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Dean’s Hair: A Guide
Attention: this post is for people with Dean derangement syndrome who want his haircut and hairstyle ONLY. People with a normal and healthy level of attachment to Dean DNI. Details under...
The Cut
So...in case anyone else is as insane as me, Dean’s haircut in every season is a modified high-and-tight with a very gradual fade on the sides and squared, very short sideburns. If you have no idea what I just said, your hairstylist should (and if they don’t, walk away).
That being said, it’s always a good idea to bring reference photos of the front, back, and sides of the hairstyle you want or something very similar. Try to find photos all from the same episode, season, or photoshoot if you can, as that will get your stylist/barber the most consistent reference. Luckily, we have fifteen years of this man being photographed, filmed, and screencapped as Dean Winchester to help us out.
Dean’s Hair by Season
In seasons 1-2, you can tell it’s been allowed to grow out quite a bit on the back and sides while keeping the top trimmed fairly short.
This is the stage mine is in right now, and while it does have a certain “fuck you I’m the final girl” energy, it’s also annoying as fuck. I’m constantly batting at my own ears thinking a mosquito or something has landed, when really it’s my own damn hair brushing against them.
In seasons 3-7, it’s been allowed to grow in just enough on the sides to not have that “shaved head” look, while the top is kept fairly short still (sometimes awkwardly so).
The overall shape of the high-and-tight is maintained, just longer than traditional.
In season 8 the sides are kept short with the sideburns nearly shaved off, and the top is kept a bit longer and styled with a bit of a swoosh. The overall effect is almost boyish, which should not be possible let alone attractive on a man in his 30s, but here we are.
This, for the record, is my second-favorite Dean hair (just behind season 1 and right before season 10).
In early season 9 there’s also not as much of a fade on the sides, more a clear break between the very short sides of his hair and the longer top which gives vague messy bowl-cut vibes that he somehow pulls off because his vessel is Jensen fucking Ackles.
Later in season 9 the smoother fade is back, but the hair is still longer on the side toward the top and the sideburns and hairline are more pronounced and angular in general (probably to help tie in the facial hair that I think was supposed to indicate to us that Dean was Going Off The Rails?).
The top of his hair is also shorter than it was in season 8, and styled with less of a swoop.
In season 10 Jensen goes through a few styles.
Demon!Dean has the same overall shape as in earlier seasons, but it’s been kept fairly trimmed on the sides while being allowed to grow much longer on the top than we’ve ever seen it. Long enough that when his head moves quickly enough his hair has actual movement as well. If he didn’t style it, he’d have honest-to-god bangs.
Demon!Dean also uses less product in his hair in general, and while he parts it on the same side as usual, the part is more pronounced and lines up with the inside corner of his eyebrow rather than the outside corner.
Now, they slightly fucked up their hair continuity here. You can tell they filmed some of these episodes out of order because Demon!Dean occasionally has the style, part, and length of non-demon Dean in a few scenes (like the fight with Cole), only for the Demon!Dean hair and styling to be back afterward.
That being said, after Dean is “cured” his hair goes back to normal, shorter and spikier on top and parted over the outside of his eyebrow rather than the inside.
In season 11 onward, he goes for a much more traditional high-and-tight with a side fade and faint sideburns. It’s more or less consistent season-to-season, albeit with occasional slight variations in how long the top gets or how pronounced the sideburns are (the below example is from season 11 but I’ll reblog this with additional examples from 12-15, since tumblr won’t let me add more than ten photos to the original post).
The sides are kept pretty severely short, the sideburns don’t really get more pronounced than this, and the top is long enough to spike but not swoop.
And...sidenote does anyone else think they put cheap gray Party City color spray in his hair for 15x20 for some godforsaken reason? Because the sudden gray cast to his hair in the last scene has been bugging me for MONTHS.
(Also: Don’t even get me started on Dean being in the foreground but blurry and out of focus because the camera is zeroed in on Sam...if that isn’t the entire finale summed up in a single image, I don’t know what is. Thanks camera guy I hate it. /endrant)
Styling & Texture
I’ll also add this caveat to all of the above: I now know, based on some uh...interesting photos and videos of Jensen during quarantine and my own experiences with Dean haircuts, that Jensen’s hair is thick and fairly coarse as well. The only reason the sides of his head don’t look bald in the later seasons is he has so much goddamn hair. If your hair is thinner, you might want to go a little less short on the sides to get a similar look.
Also, if you have baby-fine hair line mine, you’re gonna need something (or several somethings) to add texture.
The funniest thing I learned getting this haircut is that even with Jensen having coarser hair than mine, there’s almost NO way Dean Winchester’s hair looks like that (that being the way it looks in literally any season) without application of some styling products and use of a hair dryer.
Which like...we also know he wears a full face of makeup on camera, but I can suspend disbelief for that. What I cannot suspend, now that I’ve had this haircut, is the image of Dean fucking Winchester standing in front of a motel bathroom mirror or the bunker’s bathroom for at least fifteen minutes every morning, meticulously arranging his hair with styling products and a hair dryer, then making fun of Sam for what is likely a much less involved hairstyling regimen.
What styling products he uses precisely, I have no idea because again...his hair’s a slightly different texture than mine. But it’s gotta be something with some light hold that achieves decent separation and definition without looking clumpy, oily, crunchy, or keeping his hair looking wet all day, so. There’s that.
For my hair (thick as fuck, baby fine strands, tends to stick straight up if left to its own devices) I use a rat-tail comb to part it where I want and then a combo of pomade on slightly damp hair to style with my fingers and medium-hold hairspray to set.
Please picture Dean doing all of that. Hell, just picture him using hairspray. I’m begging you. And please note that he almost HAD to for the Demon!Dean look.
(And in case it isn’t obvious, men styling their hair is perfectly normal but Dean Winchester, male power fantasy extraordinaire doing so while actively making fun of his brother for taking care of his hair is...objectively hilarious.)
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2000 Followers Celebration | The Director’s Cut
So against all odds and hope, I hit 2000 followers. Like OMG peeps! I am blown away! I am humbled and blessed and excited and grateful and all that sappy stuff. I love you all! You have no idea how much I appreciate each and every one of you! Thank you from the bottom of my little heart!
As a celebration, I decide to something a little different. It is called Director’s Cut or Deleted Scenes. Which means I have set up a poll here: VOTE! And I will write the three deleted scenes that get the most votes! You can vote for multiple scenes and vote more than once! VOTING WILL CLOSE ON SUNDAY THE 16th!
Here is a list of the options. If you don’t see something you want me to write, leave a comment and I will add it to the poll! Note: There is a sequel planned for Should... so I am not including any scenes that would occur after the end of that story! All stories are linked.
Should: phone sex with Emma and Tom after Chapter 1
Should: The weekend of Emma’s birthday (smutty)
Should: The fade to black sex scene from Chapter 7
Bah Hiddleston: Tom visits Tamra in Florida and goes to Disney World where he meets Loki.
Bah Hiddleston: Tom goes to Florida and goes to the beach and forgets to put sunscreen on.
Unexpected Delivery/You Did What?: The “real” story of Luke Reaction to Tom delivering his daughter.
Traffic: Tom gets payback for you teasing him in the car.
Brief Interlude: Round Two of sexy Shakespeare
You Can Leave Your Hat On: Fair play is fair play as you know perform striptease for Tom.
My Queen: Loki teaches Oliver magic to play a trick on the reader.
Mischief and Chaos: The Loki and the reader decide to taunt Tony by being intimate in as many public places as possible.
Secret Garden: The relationship turns serious but Loki is hesitating to take the next steps. Reader seeks advice from the wrong people on how to push Loki to advance the relationship.
Labor Pains: The reader is sent off to deal with some diplomatic issue and Loki is left with the baby. What could go wrong?
The Whole Truth: The proper courting of the Mother of a King.
Stuck With You: The missing sex scene with Magnus
Mistletoe: Magnus proposes with issues.
Netflix and Panic: How Bucky became a vampire.
Drink Me: The day after Steve’s incident.
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