History Main / CoveringUpYourGray

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': {{Inverted|Trope}}. Dr. Henry Morgan has not aged since he became essentially immortal 200 years ago. In order to cover up his agelessness, he frequently has to add grey patches to his hair.

* ''[[FatherOfTheBride1991 Part II]]'': George learning that he's going to be a grandfather rattles him badly, and one of the things he tries to do to recapture his youth is to have his hair dyed brown to, as he requests to the hairdresser, "look young". He's pleased with the results, and the hairdresser, who's very clearly aware of what's going on, humors him by calling it "bitchin'".[[note]]This scene is made even more funny/absurd by the fact that Creator/SteveMartin has had grey hair since his ''early 30s'' and the entirety of his film career, making it an key part of his image, so him dying it feels simply ''wrong''.[[/note]]

* ''Film/FatherOfTheBride Part II'': George learning that he's going to be a grandfather rattles him badly, and one of the things he tries to do to recapture his youth is to have his hair dyed brown to, as he requests to the hairdresser, "look young". He's pleased with the results, and the hairdresser, who's very clearly aware of what's going on, humors him by calling it "bitchin'".

[[caption-width-right:350:"Young, right?" "[[BlatantLies Oh, totally. It's bitchin'.]]"]]

* [[Music/GhostBand Ghost]]: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfi87yoU0A Chapter 9: Tomb It May Concern]]", as Papa Emeritus IV and Sister Imperator are talking, Papa mentions that he's considering dyeing his very salt-and-pepper hair a full black to look more like Papa Nihil when he was young.

* ''Series/{{Forever}}'': {{Inverted|Trope}}. Dr. Henry Morgan has not aged since he became essentially immortal 200 years ago. In order to cover up his agelessness, he frequently has to add grey patches to his hair.

[[quoteright:350:[[Film/FatherOfTheBride https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hairdye.png]]]]

* Jack, from ''Film/Jack1996'', looks much older than he actually is due to a rapid-aging condition. He tries to mask some of it by darkening the gray in his hair.

* ''Literature/MurderOnTheLeviathan'': Clarissa Stamp alternatingly dyes or plucks her grey hair to conceal the fact that she is a lot older than she publicly lets on. This is because [[spoiler:she has recently escaped an abusive relationship carrying over from an extremely sheltered childhood, so she has the social experience of a young debutante and is extremely insecure about her real age]].

* In "The Big Diff," an episode from [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021 the 2021-reboot]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Stu freaks out after discovering his first gray hair (and he's stated to be 33-years-old). When Chas hears about this, he rushes over with a purple marker so he can use its ink to dye the gray hair.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats|2021}}'': In "The Big Diff", Stu freaks out when he discovers his first gray hair at the age of 33. When Chas finds out, he comes over to Stu's house with a purple marker so he can use its ink to dye the gray hair.

* Jack, from ''Film/{{Jack}}'', looks much older than he actually is due to a rapid-aging condition. He tries to mask some of it by darkening the gray in his hair.

* Music/{{Ghost}}: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfi87yoU0A Chapter 9: Tomb It May Concern]]", as Papa Emeritus IV and Sister Imperator are talking, Papa mentions that he's considering dyeing his very salt-and-pepper hair a full black to look more like Papa Nihil when he was young.

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS6E07TheFaceOfDepression The Face Of Depression]]" reveals that [[spoiler:[=BoJack=] had been dyeing his hair for ''the entirety of the series'']], and had already started going grey twenty years ago. As part of his CharacterDevelopment, he finally decides to keep his hair grey in an ImportantHaircut.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential Ponyville Confidential]]", it's revealed that Mayor Mare's mane and tail are actually pink and [[InvertedTrope she dyes them gray in order to look respectable]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS6E07TheFaceOfDepression The Face Of Depression]]" reveals that [[spoiler:[=BoJack=] had been dyeing his hair for ''the entirety of the series'']], and had already started going grey twenty years ago. As part of his CharacterDevelopment, he finally decides to keep his hair grey in an ImportantHaircut.

* ''Film/FatherOfTheBride Part II'': George learning that he's going to be a grandfather rattles him badly, and one of the things he tries to do to recapture his youth is have his hair dyed brown to, as he requests to the hairdresser, "look young". He's pleased with the results, and the hairdresser, who's very clearly aware of what's going on, humors him by calling it "bitchin'".

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': In season 6, Susan dyes her hair to hide her graying. Gaby makes a jab to her about it during an episode, which leads to a fight between the two.
* In ''Series/TheDropout'', a series about Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal, Phyllis Gardner and Richard Fuisz go pay a visit to Rochelle Gibbons after her husband Ian's [[DrivenToSuicide death by suicide]. She greets them looking like a shell of her former self, complete with inch-long gray roots in her dark hair. As delicately as possible, they ask for her help in taking down Theranos. The next time we see the three of them in a planning session, Rochelle's roots are retouched to show that she has a new purpose: holding Theranos accountable.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E22SecretsOfASuccessfulMarriage Secrets of a Successful Marriage]]" reveals that Marge has been "gray as a mule" since she was 17 and that she has been dying it to cover it up. This is expanded on in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E13TheBlueAndTheGray The Blue and the Gray]]", where it's revealed that every time she has her hair dyed, she forgets that she has gray hair, thus making her horrified when she gets what she thinks is her first gray hair. She initially goes for a complete gray look, then goes back to dying it to help combat her jealousy issues.

Note that an actor who is going gray and dyes their hair to look younger for a role is DyeingForYourArt.

[[quoteright:350:[[Film/FatherOfTheBride https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hairdye.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Young, right?" "[[BlatantLies Oh, totally. It's bitchin'.]]"]]

->'''Harry:''' Well, it says here that this is guaranteed to restore your natural luster. Oh, Dick, you're getting your luster back.
->'''Dick:''' That's wonderful. How much longer?
->'''Sally:''' Oh, two minutes.
->[''two minutes later'']
->'''Dick:''' I'm done. How do I look? *''removes the cap, showing his dyed-black hair''*
->'''Sally:''' Um, Dick, um... Okay, if somebody were helping you with an experiment and things went awry and you became horribly disfigured, you wouldn't hold it against them, now would you?

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-->'''Vic:''' *''passionate''* Oh, Linda... You look beautiful.
-->'''Linda:''' *''slightly creeped out''* And you... you did that to your hair.
-->'''Vic:''' Was an accident, uh... You hate it, don't you?
-->'''Linda:''' Oh, well, i-it's really...
-->'''George:''' Yeah, that's smooth. Put her on the spot there, Franchise/{{Super Mario|Bros}}!
* ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': Creed dyes his hair black when the online retailer Dunder-Mifflin Infinity is launched because he thinks the company is going in a new youth-oriented direction. This being [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Creed]], he "dyes" it with ink from the printer.
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'': Economos vehemently denies dyeing his beard, [[BlatantLies despite the fact that the top half is visibly grey]]. In the season 1 finale, he reveals that he started dyeing it but wasn't very good about colouring the roots, and eventually gave up when he started thinking nobody cared about him enough to actually notice.

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': In "Dick's First Birthday", [[AlienAmongUs Dick]] [[HollywoodMidlifeCrisis becomes aware]] that his human body is (physically) middle-aged, so he dyes his gray hair black. Dick thinks he looks "[[{{Narcissist}} gorgeous]]". The other Solomons think it's hideous. Everyone else who sees it is desperately fighting the urge to laugh.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021'': In "The Big Diff", Stu freaks out when he discovers his first gray hair at the age of 33. When Chas finds out, he comes over to Stu's house with a purple marker so he can use its ink to dye the gray hair.

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Indexes: {{Elders}}, HairTropes

Indexes: {{Elders}}, HairTropes

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