I’m sure we can all look back on one haircut or dye job we regret. I’m certainly glad mine wasn’t captured by film or red carpet cameras!
Here are 17 celebs who regretted dramatically changing their hair:
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In 2022, Jennifer Lawrence shared her advice for anyone who wants to get a pixie cut (like she did in 2013) with Vogue: “Obviously, my advice is don’t do it. Think everything through.”
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In 2010, Carey Mulligan told Elle, “I hate my hair. After An Education, I had a small part in Michael Mann’s film Public Enemies, and he wanted me to dye it white blonde, and it wrecked my hair. Literally, ruined it. It was falling apart, fried. So I had to cut it off. I cried.”
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Shakira blamed her 2012 bob on her then-partner Gerard Piqué’s mom. In 2021, she told British Vogue, “She said, ‘Hey, why don’t you cut your hair? It’s really damaged.’ Worst mistake of my life.”
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According to her mom, Tina Knowles, Beyoncé regretted getting bangs in 2003. On Instagram, she said, “I remember this when she cut her bangs and I begged her not to because I knew she would not wear them but a couple months and then they would take a long time to grow out . And she would put a wig back on . That’s exactly what happened .”
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In 2019, Taylor Swift told Elle, “Fashion is all about playful experimentation. If you don’t look back at pictures of some of your old looks and cringe, you’re doing it wrong. See: Bleachella.”
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For Billie Eilish, going blonde in 2021 led to a sort of identity crisis. In 2023, she told the LA Times, “At first it was fun…I was really excited for the blonde era — like, Blonde Billie is gonna be so cool. But it did not go how I wanted it to go. I completely had no idea who I was.”
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James Marsters damaged his hair bleaching it to play Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In 2016, he told the Minnesota Star Tribune, “They told me repeatedly my hair would fall out, or rather, they were not sure I would have hair by the end. Right on the bottle of bleach they used, it said, ‘Only do this every six weeks. Not safe to use more often.’ And we did it every eight days, because a vampire is dead, so your hair doesn’t grow, so you can’t have roots. The makeup department was really particular: There can never be roots in your hair. So for seven years, we did it every episode. I agreed to bleaching when I thought I was going to die in five episodes. I don’t know if I would have agreed to it for seven years.”
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Similarly, Ariana Grande’s hair was damaged after years of dying it red to play Cat Valentine on Victorious. In a 2014 Facebook post, she said, “Since people give me such a hard time about my hair I thought I’d take the time to explain the whole situation to everybody. I had to bleach my hair and dye it red every other week for the first 4 years of playing Cat… as one would assume, that completely destroyed my hair. I now wear a wig on Sam & Cat. My real hair is back to brown and I wear extensions but I wear it in a pony tail because my actual hair is so broken that it looks absolutely ratchet and absurd when I let it down.”
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In 2021, Rupert Grint told the Armchair Expert podcast, “There were some awkward stages, for sure. My hair in [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire] is one of my biggest regrets. Shoulder length.”
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In 2016, Miley Cyrus bleached her hair herself and soon regretted it. On Instagram, she said, “Learned a valuable lesson in this meaningless process. Bleached my fucking natural healthy [ass] hair rebelling out of boredom while dealing with a consecutive amount of time off on the Woody [Allen] project ( 2 months ago)! Sitting in a random apartment with nothing to do but smoke weed (which I should’ve just appreciated) and fuck with my hair obvi, something inside told me I’d regret it…. That hair color comes in a box (well maybe mine) therefore it’s available to purchase and what grows from my scalp naturally is mine and and only mine!!!”
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In 2014, Paris Hilton told Vogue, “My Tinkerbell haircut was very in back then [in 2005], but when I look at it now, I am like, ‘It was just so short!’ I don’t think I would ever do that again.”
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In 2018, Ashley Benson told Elle, “I bleached my hair so much during [Pretty Little Liars] Season 3, and it fell right off, and you couldn’t even tell! I got a call from Warner Bros. like, ‘You need to do something with your hair,’ and I’m like, ‘Well, duh, I’m bald!’ Bleaching my hair was my biggest regret.”
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In 2018, Emilia Clarke had to cut her hair short because of how damaged it was from going blonde. She told Harper’s Bazaar, “It’s almost the shortest it’s been. I’m honestly trying to grow out the blonde, because it’s just killed my hair, and I miss having nice hair! I do like the length but I wish my hair was longer.”
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In 2015, Sarah Jessica Parker told Yahoo Style, “Serge [Normant] cut it off for Sex and the City [Season 5]. That’s maybe time to be forgotten and to never be discussed again!”
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Nicole Kidman regrets straightening her hair to the demise of her natural curls. In 2017, she told Who, “I wish I had my curls back. I tortured them to death. I always say, ‘Don’t ruin the ringlets!'”
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And finally, in 2012, Cameron Diaz told The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, “[My friend who cuts my hair] was leaving to go away for Christmas with her family, it was 10:00 at night, and we were trying to just get it in. There was a little misunderstanding. I said I just want a little bit cut off, and it went from here to here…[I] burst into tears. I started crying. I felt so vulnerable.”
