Finally: Secrets of Mitt Romney’s hair revealed
For years, Mr. de Magistris said in an interview, he has tried to persuade Mr. Romney, 64, to loosen up his look by tousling his meticulous mane.
“I will tell him to mess it up a little bit,” said Mr. de Magistris, 69. “I said to him, ‘Let it be more natural.’ ”
The suggestion has not gone over well. “He wants a look that is very controlled,” Mr. de Magistris said. “He is a very controlled man. The hair goes with the man.”…
No, he said, Mr. Romney does not color his hair. Any such artificial enhancement, Mr. de Magistris said, “is not — what do you call it? — in his DNA.”
Despite holding its shape under all but the most extreme conditions, it is gel and mousse-free. “I don’t put any product in there,” he avowed.
And there is this: Sometimes, during long spells on the campaign trail, Mr. Romney trims his own hair, much to the dismay of his stylist. “It doesn’t make me happy,” Mr. de Magistris said, “but what can I do?”
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I’ve always suspected Brylcreem.
Wethal on November 25, 2011 at 1:05 PM
Suave Mega Hold spray? It is the hairspray of choice by the cost-conscious peons.
platypus on November 25, 2011 at 1:07 PM
Trims his own hair. I’m not surprised. The man is a conservative by temperament. Newt, on the other hand, probably spends $1600 to $1800 per haircut but we’ll never know since he has a confidentiality agreement with his hairdresser.
Basilsbest on November 25, 2011 at 1:13 PM
Dude, I’m half his age, and my hair has been going gray for years.
Count to 10 on November 25, 2011 at 1:14 PM
I don’t want no FOP, I want Dapper Dan Godammit!!
abobo on November 25, 2011 at 1:15 PM
He doesn’t dye all of his hair, but Ima gonna call shenanigans on that he doesn’t color some of his hair.
Fallon on November 25, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Uh, that didn’t work out so well for Cain.
platypus on November 25, 2011 at 1:20 PM
So when he was Governor he got his hair cut by a bisexual, transgender abortionist whom he paid $10,000 per cut with a government grant?
Bet ‘ya think he knits his own suit too.
Here’s another interpretation. He’s a control freak who thinks that he’s the only one who can do anything right.
29Victor on November 25, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Hardworking, talented Italian immigrant barber makes good. That, my friends, is the American dream. No joke.
Always Right on November 25, 2011 at 1:21 PM
mitts hair has been so far down on my list of ‘who cares’ it isn’t even showing up!
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letget on November 25, 2011 at 1:27 PM
LOL, I had almost forgotten about that. And hairnets.
ddrintn on November 25, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Well, except for political positions of course.
ddrintn on November 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM
And while we’re on the hard-hitting journalism track, let’s not overlook this election-swaying analysis from our deep-thinking friends at Vanity Fair:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/11/Dissecting-Mitt-Romneys-Taste-in-Music-Human-Music
Oh wait, it’s just another smug, catty smear piece from the Coast.
Hannibal Smith on November 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM
I didn’t read it. Is Perry Como among Romney’s favorites?
ddrintn on November 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM
OK, I just read it. Yeah, it’s snarky and catty. But they do have a point: Romney’s stated musical prefs seem to be politically calculated. You get the feeling everything the guy does is PowerPointed.
ddrintn on November 25, 2011 at 1:57 PM
Strange, I don’t recall the NYT giving Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton such pedestrian treatment during the ,’08 race. The comedians were even afraid to make jokes about obama. Funny how that works.
paul1149 on November 25, 2011 at 2:21 PM
I’m 57, and the hair on my head and eyebrows will not go gray. Everywhere else, including the beard, went to the gray side long ago. Drives my wife nuts.
karl9000 on November 25, 2011 at 2:38 PM
He doesn’t dye it or gel it, and he trims it himself.
Yeah right.
This is a pretty trivial issue, but still, it is weird to read something in a newspaper that is so obviously a lie. What is the NYT trying to achieve with this little propaganda tidbit?
bitsy on November 25, 2011 at 2:39 PM
Obsessive control freak as President of the US. what could go wrong? You could make the case that the president doesn’t ‘run’ his administration; he merely ‘fronts’ for it.
How would the entrenched life long, empire building bureaucrats behave with an obsessive control freak looking over their shoulders? Especially one with a history of labor force reductions on his resume? A labor force protected by not only ‘civil service’ legislation, but unions too?
It could be fun to watch.
Skandia Recluse on November 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM
He does have awesome hair.
di butler on November 25, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Should Romney become the nominee, the NYT will doubtless be printing endless stories about rugs and toupees. Hey, Mitt’s is not a natural look for a 64-year-old!
Aitch748 on November 25, 2011 at 3:52 PM
Listen. There are people with dark hair who DON’T go gray.
It’s genetic.
That is, they go gray in ways you can’t tell it. I, for instance, have gray, alright, but it is widely interspersed and hidden in all the very dark hair.
My mother, in the old age home, was CONTINUALLY accused by the other women of dying her hair. When she was younger, she used to dye it red, but she gave that up when she got older.
Her hair actually had plenty of gray, but it was the kind that was interspersed and you simply couldn’t tell it in her dark brown hair.
Nowadays, I’m the one who gets accused of dying my hair. Listen, if I dyed it, it would be a much lighter color! Because the golden rule “darker hair makes you look older.” Well, to hell with that. I LIKE my dark hair.
Others don’t even have as many grays as I or my mother did, and their hair is so dark you just can’t tell they are in there.
So all you who think that going gray is a natural, inevitable fact of life, it’s not!
So if a Ronald Reagan or a Mitt Romney insist they don’t dye their hair, it may very well be true! We don’t ALL go gray in the same way.
And stop telling me I dye mine! Hmph.
Alana on November 25, 2011 at 4:26 PM
Bondo?
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on November 25, 2011 at 4:27 PM