This season, it s all about blonde. And while the year s beauty landscape has been defined by icy peroxide and an accompanying buzz cut, the latest takes on lightened lengths are tailored to traverse trend—and outshine the holiday s characteristic radiance. For Kim Kardashian West, the blonde reveal has become something of a pattern, her most recent iteration skewing silver, interminable, and designed to ooze effulgence, a look akin to highlighter for your hair. The down-to-there look is one mirrored by Nicki Minaj, whose calf-skimming, brightened Cher hair is one part aesthetic statement, one part alter ego.
An abbreviated blanch is best achieved through phasing and personalization: Actress Sofia Boutella began with a want of caramel, soon exchanged for a chin-grazing golden chop, while Solange s peroxide came with a mane of beaded baby braids before being shaped into a close-cropped cloud of curls. And while Zendaya s platinum pixie was likely one of her temporary, though infinitely striking, metamorphoses, it seems that Selena Gomez s brush with bleach is here to stay—and aid in her transformation from saccharine pop star to irreverent It girl, all while encouraging swipes of the season s classic red lip. Here, six light length makeovers that make the case for wintertime blonde.
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