What Has Jacob Elordi Done to His Hair?

Jacob Elordi has not cut his hair short in months, and that single decision is driving a spike in Google searches for his name alongside the word haircut. The actor has spent 2026 growing out the tight undercut he wore as Nate Jacobs on Euphoria into something closer to a mullet, and the specifics of how that grow-out has been shaped, layered and finished are exactly what a trade audience of barbers and stylists wants broken down.

The look driving the current search spike belongs to the Wuthering Heights press tour, where Elordi has been promoting Emerald Fennell's adaptation opposite Margot Robbie. Hairstylist Jill Halouska is credited with refining the shape into what Coveteur and American Salon both describe as a mod mullet or shag: longer layers through the crown and back, a shorter fringe left loose at the front, and enough weight removed from the mid-lengths that the hair falls and moves instead of sitting flat.

That structural choice, texture over length management, is the part a working barber can actually lift from a red carpet photo. A straight grow-out without internal texturizing tends to read as unkempt once it photographs. Thinning through the ends and point-cutting the perimeter, the approach behind Halouska's work, lets hair carry natural movement while keeping a defined line at the front and sides. It is the same logic trade titles have applied to women's shag cuts for years, now showing up in men's grooming as clients move away from the tight, machine-faded undercuts that dominated the previous decade.

Elordi's hair has not held one shape long enough to give salons a single reference photo. At the Marrakech International Film Festival he turned up with a full beard and a shaggy, center-parted look that fans compared to a 1970s throwback, and the reaction online was blunt enough that the moment got its own meme cycle. At the Berlin International Film Festival he showed up with mutton chops, a style change striking enough that commentators likened him to a Bridgerton character. Each shift has been treated online less as a styling choice and more as an event, which is itself a sign of how closely his hair is now being watched between film promotions.

The Frankenstein production pulled him furthest from any of it. For Guillermo del Toro's Netflix film, Elordi sat through roughly ten hours of prosthetic application a day, 42 separate pieces, to be transformed into the creature, his usual hair and beard replaced entirely by long, side-parted dark waves built by makeup designer Mike Hill. Del Toro has described the daily application as something close to a ritual, telling press it was meant to feel like a sacrament rather than a cosmetic job. None of that survived past the shoot, but it marked the one stretch where his look was dictated by a prosthetics team rather than a hairstylist working with his natural growth.

By the time Elordi reached the 2026 Oscars, groomer Amy Komorowski took the opposite approach from Halouska's tour styling. Rather than smoothing the grown-out mullet into shape, Komorowski scrunched and shook the ends to exaggerate texture, aiming for what Yahoo's grooming coverage of the ceremony called a just-woke-up effect. Placed next to the tour's more controlled shag, it shows two different ways of handling the same base cut: one calmed into soft layers for a press circuit, the other roughened up for a single night on a red carpet. Both start from the same decision Elordi made months ago, to stop cutting his hair short and let a barber's shears do the shaping instead of a clipper guard.