That "black Irish" metamorphosis is an amazing thing, innit?
Thick, whitish blond hair, very pale pink skin and pale blue eyes in early childhood;
hair becomes progressively dark ash brown/nearly black, often curly, by early adulthood and the face may have a sprinkling of freckles; usually the features are clustered in a small area in the center of the face, with lots of forehead, cheeks and chin around them;
hair starts turning white strand by strand and some capillaries start bursting on the face and legs in one's 30s;
by 60 the thick and wavy head of hair is usually mostly white, with the blue eyes poking out of a red beefy face; if the person drinks, the nose gets bigger and redder;
by 70 there are peeps of pink scalp visible through the still thick (and now snowy white) hair at the temples or crown, and a few shiny white spots of scar tissue dotting the red face or the tops of the ears where skin cancers have been burned off by the doctor.
It's a red, white and blue look at that point.
Don’t have to worry about that. I’m a ginger.
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