The hair up there

Published August 28, 2008 4:00am EST | Updated October 31, 2023 12:45pm EST



Don’t try to suggest to hair care guru Paul Mitchell that the candidates’ coifs don’t matter. “I think hair’s very important,” he said at the Creative Coalition’s gala on Wednesday night. “The better your hair, the better your public image, the better for your constituents.”

When asked who has the best hair at the convention, he immediately named Michelle Obama. But he couldn’t resist praising Hillary Clinton, either. “Hillary was elegant,” he said. “And her speech was very, very eloquent.”