The lamb is roasted and not chocolate, the sweet cookies are called Koulorakia and are twisted like a braid, and our Easter eggs are dyed one color only: blood red.
Windows 8 seems to be suffering the same disdain as Vista, with users clamoring for the traditional Windows experience over the pastel dyed one which Microsoft is desperately trying to push down everyone's throat.
There is a difference between dying and dyeing one's hair.
("But I was thinking of a plan / To dye one's whiskers green, / And always use so large a fan / That they could not be seen").
For a new generation of adventurous men, dyeing one's hair gray is gaining traction, appropriating a naturally occurring phenomenon from older men and giving it a millennial twist.
Oddly, Patricia Gaines, the founder of Nappturality.com, a pro-natural Web site, points out that dyeing one's Afro puffs or double-strand twists blond isn't viewed as conforming to a Euro-centric look.
This system, however — poisoning our food and then policing the result — is too reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's White Knight, who thought of "a plan to dye one's whiskers green, and always use so large a fan that they could not be seen".
If there are really alligators in the sewer, and they're really white from lack of sunlight, did I just dye one blue?
Whether it's maintaining an obviously enhanced platinum blond or touching up gray roots to match an original brunette color, dyeing one's hair is still artifice.
Dyeing one's hair, and, for example, choosing purple ombre hair color might be one of the options of making sudden changes to the way one looks and bringing some brightness into life.
