Q. When I was a boy men who dyed their greying hair were something of a laughing-stock. Now I notice that many 50- and 60-something politicians, rock stars and television presenters have apparently failed to age in the normal way. I wonder whether I should prepare to follow their lead, Mary, or risk looking past it by contrast to my peers? I am only 36, but rogue white/grey hairs are starting to appear in my normally all-black thatch.
D. d’F., London SW10
A. It is acceptable for males who appear on television to have had their hair coloured. Note the passive clause. These men can often claim, quite truthfully, that it was simply done to them while they were in the hands of the make-up artists, who prepare everyone for the cameras, and that, before they even realised what was happening, their hair had been subjected to an ‘organic vegetable-colour rinse to brighten its natural colour’.
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