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While watching American Idol tonight I kept wondering if "Rocker" Robbie Carrico has a longhair wig on. Check his front hairline around his part to see what I'm talking about. Does anyone see what I'm seeing?
DavidH
Hmm, that does look kind of like a wig. Maybe he's bald underneath it.
I said the very same thing to my wife; it looks like a wig to me also.
i can see why you would think that, and by all means it could be. I just dont think that someone would wear a wig on a show with such high rating as american idol (which i must confess, i dont watch and never plan to)
I think you are almost certainly right. As high as the hairline is in the middle, the hair around the temples looks too full in comparison. Real hair loss patterns always have more loss at the temples than at the brow, and few guys reach middle age without at least some receding at the temples, but not necessarily any atall at the position of this guy's centre parting.
Oddly enough, some women have hair growth patterns that include a high forehead and hirsute temples. Is he wearing a ladies' wig, perhaps? This raises the interesting (to me!) question as to whether there even are actually any wigs available that would be accurate for a longhaired male in his age group?
I guess he is a shorthair trying to emulate previous longhaired Idol winners. Just another example of how long hair is better, LOL!
I also thought that as I was watching. It looks very fake to me.
Yes it's certainly a bit borderline and even looking at other pics taken of him it's not easy to see. But why where a wig on such a "big" show. I personally don't watch it on the UK or admit to it lol.
Cheers,
John.B
TMZ (syndicated....check your local listings) confirmed tonight that it is indeed a wig.
I suspected it for three reasons:
1. His hair was unusually thick around the part, so much so that you could see no scalp there.
2. His forehead seemed a bit high for a young guy like that, and despite its being that high, one could see no roots line.
3. And most importantly, he always held his head so stiff that his hair never moved. Come on, even the other performers with short hair had their hair moving around more than his did! Anyone who spends time around other longhairs knows that hair moves around, and how. The stiffness of his head seemed strange.
I recall a couple of years ago reading that a major movie star grew his hair out two years in advance of filming for a longhaired role, because he recognized that people who put on wigs do not look natural in the way they move their heads, and that moving your head like a longhair is something that is acquired over time.
Bill
Well he was knocked out of the show tonight, so I guess that's the end of the debate. Tonight he wore a bandana that nearly covered his eyes, so I think he didn't want to give the world any more closeup looks at his hair.
One reason for no scalp showing could be that although he might have actually been wearing a decent custom wig made with a lace base (very fine grid of fabric, with individual hairs knotted into the grid), but those types are designed to be glued to, and worn against, a bald head so that the wearer's actual skin shows through the openings in the lace grid. I saw a couple of pics of him on the web that were supposedly pre-longhair, from 2006 (half inch a month, you do the math), and his hair looked definitely on the thin side in front and the temples back then. So he could have just put a wig over his existing thin hair, and therefore no skin scalp was showing through and it appeared dark there, giving the impression of thick hair. If he had shaved his head first and glued the base down to his scalp, it might have had a better looking effect. That's the way they work the best.
And the lack of a graduated front hairline across his forehead was a dead giveaway too. A good wig would have simulated gradually thickening hair from front to back, and not the sudden wall of hair starting at one particular point. Again, you can achieve that with a well made custom wig but I don't think he had one that was particularly good.
Yeah I have a feeling that he lined up the front of it with his existing hairline, which from the pictures I saw, was fairly well receeded, instead of bringing it a bit lower on his forehead. I saw a quick shot of his dad in the audience and he had a pretty good recession going, so like father, like son I guess.
It's a function of being comfortable wearing it. If it's well-made and constructed to be an exact fit to your head, and if it's attached properly and not just fitted with an elastic band around the outside, it won't come off in a hurricane, and it can move very naturally, but you're right, it's a learned skill. I speak from experience. :-)
That's an ugly looking wig (if it's a wig).
If one is going the wig route, why not get one that looks better?
We chuckled tonight when Simon Cowell summed up why Robbie got booted off in one word, "Authenticity"!
Bill