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- Mr. Wormwood has lush black hair, which he keeps that way by rubbing a hair tonic into it every morning. (As he does this, he emits “masculine grunts.”) Matilda tips most of Mr. Wormwood’s hair tonic down the drain and fills the bottle up with her mother’s dye.
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Matilda empties most of her father’s hair tonic out and fills it with her mother’s blonde hair-dye. While the family eats breakfast, Mr. Wormwood goes through his morning routine, applying his hair tonic.
Matilda knows her father needs another punishment. She takes her mother's platinum blonde hair dye from the cupboard in the bathroom and pours some of it into her father's bottle of hair tonic, which he uses to keep his thick black hair looking bright and strong.
Mr. Wormwood has lush black hair, which he keeps that way by rubbing a hair tonic into it every morning. (As he does this, he emits “masculine grunts.”) Matilda tips most of Mr. Wormwood’s hair tonic down the drain and fills the bottle up with her mother’s dye.
Jan 1, 2024 · Matilda replaces most of the hair tonic in her father's bottle with her mother's blonde hair-dye. At breakfast, Mr. Wormwood unknowingly uses the tampered hair tonic. On seeing him, Mrs. Wormwood drops the breakfast tray in shock, calling his hair “horrendous” and saying he “looks like a freak” as it's turned a dirty silver.
In the morning, Mrs. Wormwood cuts the hat away. She cuts away a band of her husband’s hair, but in front, patches of leather stick to his forehead. Matilda earnestly tells her father he looks like he has lice; he must try to get it off. The whole thing is very satisfying for Matilda.
When Matilda puts hair dye in her father’s Oil of Violets Hair Tonic, she experiences a rare connection with her mother. For once, Matilda is not the object of the family’s ridicule, her father is.
On the morning after the math incident, Matilda gets up extra early, dumps most of her father’s hair tonic out of the bottle, and adds a generous amount of her mother’s peroxide hair wash.
