Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 06, 2024

“Does she…or doesn’t she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure”. Clairol

Clairol’s one-step home hair color was a breakthrough in the beauty industry, as was its advertising campaign. Clairol hired the advertising firm Foote, Cone & Belding, which assigned the account to junior copywriter Shirley Polykoff, the only female copywriter at the firm. Polykoff’s future mother-in-law inspired the “Does she…or doesn’t she?” slogan. After meeting Polykoff for the first time, she took her son aside and asked him about the true color of his girlfriend’s hair. “Does she color her hair, or doesn’t she?” the embarrassed Polykoff could imagine her mother-in-law-to-be asking. Although Polykoff did color her hair, the practice was not something to which women openly admitted during the Depression, when her future mother-in-law first asked the question. In 1956 when Polykoff was assigned the Clairol campaign, hair dye was not considered to be something used by genteel women

For me, there is nothing sexier than a woman with stylish platinum hair, ala Helen Merrin…

I think it would be a good story line if she were platinum for a couple of episodes. Just thinks of the possibilities.

Platinum Blonde?

Just go for it! You’ll probably like it. I did.

I have believed, for years, that Emmy Lou Harris is the sexiest woman in country music.

The roots will tell, Janis. Take another look.

Maybe JJ is bringing out some of his fantasies?

My guess: people who have dark hair end up with grey hair… still some of the pigment left. Blondes probably get white hair. At 71, my hair color hasn’t changed from light brown, sunbleached blond, just the amount has. My wife, on the other hand, has gray hair that used to be brown.

Mine turned out to be that color Janis; never would have dreamed it considering how steel grey it looked mixed in with the old color.

Mine Turned out to be skin!!

Just keep what you’ve got Janis.

Why people worry about their hair color is beyond me. I am starting to go gray and white in my beard( I’m 70) and now starting on my head, I think it looks good. Just be natural. No hair coloring for me, that being said, I am a man and all the men I know don’t dye their hair, it’s more of a woman thing.

Off topic: It appears that the plan to move near the kids was also sold at the garage sale.

That’s the problem. We live with an artificial condition so long we lose track of what was, or is, real. Smile or laugh because this is a comic, but then remember it carries truth.

Thank you Mr. Johnson.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure that platinum look isn’t found in nature.

When I was growing up, my mom had jet black hair. Or so I thought. I came home from school one day when I was maybe 9 and she had bleached the dye out of her hair and was solid grey. I was so confused.

My Beloved and Darling Wife has white, white hair.

Lovely.

fusilier

James 2:24

I keep on telling my wife to let her hair go grey but she won’t, guess she thinks she’ll be “old” if she does.

Arlo will love you anyway, even if it’s blue.

My “better half” was a dark blonde. I always thought it would be nice if she had it streaked blonde. She never did. Now her hair is a slivery grey with very few dark streaks. I love it this way, I’m pretty sure it will eventually turn all white but am enjoying and appreciating the change. She is still beautiful after 51+ years.

Remember all those movies and TV from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s when they couldn’t show two married couples in the same bed together?

My x mother-in-law never died here hair and always had the same hair style her entire life. It was kind of a Princess Leah look with crossbuns on each side of her head. She had that style for over sixty years….I’d seen pictures of her when she was young……and the thing is, she went to the salon regularly. Never could figure out that obsession !

My mom’s hair never really turned gray and my three brothers have her hair genes. Two of them are five and six years older than me and look younger. My hair went gray in my forties. I tell my children that it’s their fault :)

So towards the end of last year many were saying they would move in with the kids and the strip would end at the beginning of this year. I guess that thinking is dead.

Gray on many people not only looks sexy, but it shows maturity (or it should, anyway). LOL!!

My MIL was a hairdresser. I’m pretty sure that platinum grey doesn’t come naturally.

If it’s platinum, she has to wear that sexy black number! Right?

Better talk to the guy who colors the strip…

I dislike women of an age when their hair must obviously have been dyed. It speaks to me of poor self-image. You know, if you really are the age your hair appears, you’ve sure aged badly elsewhere. Better to be old and still hot. O

One way to find out

Only one way to find out, Janis. Thanks to genetics, my hair is still brown, many years after my contemporaries have gone white, gray, or blonde (dyed to color the gray/white), or obviously dyed some other color. I seldom see any of them, and its always a bit of a shock. I probably wouldn’t mind if my hair turned a nice platinum, but it’s also a hoot when strangers ask my partner if I’m his daughter.

She could just check her hooha, unless she shaves it.

Platinum hair comes with different clothes and makeup.

There is nothing wrong with coloring your hair. It is the same as using make up. If it makes you feel good, it is no one’s business but yours.

I’m silver at 73, my wife is red at 62. We are good with that.

All these years I have been fighting off …. an improvement.

Huh? I thought Golden Girls loved Platinum hair.

Silver Sisters never dye.

My hair at late 60’s is still dark brown/black. I feel like wearing a t-shirt that says: Yup, no hair dye here! Everyone assumes I dye it. I have a friend who is 10yrs older, and here hair is still black like mine!

I wonder why some women dye their hair a lighter color and have obvious dark roots that "stick out like a sore thumb”.

I’m going to see for myself in a few months. Letting it go grey.

Mine is coming in the wiry white. yuck.

When my wife stopped coloring her hair we both liked the result.

Think Meryl Streep or Dame Helen Mirren.