Late rock’n roll icon Tina Turner is again within the headlines, however it’s not due to some momentous anniversary. Actually, the explanation why is bound to encourage a couple of intestine laughs.
As evidenced by a sequence of social media reactions, the official Tina Turner property discovered itself in a little bit of scorching water because of a now-deleted put up to Instagram earlier this week. Within the caption, the property revealed that it might be promoting an “official Tina Turner wig.” Priced at round $935 earlier than taxes and delivery, the wig was created by Turner’s longtime hairstylist Arthur Johns and was made with “100% Remy hair,” per The Hollywood Reporter.
Nevertheless, shortly after the put up–which featured an image of the wig on a mannequin–went stay, followers have been fast to pull the hair piece. Many felt prefer it wasn’t an correct illustration of the hair that the “Merely the Finest” singer used to rock again whereas others took problem with the actual fact a racially ambiguous mannequin was the one sporting the look.
Consequently, Johns felt compelled to defend his work, saying in a press release to The Hollywood Reporter: “Tina wore that hair. Should you do your analysis, you’ll see that curl was extremely popular within the ’90s and thru the early 2000s.”
He continued: “What you don’t see is Tina onstage after 25 minutes, working that hair, throwing her physique round and having that hair blow up and simply change into wild. However that was the hair, that was the coiffure, and that was the curl on the colour that went with that.”
But and nonetheless, that clarification and the opposite ones he made on the now-deleted put up weren’t sufficient to maintain of us from clowning the creation earlier than the property determined to tug it from all its social channels.
“Who’s behind the Tina Turner property and has determined to make wigs in her identify NOW??? And why is that this wig not giving Tina however quite makeover Sandy on the finish of Grease? So many questions!” wrote one consumer on X/Twitter.
“Perhaps you gotta flip it round like in dreamgirls,” stated one other in a screenshot of the feedback on X/Twitter.
“Is the Tina Turner wig within the room with us rightnow?” one different consumer questioned.
Added one other: “That’s wig is unpleasant , The Tina Turner l grew up watching and listening to ain’t NEVER had no tight a** curls like that.”
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