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If any job can give a person grey hair, POTUS is it. Time to break out the Just For Men.
Yeah he must’ve been dying it during the election cause he seemed to get gray right after he was elected
They all do that. Seriously, the only one I can remember retaining dark hair color is Reagan, and I suspect he was using shoe polish on it before he ran for PotUS.
ISTR a comic portraying Reagan saying something like, ‘I remember when I was young and grey…’
If he gets elected again, do a before and after. Serving two terms really ages them. I remember the before and afters for W. and Clinton. Bush 1 didn’t look too bad in his.
I dunno, I looked at this, having aged from 45 to 55 myself I can say that is definitely an age range when you start to show some signs of aging and peers in my age group have definitely aged in a manner consistent with Presidents.
Obama was thought of as a young President, and he is one of the younger Presidents but he wasn’t a young man when he was elected. I feel older now than I did at 47 (Obama’s age when elected) but anyone who is 47 and says they are a young man is incorrect. Men aged 18-35 can call themselves “young men.” But definitely by 40 and without a doubt by 47 you’re a middle aged guy, you’re old enough to have kids in college or even graduating college.
From a biological perspective you are no longer in your prime at age 47, and it isn’t surprising that over 8 years men who are age 45+ show serious signs of aging. Reagan probably didn’t because at age 70 you have already aged a good bit so those years from 70 to 78 probably aren’t going to be nearly as noticeable as 47-52.
By 70 a lot of the wrinkling, graying, and thinning of hair that is going to happen has already happened. The big x-factor is muscle mass, and men who can maintain good muscle mass will appear youthful for longer. Some men in my family maintained decent muscle mass until they died in their mid-80s, and they always looked 20+ years younger than their peers who had “little old man” syndrome (essentially when all your muscle mass has wasted away.) Some of that is life style and some of it is luck. At that age if nothing major happens you can maintain muscle mass with moderate exercise, but if you get one serious infection, or a broken bone, a lot of it will waste away during your convalescence and at that age it is extremely difficult to build it back.
I like his hair just fine.
I think Ronald Reagan and Paul McCartney used the same shade of shoe polish. Hint: put some highlights in if you want it to look natural. The mono-shade horrible.
He looks fine to me. A President doesn’t need to look 30.
My hair turned grey at about the same age, over about the same period of time. It is just coincidence.
Hell, I am almost that grey and I am only 36.
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Wouldn’t hurt, for the younger (Liberal) demographic group.
I think he looks great, but I have noticed that his hair can look greyer or darker depending on the lighting and how long it is. The same probably goes for all of us.
I agree. More than half of all presidents were in their 50s when they took office, and most of the others were 45 to 50 or 60 to 65. Those are ages where you would expect them to be significantly grayer four to eight years later.
How’s this look? It took a little longer than I thought trying to make it look like his natural color, while also covering up all the grey, like a dye job would. I’m not sure if there are enough highlights or not.
So younger liberals still subscribe to the “don’t trust anyone over 30” rule? :dubious: How very shallow of them, if they judge by hair color.
Hey, a lot of Republicans want to boff Sarah Palin.
If I were to guess, I think the younger demographic increasingly frowns on things like toupees and male hair coloring (at least the age-related kind).
I remember both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush going gray within months of assuming office. Sometimes I wonder if there’s something toxic in the White House atmosphere. (Besides the politics 
)
Obama’s hair randomly pops back and forth between gray and black, which makes me think he regularly dyes it. I can’t be the only one to notice this, right? Actually, wasn’t there some semi scandal the day he hosted someone from China? In the morning his hair was gray, at night it was black? Ah, yes.
Personally, I think the man looks much, much sexier with black hair (and I say this as someone who usually finds a bit of gray sexy). I think that the gray kind of makes Obama’s complexion look ashen as well, whereas the black hair makes his skin give off a more youthful, healthy glow.
Different lighting. Or did his skin change color also?