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And the Winner Is...
As the top stylist on Bravo's reality series Shear Genius,
Anthony Morrison created the hair on these page-s -- and explains what's happened in his life since the cameras stopped rolling. By Cara Litke
Albert Einstein and Anthony Morrison have two things in common: wild hair and the title "genius." Anthony, 41, the winner of Bravo's reality series Shear Genius, went scissor to scissor with 11 other contestants for the top prize. Throughout the competition, the U.K.-born stylist and owner of the Londoner Salon & Day Spa in Manhattan Beach, California, proved himself to be the anti-Richard Hatch. "I wanted to be everybody's friend," Anthony says. "Not everyone is going to like you, of course, but I tried to keep it professional." The show still had plenty of juicy drama, although not from Anthony clashing with contestants. He got along well with the others, but the judges weren't crazy about all of his styling creations -- and Anthony himself cites his '60s flip as the one moment that made him cringe. "We were asked to create a look inspired by a specific time period," he says. "I just knew that up against the others, my hairstyle wasn't going to have pizzazz and pow to it. I learned a lot from that." Equally demanding was the photo shoot for photographer and video director Matthew Rolston, who, on the set and in front of the judges, asked Anthony to fix the hairstyle he'd spent hours producing. "That shoot was incredibly ...