Get Robert Pattinson's Highlights

Erin Green from The Huffington Post researched how Rob got his bronze highlights for Twilight:



The colorist who gave Robert Pattinson his signature bronze “Twilights” dishes on how recession-savvy ladies can get the look – and save some cash – using his hair highlighting technique.

The color chief and co-owner of the Gavert Atelier salon in Beverly Hills, Stuart Gavert, has a solution to make color grow out in an economic fashion: Twilights.

Twilights are like normal highlights; they’re just strategically placed to optimize grow-out time. Instead of hitting the salon again a month or so after the first color, you go once a quarter and no one is the wiser.

But, why the oh-so-clever moniker? It turns out the technique is the same one used on Robert Pattinson’s head in the Twilight movie. Gavert should know — he’s the man who gave the year’s most famous vampire his signature color for the first movie.

(If you haven’t read the books and at this point are wondering why on Earth anyone would care so much about the color of a vampire’s hair, just trust us. Pattinson's, er Edward Cullen's bronze locks play a central role. Some even wondered if Pattinson's coif was responsible for the movie's success. It's a girl thing.)

Gavert couldn’t be on the shoot highlighting the stars' hair every day, so he developed a grow-out friendly technique and used it on Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and the rest of the stars. The color gets put in under the part in the hair, masking the demarcation line for weeks.

The Birth of Twilights

"They didn't want [Robert] to look dead-dead. Just a little bit dead," said Gavert on the day I visited his salon for my own Twilights session.

The lead hair stylist on the first movie, Mary Ann Valdes, told Gavert the vampire make-up was washing Pattinson out, in a bad way. Not in a sexy-vampire, Edward Cullen way.

"Mary Ann called me and asked me what I thought," said Gavert. "I said, ‘Put some warmth in his hair. Don't make him a redhead or anything. But the warmth will reflect on his skin.’"

Warmth meant bronze highlights. But that created a new problem. Highlights grow out too fast and affect the continuity on a movie shoot. In other words, the filmmakers may shoot the entrance to a scene one week and shoot the rest of the scene a month later. Hair starts looking grown out at that point and people start realizing they're watching a movie and not hanging out with Edward Cullen.

How Do I Get Twilights?

The easiest way to get Twilights is the same way I did: schedule an appointment with Stuart or one of the stylists at his salon. Sessions with Stuart are pricey, $250 a session – he did touch Robert Pattinson’s hair after all. But you can get a junior colorist to do it for less. They've even got training sessions for stylists; that’ll get you rock-bottom hair color for about $40.

If you can't get to Los Angeles, the recession-friendly color can be explained to your own stylist. Gavert explained the key points for us:

• No putting highlights on the exterior of the hair. Keep one-quarter inch away from the part, so you won’t see the highlight right on the part.
• Pick a color (or two) that are close to the natural color. You want something that warms up the face and works with the natural color, not against it.

For the record, Pattinson got two colors. Gavert put four or five gold highlights up front, to bring out the would-be vamp’s amber contacts. I got one color. I already had some gold leftover from my old hair days, so Gavert picked a single mid-tone that worked well with my natural head and gold leftovers.

Source: Huffington Post

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aw...but I liked the bouffant (referring to the labels at the bottom), it was different, like how his hair would have been in his time period. Liked it that length! But whatevs, Edward still looks amazing ;) But I like consistency.

Anonymous said...

sad to say he probably can't wait to shave it all off again :)

Carole UK said...

I like Rob's hair really long like it was a few months back ....

Gorgeous!

Haystackhair said...

LMAO at your tags Goz!!!

TwiHartRK said...

awww - I miss the booffawnt.
And that hair from the Sex Drive premiere. Good lawd!

Mars said...

I know his hair looks better in New Moon, but he still looked GREAT with the bouffant. I'm just sayin'...

solas said...

Although he looks beautiful any hair or not, I hated the bouffant. As for shaving off his hair again, if Breaking Dawn (or Breaking Dawn part 1 is going to be filming so soon (what about Unbound Captives? Is that pushed off so Rob can do BD before he cannot pull off a forever 17 anymore?)then Rob would not be able to shave off his hair for a while.

i dunno ... said...

I love and miss the bouffant. I think he has "American" hair in NM. No offence, but you know what I mean

RPLover said...

I really don't miss the bouffant, but I did love the color of his hair!

rpattzgirl survived Rob! said...

I love the bouffant in Twilight-but my fave Rob hair is from Remember Me-more like his own hair, but kept in line..

I also love his natural wild hair...

and his uh, happy trail hair the best..

Lisa said...

Twilights? They sound just like the 'low lites" my stylist gives me...you know...to sort of cover up the grays without having Mr. Right Now point out that I need a touch up *eye roll*


...of course I pay less for mine, since the hands that touch my hair have not touched Rob's :D

Lisa said...

Oh, and yeah, I agree...I liked the bouffant...the whole 'Bob's Big Boy' thing looked more than adorable on Rob :D

kchambers77 said...

this article is the dumbest one yet. they are really running out of ideas.

Marna said...

Uh, I love Rob, but I'm not so involved that I'm getting my hair done like his. That would be just a little too much on the wrong side of crazy.

 
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