Posted on 08/17/2008 1:25:32 AM PDT by Schnucki
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.
**snip**
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?"
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.photoshelter.com ...
“maybe it’s the other way...dyeing it black all this time and now has stopped.”
That’s my guess, stylin19a. The guy really is very vain. (And it wasn’t until he was voted in to the US Senate a couple of years ago that his accomplishments as an ambitious HLS grad were well matched to his years.)
True enough.
Wait and see.
My hair started turning grey when I was in my early-20s as well... I was married early and had a child at that time, but I can’t say it was MORE stressful than my childhood... Anyway, the interesting thing is that it’s just at the top of my head in the front to the right - directly behind my bangs... Now I look like Rogue (from X-Men) if I don’t dye my hair - and people have asked me if I did it on purpose! LOL I just find it strange because while the section of hair turning white is growing gradually, I haven’t started getting gray hairs anywhere else! In fact, the rest of my hair has turned darker with age! (I’m 36 now...).
I think that’s the opposite of what Obama wants though. He’s nice and dark now that he took that trip to Hawaii. That will score points with those who think race/skin color has something to do with who you should vote for - the darker the better to fit in with his “First African-American President” (wannabe) image, really.
LOL at the “Waitress Black”. What’s wild is that the color is SO deep it almost looks navy blue on my daughter in the sunlight. It’s pretty on her - rather striking really - but it’s going to take me a while to get used to her hair (her natural color is a medium shade of reddish-brownish-blonde - LOL).
I’m still going back and forth between dying my hair, and just letting it grow in as is - I mentioned in a previous post that when I don’t dye my hair I look like Rogue from X-Men. A patch of white at the top that frames my face on the sides! LOL The ironic thing is people have asked me if I bleached that part on purpose?!?! Too funny...
Did you do the aging? What software package did you use?
My daughter did her hair the same way and when I made a comment she went the opposite way and bleached it pure white. KIDS!
My hair is more silvery around my face and darker in the back too. I also have a white spot (a bullseye?) right in back. I decided NOT to color my gray when people started commenting that I had “the most beautiful hair color how did I get it that way?” (I am female BTW) I would reply “don’t mess with mother nature”. LOL!
This is very scary, next we will demand to know boxers or jockeys; when a man gets this far it usually means he is already so familiar that his presidency is as certain as the mediocrity; in other words the stylists have already accepted him, warts and all.
The editors used Photoshop & this is what they said they did:
- Used the Burn and Dodge tools to deepen wrinkles and paint in age spots.
- Cloned the eyebrows and moved them lower.
- Used the Liquify filter to hollow out cheeks, make jowls, thin out lips, and enlarge ears and noses.
- For Clinton and Obama, brought in forehead wrinkles from separate photos and used the Match Color tool to blend them in.
- For Obama, painted in gray hair on top of his current hair; for Clinton, desaturated with the Sponge tool to make her grayer.
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