Sure, we’ve seen some bold beauty transformations by way of a fearless chop or a radical dye job this year, but leave it to Taylor Swift to show that a game-changing makeover can call for as little as recalibrating your color palette.
All it took for the singer to deliver a good-girl-gone-bad beauty moment with echoes of a young Courtney Love was supercharging her shade of blonde to a luminous platinum and slicing some layers into her bob. But the real joy of changing your hair is that it opens up a whole new world of makeup possibilities: Spotted in New York City last night, the singer sidelined her signature crimson lipstick for an oxblood stain that blew a kiss to the ’90s as much as her plaid dress and combat boots. A sign that fashion’s rock revival is taking hold off the runways? Just wait until her roots come in.
Taylor Swift talks Googling herself, which celebrity s closet she’d raid, and the bravest thing she’s ever done: