does prime minister boris johnson use
dye to achieve his famously golden locks
and is the unruly look a put on to make
himself more palatable to regular people
keep watching to learn the messy truth
about johnson's wild mane
boris johnson has been called britain's
trump and a trump mini-me according to
critics the similarities stretch far
beyond their newsworthy hairstyles
indeed the british prime minister's
shady actions his shaky relationship
with queen elizabeth and his headline
making personal life haven't helped him
win any fans real world examples that
supposedly showcase these unflattering
traits include a lobbying scandal and
investigation into who exactly paid for
his fifteen 000 pound luxury holiday to
mystique island in april 2021 and a
reported illegal christmas party during
covet lockdown which johnson has denied
not surprisingly reuters notes that
support for the british prime minister
is declining but one thing that hasn't
changed is his hair and people's
interest in it so what's going on with
that infamous blonde do
johnson's signature hairstyle is
disheveled to say the least and one of
the hottest points of debate is whether
or not it's styled that way the prime
minister is adamant that his due is
natural and in 2008 he proclaimed my
hairstyle is impossible to imitate as it
is a product of random and competing
forces of nature while some experts
agree others aren't convinced for
example hairdresser rhonda lewis told
politico she believes that johnson puts
a hair product in and then quote blasts
it with a hair dryer otherwise it would
simply fall flat while we may never know
for certain the prime minister again
stressed that he has a casual styling
routine when he told a journalist in
2020 per the daily mail i do brush it i
have a brush
in my office there's been plenty of buzz
around the cut itself as well especially
during britain's pandemic lockdown when
all salons were closed johnson looked
scruffier than usual and folks started
wondering if his then-fiance carrie
simmons was doing the cutting celebrity
hairstylist james johnson told the daily
mail the straight and blunt edges that
are disconnected make the cut look like
an at-home job
in october 2021 the stoke sentinel
dubbed boris johnson's hair a quote
cultural phenomenon but it seems he's
not the first british political figure
to use an unkempt style to his advantage
according to professor dominic james who
teaches modern history at keele
university scruffy boris johnson's man
of the people look is part of a long
british tradition writing for the
conversation the scholar honed in on
charles james fox britain's first
foreign secretary he lived in the 18th
century and was actually the first to
use his hair for political gains like
johnson who is a distant relative of
king george ii and thus enjoyed a
privileged upbringing that included in
oxford education fox 2 came from an
aristocratic background and even studied
at the same university johnson was
initially labeled a dandy for his elite
lifestyle but he soon discovered that
made him less relatable to the masses he
changed things up by quote ditching the
elite look it's a move the historian
says johnson borrowed from fox claiming
boris johnson's signature scruffy style
conceals privilege by pretending to
thumb its nose at it
if you think boris johnson's hair is
simply too messy to be an accident
you're not alone even before he was
prime minister his hair was a hot topic
the guardian began its 2014 profile of
the future british leader by commenting
on his quote unruly thatch of blonde
fluff journalist elizabeth day suggested
johnson takes a great deal more care of
it than he is willing to let on day also
reported that he had been caught
ruffling his hair on purpose in order to
achieve the unkempt look before public
appearances pressed about it johnson
played up a carefree approach saying
there was something in the shower this
morning that i used i cannot honestly
tell you what it was despite his claims
folks weren't convinced after he was
chosen as the new leader of the
conservative party of britain in 2019
the new york times honed in on johnson's
strategic use of a deceptively absurd
image the newspaper went on to claim
that he used his quote silly style to
garner both affection and votes from the
british public the atlantic agreed
stating boris johnson knows exactly what
he's doing because he's superficially
disheveled but in fact focused and
watchful meanwhile politico called
johnson's hair a quote political brand
his biographer sonia purnell told the
outlet that he used his hair as a decoy
to disarm and noted how the further up
the greasy political pull he climbed the
messier his hair got to be that's quite
a few critics claiming the prime
minister is plotting with his messy
locks
not only does boris johnson's hair make
headlines but so do the haircuts that
help keep it newsworthy whenever johnson
gets a trim or shows up at an event
looking like he's in desperate need of
one you can be sure someone will report
on it even before he was prime minister
the sun did a full story on the then
foreign secretary showing off an
unusually short cut in 2016. then in
2018 when he was a member of parliament
on the campaign trail he made a surprise
stop at funky barber in london and the
sun tracked down the stylist who cut his
hair for an interview fascination with
johnson's due has only continued to grow
and it reached a new level of interest
during the pandemic lockdown in february
2021 piers morgan shared that the pm's
then-fiancee carrie simmons was planning
to give him a diy quarantine cut indeed
johnson himself told the bbc in march of
2021 i do need batteries in april 2021
as soon as restrictions on hairdressers
were lifted the sun was quick to
dedicate an entire article to the prime
minister getting a professional haircut
by his personal barber at 10 downing
street
boris johnson's signature hair hasn't
always looked the way it does now as if
to prove the theory that it truly is
imperfectly styled on purpose marie
claire was able to unearth a slew of
photos from the prime minister's past in
which his locks look nothing like what
we're used to in the 80s for example
johnson was sporting a side swoop that
would give a young justin bieber a run
for his money a decade later he showed
off what the outlet described as a quote
shorter spikier crop in which the sweep
was gone and shorter bangs were no
longer flat but tousled the guardian
also did its own digging into the prime
minister's hair evolution and found that
while studying at eaton college in the
late 70s he sported a longish bowl cut
down to the middle of his ears meanwhile
at a 1986 party at oxford town hall he
smoothed his hair straight down allowing
his bangs to hang shaggly above his eyes
but not a single hair was standing out
of place it wasn't until the early 2000s
that johnson perfected the bed hair look
which he showcased while appearing on
the bbc comedy quiz show have i got news
for you per marie claire indeed one of
the show's executive producers richard
wilson claimed that johnson would
purposely mess up his hair right before
the cameras rolled helping him launch
the look that would go on to win him
millions of votes
in addition to endless questions about
the actual styling and cutting of his
hair boris johnson's mane has also come
under scrutiny for its color more
specifically people want to know whether
or not the prime minister relies on a
little help from peroxide to achieve his
blonde do it's a topic on which johnson
himself has offered mixed information in
2016 he boasted about his hair to the
sunday times saying this is the real
thing it's all natural when the reporter
asked if he dyed his hair he allegedly
admitted yes however it seems that was a
joke that was lost in print soon after
the admission began making headlines
johnson's sister rachel took to social
media to set the record straight
tweeting all johnsons are natural
blondes no hair dye in the world could
achieve the unearthly platinum shine of
the boris johnson barnett it wasn't long
after that adamant defense that
journalist tim shipman who wrote the
original article tweeted boris johnson
had requested an urgent point of
clarification about hair dye says he was
joking and has never used it according
to the sun johnson explained i do
remember saying yes and what was a
satirical voice i remember thinking god
i hope he doesn't take that seriously
natural blonde or not will never know
for certain
while some believe boris johnson's hair
is a clever ploy that has helped him
advance in politics others are adamant
critics of the disheveled do all you
have to do is turn to social media to
see the amount of hate it regularly
receives for example in july 2021
johnson posted a video to twitter
announcing he'd have to isolate after
coming in contact with someone who had
covet 19 and his hair looked like it had
taken a beating british actor matt lucas
tweeted i have a comb i'm not using if
you want one meanwhile aleister campbell
tony blair's former spokesperson slammed
comb your hair and get out of our lives
piers morgan unleashed a tirade tweeting
what is shambles but what else to expect
from a guy who can't be bothered to even
brush his hair when he addresses the
british people that same month the
scotsman columnist simon kellner wrote
an entire op-ed piece titled boris
johnson's messy hair is a sign of a
general attitude of negligence honing in
on what he dubbed quote curated
dishevelment kellner wrote i can't
decide whether johnson wants to draw
attention to his appearance or to
distract attention from his message
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