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" Fresh off a plane from Hawaii, Pro Bowler and AFC defensive player of the year J.J. Watt is tanned and happy about life \u2014 despite the NFC&amp;#039;s blowout win and his Houston Texans faltering to the New England Patriots in the divisional playoffs. We caught up with Watt, over a haircut at Truman&amp;#039;s in midtown Manhattan, to talk about the Super Bowl, hair, and his big-and-tall style. Here, Lady Esquire&amp;#039;s five minutes with Watt: Esquire.com: It&amp;#039;s your second season as a Houston Texan, and you helped lead your team to the divisional playoffs before making the AFC roster in the Pro Bowl. What was your first Pro Bowl like? J.J. Watt: I loved it. It was cool to just see everyone interact with the fans and the kids. And Hawaii was beautiful. Overall it was a good time, a great experience. ESQ: You had a little injury, how&amp;#039;s your pinky finger? J.J.: It&amp;#039;s good, I&amp;#039;m alright. Just a little cut that I had to get stitched up, but that&amp;#039;s football. I mean, I was just trying to let the fans know we were playing hard out there. ESQ: So you&amp;#039;ve linked up with Axe, a brand almost synonymous with all things manhood. How did that relationship come about? J.J.: They approached me about hooking me up with a new look for the off-season. For me, it&amp;#039;s a little different, a little outside the box. But I&amp;#039;m excited about it, it looks pretty good so I think I&amp;#039;m going to keep it. ESQ: Me too, I think it&amp;#039;s adorable. [Not flirting, but flirting.]    J.J.: Well, I appreciate that. I like a girl&amp;#039;s opinion, it holds weight with me, so I&amp;#039;m happy to hear that. ESQ: It&amp;#039;s a look that you really have to keep up with, maintenance-wise, right?  J.J.: Yeah, you really have to commit, or not. But I think I am going to commit. Amy Komorowski, Axe&amp;#039;s spokestylist, taught me how to style it using their new hair care products, specifically the Spiking Glue and Extreme Holding Spray. The spray was really light and so far \u2014 I mean, it&amp;#039;s only been a few minutes, but it&amp;#039;s really keeping it in place and feels like nothing&amp;#039;s on my hair.  ESQ: So you moved from the frozen tundra of Wisconsin to balmy Texas, anything about your grooming routine that you had to change? J.J.: Definitely. The biggest lifestyle change for me was the heat. I have to deal with sweat a lot more now. Just going out, even at night, I have to worry about sweating. In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair. Not in Houston \u2014 but I think these new Axe products will help keep my hair in place even when I&amp;#039;m sweating. So that&amp;#039;s good.   ESQ: What&amp;#039;s the grooming scene like in Houston? Any hair trends you&amp;#039;ve noticed? J.J.: Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It&amp;#039;s really cool, you&amp;#039;ll see so many different things. One of my teammates has a real funky haircut, he kind of looks like Kramer from Seinfeld. But there&amp;#039;s also a lot of buzzed heads. Nobody has a mohawk, though! So I&amp;#039;m excited to be the first guy coming in rocking one. ESQ: With regards to athletes and style, I feel like it&amp;#039;s one of two things: Either they&amp;#039;re really extreme and care about it a lot, like Dwyane Wade, or they don&amp;#039;t care at all. Where do you fall? J.J.: I agree with you that there are definitely two extremes, but I would say that I&amp;#039;m pretty much in the middle. I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I&amp;#039;m home, I&amp;#039;m all sweatpants, all the time.   ESQ: But that hair, I think, warrants a little dress up. Any plans for tailoring any time soon? J.J. Yes, this weekend, actually. I have an award show, the NFL Honors, so I will be dressing up, for sure.  ESQ: Oh, right. Down in New Orleans before the Super Bowl. What will you be wearing? Do you have a go-to designer? J.J. I am going to wear a suit. Yeah, I have a guy down in Houston, at Festari for Men, that makes my custom suits. ESQ: Yeah, how is shopping and dressing for you larger-than-normal humans? J.J.: Everything&amp;#039;s custom, or bespoke. All of it. Even these jeans and my shoes. I shop a little on my own, but I definitely depend on Festari a lot, just because of my size. The nice thing about them is that they have all my sizes on file, so if I need something, like if I have an event coming up, I just give them a call and they do it up for me. I trust them.  ESQ: Super Bowl predictions? J.J.: I don&amp;#039;t give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I&amp;#039;ll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game. I think it&amp;#039;s going to be a great battle and obviously Ray Lewis has a great story, with the ending of his career, but I&amp;#039;m just looking forward to the whole weekend. It should be a good time. ESQ: I&amp;#039;ll look for you down in NOLA. It&amp;#039;ll be hard to miss you with that hair.    A few tips from Amy Komorowski, men&amp;#039;s celebrity hair stylist and grooming expert for Axe: &amp;quot;The upkeep for a mohawk is actually pretty simple. Once you have it cut and styled, to maintain it you really just need a buzzer. I would use it on a number two setting and you just run the buzzer along your head, front to back.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The width of the actual mohawk really depends on your personal taste. Thinner would be a little bit more extreme, and thicker would give you a more modern, deconstructed take on the mohawk.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Make sure the hair is a little bit damp before you put the Spiking Glue in. I would use a dime size amount of product and rub it between the palms of your hands and then work it from scalp to tip. You can either make it a little bit more pointy with your fingers or you can add a little bit more texture by molding it with your fingers different ways to make for a little more messy look. Top it off with the Extreme Holding Spray to lock in the look \u2014 it&amp;#039;s a moldable, bendable spray.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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