Case Study: Steve Burton
Self-diagnosis: "I have a Curious George hairline. So, it's truly like a Monchichi, where it goes right across and it really doesn't look good short, short, short."
Childhood trauma: "In the early '80s when that spiky hair was in, my mom wanted to do it because we were too poor to afford haircuts. It was horrendous! It was awful. I said, 'I'm not going outside and I'm not going to school.' She went to Walgreens and got a bunch of gel and tried to fix it. It scarred me for life!"
You've had so many different forms of hair, the long hair, the frosted hair...
"Do you have to use the word 'frosted', Russell?"
What do you call it?
"Not frosted. Highlights, at least."
Look at the photos. That was frosted!
"That's highlighted. Thank you, Russell for pointing that out."
For the Black and White ball, your hair was long. Why so long?
"I was doing a project for TNT, a Western miniseries, that I'm not doing till '09 now. I was so tired of using three cans of hairspray a day, I figured I'd just cut it. I'll have to start growing it out again, though, as the time grow nearer for that project. Now, it's a mini faux-hawk. I don't know how this really happened, but now it keeps going back into this mini faux-hawk."
How'd you come up with your regular short look?
"Remember when that hair mania happened after Brad Pitt came out in Se7en? When everybody went to that hairdo he had? The problem as, I kept it and didn't change it. It went out and came back in, and I still had it! So, I grew my hair out to change it up and now I'm back to it again. It's like Se7en 20 years later. (Ed Note: 13, but who's counting?)
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