Halsey Ditches Dark Pixie for Platinum Blond Mullet in Latest Hair Transformation
Halsey has gone platinum blond. The 30-year-old singer, born Ashley Frangipane, revealed a dramatically lighter new hairstyle on Instagram on 20 August, swapping the dark brown pixie cut she was wearing just days earlier for a short, platinum blond look. Billboard
The Instagram post, shared on her account @iamhalsey (which counts 29 million followers), was a carousel of photos showing Halsey posing in grey track pants, a white crop top, and headphones. Her caption read "Auprès de ma blonde," a phrase that literally translates to "next to my blonde" but in older French and Canadian French carries the meaning "next to my girl." Billboard
The transformation is a sharp pivot from where her hair was earlier this month. On 10 August, Halsey was photographed in Los Angeles still sporting her brunette pixie while moderating a Q&A panel with Hacks star Hannah Einbinder. Before that, during her European festival run for The Girl in the Tower in July, she had performed in long, dark braids with subtle caramel-blond streaks woven through them. E! Online
Hair transformations are nothing new for Halsey, who has cycled through a wide spectrum of colours and cuts over the past several years. In 2022, she debuted a platinum blond mullet-style cut that outlets described at the time as "business in the front, party in the back." She has also been seen in a bright magenta, nearly waist-length style that one outlet dubbed "grown up Lava Girl realness" in July 2024. E! Online; NewBeauty
Beyond music, Halsey's Instagram presence reflects a growing portfolio of creative ventures. Her bio links to About Face Beauty, her cosmetics brand, and she recently served as executive producer on an unreleased film by director Ira Sachs that screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Instagram
For fans who have followed Halsey's look over the years, the new platinum blond is another entry in a long pattern of reinvention, each shift arriving between album cycles, festival runs, and side projects.
