Dax Shepard Reveals He Cut Wife Kristen Bell’s Mom’s Hair: ‘I Gave Her a Whole New Look’

"I nailed it," Shepard told 'Late Night' host Seth Meyers of the look

Dax Shepard has a hidden talent.

During a Wednesday, Sept. 4 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the 49-year-old actor and Armchair Expert podcaster told the show's host that he's been cutting his own hair "intermittently" since he was 12 years old. Shepard also revealed that he recently shared his talent for haircuts with his mother-in-law, Lorelei Bell.

"Kristen [Bell]'s mother was visiting, my mother-in-law Lori, and I was looking at her the whole week. Not critically... I just thought, 'This isn't the right shape for her head,' " the Armchair Expert host said. "I said, 'Would you be open to me giving you a new style?' And I don't know why she agreed to this but you guys, I nailed it. I gave her a whole new look."

After Lorelei returned to Michigan, Shepard continued, she reported that she received a flood of compliments on her haircut.

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"I promise you I got at least 20 text messages saying, 'Oh my god, everyone at work says my hair looks so great. It's so wonderful,' " the comedian recalled. "Like it was a big, big hit."

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Apparently, the actor's mother-in-law was so happy with her new look that she wanted Shepard to be her exclusive hairstylist going forward.

"My assumption was she would go to the beauty salon and say, 'Do this again,' " Shepard said before shaking his head. "She thinks I'm her hairstylist now. So when she comes, she's expecting [a haircut] and I'm like, 'I only do new looks. I give you a new look and then I never cut your hair again,' " he joked.

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The actor said that he received his first pair of hair clippers at age 12 and began giving haircuts to his classmates.

"I bought the little kit and I just started giving haircuts in my junior high," he told Meyers, 50. "In fact, [I] got in very, very big trouble."

Mohawks, Shepard recalled, were his specialty. "That's a very good starter haircut," he said. "All these kids in the yearbook all had these mohawks and their parents were calling the principal and then the principal called my house."

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