Because, with tousled ginger hair and scruffy clothes, Ed Sheeran doesn't look like a 21st Century pop icon.

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His constantly tousled sepia hair and permanent, mischievous half-grin make him look 27.

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Hair was wound tight with pins or left to fall in tousled waves, depending on the preference of their regulars.

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They chucked his chin and tousled the place where his hair had been, and then they went out, leaving her with this dissatisfied, suffering creature.

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For my infinitesimal time under the camera (15 minutes, maybe), I spent an hour under the capable hands of David Tibolla, then had hair tousled and sprayed by Yoichi Tomizawa.

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He has tousled, light-brown hair and a soul patch.

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As practice started on Friday, he could be found sitting casually on the cabinets in the Renault motorhome, fireproof overalls hanging round his waist, corporate cap pulled down over tousled shoulder-length hair.

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With his permanently tousled hair, dark eyebrows and pupils of black or gold ("It's the phosphorescence, " he sort-of explains), Pattinson comes in somewhere between Prince William and one of the more manly Greek gods.

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He tousled my hair.

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When Boyden arrived at Georgia Tech in February to give a lecture in the "Young Innovators" series, his puffy North Face jacket, slightly tousled curly locks and frizzy beard contrasted with Forest's pressed suit, lilac collared shirt and short salt-and-pepper hair -- almost like an Apple vs.

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