Blood,
dragons, betrayal, and ice-blonds.
These are the
essential elements that seem to drive much of the plot on HBO’s “House of the
Dragon”. Even if you have not watched the first season of the “Game of Thrones”
spinoff, which comes to its conclusion this weekend, you may have found
yourself scrolling past images of the dazzling buffet of distinctive,
incestuous, white-blond characters that populate the show.
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For the
uninitiated: “House of the Dragon” centers on the Targaryens, a noble
dragon-riding family, 172 years before the birth of “Game of Thrones” heroine,
Daenerys Targaryen, played by Emilia Clarke. Daenerys, known as “Mother of
Dragons”, was the white-haired blueprint for this season’s blonds (let’s call
her “Mother of Blonds”). In the first book of the series on which “Game of
Thrones” is based, the author, George R.R. Martin described the Targaryens as
possessing a “striking (some say inhuman) beauty, with lilac or indigo or
violet eyes and hair of silver-gold or platinum white”.
Now, with an
entire show full of Targaryens, this particular shade of “Targaryen blond” may
be taking on a life beyond the Seven Kingdoms. This month, Megan Fox debuted a
“Targaryen” blond look on Instagram, trading in her usual brunette for icy
blond, sparking headlines in the process. On TikTok, some fans have been
reaching for the bleach, citing a Targaryen-inspired urge to go platinum blond,
while thousands of others flirt with the look via a user-made filter.
In the context of
the show, “hair plays a massive role,” said Rosalia Culora, the co-hair
designer on “House of the Dragon”. From the very beginning of the franchise,
hair has acted as an important “giveaway”, she said.
Indeed, fans use
hair as a visual signifier — a map to the family ancestry at the core of the
show’s central tension. On Reddit, people dissect the meaning of characters’
hair colors and spin theories based on the exact shades.
So, in a world
where hair is more than just hair, what exactly is Targaryen blond? For one
thing, the actors wear wigs.
“It isn’t just one
color. There’s multiple strands of colors within that wig,” Culora said. She
said there was a complex process undertaken by the show’s lead hair stylist,
Kevin Alexander, the hair team, and the wigmaker, Alex Rouse, to make the hair
look as natural as possible while battling the unforgiving shade of white.
The fandom itself
is divided over the quality of the wigs. On Twitter and elsewhere, there have
been mixed feelings over the silver dreadlock wigs of the Velaryon family, who
are played by Black actors. Some fans have criticized the Targaryen wigs as
well, while others enjoy them (or are largely indifferent).
While Culora does
not follow the hair commentary online, she said, “if people are talking about
it and trying to recreate the looks, that’s lovely. That means that we’ve
influenced and we’ve inspired.”
‘Having this color
is almost a part-time job.’
he said he would call the Targaryen shade a “Nordic blond”, with a “mythical or mystical kind of feeling”. He said there’s a “childlike” and “cultish” element to it, adding, “When the hair is that light, it feels a little unreal.”
“It’s as virgin
blond as you can possibly get,” said Jenna Perry, celebrity colorist and
founder of Jenna Perry Hair studio. If she were to name the Targaryen blond,
she would call it “winter white”.
Perry has
transformed the hair of many famous heads, including Bella Hadid and Jennifer
Lawrence. At her Manhattan salon, her team of colorists have noticed an uptick
in men asking for Targaryen-inspired blond in the past month. She christened it
an “evolving trend”. But, she said, the look will cost you.
“Having this color
is almost a part-time job,” Perry said, adding that the color is a “status
symbol”.
‘Mythical’ and
‘cultish’
For Guido Palau, Targaryen blond elicits a wealth of visual references:
The 1960 science fiction horror film “Village of the Damned”, Marilyn Monroe,
Hitchcockian blondes like Kim Novak, and an overall blend of the historic,
futuristic, and otherworldly.
Palau said that he
has referenced the style of “Game of Thrones” in his work. In a phone
interview, he said he would call the Targaryen shade a “Nordic blond”, with a
“mythical or mystical kind of feeling”. He said there’s a “childlike” and
“cultish” element to it, adding, “When the hair is that light, it feels a
little unreal.”
“I’ve done it on
many models before,” Palau said, but he stressed it is “high-maintenance” and
can be “damaging to the hair”.
“If you do have
the desire to do that, I wouldn’t say don’t do it, but realize it’s a huge
commitment and can often damage your hair because you’re stripping the hair out
of all natural color,” he said.
Danilo Dixon, who
has kept Gwen Stefani’s hair perfectly platinum for more than 20 years, wrote
in an email that he would call the Targaryen shade “glacial blond”.
“I think it’s an iconic
blond shade,” Mr. Dixon added, noting that the shade was worn by actresses in
the 1940s and ’50s. “It is having a new moment with a younger group. It is
being reinterpreted. The noble blondes have been in our story books for a long
time.”
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