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" As the Ides of March approaches ever closer, we&amp;#039;ll all be seeing George Clooney in the role he was, perhaps, made to play: A smooth politician, smiling and suited and ready for office. This being Clooney, there&amp;#039;s a swagger to it all: His hair&amp;#039;s a little bit longer, somewhat more casual, not quite the Cary Grant look we&amp;#039;re used to seeing the actor (or Mitt Romney, or Jon Huntsman, for that matter) sporting off-set. Novelty is nice. And with all those Draper-inspired haircuts behind us, this cut seems an excellent new way to look neat, but not too much so. With that in mind, we asked a woman who makes her living cutting celebrity hair, Diana Schmidtke (no stranger to The Style Blog) to explain how Clooney pulls off the look with aplomb, and how you (and those on the trail) can, too. This is the direction a lot of current haircuts are going: that in-between look. It&amp;#039;s about stepping away from spike-y looks, yet not as extreme as the Mad Men thing. It&amp;#039;s a basically a business haircut, but not so perfect. It can be a little bit looser this season. Maybe I&amp;#039;m sensitive to this because I have a brother-in-law who&amp;#039;s like, as soon as his hair hits the back of his collar, he needs a haircut. You can go longer, but still look polished. It&amp;#039;s actually a great example to show the corporate world. It doesn&amp;#039;t have to be a half-inch all around. You can see his hair touches his collar, and it works, because he&amp;#039;s clean-shaven. It also has a lot to do with styling: In the boardroom, styling product will help keep it together. On a date or with your bros, just run your fingers through it and go natural. To get that more business-suit-guy look, use products that aren&amp;#039;t heavy and aren&amp;#039;t sticky. Paste. A wet comb. We&amp;#039;re not looking at pictures of George, though. We&amp;#039;re looking at pictures of a character: a politician. I think they should loosen it up. When you have all that newscaster make-up, you&amp;#039;ll appeal to your own generation. But as a politician, it&amp;#039;s important to attract all generations. By having such a concrete, newscaster haircut, it&amp;#039;s not working. Let&amp;#039;s see a little bit more movement, like you ran your hands through it, instead of shellacked it with hairspray. I feel like all politicians have the same haircut. It&amp;#039;s been that way for the past 20 years. Even with that haircut, you can get a little variation. That is only going to come with different grooming products. Pomade: high shine. Paste: a little bit more fun. That&amp;#039;s how we, as professionals, get different looks. Not that you wanna get too advanced, but it&amp;#039;s nice to have more than one product in your medicine cabinet. George has... Let&amp;#039;s be honest, he&amp;#039;s just perfect. If only all men could have beautiful, thick hair and that salt-and-pepper. That&amp;#039;s not how it is in real life. What&amp;#039;s most important is your actual hairline. Play around with your part. With a receding hairline or a cowlick in the front, maybe you can&amp;#039;t put it straight back. Push it a little to the side, and that&amp;#039;ll mask the receding hairline. It&amp;#039;ll take ten minutes to play around with that part, to figure it out. This isn&amp;#039;t brain surgery. As a man, your clothes and your hair are pretty much all you got. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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