It feels like Ariana Grande has been blonde for, well...forever. She dyed her hair around the time she started working on Wicked and starring as the iconically blonde Glinda, but with all the strike delays, shooting was very spread out, and after it wrapped it seemed Miss Grande was in no rush to return to brunette. But we can't lie... we miss brown-haired Ari.
The star was sporting the cutest brunette bell-bottom bob all over IG this weekend in the music video for The Boy is Mine, and we're obsessed with her Cat Woman take on the trendiest cut of the summer.
The 'bell-bottom' bob is everywhere right now, with its hyper-flippy curled-up ends delivering such a kitch dose of playfulness to the shorter hair lengths so many have converted to over the last year.
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Thanks to bobs' short length, achieving gravity-defying tricks like this is a lot easier than in longer styles (see what I did there?). We can expect to see many more reinventions of bob lengths over the coming months as people look to refresh their chops, and we can't wait.
Just look how good the style looks on Ariana, sporting a shorter length than we've ever seen her with before and so far from her trademark ponytails.
Seeing her with this soft brown hue really has us rooting for a return to brunette. Now we know it's just a music video look, and she's since been seen with her long blonde tresses. But just maybe, this will inspire her to return to brown...
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.
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