With photos of the actor and his “serial killer” brows whipping around the fanverse, Starkey stans were even tagging DeZarate, asking for an explanation. “You can’t really mess that boy up except, according to the fans, the bleached eyebrows can,” she says with a laugh. “It also kind of shows you how easy it is to transform someone just with a little bit of bleach.” She offered to tint his brows that night, but also thought it might be exciting “just showcase it because it is still a really cool ‘fashion’ look. I mean, think about how many times we’ve bleached eyebrows for editorials. It’s just a cool thing to do.”
But then, just days later, the actor popped up at the 2025 National Board of Review Gala in New York City looking like his usual heartthrobby self in a dark Loro Piana tux and with trimmed blond hair and reddish-blond eyebrows. Hoping to cover up the dark roots emerging in Starkey’s brows, DeZarate “kind of forced him to do some eyebrows,” tinting them back to their almost-natural hue. “I colored them in with makeup so that he could kind of feel like himself a little bit more,” she says. “Because, you know, when you look at yourself in the mirror with bleached-out brows and white hair, you start to feel a little washed out and not totally yourself.”
For the time being, though, Starkey is relishing the new ’do (and DeZarate is recommending he get a hair mask). “He thinks it’s really funny and he’s having fun with it, because it’s such a different look,” she says. As of now, they’re “workshopping what the next haircut’s gonna be,” including toying with the idea of dying his hair another color entirely. “Eventually he’s gonna have to shave it off anyways, so this is the time to play around with it.”
Of course, for a celebrity groomer, this sort of thing is par for the course. “I’m used to literally like, showing up and my clients looking like a completely different person and me being like, ‘Oh, OK, cool. Like, where’d your hair go?’” she says. Fans ought to get comfortable with the certainty of more body modifications to come.
“He has to play different roles,” she says. “Like, it’s literally his job.”
