Booboo Stewart Says He Minimize His Lengthy Hair to ‘Swap It Up’

Booboo Stewart is getting candid about why he minimize his lengthy hair.

The Good Bother star — who first confirmed off a new buzz minimize in February — opened up about his resolution to drastically change his search for the newest episode of the Ned’s Declassified Podcast Survival Information.

“I simply I had lengthy hair for such a very long time. Actually. It needed to go,” Stewart, 30, shared, including that he had the prolonged locks even when he was a child and that his dad used to chop his and his sisters bangs.

His lengthy hair finally “turned a lot” of his “id” in different folks’s eyes, he mentioned, noting that he simply wished to “swap it up.”

“Once they considered me, they’re like, ‘Oh, the hair.’ You realize?” he defined. “Like, ‘He has lengthy hair. He is obtained lengthy hair.’ ” 

“And I simply wished to change it up,” he continued. “I simply was not feeling like that anymore. And I had completed the TV present I used to be on, [and] I used to be like, ‘OK. No extra obligations.’ And, I shaved it.” 

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The Descendants actor famous that he had minimize his hair quick a number of instances all through his life, together with when he attended college “as a result of everybody was calling me a lady” and for the Twilight films, however his hair finally grew “lengthy once more.”

This time round, he was pleased with the top product.

“It feels so good,” he mentioned. “Yeah, I adore it.”

When podcast host Daniel Curtis Lee, who famous that he stored his locks after chopping it, requested Stewart if he additionally stored the hair, the actor admitted that he did. “I nonetheless have it,” he mentioned.

Podcast host Devon Werkheiser then requested what he did with the additional hair, Stewart jokingly mentioned, “I pray to it … no, I don’t try this.” He mentioned that he as a substitute stored the locks in a drawer in his toilet. 

Stewart initially debuted his new hairdo in a photograph on Instagram. Within the snap he might be seen posing along with his arms crossed in entrance of a window as the sunshine illuminated the aspect of his head. 

Quickly after exhibiting off his new look, followers flooded his remark part and shared each their admiration and disapproval for the brand new look.

One person wrote, “The best way my mouth opened … I stay in denial despite the fact that it fits him very nicely.” 

“That was a plot twist and a half, appears insanely cool tho,” added one other particular person.