Picardi recommends the brands Davines and Acqua di Parma. Still, if you’re set on going blond in quarantine, you’ll need a purple shampoo to avoid a brassy color. I am leaving a very happy and very soft (albeit very scruffy) man.Ī post shared by Phillip Picardi on at 5:17pm PSTįor men with thin or thinning hair or a receding hairline, Picardi says, a bleached haircut will only draw attention to these concerns rather than distract from them. Thank you, for the lovely haircut, and for introducing me to and the lovely Purely Perfect Cleansing Creme. “My natural waviness and density felt compromised somehow,” he says. “Especially if you’re dyeing virgin hair, you need to be super-cautious about the wait time,” Picardi says - otherwise you risk “compromising the integrity of your scalp.” Picardi knows from personal experience: He dyed his hair silver in 2014. To every young gay bleaching their hair, he offers this: Don’t. So I asked GQ’s grooming expert and queer-media elder Phillip Picardi for his advice.
I seriously think I could do the impossible and become the one white boy with dark Italian eyebrows and a full brown beard who can pull off platinum-blond hair without looking like a 2000s fuckboy with frosted tips.
Still, part of being a young white gay man means believing that I’m special. ( You should too service workers are getting hit hard by the quarantine.)Īdam Levine's bleached blonde hair is worse than his back tattoo AND Maroon 5: /V0pDMT2Coeīlonde Jonah Hill is…. Like the caring citizen he is, Tranen made sure to pay and tip his stylist anyway. “I was supposed to get a haircut yesterday but canceled because of coronavirus,” says Joshua Tranen, who works in publishing.
Smarter gays than I am are waiting until the quarantine is over so they can support a professional hairstylist and stave off a bad at-home cut. “I like making brash but ultimately low-stakes decisions that I might regret.” Harper, I’m so happy for your gay self-actualization.Īre you a buzzcut crisis gay or a bleach blond crisis gay “I’m a big believer in symbolic actions as kickstarters for real change,” he tells MEL. After a year and a half growing out his hair, Harper is pleased with his new crew cut - a welcome distraction from the pandemic. Brooklynite Blake Harper let his roommate chop off his shoulder-length hair Tuesday afternoon after he lost a quarantine round of the game Dominion. A few gay men plan to buzz off their luscious locks. Mike, your dye job looks great, but you’re fooling yourself by saying this isn’t a cry for help. “A lot of people seem to think I’m going through some sort of a dark moment, but I’m actually doing very well right now,” Thornwell tells MEL. Online creator Mike Thornwell bleached his curly hair earlier this week - simply because he could, he insists, and not because he’s in crisis.
If a gay is in quarantine with nothing to do, are they allowed to bleach their hair and have it be an understandable crisis decision? Asking for a friend