So, as you know, I'm a big fan of the
Game of Thrones TV show, but, I have to
say, one thing I don't understand about the show is the hair. I mean, I
understand that it's a fantasy TV show; I understand that the producers
are trying to create a certain
Game of Thrones 'style', but some of the hairstyles on the show are ridiculous!
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Look
at this picture of Cersei (right). No one in the world has that much
hair! I know that the actress wears a wig because I've seen her natural
hair color in interviews, but still, that must be at least three pounds
of hair! That's not natural. I don't even know what to say about this
picture, it's just so, so, so much hair. Also, I'm not sure whose idea
it was to give her the Princess Leia look. She looks a little like one
of those African buffalo with the curved horns. Then, she's got the
strands hanging down on the sides, why? Clearly someone went through a
lot of trouble to coil her hair up on the sides of her head. Did they
get bored half way through? Or did Cersei have her hairstylist beheaded
because she couldn't braid quickly enough? (Knowing something about
Cersei, I have to guess the second one).
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But that picture is from the first season, since then Cersei's
hairstyles have improved, so I'm willing to forgive the hair and makeup
people. However, I am not willing to forgive what they have done to
Sansa. Look at this picture. Where does she get her hair done? The
Cindy-Lou-Who-Down-in-Whoville Saloon? I mean, it almost looks like she
has pigtails, which would be fine, except for the weird bump of hair in
the middle of her head. I also have something to say about the dress,
but that could be a whole blog within itself. Now, again, this picture
is from season one. But even in season two, she's got the triceratops
look going on. At least she has a normal amount of hair. Then there's
the whole half pigtails thing. It's like some sort of medieval mullet. I
mean, if you want to look like you have a ridge of bone growing out of
your head, that's your business, but pick one hair style and stick with
it. I don't know what the concept was here.
The weirdest thing was that no one else has this hairstyle. I mean,
if it's supposedly a popular style, why does no one else have it? I
mean, Arya has pigtails, Dany wears her hair down, Catelyn has a nice,
half pony tail look, and the Dothraki women normally wear their hair up
in buns. Even Cersei has a normal hairstyle after the first episode. She
looks fine in season three! She just wears her hair down like a normal
person (maybe that's why Littlefinger starts to like her so much).
But I don't want to seem like I don't like any of the female hairstyles in
Game of Thrones,
because I am like totally and completely in love with Dany's hair. I
know it's a wig, but if I was Emilia Clarke, I would never take it off.
I mean, her hair has the perfect amount of wavy-ness, and she does lots
of cool braid things, and the whole white-hair thing is so striking and
beautiful.
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My only problem is that the color of her hair doesn't match the color of
her eyebrows. This is a problem I have with a lot of people who dye
their hair, Cersei has the same issue. I mean, I know that if they
bleached her eyebrows, it would look really weird when she didn't have
the wig on, but, come on, it'll grow out! Of course, the other concern
would be that, if her eyebrows were white, you wouldn't really be able
to see them. I don't know if you've ever seen a person without eyebrows,
but they always look like they're in a constant state of shock. So,
maybe it was a good call not to bleach them completely, but they could
have at least lightened her eyebrows a little bit!
However, all things considered, Dany is an outlier in the female
hairstyles of Game of Thrones. Look at Arya, after the first season she
gets this awful boy haircut. Seriously, it looks like someone hacked off
her hair with a rusty butter knife. Now, I know that it's part of the
plot, but it just kills me. Brienne of Tarth has the same problem. It
looks like someone dropped a mop on her head. In real life, she pulls
off the short hair look really well, but it doesn't translate to the
show.
No, the guys in Game of Thrones definitely have
the better looks (except for Sean Bean, but let's not go there). I mean,
Jaime looks like frickin' Prince Charming. He's got the whole, Mufasa,
lion mane thing going on (which, I guess, is appropriate for a
Lannister). I didn't know it was possible for someone's hair to stand up
like that in real life. It's as if someone attached a miniature set of
the McDonald's, golden arches to his head. I thought that was just
something that happened to Flynn Ryder in
Tangled, because, you know, that movie had the whole, magic hair thing going on.
Seriously, how does it stay up like that? I mean, the producers must
have had to budget for like five million gallons of hairspray per
episode because normal hair does not stay up like that. There must be a
whole team of hair specialists working with him at all times. I bet if
you watched the end credits really closely, there would be at least
three people listed under 'Jaime Lannister's Hair' because no one has
hair like that in real life. I think Nikolaj Coster-Waldau should win an
award for his hair. No, no there should be an award named after Nikolaj
Coster-Waldau's hair.
Do you know who else would be nominated for that award? Not Edward Cullen; it looks like someone should be surfing in his hair.
No, seriously, after Jaime, Jon Snow is next in line for king of the hair. There have been whole interviews with
Kit
Harington centering entirely around his hair. The sad thing is that Kit
Harington doesn't even appreciate his hair. He's said in interviews
that when he's done with the show, he'll cut his hair. That kills me. He
doesn't even condition. What kind of person exhibits that much hair
cruelty? There are a million girls who would kill for that hair; I mean,
those ringlets,
adorable. He should do shampoo commercials.
There's a whole Tumblr page dedicated to his hair. People have made
videos about his hair, people have written articles, and I'm sure that
somewhere, some place, there a group of crazy fan girls who hang out in
Iceland trying to chop off a lock of his hair.
Coming soon to a television near you,
Game of Hair.
Valar dohaeris
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