Steal Edward's look: His hair secrets from The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Unlike the more elaborate efforts applied to the likes of Kristen Stewart as Bella (see Related Content, right), things were kept quite simple when styling Robert as Edward, a change of direction that pleased the actor. “In the second one [movie] I said, ‘’Listen, I need to tone down the hair. Let’s make it a little more real,’’” he revealed to Entertainment Weekly. Not that this means an end to the famous Cullen coiffure, it’s just a little less high, less obvious and more realistic.

So, what work went into it? Over to Thom McIntyre. “Robert’s got very thick hair with a bit of wave to it,” he reveals, “so his hairstyle was his essentially his haircut.” And this haircut consists of keeping the sides short, more length at the front and back and a choppy roughness throughout for that textured, tousled look. This just-fallen-out-of-bed look (so unsuitable for a vampire that doesn’t sleep!) was perfected by McIntyre rubbing pomade between his hands and twisting the strands of Robert’s hair. “You just don’t want this look to be flat or sleek,” he adds.

Keeping this most fixated upon hairstyle perfect proved an important job for McIntyre and his team, who revealed the day to day care required. “I trimmed his hair probably every week to ten days, just to keep the cut really fresh and chopped into,” says the hairstylist. “When we were shooting, I restyled it once or twice a day – the look is meant to be very tousled, and I wanted to be sure it didn’t lay flat.”

Good job then, that with these constant touch-ups Robert’s hair is up to the job. “I have to say, Robert’s was probably the best [hair],” admits McIntyre. We knew it!

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[via InStyle]