Ryan Lochte’s silver hair seems to have turned bluish-green
“Jeah,” you read that right.
Over the course of four Olympic Games, Ryan Lochte has won 12 medals — six gold, three silver, and three bronze — and will be going for medal number 13 tonight in the 200-meter individual medley. If the condition of Lochte’s hair is any indication, however, he better check to make sure his silver medals haven’t turned green.Lochte posted a photo of himself and his gold medal-winning 4×200 freestyle relay teammates to Instagram on Wednesday, his silvery-blond dye job instead resembling the color of tree moss.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BI6zopKBgQZ/?taken-by=ryanlochte&hl=en
Did Lochte forget that the first rule of maintaining blond dye is to keep it away from chlorine? Or is he maybe using the Olympics to audition for the role of Merman #2 in the new Aquaman movie?
https://twitter.com/RyanLochte/status/763388559193759744
Naturally, Twitter had a field day.
Ryan Lochte looks like he’s in a Green Day cover band that only does songs off of Nimrod
— Dan Lyons (@Dan_Lyons76) August 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/csquared92/status/763206213106409473
https://twitter.com/sashaallison127/status/763203598884884480
when you see ryan lochte’s hair for the first time pic.twitter.com/agPnCu7Phc
— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) August 10, 2016
Lochte’s colorist Jenn Jones told Allure that, post-treatment, she was careful to make sure Lochte was set up with the right products to keep his hair the color he wanted.
“Pool water was a huge concern for me because, of course, I don’t want him to look like crap. He’s a beautiful dude,” Jones told the magazine. “I told him to shampoo with clarifying shampoo after [getting out of the] water, and I set him up with a conditioner that deposits a little blue and silver dye to put color back into his hair.”
Jones also said that lighting could have a lot to do with the photos on Lochte’s Instagram looking so much more bluish-green than other photos from the same event.
Why does Ryan Lochte’s hair look greenest in his own Instagram photos? (Lochte Insta on left, Getty on right.) pic.twitter.com/eAhIJQPYMz
— Kevin Slane (@kslane) August 11, 2016
Lighting trick or not, given the rapid color change of the Olympic diving and water polo pools from clear blue to fish tank green, maybe it’s a little surprising that more athletes aren’t sporting an algae-tinged hairdo.
https://twitter.com/RyanLochte/status/761973850137591808
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