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Blake Lively looked drastically different with short, black hair too
Blake Lively’s shaggy, highlighted wig wasn’t the only drastically different hairstyle she wore in “The Rhythm Section.” She also looked nearly unrecognizable in a much darker hairpiece, with unkempt strands and piece-y bangs unlike any look we’d seen from the “It Ends With Us” star before. The black shade lacked dimension and movement and didn’t compliment her skin tone like her usual blond, washing her out.
Plenty of fans were taken aback by her far less glamorous look, with one writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, “Oh my Blake, that does not look like you! Had to take a double look !!” If it were real, this unkempt Lively hairstyle would undoubtedly have missed the mark. Speaking to Vanity Fair about her drastic transformation though, Lively shared that was intentional. “The whole point is, she’s not supposed to look sexy,” she said. “…She’s a real human who’s experienced tragedy and is terrified. But it was fun to look completely different.”
In real life, the shortest we’ve seen Lively’s hair go is shoulder-length. Sort of. In 2017, she stepped out with a lob that sent the world into a frenzy, but her hairstylist Rod Ortega revealed it was all an illusion. He told InStyle he’d used a pin cushion to make it look like she’d cut her locks. “The reason it looks real is because the faux bob isn’t so helmut-y. It’s loose,” he explained. But we probably shouldn’t expect to see her get a chop for real. “Honestly I am a shy person and my hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed,” she told Hello! (via Daily Mail) in 2014.
