Cardi B’s Most Extreme Hair Transformations, From a Choppy Pixie to Waist-Grazing Waves

Today, Cardi B is gracing her first-ever Vogue cover, and at 27, and the star has had quite the year. From winning Best Rap Album at the Grammys to sitting front row at the Chanel show, the world waits to see just what she ll do next.

As spontaneous as her music and larger-than-life personality is, the Bronx-bred rapper has yet another skill that deserves recognition: she’s a master of the beauty quick change. Whipping through hair styles from a chin-grazing pixie to a lime green lob and waist-length platinum curls, the rapper handles even the riskiest of switch-ups with extreme ease, thanks to the help of transformative wigs and stealth extensions.

Bursting onto the rap scene in 2016, on the sixth season of VH1’s Love Hip Hop: New York, Cardi made a name for herself in the beauty space with her down-to-there straight lengths in varying tones of cherry red, raven, and platinum. At the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, the singer showed off a swingy brunette bob. A mere week later, she sported a gray shoulder-skimming cut while sitting front row at New York Fashion Week—a look that perfectly matched her metallic, crystallized talons. Meanwhile, for the surprise reveal of her pregnancy on "Saturday Night Live," only sensational emerald-green finger waves could accompany her baby bump.

Experiments have included violet-glazed hair that gleamed just so during a surprise performance at Paris Fashion Week, humidity embracing textures, a set of space buns to promote her latest film, Hustlers, and ladylike blowouts—all worn while soaring to the top of the music charts.

Here, on the occasion of her first Vogue cover, some of Cardi s best looks of all time.