The Grammy nominee first revealed her platinum blonde hair in February 2024
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- Camila Cabello announced in February 2024 that she decided to do something different and go platinum blonde
- In the months that followed, the singer opened up about the difficult process of returning to her dark roots
- But on Wednesday, Feb. 11, she celebrated how she’s been working to get her hair back to its previous health
Camila Cabello is embracing her natural hair.
On Wednesday, Feb. 11, the singer, 28, posted an Instagram carousel sharing snaps of her darker natural hair.
The “Havana” singer’s post includes several selfies of her dark brown hair, along with more photos of Cabello wearing her hair in a messy updo while spending time with friends.
She captioned her post by commemorating the journey of returning to her roots. “it’s taken a year but my hair has finally started to forgive me for bleachgate,” her caption began.
The Grammy nominee then jokingly added: “dark haired girls who have made it to hair health again comment your tips like it’s group therapy.”
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The post comes two years after she first debuted her platinum blonde hairdo in February 2024. Shortly after, she was seen with the new look, when she appeared on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast and said she was looking for a transformation.
"You know, I felt like I needed a big, physical change," the "Señorita" singer said in March 2024. "I feel, I don't know, my dark hair has been with me for all of my life, like it was just a significant part of how the public saw me, how the world saw me, and how I saw myself."
"I feel like it's just been a year of, like, the theme has very much been 'play' and 'transformation' and changing and being brave," Cabello said. “I was like, 'I feel like physical change needs to accompany that.' "
At the time, her hair colorist, Nikki Lee, said that the singer's new hair required three appointments to complete. Lee explained, “Camila wanted a big moment for 2024, and what bigger moment than her going platinum blonde?"
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But as the months passed, Cabello opened up about how she wasn’t a fan of the look by December 2024. At the Tribeca Festival at Art Basel Miami Beach, she said, "I did love being blonde in the beginning. In the beginning.”
"But that s— starts looking like rope real quick — like a horse is about to take a bite, like a salad. It starts drying,” she candidly said.
"There's a three-shade maximum, so you can either go three shades lighter or three shades darker, and that's fine for your hair. Any more than that, you can't do for more than a few months. It fries it.”
She revealed that she wished she had known about the harmful effects of long-term bleaching on dark hair. "It's going to take a long time to rebuild my beautiful, beautiful hair,” she said.
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