'Comb Your Hair Like Gavin Newsom Day' A Success That Can't Be Brushed Off

The results are in -- the inaugural "Comb Your Hair Like Gavin Newsom Day" is a big, greasy success.

While Newsom's ability to manage this city -- and, potentially the entire realm of California -- is up for debate, his control over his coiffure can no longer be questioned. We ran through combs like Richard III ran though horses, and were forced to use not Pinaud Clubman or Brilliantine, but both. As George W. Bush quipped about running the entire country, whipping your hair into Newsom's 'do "is hard work."

But we think we've succeeded. And a number of you sent in photos of your own efforts to recreate "The Newsom." To quote San Francisco's erstwhile mayor: "All I can think of, is 'What's Next?' ... That's what's so exciting -- how do we top this?"

How about a bunch of amazing photos? How 'bout that?

Here's Hizzoner:

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And here's your humble narrator:

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And it turns out that combing one's hair like Gavin Newsom has some unusual side effects:

Courtesy Dean C. Smith

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But first, congrats to this dude, Dean C. Smith, winner of our "Gavin For a Day" contest. See you at the SF Weekly Music Awards, Dean! But when you're sporting "The Gavin," the cameras ought to be pointing at you, not the other way 'round. 

Alexia Tsotsis

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SF Weekly managing editor Will Harper discovered that a heaping handful of Gavin-brand hair gel seems to attract yachts...

Alexia Tsotsis

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And I found that, once properly "Gavined up," the top three buttons of your shirt just don't work anymore.