Ahead, Hindsgaul walks us through some of the most important hair moments ofStranger Things 2.
Steve Harrington (Joe Keery)
“He did a fantastic job growing it.
and I kept saying, No!
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Cut the front, that’s fine, just don’t lose the back!
Keep the mullet!'
He comes in with actually even more volume: It just stands straight up into the air.
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He had always been cutting it short before the show.
It’s too much hair.'
Last year was more like a pompadour it was very, very groomed on top and it laid down.
Oetinger
This year we based it more on the singer from A-Ha.
But still, we wanted to keep it in the Steve fashion.”
And so Millie has natural curls, so we ended up with the most natural thing we could find.
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I think they have a lot of similarities, these characters who have to survive in the forest.
[Eleven] had to look like nothing had been done to her, just time had been passing.
And I don’t think Hopper would groom that child at all.
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Then we came to the big makeover!
So that’s how we came up with the slicked-back thing."
He fully executes it.
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It’s one of my favorite scenes, Dustin at the Snow Ball.
I think that was my favorite hair moment of the show."
We found this amazing picture of Rob Lowe that we based Billy’s hair on.
And then Rob Lowe retweeted the picture of himself, with Billy, which made my day.
I can’t believe he found my reference photo!
I was like, that’s a hole-in-one right there."
And they were like, we’d like some green in her hair, like the goddess Kali.
So we used 10 hours to very carefully change her hair to a very dark green.
You could barely see it it had a little bit of a glow to it.
It’s too dead-on Joker.'
And I was like, st, are you guys kidding me?
That was pretty nerve-wracking.
We wanted to go as slow as possible or her hair would fall off.
You’re not supposed to terrorize people this much in that short of a time.
So that was nerve-wracking, but Linnea was a trouper and sat through it.
And we were happy with the end result, but it was definitely a full turnaround."
