But it's about brown hair. I notice George only speaks for older guys.
March 14, 2025
"My wife is going to hate it because nothing makes you look older than when an older guy dyes his hair."
Said George Clooney, quoted in the London Times, with a photo that shows how right he is:
I clicked on that headline because I thought it was going to be about brown clothing. Did you know the color brown is a fashion trend? See, from last October, "Chocolate Brown Is Fall’s Breakout Color Trend" (Harper's Bazaar).
AND: So you go to some play because a famous actor — famously handsome actor — is in it, but then there's just some guy on stage and he doesn't even look like him. But it's not supposed to look like him. It's supposed to look like Edward R. Murrow!
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Men who dye their hair -- even the celebrities who can afford a high-end salon -- look ridiculous. Women, with enough money, can look okay. Or maybe it's just that men aren't patient enough to sit in the chair for the hours it takes to blend the colors and layers.
I'll have what the chick behind George's right shoulder is having.
When you're right, you're right - and that doesn't happen very often with old George. I've always thought his casting in Hail Caesar ! was picture perfect - played without effort, because coming naturally, it didn't need any.
Cary Grant never died his hair. Clooney is a handsome man and has a great head of hair. But he’s a Boomer through and through.
George needs to trim the eyebrows.
Looks like somebody would make a great James K. Polk reenactor.
I notice George only speaks for older guys.
True. People are accustomed to women dying their hair throughout their lives because it's more common. It stands out when men do it.
I had a Grecian Formula period. But I don't count that as "dying" because reasons.
Most men look distinguished with silver hair. ..or no hair.
but dark dyed hair? - very rarely works.
He's right. If you are going to live your life as a man does, you may as well enjoy the benefits of it, such as still looking OK with grey hair. But sorry to hear about brown as a fashion trend, because I have been going with that palette for a while now, I guess I will have to find something new. Taupe? Grey? Nahh, I already wear those colors with brown.
I personally like grey hair on a woman, you see it a lot more in Vermont, but women are driven far more by what other women think than by what men think, or the nail shops would all be out of business.
Hail Ceasar was a great movie. One of those movies you think about sometimes even when it doesn't come up naturally.
"I don't want FOP dammit, I'm a Dapper Dan Man."
Purples, greens and blues becoming more popular out here in California.
5 minute History Lesson from someone who lived in a Progressive Paradise. Konstantin Kisin.
George Clooney(D) and the lying history-bending left.. I have nothing but loathing.
"I'm a Dapper Dan Man"
Another great movie.
Lilly, a dog said, "I don't want FOP dammit, I'm a Dapper Dan Man."
This wins the internet for today.
Lilly, a dog said...
"I don't want FOP dammit, I'm a Dapper Dan Man."
DAMN it. I hadn't even thought of that one.
I should probably try Hail Caesar again. Made it a quarter of the way through, was utterly bored by it.
(Hoping my italics is closed properly. . . . .)
Brownness, and brow-ness.
Non-actors who dye their hair are ridiculous. Some guys even dye the sparse hair they comb over to hide the baldness. That's just sad.
That photo of Clooney above really makes his look ordinary, old, with his handsome days behind him. Why does that make me happy? Hollywood's leftists give me sour stomach.
They are all legends in their own minds.
Brown fashion? Brown hair? Give me basic black, or give me silvery gray.
George Clooney doesn't look much like George Clooney now. Clooney has an Italian or Latin look, vaguely resembling some baseball player or restaurateur or politician or entertainer or mafioso whose name I can't quite recall.
If you look at stills of Clooney in his make-up, he does look a lot like Murrow, especially the furrowed brow. David Strathern, who played Murrow in Clooney's film, looks less like Murrow than Clooney and has "aged out" of the role, but he is a better actor.
Clooney can't curb his ego for his wife's comfort. It's the little things in life.
I start with the premise that everybody in Hollywood is an a-hole, but sometimes they produce great art. You could even call '90s cinema the "Age of Harvey Weinstein." He produced a lot of great movies that we would miss if they were pulled.
I would love to hear more comments on why we tend to reject older men’s dyed-hair looks when it’s been de rigueur for most women to do this well into their 80’s for the past several decades. Kate starts to get into this in asserting that it’s because men are not “patient” enough to get it done right (I might flip that around and say that maybe stylists are not motivated enough to spend the proper amount of effort on men’s hair). I personally would conjecture that it is due to our cognitive dissonance between the combination of wrinkled skin and youthful looking hair. This is usually more striking for men because they tend to just accept/ignore facial wrinkles, while women will still invest a lot of time and money to hide those wrinkles well into old age.
We reject it because it's not manly. Maybe that judgement iis culturally constructed, but I don't think so. A kind of stoicism is a part of manliness, it's like a story I heard once about a fighter pilot in the Korean War who had picked up a MIG on his tail and he started begging for help over the radio and another pilot came on the frequency and said "Shut up and die like an aviator."
Who knew we’d have hair long enough to worry about such things?
My brother was laid off from a software company when he was about 50 y.o. He was somewhat grey-haired and having trouble getting a new position because he looked older. He was getting close to dyeing his hair but fortunately he found a job.
I've always been puzzled why the guys in the Just for Men product commercials look so fake, like their hair was kind of shiny. If they did their moustache they looked like old-time porn stars. Is there some scientific reason men's hair dye looks so shitty?
The mature male will forego the gaieties of life to place his wife and children first. For better or worse functional sexism.
CJinPA said...
True. People are accustomed to women dying their hair throughout their lives because it's more common. It stands out when men do it.
Plus women are smarter about it. They go lighter in color or do like the current trend of embracing the grey. Me try to go back to the hair color they had when they were in the twenties and it just looks bad.
I would use such a product on the condition that it would only turn some of the gray hair and keep some gray hair untouched.
Her Choice, his choice, progress... one step forward, three steps backward.
Hmm. Looks like tails of eyebrows were pulled down and corners of mouth pulled up. Ears are YUGE. Lot more than hair dye going on there.
Clooney looks ten years younger, which is why anyone of a certain age dyes their hair. You all have no idea how many men dye their hair, because it's only noticeable when done badly (e.g., at home).
My hair, beard, and eyebrows are all gray. The idea of dying my hair is absurd. It grows pretty fast, so I'd have to be dying constantly to avoid showing the gray roots. That's not going to happen.
Back in 2012, I moved from Colorado to Alabama. When I went to get my new driver's license, the lady asked the usual questions about height, weight, eye color, and hair color. I said my hair was brown. She said, "Honey, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but your hair isn't brown anymore." That was hilarious.
Ah man, live and let live. One of my dad’s friend dyed his hair. He looked great and no one (as far as I knew) said anything negative about it. Personally I’m not too fond of the bald look and wish more guys would go the implant, toupee route. But if bald is the way guys want to go, that’s ok too.
Men who dye their hair -- even the celebrities who can afford a high-end salon -- look ridiculous.
Couldn't agree more. It's even more ridiculous when they deny dyeing thier hair as Redford does.
Hail Ceasar was a great movie.
I think it's a very good movie, great may be a bit over the top.
I was actually thinking about the film yesterday, how having it set in a movie studio lot allowed the Coen Brothers to play around with lots of different genres. I suspect they created the story for that purpose.
Nobody is in my league when it comes to hair.
His father Nick Clooney was known for having grey hair when he was the top news anchorman in Cincinnati in the 70s/80s.
After looking at that picture for a minute; it occurs to me that part of the reason Clooney looks bad is that he appears to have been doing Ozempic and looks underweight. That seems to be becoming very common with the Hollywood crowd, even those who don't need it. Based on what I saw from the latest Oscars ceremony the next one will undoubtedly look like a UNICEF commercial.
As we know, for years Schwarzenegger dyed his hair. When he ran for governor, Gray Davis told him to "wash the dye out of his hair." All I could think was that Gray Davis doesn't know how hair dye works. And, as we all know know now, Schwarzenegger finally decided to stop dying his hair.
I started to go gray about 15 years ago. Once I had to dye my hair for a video project and my boss at work said, "You look 20 years younger!"
The problem with hair dye is that it just doesn't look natural on most older people. (too monochromatic) Add some facial wrinkles into the mix and it enhances that effect. But there are a few actors who can pull it off, like Tom Cruise.
It would be interesting to do AI photos of older famous actors who always dyed their hair and give them gray hair.
Clooney's not wrong, although I would have said "older and more pathetic" instead of just "older". I did dye my hair when I turned 40. But just that once.
In college I went to a Halloween party as John Delorean. I sprayed gray hair powder. Besides current events, my actual goal was to see what I might look like because my father went prematurely gray. Forty-plus years later, my hair is still only partially gray.
Skin tone is the reason older men who darkening their hair look unnatural. Skin tone becomes pastier as we get older such that the contrast with dark hair becomes obvious.
I had some gray hair in high school, was salt and pepper in my mid -20's. Every year a little more gray. I've been totally gray now for about 10-15 years or so. I had a barber who encouraged me to dye my hair, never did. It's never bothered me, and women never seemed to care, many liked it. I'm just glad I have a full head of hair at 68.
I agree with Clooney, men who dye there, with few exceptions, look older.
I used to dye my hair until I also had a Clooney-like epiphany. It doesn't look natural. I'm 66 and have had a silver stripe on top, kind of like Tulsi, for many years. My wife is 63, doesn't color and still has her black hair. She's starting to get a few strands of gray here and there, but the rest of the women in the family tease her because she's the only one who doesn't color.
@heyboom, Tulsi pulls that off so well. Come to think of it, I don't think any man could pull that off. Tulsi's touch-of-gray highlights will become fashionable in the future for women of all ages, watch.
George Clooney looks ridiculous.
Dark hair on women over 60 doesn't look so great, in my opinion (though I'm used to it with my wife, and it looks ok, hard to imagine her with gray hair). That's why many, as I understand it, go for lighter blondish colors.
"Honey, I hate to be the one to break it to you, but your hair isn't brown anymore."
Yeah, I got that from my wife recently, though I think it was a bit of sour grapes, as my hair is still 90% brown (going on 65). The beard (if I let it grow) is a different story.
Going to the funeral of a friend next week. Dropped dead unexpectedly of what they are calling "sudden cardiac death". Was in his early 60's, but still fit and active, skiing many days per winter and biking in the warm months.
He started going gray in his mid 20's, was totally gray by 35, and as white as Santa Claus by 50. I wonder if it is a marker for premature onset of other diseases of old age.
At my last high school reunion I was pleased to discover I was the only one among my group of friends with a full head of hair that was still mostly its natural color. Had a bit of gray begin at the temples around age 50, and now in my early 60's I am still brown-haired but with salt-and-pepper progressing throughout. At this rate I don't expect to go completely gray until my 70's.
The mature male will forego the gaieties of life to place his wife and children first. For better or worse functional sexism.
My wife knows she will be loved and accepted by me no matter whether she dyes her hair or gracefully goes gray. She chooses the dye, for the approval of other women I would guess.
She also has known, since before we were married decades ago, that she will always be looking at the real me. No hair dye, toupee, transplant, facelift, botox or collagen shall ever befall me. I told her I wouldn't even do a comb-over if it came to that, but luckily it has not.
@ridespacemountain Any man except me!
My family's trait is for the gray/silver to start coming in along the hairline so that left untouched it would look like a tonsure. Not a great fashion look when your natural color is mousy brown. I colored it enough to keep the grays in check around my ears and temples in my 20s and 30s but by the time I hit 40+ I just had to keep going lighter and lighter. Now I keep it an ashy blonde/gray that looks good in my middle years. Once the rest of the darker hair at the crown changes I'll likely go platinum. Coloring gray hair also helps to manage it because it can become wiry and coarse.
I knew a gentleman growing up who had a thick head of jet black hair which he wore swept back in a pompadour style. As he aged his hair changed, but he still insisted on coloring it that same deep black. It just didn't look right. If he'd gone to a colorist he/she would have been able to modify the color to be less severe but still cover the gray. On short hair the process is less than an hour.
Vanity[a] of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3 What does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.Vanity, vanity.
One can figure women for being vain about their looks, since so much of the world judges them on it. But with men, its rather absurd.
Had a boss, a tall good looking guy, who had a full head of hair into his late 50s, and then he insisted on dyeing it. It looked ridiculous, you could actually see the wet black dye on his head! People laughed behind his back, I laughed in front of his back - which he didn't appeciate.
Eventually, he got wise and let his hair turn grey. And dumped the dye.
Always shocked at how murrow was. You listen to his CBS broadcasts from London in 1940, or watch his attack on Mccarthy, or see him before his death in the mid 1960s and you think you're llstening and looking at dude that was 10 years older then he was. Famous at 32. Dead at 57.
“Nobody is in my league when it comes to hair.”
Would that be the bush league, Donald?
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