Obama Not Bothered by Gray Hair: Barber

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Barack Obama's longtime Chicago barber says his client has kept mum about his graying hair.

"It's just a normal thing," Zariff, who's been cutting the President-elect's hair for 14 years from the Hyde Park Hair Barber Studio, says in the newest issue of Us Weekly.

"It's not like he has a head full of gray hair," adds Zariff - who only goes by one name. "It's just a few gray hairs, so it's nothing to get excited about."

The barber says Obama's hair color really "depends on the light, and then HD really brings it up a few more too.

"When we see it, it looks very silvery and shiny," Zariff says. "But of course when you see him in person, it doesn't look like that."

Obama, 47, hasn't gone grayer over the course of the stressful two-year campaign, according to Zariff, or at least "not as dramatically as it looks [on TV].

"It's about normal for his age group," Zariff says. "But I can't say that when he gets in the White House. We'll see."

So will Zariff follow his most famous client to Washington, D.C.?

"I said, 'I'm going with you' [if you win]," Zariff told Obama, according to CBS 2. His reply? "Absolutely. I'm not changing barbers, man."

For more details on how the Obama family is preparing for life inside the White House, pick up the newest issue of Us Weekly, on stands now.

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