'Hair Battle Spectacular': Brooke Burns hosts as fantasy 'do's come true
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Shortly before the French Revolution at the end of the 1700s, Marie Antoinette set a fashion for hair that reached unheard-of levels of height and decoration, with one hairstyle including a replica of a famous French battle frigate.
Moving from the vertical to the horizontal, pop star Lady Gaga appeared in Las Vegas earlier this year wearing a huge sun hat reportedly made of her own hair. Somewhere beyond both of these lies the Oxygen competitive reality series "Hair Battle Spectacular," premiering Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Actress Brooke Burns is host of the show, which puts 10 hairstylists together in a house and then challenges them to create the biggest and most outrageous hair designs they can imagine.
Those are then presented in fully produced, dramatic performances for the judges -- designer Derek J, celebrity stylist Lindsay Albanese and a rotating guest judge -- who will ultimately decide which stylist walks away with coiffure bragging rights and $100,000.
With such nicknames as Boss, J-Rok, Roo, Malibu, Sexi Lexi and Fingaz, the competitors are just as unusual as the styles they create.
"I have worked with many hairdressers over the last 12 years of my career," says Burns, "and I have always found them fascinating individuals, full of character and sometimes defaulting to the crazy side of things. But they keep life interesting.
"When they talked to me about the concept of fantasy hair, to be honest, I had no idea what they were even talking about."
Anyone who follows haute couture and especially the elaborate runway shows of Paris, Milan, New York and so on knows that some pretty strange hairstyles can show up on the models, rivaling the clothes themselves for risk and creativity.
Even if you've seen those, says Burns, you ain't seen nothing yet.
"They take it even another step further than runway and avant-garde couture," says Burns. "They start to build things with hair -- graffiti things, use toys and food and chicken wire, all kinds of crazy things."
Moving from the vertical to the horizontal, pop star Lady Gaga appeared in Las Vegas earlier this year wearing a huge sun hat reportedly made of her own hair. Somewhere beyond both of these lies the Oxygen competitive reality series "Hair Battle Spectacular," premiering Tuesday, Aug. 10.
Actress Brooke Burns is host of the show, which puts 10 hairstylists together in a house and then challenges them to create the biggest and most outrageous hair designs they can imagine.
Those are then presented in fully produced, dramatic performances for the judges -- designer Derek J, celebrity stylist Lindsay Albanese and a rotating guest judge -- who will ultimately decide which stylist walks away with coiffure bragging rights and $100,000.
With such nicknames as Boss, J-Rok, Roo, Malibu, Sexi Lexi and Fingaz, the competitors are just as unusual as the styles they create.
"I have worked with many hairdressers over the last 12 years of my career," says Burns, "and I have always found them fascinating individuals, full of character and sometimes defaulting to the crazy side of things. But they keep life interesting.
"When they talked to me about the concept of fantasy hair, to be honest, I had no idea what they were even talking about."
Anyone who follows haute couture and especially the elaborate runway shows of Paris, Milan, New York and so on knows that some pretty strange hairstyles can show up on the models, rivaling the clothes themselves for risk and creativity.
Even if you've seen those, says Burns, you ain't seen nothing yet.
"They take it even another step further than runway and avant-garde couture," says Burns. "They start to build things with hair -- graffiti things, use toys and food and chicken wire, all kinds of crazy things."
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