Blending Laser Dub

Recently, I was tying a fly that just looked a little...off.  Specifically, the color of laser dub didn't quite match the body or tail of the fly.  The olive head was lighter than the olive body and tail.  It wasn't off by much but I wanted a more uniform look to the fly.  That's when I started thinking of a solution to the problem.  

I thought about coloring the fibers with a sharpie but I didn't have the right shade of olive.  I thought about buying a different brand of dubbing like Bruiser Blend Dubbing but I didn't want to wait to have it show up in the mail.  I wanted a quicker and easier solution.  Sometime in the early morning hours of a random weekday I woke up and couldn't get my brain to turn off.  Usually I just beat myself up over bad decisions that I have made in my life  when this happens but sometimes a thought dawns on me that is actually useful.  Somehow the idea of blending two laser dub colors together dawned on me.  The idea of blending some black laser dub into the olive laser dub to darken up the head of the fly to match the body came to me.

Surely this is not an original idea here.  Just because I thought of it does not mean I am the FIRST one to think of this.  In other words, I'm not claiming this as some sort of discovery or innovation.  

In each picture on this post, the blended laser dub can be found in the bottom fly.  In the shad pattern, I included a strip of black laser dub on the middle fly.  To mix the two colors, I just selected a hank of fibers of each color, then blended them together with my fingers.  Sometimes I pulled them apart and restacked them on top of each others.  At other times I just rolled them together with my fingers.  If you would like the Google Gemini explanation of this process, it reads as such: To blend two colors, "...take equal pinches of each color, stack the fibers together, and pull them apart repeatedly with your fingers until the colors are uniformly mixed."  Regardless of who actually thought of this idea first, I would say that it worked pretty well!