Is Mitt's hair too perfect? If you were going to style this man's hair would you change it.
Well his stylist would. Leon De Magistris, Mitt's stylist said that for years,
he has tried to persuade Romney, 64, to loosen up his look by tousling
his meticulous mane.
“I will tell him to mess it up a little bit,” said 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,” De Magistris said. “He is a very controlled man. The hair goes with the man.”
Romney’s is a restrained, classic look:
short at the neck, neat on the sides and swept back off the forehead.
“It is not something stylish,” De Magistris noted. “It is clean and
conservative.”
The cut is so recognizable that men in this well-heeled suburb of Boston ask for it by name.
“The Mitt,” they whisper to De Magistris from
the red vinyl chairs in his upscale salon, Leon & Co., a few blocks
from the sprawling home where Romney raised his family.
De Magistris, who gave Romney a $70 trim
three weeks ago, agreed to share some of the secrets behind his most
famous client’s coiffure in between haircuts the other day.
No, he said, Romney does not color his hair.
Any such artificial enhancement, 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. So add "The Mitt" to your salon menu. Offer it to all of your controlled, well heeled business men.
