I need to issue a correction.

Here at NatZero, we try to be accurate.  Sure, the occasional typo slides through.  But when it comes down to actual, genuine facts, Spartan and I try our best to get things right.  And admittedly, I got something wrong.

In an earlier story, I mentioned–no, I mocked–the hair dye that trickled down the side of Rudy Giuliani’s face as he baselessly claimed that China, Cuba and Venezuela, funded by George Soros and Hugo Chavez (who died seven years ago), undertook massive voter fraud by altering votes that were being counted in Germany.  Or Spain.  Or… somewhere other than the United States.

But I was wrong to mock Rudy’s hair dye.  Because it wasn’t hair dye.

According to the New York Times, which interviewed numerous hair styling professionals to get the inside scoop on Giuliani’s brown sweat bead, deferring to the experts about the source of the coloring, pinned the source on mascara.

“Sideburns are more gray than the rest of the head,” Mirko Vergani, the creative color director at the Drawing Room, a salon in downtown Manhattan, said. “You can apply mascara to touch the gray side up a bit so it looks more natural.”

Wet hair dye, said another, would be too toxic to keep on one’s bulbous head.

“Hair dye doesn’t drip like that, unless it’s just been applied,” said David Kholdorov of the Men’s Lounge Barbershop and Spa, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

According to the Times, Kholdorov “explained that hair dye is typically mixed with peroxide during the dyeing process, and that once the solution oxidizes, the color adheres to the hair. No one, he said, would leave the solution in place in its raw form, he said, because the solution would irritate the scalp and could burn the hair or cause it to fall out.”

Of course, there are always Deep State operatives who will put up the obvious, thinking the VO5-Anon will be fooled.

That’s where Gene Sarcinello, a stylist and colorist at Takamichi Hair comes in.  He says, predictively, that the streaks could have been caused by hair dye.

“If it’s not washed out properly, that’s what’s going to happen,” he said, adding that the dye could be spray-on. “Not knowing exactly what he has on his hair, it’s hair-color related definitely.  In some of the pictures I’m seeing, it looks glossy, which looks like a product in his hair.”

So to the valued readers of National Zero, I apologize.  It *might not* have been hair dye drizzling down the head of the former mayor of New York City’s head as he ranted about conspiracy theories with the other member of the “elite special force team” Trump assembled.

Whatever the source–mascara, spray-on hair, shoe polish–I will suggest that the head of the ESFT take the advice of professionals:

Here's why you should hire union hair and makeup professionals: pic.twitter.com/84urAAuh9E

— IATSE // #IASolidarity (@IATSE) November 19, 2020