And, Voila! — Santa Claus Is Dead!

Long Live the Silver (Web) Surfer

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Since growing my beard a year ago (from 12/15/2023, to be precise), I have had to endure several comparisons to Santa Claus. When the penultimate instance of that irritating unsolicited observation occurred, I resolved to myself, “If I get that Santa Claus jazz one more time, I’m going to dye my beard and hair.” It happened. So I did.

The result was supposed to be “chestnut blond” as shown here:

(after all, I’ve always loved reddish hair [on myself and others]); but while that (chestnut blonderization) didn’t quite happen, I am moderately pleased to pretty-well-satisfied with the transformation from white-gray to dark gray hair.

I tried to follow the directions included with the product to the letter, but possibly I didn’t perform my follicle-altering operation “just so.” At any rate, next time I will probably use a different product — perhaps one (if such a thing exists) that I can just “shampoo in” (no muss, no fuss).

For “full disclosure,” here’s a before-during-after panorama of the metamorphosis:

And voila! No more “Santy Claus”!

UPDATE LATER THAT NIGHT

A little later (and after a second “rogue” (not going by all the instructions) application of some of the left over product), mostly to the [top-of-head] hair and eyebrows, a subtle reddish tint is a little more apparent, methinks:

I like this one better (“Zoom portrait” captured the next day):

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