How celebs hide their hair loss
The secrets to hiding celebrities' hair lossMonday, October 10, 2005
Maybe Steven Tyler shouldn't be surprised when he feels the air through his thinning hair. The Aerosmith frontman is, after all, 57 years old.
And if Bono's mane has gone from mullet to meager in his past 20 years with U2, well, that sometimes happens when you're 45.
But it's rumored that these aging rockers are no more at peace with their disappearing tresses than are younger stars like Heath Ledger, 26, or Jude Law, 33.
"Anxiety about hair loss is rampant among Hollywood's elite," according to an August expos� in Details magazine.
Before they go onstage or before the cameras, balding performers are camouflaging with combovers, sprayed-on fillers and dyes, plugs, extensions, toupees and creative haircuts.
"If there's a little hair to deal with, I airbrush a lot," reveals Jennifer Turchi, a makeup artist for movies and TV shows such as "Still Standing" and "How I Met Your Mother."
She mostly uses Reel Hair Scalp Shadow, a theatrical makeup product. "It's kind of like that bad infomercial where the guy takes a can and spray-paints the bald spot," she says with a laugh. "We do it in a little more genteel way."
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