Hey guys! So I'm currently in a hotel in Edinburgh on a wheelie chair
So I'm gonna try not to be too annoying with this, as the Interactive Introverts tour has begun!
So if you want to come see me and Dan on stage, you can click the link below and get a ticket
It's been so fun so far and I'm so excited to see more of you at the show
And before we start the main topic of the video, (singing) here's a quick hotel review
Don't know why I sang it like that - Ooh, I'll just open this - oh
I'm hoping the guy through the wall was just vigorously exercising last night - bendable FBI spy camera - floors with extra *creak sound* creak
Separate taps, so do you want to wash with lava or ice?
So since I posted this fateful Instagram post
With my new hairstyle, I've received a lot of questions about my hair: "why'd you change your hair?"
"But I love your hair!" "My life isn't worth living without your emo hair"
Okay, Edith, calm down. I think before we get onto that
Let's take a little journey into the timeline of my hair with my four - is that four? four worst hairstyles
Numero uno: the glowing neon beacon. This one is so embarrassing, I hate even looking at myself in these pictures
Oh god! I can't *laughs* why?
Why would my parents let me keep my hair that color? It was so bright! Look at my little cheeks as well
I'm like a little hamster, I just wanna squeeze 'em
Okay, that got a bit violent. I idolized my brother for his blonde hair
and also surfing Australians and Thor, I didn't even know it yet, and I wanted to match that hairstyle
So I was on holiday in Portugal and I was like "parents, take me to the hair dye shop"
So we bought the cheapest blonde hair dye - and of course because I hadn't bleached it,
It just went bright orange! And even better, that was a few days before I started a brand new school
So along with hamster boy, which was pretty much my nickname from everyone, I had nicknames like glowing head, highlighter head,
Radioactive carrot head and I'm not sure if it made me make less or more friends
But it was a terrible look that should never be repeated - zero out of five
Next was the Inbetweeners hair, aka Phil just bought some hair gel and doesn't know what to do with it
So just slather it all on, empty the entire pot, and spike it into the thinnest
Spikiest spikes that would pop a balloon if it hit me in the forehead
That was a look - and maybe I'll come back in a 90s revival
But no, I'm gonna give that a two out of five. Following this is probably the worst hair
I hope I will ever have in my life, which I'm gonna call:
(in slow motion) No!
Why Phil?! I just want to jump through this phone with some scissors and be like "come here laddie
It's time to get snipped" It was so long at the back!
It was like a mullet mixed with long hair that had never been cut before
So long story short, I was given a part of movie called Faintheart (look at me
I'm in a movie mom) and I had to have long hair for the part 'cause
I was meant to be a role-playing Viking guy that had greasy long hair
So I got this hair, did the movie, and then I never cut my hair
Why? why? Why did no one in my life tell me how bad my hair was? *laughs*
I don't understand - maybe it was a prank
maybe it was a communal prank by the Lester family just to let me go off to university
With the worst hair in the world. I'm gonna give that minus five out of five
The scale has gone into the negative people. The Next one I'm gonna call:
Which I don't think it's as bad as the rest because it was almost at the emo hair phase
But it was just a lot bigger
So more birds could live in it - and it was all just for the perfect MySpace photo. There was so much hairspray
I would be a danger to the town if I walked past a candle
I'd just go whoomph! Don't have to buy any fireworks in New Year's Eve, just dip Phil's hair in the bonfire!
That's all of the hairstyles I think were the worst, and that all transitioned into the standard AmazingPhil emo hair
Which I don't think look that bad, It was fine - it was fine. Just not maybe for eight years
I experimented with some shaved sides for a bit, but apart from that it just remained glued to my forehead
This was my comfy place. It was the thing that distinguished me from everyone else on YouTube
It was like my security blanket that I grew on my head - but it wasn't all sunshine and roses, Sunny Jim. Before every video
I filmed I spent like half an hour trying to demolish every splinge or fringe gap - one rogue gust of wind
would just be hair destruction for the rest of the day
I got obsessed with and kind of stuck in a rut with the idea that this emo hair was part of who me - or
Amazingphil was - and I couldn't possibly make a YouTube video if I didn't have the iconic emo hair. They were just like butter and toast
cats and mice
Other things that go together
I was going back and forth talking to Dan for weeks about "I should change my hair
I want to change my hair, but what if people don't like it?
What if people stop watching me if I change my hair?" It was such a stupid thing because it - it's just a haircut
Everyone has haircuts, everyone changes their hair, but not me
I was the guy that has the same hair all the time - and I just thought people would stop watching me
and enjoy my content less if I changed my hair, which sounds so stupid, but that's how I felt
also
I felt like the last of the dying emos *laughs* like -
Like I was holding the final flag, the bastion for the emo kind, and I just didn't want to be a sixty-year old guy
With black emo hair that I'd never changed. So I thought "I need to do it - it has to happen"
So one day I thought everyone has haircuts, I'm just gonna rip off the plaster and do it!
probably should have done it before we had all the tour photoshoots, but here we are *laughs*
so now here is the new hair! (quietly) yas
Styling so far involves a lot of sea salt spray and standing upside down with the hairdryer
That's about as much as I know about quiff town
I'm also enjoying my brand new forehead! It's probably gonna instantly ignite when I go outside in America for the tour
And it's been such a weird confidence boost
People have actually been commenting about how much more confident I am even though it's a haircut, which sounds so silly, but I think
As it's a small difference to other people, it's been a huge difference to me - I'm so glad I did it
So hopefully this video might inspire you to make a change about yourself
Whether it's big or small, whatever you want to do I'd say go for it
As it could give you a little boost in happiness that you didn't know you needed- so go for it
Unless it's extreme fire trapeze...then maybe get some training. Anyway, I'm gonna go explore Scotland
Maybe get some iron brew or something similar *laughs* Please come see us on tour
If you haven't gotten tickets yet, there is a link below
It's been so much fun so far and I would very much appreciate seeing your face in the audience
You can click this snazzy button to get tour tickets
And I've also got a day in the life of our tour rehearsals if you want to see what me and Dan have been up to
and planning and secrets and I hope you're good! From me and my forehead, I will see you very soon, goodbye!