Rihanna’s Chunky Highlights Have Early 2000s Vitality

We would not blame you should you guessed the above was a photograph of Rihanna from 2008. The multi-hyphenate isn’t any stranger to daring hair transformations—she virtually invented them—and her newest look places a high-fashion tackle two controversial tendencies from the early aughts.

The singer kicked off Paris Style Week with a bang (we could not assist it!), arriving to assist her beau A$AP Rocky for his American Sabotage colection, in partnership with AWGE. For the occasion, Rihanna swapped her pure curls for extra-long black hair with frosty blonde highlights and fringey Millennial facet bangs that seemed as if she stepped out of the early 2000s.

If anybody has the affect to carry again chunky highlights, it is Rihanna. “Skunk hair,” the trendy tackle the Y2K pattern, had a second just a few years in the past however its recognition (fortunately) fizzled out. The 36-year-old’s spin on the pattern included lengthy black hair with an exaggerated facet bang that rested simply above her eye. Her bang was detailed with stripe-like bleached blonde highlights which had been extra muted all through the remainder of her hair. It was an enormous change from her newest coiffure—she wore her pure curls in a bleached blonde shade for the launch of Fenty Haircare.

Similar to her bangs, the singer’s outfit had the right contact of Rihanna aptitude. She wore a pink bomber jacket with white fur trim, which she layered over a white costume with the phantasm of one other jacket falling out of it. She styled the outfit with strappy white buckled heels and accessorized with giant pink sun shades, numerous diamond jewellery, and a classy classic Dior shoulder bag.

Her make-up search for the evening included heavy brown lip liner, which additionally felt very cohesive to the Y2K aesthetic of her outfit, and a glowy, hydrated complexion.

Rihanna’s actually in her hair-era. Maybe it is the discharge of Fenty Haircare inspiring the star, or perhaps she’s within the midst of a inventive second (she did say R9 is *lastly* within the works). Regardless, her chunky highlights had been a enjoyable option to kick off Paris Style Week.