off like an old man, I just like the hair color old men have. It's cool. It's a little different. It was just an idea."

"...Okay. And how do you want it cut?"

"Oh, just really short. Clipper-short. Whatever you think looks best with old man hair."

So, as you can see from the picture above (click to enlarge), she did it. In the end, she really really liked it. Not only that, but several of the hair stylists came around to check out the experiment and the opinions were unanimous: pretty doggone cool. Granted, these people are paid to encourage customers about their hair decisions, but they seemed pretty sincere.

And, you know, I like it too. I'm usually teased at work about being The Guy with All the Hair Colors, and I'm sure this time'll be no different, but who cares? In this day and age, outrageous hair color isn't even outrageous anymore. My wardrobe is boring enough, why should my head be the same?
...


Well, anyhow, a joyous Independence Day to all. Give it up for freedom, brothers and sisters!