ARGUABLY the finest hair in Australian politics — that of Greens Senator Scott Ludlam — is no more.

Folklore suggests his dark, wavy mane had never produced a bad hair day, but that all changed on Saturday when it met its match with a pair of number two clippers.

The Greens Senator raised about $10,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave.

Mr Ludlam left it up to the public to donate to the campaign to “save” or “shave” Gary, as his hair is known.

At the March 12 deadline, the shave campaign had eclipsed the save campaign by $600.

Mr Ludlam kept his word and sacrificed Gary, leaving himself little time to regrow his insulation as winter in Canberra looms.

Queensland Greens tweeted there had been a great disturbance in the force, to which Mr Ludlam replied “as if millions of follicles suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced”.