Headed This Way?
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is a hardcore thriller about a serial killer; “The Adventures of Tintin” is an animated feature about a young journalist and a dog. The new films (both now playing) have little in common other than main characters — Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) and Tintin (a motion-captured Jamie Bell) — with memorable haircuts. Jenny Grafting, owner of Jenny’s Salon in Round Hill, Va., talked about the best ways to make these distinctive styles your own
The ‘Tintin’: This spiky-in-the-front cut requires a stylist “familiar with razor cutting and who specializes in male hair,” Grafting says. “It would have to be very texturized with a razor or a thinning shear to make it stand up like that in the front.” Grafting feels that, with some translation, the “Tintin” could be made more female-friendly: “You’d want some wispier pieces, so it looked less severe.” The ’do is not low-maintenance. “To style it would only take five minutes a day, but you would have to get your hair cut way more often. When you have a really strong shape like that, it’s very obvious when it grows out.” You’d be headed to the salon “every four weeks, for sure.”
