Everyone knows that brunette Zooey Deschanel looks more like Katy Perry than she does like blonde Zoeey Deschanel. Even though blonde Zooey Deschanel is brunette Zooey Deschanel... You follow? Basically, what I'm saying is, I've never seen a celebrity look so much like two different people with a different hair colour.

I *know* that it's her in Elf with that short blonde shag, but I will never know it in my heart. And if you feel the same, I'm about to mess with your world even more, because I'm about to show you red-headed Zoeey Deschanel. Who is this complete imposter?

Sat on what appears to be the side of a stage – from the looks of the music equipment – a young '00s Zooey is sporting a shiny bob in a rich, warm and gooey, true-ginger shade.

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We would 100% believe this was her natural colour, especially with those baby blues. But what we can't get over is how different she looks from both brunette and blonde Zooey.

She's also minus her iconic full/side fringe as well, which is also playing a big factor in the shape-shifting, though those subtle curtain bangs in her throwback snap look like they may have started as a fringe.

The outfit accompanying the style is beyond 00s, with Zooey captioning the post: '3 random clothing items to make an early 2000s outfit: appliqué sweater, tutu, flip flops. Your turn!'

It would be rude not to! While I may have been a tween, I still remember my 00s go-to: Jersey dress, drain-pipe jeans, patent dolly shoes. It was a time.

From: Cosmopolitan UK
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Elena Chabo
Former Beauty Writer

Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.