Romney's black hair natural, not dyed

MILWAUKEE, Wis. --Don't expect Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to endorse hair dye products anytime soon.

The former governor of Massachusetts laid to rest on Friday any rumors that he dyes his hair black. His sleek dark coif, with just a hint of gray on his sideburns, is completely natural, he told reporters following a fundraiser in Milwaukee.

"I don't dye it. I don't color it and you can take a real close camera shot and see there's a lot of gray mixed in with all that black," said a laughing Romney.

Earlier this month Romney turned 60, an age when many men are forced to decide between coloring their hair or living gray.

Though Romney hasn't had to think about that just yet -- or so he says -- his campaign advisers worry that his hair is too perfect, according to an internal campaign document that recently surfaced in the media.

Romney is trailing in polls behind two older, hair-challenged candidates -- former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is mostly bald, and Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whose hair is white.

Meanwhile, the Michigan Republican Party announced Friday that the three candidates agreed to speak at the party's biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference to be held Sept. 21-23 at the historic Grand Hotel. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has said he will wait until this fall before deciding if he'll run, also will address the conference.

The conference, held in odd-numbered years, usually draws about 3,000 Republican activists, guests, journalists and political pundits to the island situated in the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas.