Ariana Greenblatt Acquired a Fairy Minimize, and It’s the Excellent Midlength Type for Winter

Searching for fall-into-winter-haircut inspiration? Ariana Greenblatt and her ultra-layered, mid-length fairy haircut have gotten you greater than coated. I’ve personally already scheduled my subsequent salon appointment.

The Barbie star’s stylish new chop is courtesy of movie star hairstylist Marc Mena — also called the person behind Madelyn Cline’s iconic seashore bob — who shared a behind-the-scenes reel of Greenblatt’s transformation to Instagram. In accordance with Mena, the inspiration behind Greenblatt’s wintertime metamorphosis got here from the actor’s latest experiences on set in addition to a best-selling e-book.

“[Ariana Greenblatt] was filming Now You See Me 3 and wished a brand new lower and darker-hair period,” Mena mentioned to Glamour US. The fairy-tale component, nonetheless, was impressed by A Courtroom of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Why? “As a result of it’s excellent for a princess updo,” Mena explains. (The novel begins as a riff on Magnificence and the Beast.)

No matter whether or not you’ve learn the e-book, Mena says that everybody’s going to be getting such a chop come winter. “It’s mid-length and has a great deal of layers, which is trending,” he says, including that he and Greenblatt see it as a “glow-up haircut.”

A significant a part of that’s the ideally suited, in-between size of the model. “It’s for the ladies who’re bored with lengthy hair,” he says — and apparently, that’s plenty of us. “It begins to really feel heavy.”

However in contrast to a super-short chop like a pixie, bob, or lob, you’ll be able to nonetheless put on the fairy lower up and magnificence it into an updo. “What we’re calling the ‘fairy’ tail is mainly a shorter ponytail,” he says. “It’s a ‘fairy’ tail for shorter hair, and a pony for longer hair.”

Mena and Greenblatt went with “fairy” as a reputation for the model not solely due to the e-book but additionally as a result of it’s so “cute and little.” Nonetheless, it was essential to them to maintain it medium-length with layers. “That method, you continue to have all the perimeter to border the face,” Mena says. “It’s simply so versatile.”

The end result? It appears to be like candy, fairly, and romantic, however Mena says you’ve the additional advantage of getting “shed” a justifiable share of weight out of your shoulders.

What’s extra, it looks like everybody’s leaning into what Mena calls the “princess” updo today. “It’s such a factor,” Mena says of what’s primarily a daintier, trendy tackle the Pam Anderson updo.