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Blue is an unusual colour for hair, except for aging ladies who may have a blue rinse to conceal their gray hair.
The hair of workers who regularly come into close contact with cobalt or indigo may become blue.
In Homer, characters are said to have dark blue (kyaneos) hair or eyebrows when they are angry or in an emotionally intense state. For example, Odysseus' beard became blue when he was transformed by Athena upon returning home to confront his wife's suitors. This imagery may stem from Egyptian myth, in which their gods were said to have hair of lapis lazuli.
Some comic book or animated characters are shown with blue hair, including Superman and Marge Simpson.
See also
References
- Rod Fairweather (1998), Basic studio directing
- Hermann Beigel (1869), The human hair: its structure, growth, diseases, and their treatment
- Selina Stewart (2006), "The Blues of Aratus", Beyond the canon
- Homer, Allen Mandelbaum, Maria Luisa De Romans (1990), The Odyssey of Homer
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - RD Griffith (2005), "Gods' blue hair in Homer and in eighteenth-dynasty Egypt", The Classical Quarterly (55), Cambridge University Press: 329–334, doi:10.1093/cq/bmi034
- Jok Church (June 30, 2006), "Comics: Meet the Artist", Washington Post