Hollywood and hair have always gone together, and celebrities find themselves judged the harshest for it.
But Hollywood's men have always had it easier - getting away with mullets, combovers, bed-hair and baldness. Until now, that is. Why should women get all the grief? Men make very bad hair decisions too, and we think it’s time we pointed that out.
Here are some of the worst offenders:
THE ALMOST BUT NOT QUITE
Keanu Reeves went from clean cut hunk (Speed) to dark, brooding leading man (Matrix, Constantine) to unbathed hobo (it even became an internet meme) and now it seems he has settled on a more Jesus-like look. It’s not bad, its just not good either.
Ben Affleck isn’t going to find much good will from his latest look. He used to look like a debonair, rugged man, but for a while, he sported a fuzzy, amorphous perm, that made him look like a taller, younger Susan Boyle. And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, he goes and gets himself the Bieber.
There’s scruffy hot (Colin Farrell, Jude law) and then there’s the scruffy that makes you speak loudly, clearly and slowly, so as not to frighten the gentle creature before you, who is obviously incapable of personal grooming. We’re talking James Franco, of course, whose credo seems to be “you don’t need a hair brush if you have fingers”.
THE SO BAD IT HURTS
Mickey Rourke won a lot of things with his comeback role in The Wrestler. He was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe, a guarantee of acting work, and the respect of his peers. What he didn’t win, however, was any good hair sense. His all-time worst would have to be his cheap-looking hair extensions (because why should extensions just be for pop stars and Lindsay Lohan?)
WTF
Robert Pattinson owns this category. First he helped popularise the gravity-defying extreme bedhead look. You’re doing it right when your hair resembles a multi-limbed sea creature that can do the Mexican wave. But, at last week’s Comic Con, the sparkly one rocked up with a half buzzed/half troll look that gives you the unnerving impression that he leans at a 15 degree angle and his parents may have also been his siblings.
Brad Pitt, it seems, is on a mission to test his own hotness.
“Will I still be hot if I grew a scraggly beard that makes me look like a mountain goat?” or “how about if I wore a leather suit and paired it with a stylish bob?”.
His latest look, however - a slicked-back, shoulder length cut, parted in the middle - makes you wonder if he was trying out for the role of Lucius Malfoy.
Russel Brand. How is it that a man who has a fondness for crop tops, capri pants and spencers has bagged one of the worlds hottest pop stars (Katy Perry)?
It certainly can’t be his hair - which at the best looks the the answer to the question: Who would win a fight between Diana Ross and and angry lion?
THE BUZZ CUT AND BUZZ-CUT PATTERNS
Jake Gyllenhaal, Matt Damon, Zac Efron and Channing Tathum have all shared hunk/pretty boy status for years, and some even looked better after shaving it all off. But then there were those who took it too far, and opted for shaved patterns.
Note to Kanye West and British boyband member JB Gill: If we wanted to stare at 3D patterns, we would buy You magazine.
THE DODGY FACIAL HAIR CLUB
Every man, famous or not, is probably guilty of some facial follicle folly. We can’t help ourselves, the hair just grows on our faces; what are we to do?
Cultivate unnatural patterns, of course. Here are some of the most notorious culprits.
Billy Goat Brad in a look he likes to call, “What I would look like if I spent seven years in the Tibetan mountains”.
John Travolta appears to be trying out for a ’70s inspired, gay trucker-themed porno.
Matthew Fox is letting you know he would make a realistic looking terrorist. Or Mel Gibson in a biopic.
While Mel Gibson shows you why he often gets mistaken for Saddam Hussein, even now.
THE BALD LOOK
Bald isn’t always beautiful either – sometimes a buzz cut can turn an uber hunk into the average joe. Think Channing Tathum, Jake Gyllenhaal and Matt Damon. - Sunday Tribune