Forget Matt Smith’s mohawk, get ‘Caught Stealing’ Austin Butler’s dirty bob
And here’s how (spoiler alert: it’s not as dirty as it looks)
WHEN THE FIRST behind-the-scenes photos appeared from Darren Aronofsky’s forthcoming crime caper movie, Caught Stealing, the focus was on Doctor Who actor Matt Smith’s terrifying mohawk (above left). Then there was chat about Bad Bunny’s beard – the musician and recent Calvin Klein underwear model also appears in the film – taking on a surprising ginger tinge. But as the movie’s release inches nearer – it’s out in cinemas on 29 August –more images have been released that show that there was a different hair style, above right, that was about to steal the show: Austin Butler’s dirty bob.
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To be fair, the Dune star is blessed with a fine head of thick blond hair that has been proven to work well in shorter styles, both tousled and Brylcreemed (in his younger days he had it shoulder-length too and guess what . . . he looked good!). In Caught Stealing, he plays a down-on-his-luck baseball player, Hank Thompson – who, in a case of mistaken identity, becomes the target of a bevvy of New York criminal gangs – for which Austin’s hair is medium length and, by the looks of things, blessedly unclean. The film is set in 1998, so the legacy of the late Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix were still very much around, and the male grooming industry was also very much not a thing.
But these days you don’t actually have to say pooh-pooh to shampoo to look like you do. If want a dirty bob all of your own, stylist Richard Wynne-Ellis from Woolf Kings X explains how.
- You need enough length around the ears so you can tuck the hair behind them. Through the top it doesn’t matter so much if it doesn’t reach, it’s quite nice to have some softer pieces fall out.
- After washing and towel-drying your hair, comb/brush it out using your fingers because it’s an undone style with quite a messy parting.
- Add your favourite styling cream (my favourites are Woolf Kings X Cream, Kevin Murphy Easy Rider or KM Free Hold) while the hair is still wet, working it into the roots then work the excess lightly through the ends. Tuck the hair behind your ears.
- Now you can either let your hair air-dry naturally and, while we seem to be having an early micro summer, it’s the perfect climate for that. Or you can use your hairdryer, low speed and low heat because you don’t want to over dry or add too much volume into the hair. Get it about 70-90 per cent dry, 70 per cent for finer hair, 90 per cent for thicker coarse hair.
- If you have wavier/curlier hair, you may need to use a flat brush, like a Denman or Vess brush, to smooth and straighten the hair out while blow-drying. You’ll want to get it 90-100 per cent dry so the hair doesn’t start to curl back on itself.
- After drying, re-work a little bit of the styling cream into the hair while combing through with your fingers, tucking behind the ears and can even shake a little bit out.
- Finally if you want to lock it in for the day, you can finish with some light-medium strength hairspray.
This story originally appeared on Esquire UK.
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