Lily Collins is everywhere right now promoting season 3 of Emily in Paris and to celebrate, the actor has been pictured with a new hairstyle. Commonly sporting sleek bobs and perfectly waved ponytails, she often channels Audrey Hepburn vibes and she does it so well. That's why we were nearing shooketh when we opened up Instagram to see her with bright white highlights that were more sci-fi than rom-com.
The look was created by mastermind hairstylist Gregory Russell, entrusted with the locks of Kate Hudson, Anya Taylor Joy, and Claire Foy. Gregory really flipped our expectations for Lily on their head (or on hers), giving her a wavy wet-look shag haircut that's grungy and gritty — and about as far from Audrey as it gets.
But the scene stealer really is those snowy, pure white highlights. We're trying to work out how they were cooked up as it's clear from other recent photos that they haven't been permanently dyed. It could be a wig, but our main suspicion is teeny tiny bond extensions, attaching the highlights into Lily's own hair, with the clever waving creating a shag effect on her long bob.
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Combined with the grungy styling, we now want to see Lily in some gritty road trip movie on tour with her band. Producers you have been told.
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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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