Gabrielle Union Despatched Me Again to Carry It On With This Cheerleader Ponytail—See the Images

It has been practically 25 years since Carry It On was launched, however I nonetheless have mainly the complete film memorized. To me, Gabrielle Union will at all times be Isis, the chief of the Compton Clovers, and her most up-to-date purple carpet look has me prepared for a rewatch. (Rewatch quantity, say, two million.)

For the premiere of her film Riff Raff on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, Union opted for a excessive, cheerleader-style ponytail along with her lipstick-print Prada costume. Her hair was pulled tightly again from her brow and gathered right into a ponytail proper on the crown of her head, with a portion of her hair wrapped across the base to disguise any hair bands or pins. The lengths had been styled straight and brushed behind her again, hitting about mid-shoulder with perky, flipped-out ends. This is how you are taking the ponytail from the fitness center to the purple carpet.

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The actor went for a light-weight, minimal glam with subtly flushed cheeks and taupe eye shadow brushed throughout her lids, plus a impartial manicure on medium-length, almond-shaped nails.

There is a purpose the ponytail reveals up on the purple carpet so typically: as Union proves, it is tremendous versatile and may actually do all of it. Her excessive pony is the perfect steadiness of glamorous, flirty, and sporty; she may simply swap to her inexperienced Clovers uniform and it might look excellent with that outfit too. Ponytails will be ultra-long and splendid, just like the waist-length pony Jennifer Lopez wore to a premiere; braided, like Chlöe Bailey’s; sci-fi impressed, like Florence Pugh’s Dune premiere pony; or made primarily of shiny tinsel, like Union’s cousin Saweetie’s. In January, Union celebrated her husband Dwyane Wade’s birthday in Miami in a red-hot minidress with a excessive, curly ponytail that basically introduced the get together.