Perhaps we’re finally seeing the style for what it is: just another haircut.
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I dont know why the Fenty mogul debuted blunt, blonde bangs in April.
I can only speak for myself.
(Sweeney’s, we know now, was a wig.)
Zendaya test-drove a pair of blonde bangs for aChallengersevent in London.
It’s not just celebrities who are into the face-framing cut.
Hairstylists and online beauty outlets are calling spring the season of Bardot bangs.
Or, they’re grounds for immediate regret.
In 2013, then-First Lady Michelle Obamareferred to her bangsas a sign of a “midlife crisis.”
“I get sick of having bangs four days after getting them,” she says.
Well," her friend replies, “thats everyone.
At the 2024 Met Gala, Kerry Washington showed off a shorter haircut with choppy bangs.
I began to worry what getting bangs would silently convey, even though I genuinely wanted them.
Would people look at my new haircut and think I was getting divorced or flailing professionally?
Are bangs a harbinger of internal doom?
Maybe if people outside Hollywood were actually getting them, and feeling good, I could be reassured.
Bangs really are just a haircut, not license for a sanity check.
Why assume the chop is reactionary to begin with?
I couldn’t stop smiling then and now.
Why assume the chop is reactionary to begin with?
And if they don’t, they’ll say so (and change it).
Sometimes [a dramatic haircut] is a rebirth and reinvention, she tells me.
We all deserve the grace to flow, evolve, and adjust.
Rihanna, my own impetus to try bangs, revealed them at a Fenty event in April.
She’s since grown them out into a side-parted, longer style in recent weeks.
Any lingering worries were unnecessary: Michelle actually asked why I hadn’t considered bangs sooner.
How could I care if anyone thought this cut was the sign of a crisis?
I was the one switching up my hair just for the thrill of it, and I was havingfun.
The reactions have been pretty positive, if I say so myself.
My husband told me they’re cute and my friends said they’re a natural fit.
If they’re lying, they’re doing it well.
My bangs aren’t nearly as glossy as Rihanna’s or evenly distributed as Anne Hathaway’s.
But when they cooperate, I love them.
(All credit for good bang days belongs to myDyson AirWrapand Crown Affairdry shampoo.)
More importantly, I don’t regret them a bit.
(And, maybe, that I’m a little gullible where celebrity trends are concerned.)
It doesn’t need to be deeper than that.
But would I do it again?
The late pope spared no expense when it came to treating the infant prince in 2014.
Skip the shampoos, glosses, and treatments.
She captivated the front row.
The star brought early aughts beauty nostalgia to the 2025 Oscars after-party.
The pop star’s latest campaign feels like something straight out of Lumon Industries.
This spicy reddish-brown hair trend was made for the beloved actor.
The platinum blonde star brought ’90s bedhead glamour to the red carpet premiere of ‘The Electric State.’
If this mysterious handheld gadget is good enough for the Oscar winner, it’s good enough for me.
The beauty founder is tapping back into a milky white nail trend.
It girls can’t stop making the chop.
