These people give new meaning to the phrase “bad hair day.”
HAT GAG
Lady Gaga made a name for herself as the queen of celebrity style strangeness. And her hair is no exception. She wore a meat dress to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. But it’s the slab of raw sirloin she wore as a hat that really makes us shudder. For those who wonder how Gaga’s hair smelled at the end, the outfit’s designer, Franc Fernandez, claimed it probably wasn’t that bad. “It’s actually very clean meat,” said Fernandez. “It had a sweet smell. It hadn’t been sitting out for more than five hours.”
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE . . . HAIR
Actor Russell Brand prefers his animal fashion accessories to be alive. In his hair: a mouse. “Elvis—that was his name,” Brand said in an interview with the BBC. “He lived there for about a month.” According to Brand, he bought Elvis with the intention of keeping him in his hair indefinitely. “I just thought it would be nice to have him there,” he said. The only time Brand ran into problems was at night. “He had a Tupperware box he occupied when I had to sleep.”
When celebs like Hilary Duff, Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus, and Steven Tyler from American Idol started wearing feather extensions in their hair, they started a trend. That affected… the fly-fishing industry. Here’s the thing: women started going to fly-fishing shops to find feathers. “It takes years and years and years to develop chickens to grow these feathers,” said the assistant manager of one shop. “Now, instead of ending up on a fly, they’re going into women’s hair.” Regular customers can find themselves out of luck when a store’s entire stock of chicken feathers has ended up in women’s hair. “A lot of people are peeved about it,” said the manager. (But we’re guessing the fish are pleased.)
MO-HAWKING HEALTH FOOD
Gasmy Joseph—nicknamed Mohawk—from Pompano Beach, Florida, found a way to earn cash with his Mohawk hairdo. It all started when a buddy asked Gaz to spray-paint a message on his hair to spread the word about his birthday party. Now, Gaz sells ad space on his high-standing hair. His clients include Deliver Lean, a health-food catering company. The company paid Gaz to spray-paint its logo on his Mohawk and walk around at Miami Heat and Florida Panthers games. “It’s been tremendous marketing,” said the company’s founder. “It’s great exposure, and it’s never been done before.”
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