December 26 is an easy day to overlook—Christmas has just passed, New Year’s Eve is right around the corner. But if you do a little digging, you might understand what Italian artist Alighiero Boetti meant when he said that “dates possess this beauty. The more time passes, the more beautiful they become.” For example, on December 26, 1971, Jared Leto was born, a man who would popularize teen angst, post-grunge rock, and, perhaps more famously, ombré dye jobs and the man bun. That same day in 1983, another healthy baby boy was delivered by a Taiwanese-American couple in San Francisco, who named him Alexander Wang—a moniker that would become just as synonymous with cool urban separates as it is with glossy, flowing waves. Just a few years later (1986, to be exact), across the pond, the world welcomed Christopher “Kit” Catesby Harington, who would go on to inspire legions of Game of Thrones watchers committed to the dark curls of Jon Snow.
Seeing a pattern? Let us remember that this is fresh off the heels of Jesus’s birthday, who, if Da Vinci is to be believed, didn’t fall short in the hair department, either. Which is to say there’s something in the water—or cosmos or, at the very least, the gene pool—this time of year that gives way to legendary strands on its male progeny. So, after we put away our holiday presents and before we cement our resolutions, let us celebrate this day as unofficial Hot Guy Hair Day. Huzzah.
