Not Okay's Hairstylist on Dylan O’Brien's Blond Hair
For Your Consideration: Dylan O'Brien's Blond Buzz Cut
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Then, as anyone who's bleached their hair before knows, touch-ups can require lots of time . . . which of course they did not have. "He only shot for five days, and his hair grows very fast, so that was kind of tricky. We definitely had a moment of, 'Oh shit. What are we going to do about his roots?'" The solution, she says? "When we were shooting and his roots started to come in, I used a color pen to paint his hairline and diffuse [the grow-out] rather than fighting it."
Still, the hard work was worth the effort: "All of a sudden, he was like a new person. Right away, the paparazzi took photos of him and they leaked and everyone was like, 'Wait, what? He's blond?' It was really fun to be able to transform someone in such a way that people hadn't seen him in before."