Blake Lively dyes her hair red: pretty or not flattering?

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Blake Lively went to the Time Magazine 100 party in a pale blue draped gown that was cut to reveal a bedazzled bra, similar to the black bra-baring dress she wore to the Boston premiere of The Town. I initially thought it was by the same designer, Antonio Berardi, but it’s Zuhair Murad according to Popeater. Leave it to Blake to find two cutaway dresses from different designers.

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The talk isn’t about Blake’s fashion this time though, it’s about her hair. She dyed her trademark blonde locks a kind of strawberry blonde. The color looks very fake to me in the photos, like it’s a wig. It doesn’t seem to suit her, but that could also be due to her pale peach lipstick and very light pink blush. With other makeup she could probably pull it off. She’s pretty no matter her hair color, I just think she looked better as a blonde.

Popeater reports that Blake may have dyed her hair for her role as Glinda the Good Witch in Oz, the Great and Powerful. She has brown hair for her role in The Green Lantern, out this summer, and she told Billy Bush that she dyed it brown during filming, but we never saw her with brown hair around that time so she must have kept it under wraps. She revealed to Bush in early April that “I’m about to change my hair again for another role,” so I guess this is what she meant. I’m betting she’ll be back to blonde soon enough.

Thanks to Kaiser for help with this post!

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  1. Exiled says:

    it suits her skin

  2. Marjalane says:

    Ack! She looks like Lindsey Lohan!

  3. searching4grace says:

    I like the dress, and I like her with that hair color. I’m not a Blake Lively fan. She reminds me of someone that I REALLY dislike, so that bleeds over. But I do like this look on her.

  4. irishserra says:

    I don’t find her very attractive blonde either, but I don’t think the red suits her. I do, however, confess that I like the dress and the bra. I didn’t realize until CB pointed it out that it was a cutaway dress; I thought the bra was just part of it. But I think it is pretty.

  5. v1nc3nz00 says:

    definitely pretty!

  6. Hautie says:

    I like the red hair. But it is never good to stand with a big red background behind you. She looks much better when its not there.

    I also like the dress. And the bedazzled bra. Cause I can name a dozen actresses who would have wore that same dress, without the bra. So she gets points for keeping the girls covered up.

  7. WillyNilly says:

    “Ack! She looks like Lindsey Lohan! ”

    I didn’t see her carrying a crack pipe and a black bag with a $ symbol on it….she doesn’t look like LL at all.

  8. Becca says:

    It looks nice…although, it’s not really red. A very subtle strawberry blonde. I didn’t even notice a change until the last pic.

  9. baby says:

    she reminds me of the little mermaid here. dont love the dress or the bra. the hair is interesting & pretty

  10. Rasputina says:

    No amount of red hairdye is going to fix that face, and I’m usually cheering for people who go red, being a fake copperhead myself.

  11. bros says:

    does nothing for her. it washes her features out.

  12. Claire says:

    Ridiculous. Looks like she’s on her way to a Halloween party dressed as Ariel.

  13. serena says:

    I totally don’t like her, I don’t know why. She’s irrelevant and not that much of a beauty.

    Anyway I think this fake-red suits her.

  14. Delta Juliet says:

    I don’t think I’ve ever posted anything positive about her so this is a first for me! I think this is the best she’s ever looked. Slightly less generic and bland.

  15. Marie says:

    She has such strong facial features she really needs a style that softens her face and forehead, as for the color yuck.

  16. KJ says:

    I actually think it works really well with her coloring. Give it about two weeks worth of washing to get rid of that initial color shock we all get when changing hues, and I think it’ll be really pretty. Normally I think she looks pretty generic as a blonde, and lately she’s been photographing hard and older, but the red brings some youth back to her face.

  17. Crash2GO2 says:

    It looks much prettier when she’s not being photographed against that horrid red background.

    I do hate the dress though. It looks too much like she’s channeling Ariel the mermaid.

  18. Isa says:

    Strawberry blonde is my favorite hair color.
    I like it on her, it gives warmth to the skin.

    The dress itself is pretty, but I don’t like the color, it should have been a darker shade of blue to make the new hair color stand out.

  19. kazoo says:

    remember the jem barbie doll? her hair was that color.

    i like the color of that dress very much.

  20. Solveig says:

    Her features are too bland for a colour like that.
    And by the way, seems that the hair stylists in HW can’t make a proper ginger shade (Christina Hendricks, I’m talking to you too).

  21. Mizz Tickles says:

    The color looks good on her and that doesn’t look like Leann rimes with eddie cibrian in the top photo.

  22. girlnone says:

    I’d like to see her hair a bit shorter–it looks kind of straggly at the ends. She would have looked nice with a shoulder-length wave, a la Rita Hayworth.

  23. Samigirl says:

    hahaha@Claire. I thought the same thing, so I turned to my 3 yo for help. He said…”look mommy, it’s mermaid!” So. yeah, cosign allllll the way. I LOVE the dress/bra thing though. If I was skinny and childless, I would totally rock that.

    edit: Mizz Tickles, that’s from Eddie’s wedding to Brandi Glanville. BL…Before LeAnn

  24. Neve says:

    jeez her hair was the main thing she had going! now all she’s got to fall back on is tits and arse….

  25. SassyOne says:

    Looks like she’s trying to jump on the Evan Rachel Wood band-wagon. Desperado.

    Anyhoo, it is complementary to her skin.

  26. TXCinderella says:

    I’m not a fan of hers, but I actually think the red hair looks pretty on her and I love, love, love the dress!

  27. Cherry Rose says:

    I like the dress and the bra, but I still think she looks pretty plain. But I’ve never liked this girl, so I might be biased.

  28. Emma says:

    She looks like the little mermaid! Only in a good way. But I think she’s really pretty regardless of what she does.

  29. Lisa Turtle says:

    I actually think Blake looks beautiful. Red is such a hard shade to pull off, but this warm strawberry blonde is just lovely. Really lovely.

  30. EbonyShiksa says:

    EFF the hair.

    I’m more aghast at the fact that she’s playing Glinda the Good Witch! Ugh. More mumbling lines. And dear god, please let there not be an accent involved!

  31. Rosanna says:

    It does suit her!

  32. Al says:

    It looks beautiful. Not as cheap as her “mall girl” blonde. Also, what happened to Khloe Kardashian’s red? That was beautiful.

  33. irishserra says:

    @baby: Yeah, you’re right! The Little Mermaid.

  34. the original bellaluna says:

    Forget the dress and the hair; please tell me those things on the ends of her fingers are Lee Press Ons and not her actual nails! They look awful.

    Maybe she’s trying to “prove” her ability to play one fairy tale character (Glinda) by not-so-subtly reminding everyone of another (Little Mermaid). Just a thought…

  35. Melanie says:

    She looks so damn common. I would like to know who she blew to get so much press.

  36. jb says:

    I think she looks gorgeous either way- i mean, come on. The girl is beautiful. And that’s the picture I’m bringing to my hair stylist for color- thanks, Blake!

  37. DeeVine says:

    Think the color suits her. Very nice! However, her boobs need to be redone. They are not very natural looking.

  38. Ash says:

    No way is this chick in her 20’s.

  39. Annaloo says:

    King Triton, come get your nutty daughter…

  40. sarah says:

    I think it’s pretty on her and really works with her blue dress.

  41. crab says:

    I swear sometimes her mole is on the other side of her face!

  42. Anon73 says:

    noooo !!! blake were SO goregous — why mess with it ? please go back to blonde !!

  43. Anne de Vries says:

    If that dress was cut a little classier at the bustline I would SO want it

  44. professor chaos says:

    She told people that it was for a movie:

    “It’s for the film Hick,” Lively told PEOPLE. “I thought [my character] needed red hair. It helps when you’re playing a role, when I don’t feel like myself. And I don’t really feel like myself with red hair.”

    God, she is trying to be a serious actor.

  45. Jamie says:

    Better as a blonde IMO.

  46. Mandy says:

    I love it, reminds me of Rita Hayworth.

  47. darlene says:

    Like the dress, hate the hair.

  48. luls says:

    She has beautiful skin coloring and pretty eyes. But that nose job and lower half of her face are just awful. Im sorry, but thats my opinion. I guess the combination evens out though, hence why her looks are ‘generic’.

    However, i must say that this new hair color really brings out her positives! (skin and eyes) So, kudos to the hairstylist whos responsible for this!

    edit: ooooh and i HAVE to say; LOVE the dress! 🙂

  49. Newbie says:

    She looks like the little mermaid with that pairing. But I actually like it a lot.

  50. Ron says:

    Love the dress. Love it. Sophia Vergara would rock that dress. It looks good on Blake too. The hair is just a little tiny bit brassy, otherwise she looks good as a redhead.

  51. Estella says:

    The red hair goes with her skin tone but I think she would attract more rich men with her previous blonde. She can’t act so she needs to marry rich, like ASAP. I know I would if I was her age and had no skills to speak of in Hollywood.

  52. Camille says:

    I like it. She looks pretty.

  53. Az says:

    Red hair looks good on her but nowhere as wonderful as it does on her sister Robyn!

  54. ordinarygirl86 says:

    Her facial features are very strong and lean towards masculine at some angles but with that said the red is okay but I think that she’d be STUNNING with a rich chocolate brown hair color to offset the tan and the blue eyes…

  55. Kim says:

    BAD BAD BAD – Its a bad dye job – it looks light pink.

  56. tracy vaiuso says:

    The red does suit her well. Its a hard color to pull off

  57. jay says:

    Evan Rachel did it better. Though Evan’s transition back to blonde is a little painful at the moment.

  58. Victoria says:

    This color makes her look older… you can see more wrinkles on her face with this color contrast… I don’t like it. It looks too… “Strawberry Shortcake.”