By Devon Abelman, Allure
The latest rainbow hair
look to take over Instagram has our spidey senses tingling — in a good
way, of course. Hong Kong-based hair stylist Justin Wong created the
ultimate Spider-Man hair. Using the popular pixel color technique, he painted tiny squares of hair dye onto blonde to look like a three-dimensional, mini Spider-Man.
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Like the comic-book superhero, the hair version is incognito until it wants to be seen. When the model's hair hangs down, it looks like it is streaked with black, red, and blue underlights. The Spider-Man only appears when her hair is pulled apart in a certain way. And when he's revealed, it's hard to not be completely amazed at the strategy and effort that went into this look. It's a similarly big reveal as the Super Mario hair that went viral last year.
Wong tells Allure that he created the Spider-Man hair for a hair show in Hong Kong and was inspired by pixel color and the superhero. "I tried mix up those together," he adds. Before officially doing the look for the show, he practiced it on a wig. Wong also plotted out each square of the design on a piece of paper.
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Like the comic-book superhero, the hair version is incognito until it wants to be seen. When the model's hair hangs down, it looks like it is streaked with black, red, and blue underlights. The Spider-Man only appears when her hair is pulled apart in a certain way. And when he's revealed, it's hard to not be completely amazed at the strategy and effort that went into this look. It's a similarly big reveal as the Super Mario hair that went viral last year.
Wong tells Allure that he created the Spider-Man hair for a hair show in Hong Kong and was inspired by pixel color and the superhero. "I tried mix up those together," he adds. Before officially doing the look for the show, he practiced it on a wig. Wong also plotted out each square of the design on a piece of paper.
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Then, Wong moved onto real hair. First, he had to bleach the model's hair, which he says was the easiest part of the process. Next, he painted on the Spider-Man. Wong says the application was the hardest part of the process. " [It] needs fine sections and precision," he explains. "Also, the model has to be frozen." Yikes. I can hardly stay still for five minutes. In total, the Spider-Man hair took about 11 hours to complete. Wong split up the process over two days — spending the first day on bleaching.
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In the past, Wong has had some practice with the pixel color technique. He's created colorful looks on wigs. This is the first time he created a character, though. And he plans to do more. "I'm going to create more with pixel art," he says. The only question is, what character will he bring to life on hair next? Is it weird that I would love to see Bob's Burger's Tina in hair form? Please make this happen, Justin.
