The Elevated Side Part

Tell your barber: › “Keep it short on the sides with clippers. Leave it at least two finger lengths long on the top.”

Then use this: › Work in some Mr. Natty Clay when your hair is dry or a little damp—never sopping wet. Form the part from back to front, starting at your natural cowlick and combing everything to one side.$27, mrnatty.com

The “I Woke Up Like This”

Tell your barber: › “Use the pointcutting technique, shears perpendicular to my head. Add texture with a straight razor. Leave the top longer.”

Then use this: › Boogie’s Smart Hair Paste brings just enough hold to add some shape. Use a quarter-sized amount and burn your comb—you won’t need it.$10, dollarshaveclub.com

The Combless Bradley Cooper

Tell your barber: › “I want it exactly this length.” Point to where you want your hair to end, somewhere midway down the nape of your neck. Now let him go to work.

Then use this: › Fellow Barber Styling Cream is texture in a tube. Cream gives the loosest, laziest hold, meant to keep your locks from looking like tumbleweed.$22, fellowbarber.com

Hair to the ThroneGame of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau chopped off his mane last year and still wins GQ’s first-ever Best Hair ofthe Year award. The podium is yours, Nikolaj.…

“I have to say, I don’t spend much time on it. This is not something I ever expected, but my hair and I are incredibly honored.”

The honor, though, actually belongs to Coster-Waldau’s Scandinavian genes, says his groomer, Erica Sauer Dulley: “Nikolaj has a great thick head of hair. He’s lucky.” Not so blessed? Dulley recommends taking biotin, a nutrient that supposedly beefs up hair strength and thickness. No guarantees it’ll help your acting, though.

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