Blake Lively: ‘Honestly, I am a shy person and my hair is a safety net for me’

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I wish there was some big, juicy breakup or hookup happening this holiday-ish week. But so far, no go. Instead we have Blake Lively talking about her hair. And her makeup. Neither of which is really Blake’s strong suit, you know? She has a great body, she has a nice smile and she has a very normal, girl-next-door appeal. But I’ve never looked at Blake and thought, “Amazing hair” or “stunning makeup.” Some highlights from Blake’s Hello interview:

Safety net hair: “Honestly I am a shy person and my hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed. Often you see people on the red carpet with tight-up dos, but that makes me feel stiff.”

Haircare: she simply applies a hair mask (she loves Kerastase Reflection Chroma Captive Hair Masque), doesn’t rinse it completely from the ends and then dries it until it’s slightly wet, pops it into a ballerina bun and lets it dry. She also loves to apply extra virgin coconut oil to the ends before shampooing.

She doesn’t wear much makeup: Blake also claims that she wears ‘very little make-up’ in her day-to-day life but cites fragrance as ‘essential’ because it evokes memories and emotions for her.

Eyelash glue: Another beauty trick she swears by is the power of eyelash glue, which she and her team use to stick her red carpet gowns to her skin to avoid any styling mishaps.

She loves to dress up: “I’m not happy wearing sweats, because I love dressing up so much. I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress-up.”

[From The Daily Mail]

Well, at least she admits that she’s not into makeup, although I do NOT believe that she’s a shy person. At all. I think she’s probably very, very confident. She’s the kind of woman who goes after what she wants, shows off her figure how she wants and sets attainable goals for herself, personally and professionally. I’m not saying she’s smug or anything, I just think she’s less of a shy wallflower and more of a driven, goal-oriented woman who has coldly assessed her best features and how to use them.

As for haircare… some days I feel like I’m literally the only woman in the world who washes her hair every day with a shampoo/conditioner 2-in-1 and lets her hair air dry will zero fuss. Is this how other women spend their time? You spend hours rubbing coconut oil in your ends before shampooing and leaving some kind of hair mask in?

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  1. Kayl says:

    When I think of her, I think ‘great hair’, so she’s doing something right.

  2. mytbean says:

    I think her hair is nice… not amazing but nice. I’d trade if it were an offer on the table.

    Once upon a time in a land without wrinkles and boob sag I could wash my hair every day and do pretty much nothing with it and I looked presentable. Today I gotta work for it a little more. I do a mask sometimes. I use Kerastase too – that’s the best stuff I’ve ever used but I use their leave in products mostly. And argon oil for my ends is a must almost every other day. I rarely if ever blow dry my hair. But I can’t get my hair to her lengths because split ends still haunt my head. It sux. 😛

    • QQ says:

      Hand To God I thought i was looking at Heidi Montag on the header pic in my cellphone

      This isnt a complimentary comparison

  3. Meredith says:

    You’re not alone, Kaiser! I do use a separate shampoo & conditioner, but after that I towel it off, brush it, and let it air dry. The only time a mousse or spray or hairdryer comes near my hair is when I’m getting it cut (once a year).

    • Snazzy says:

      I’m like that in the summer – it’s so hot, why over-heat by blowdrying your hair? I just wash, condition and go. And certainly not every day! The hair mask’s when I’m at the hairdresser and that’s it 🙂

      No real comment about her, though.

      • SK says:

        Washing your hair every day is actually really bad for it because you are stripping it off all of it’s natural oils. Cheap, supermarket-bought shampoo and conditioner actually coats your hair with a bunch of crap to make it look “shiny”. You are better off washing your hair every 2-4 days (whatever you can get away with) and then only shampoo the roots and condition the body and ends (never the roots). A masque every now and then is awesome and so is some kind of hair oil (on the body and ends) – I use macadamia.

        Seriously, this isn’t hard. I’m a five minute make-up person. I comb my hair when it’s damp and leave it. But healthy hair is unbeatable. My hair is, according to my hairdresser, the healthiest hair he’s seen in years. And my hair is long and I’ve been blonding it up for a long time. Simple things to take care of it and not using heat implements on it constantly are what works – for me anyway.

    • Sherry says:

      My hair is about as long as Blake’s. I shampoo every other day and use a 2-in-1 shampoo/conditioner, then put a leave-in conditioner (Garnier Fructis) on the ends and air dry. I’m always getting complimented on my hair. Even my hair stylist asked me what I was doing to keep it so healthy.

    • lana86 says:

      lol, and i dont even use conditioner, 🙂

  4. Liz says:

    Famewhore please. Sit down.

  5. Sabrine says:

    All her first world problems…..so terrible…oh dear.

  6. Barrett says:

    Slow gossip news day! What a snore for a story! She looks like Heidi Montag in cover shot….

  7. Eleonoy says:

    Once I’ve tried to prepare my own hair beauty mask with eggs and yogurth and all the stuff. When it was ready I didn’t know if I had to put it on my head or in the oven.
    It was the first and the last time.
    Sometimes I apply argan oil, and usually the tiaré oil, because I have very dry curly hair. The end.

  8. NEHA says:

    To be fair, I think it is possible to be shy (or introverted) and still be a really confident and driven person. I don’t think that she is shy, but I’ve met people who exhibit both qualities.

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      Totally agree. I am confident, but shy with people I don’t know well.

      • MrsBPitt says:

        People who know me would never describe me as shy, but put me in a room full of strangers and I am tongue tied and sitting in a corner!

    • Liv says:

      You’re right, but I can’t feel sorry for her. She’s fronting like she’s shy, but calls the paps and promotes cell phones and other stuff with pap pictures. No sympathy for her.

    • Klaw says:

      NEHA, I totally agree, there are people with both qualities. I’m an extrovert who still loves my alone time so much that I protect it fiercely and often hide in it – but my thirst for human interaction pulls me out of the house, and then my drive and confidence land me in the spotlight. Once there, however, I feel like I’d rather be at home with a book. I guess it’s a vicious circle.

      I think Kaiser pegged Blake perfectly. Brava, Kaiser.

    • kc says:

      I am confident, but terribly shy. Words just don’t come to me easily in social situations where I do not know people or there is not much structure. I also put coconut/almond or olive oil in my hair before I wash it (about every 3 days), then put it in a bun or braid to let it dry. My hair is ridiculously long and thick, and it just keeps it healthy. So I get it. But I never play dress up. That aspect of her personality screams the need to feel pretty and feed the ego more than any of the other comments.

  9. Jegede says:

    I live in London and buy all the gossip rags.
    Hello! leads the more credible pack in this genre

    But I can tell you there is NO Blake interview/segment in Hello! magazine

    Not this week nor last week

    Daily Fail – sorry – Mail picked an old story and ran with it

    Probably cause as some have said gossip is low

  10. Eileen says:

    She and Nicole Kidman should start a support group for the “shy” people in Hollywood and disappear for a long time

    • Couiny says:

      I have even read an interview where Jennifer Lawrence said she was shy…. The girl who can’t stop talking about peeing or farting in her interviews and on the red carpet. A lot of actresses say that they are shy (and actors too). It’s totally possible but I also think it’s a PR tactic for some of them, in order to seem more relatable and normal. I believe more someone like Mia Wasikowska when she said that she is shy or introverted and than Blake Lively or Jennifer Lawrence.

  11. evadstructn says:

    Hours rubbing coconut oil into the ends? Um, more like seconds….

  12. kcarp says:

    I really like her hair. I think in the top pics it looks great. I am from Texas so I do enjoy some big hair.

    I wash and condition every day. I let hair dry, then I pass my straightener over it if I am going somewhere.

  13. Allie says:

    Some of us have to spend time on our hair, not because we want to, but because we were cursed with thick frizzy hair. My hair looks like a lions mane if I air dry, so count your lucky stars if all you have to do us step out of the shower.

    I am pretty envious of her hair. But I had to roll my eyes at the quote that fragrance evokes memories and emotions for her. Girl, please. Just say you like smelling good and be done with it.

    • Lee says:

      Yeah, that line made me think girlfriend’s got a fragrance line to shill.

    • astra says:

      If you think you’re cursed, think again. I have the finest, thinnest baby hair on the planet and it sucks. There is nothing that can be done to make it look good, I would LOVE to have long pretty hair but I have a stringy pile of crap instead. Oh and it falls out all over the place and all of the time. I honestly don’t know how I’m not bald yet but I probably will be soon. It’s also the ugliest color imaginable, it’s a gray brown ugly mess, and it doesn’t hold color well either, of course. My hair makes me hate myself because what kind of woman doesn’t have lush, pretty hair? A failure of a woman and an ugly one…so like I said, be happy that you have hair! It could be way worse.

    • wonderwoman21 says:

      Yup thick, frizzy, curly/wavy hair here! i only wash my hair every two weeks with a sulfate-free shampoo and then let a deep conditioner sit while I shave/exfoliate/what have you. Air dry after separating curls and coating them in leave-in conditioner and Shea Moisture’s Curl Enhancing Smoothie. And that’s not all but I will spare the internet on the rest lol.

    • Ange says:

      Yup. I have thick, curly hair but it’s the most unstructured bullish*t ever and half the time the top layer is heading for the sky while underneath is trying for an afro. It costs a fortune to get anything resembling smoothness out of my head and I’ve never in my life been able to just wash and go, lest I scare the villagers.

  14. susiecue says:

    What in the Hayull is she wearing in that first pic? That seriously looks like one of my Barbies’ outfits from the 80’s.

  15. T. Fanty Fan says:

    No Kaiser, I wash my hair every day with conditioning shampoo and let it air dry. I go to the gym in the morning, then work doing tech support all day, so no one gives a crap what I look like and I see no need to spend a lot of effort on my board straight hair

  16. Jmo says:

    In the header photo I swear it was Heidi Montag!

  17. R says:

    She does have some nice hair. Coconut oil is amazing.

  18. mystified says:

    Good thing Goop doesn’t use her hair as a safety net.

  19. Shahrizai says:

    I mostly just wash, condition, air dry, but my wash/condition ritual is a bit lengthier because my hair’s been bleached and put through the ringer. I used to use coconut oil, too, but for some reason as I’ve gotten older, it weighs my hair down now, even if I just use the merest hint of it. I do have a cabinet full of random leave-ins and tried and failed shampoos and conditioners, though, because it’s been hard to find something that agrees with my hair. I’m still trying to find it!

    I’d take Blake’s length, though! In a heartbeat!

  20. shannon says:

    It is awesome to know that there are other ladies out there like me! I work out in the evenings, so I take my shower afterwards and sleep on my hair while it’s still damp. I twist it around and is usually looks pretty good and wavy in the mornings. My only complaint is in the summer time it’s very humid here and I have a lot of frizz. I’ve tried all sorts of leave ins, but if anyone can suggestion a hair product that tames frizz and that you cannot feel (nothing sticky or stiff) I would appreciate it. I used to use Loreal’s The Feel but they discontinued it like ten years ago.

    • * says:

      L’Oreal’s Total Repair 5 leave-in and serum are great. They’ve worked wonders on my frizzy hair.

  21. Diana says:

    Wow…. Shocked at how much vanity and shallowness can be packed into a single person. Lol

    • The fan says:

      She does have the right to say this which does not make her shallow. Imagine how that red carpet feels with all eyes watching every move and a lot of them maybe hoping something bad happens: a trip & fall, lipstick on her teeth, wardrobe malfunction anything just to prove, ” she’s not so perfect after all because this girl has NO right to be gorgeous, rich, married and a career, she does NOT deserve any of this good fortune!! She can’t act and she is NOT that good looking.

  22. Sarah says:

    I have hair about Blake’s length and for the last year I’ve been doing the baking soda and apple cinder vinegar thing. “Wash” with baking soda an water, and “condition” with Apple cider vinegar. I have hair that is more on the corse frizzy side and my hair has never been less greasey or smoother. It doesn’t make your hair smell like vinegar either. I’m not Shaileene or anything, I had just always struggled with frizzy hair and itchy scalp and I had read that this helped with that and it really has.

    I don’t think Blake is shy, more like, coy, if that makes sense.

  23. Scarlet Vixen says:

    I’m even lazier–I wash my hair about once a week and almost never use any product. I have never had a knack for hair routine and my hair gets too oily/dull if I wash it too often, so I am about as maintenance free as you can get. Every once in awhile I will use a flat iron, but mostly I let it air dry and leave it wavy. Pinterest has been great to find fun and easy up-dos for the days when my hair is getting a little greasy and I can’t wear it down. Oh, about once every 3mos I use a dry shampoo to stretch until the next weekly wash. I LOOOOVE the extra time I have in the mornings because I’m too lazy to spend it on hair!

  24. BunnyBabe says:

    Oh how I wish I could just air dry! As a platinum blonde I use olive oil or coconut oil as a mask… zap it in the microwave for 30 seconds, apply to dry hair, work it in, wrap head in Saran Wrap for an hour while I clean my house. Be careful of drips!

    Then shampoo, condition, shampoo (I use Enjoy brand) again to get the oil out. Then I use It’s a 10! Hair Mask for about 3 minutes.

    Then I use a volumizing Redken mousse, It’s a 10! Leave In Conditioner and Diamond Oil by Redken or another defrizzing oil on the ends.

    Then I blow dry for 45 mins to an hour!

    The upside is I don’t wash my hair every day and I do the oil treatment a few times a month. If I air dry my hair between cowlicks and bleached hair uhh it’s not a good look. But when I take the time I’m often told how healthy and normal my hair looks for being so blonde. (My hair has only been virgin to bleached so it’s the best situation possible for it)

    So yes, Kaiser, this is how other women spend their time. Lol

  25. Annabelle says:

    it’s been a couple of months that i now wash my hair about three times a week ( i have long and thick hair) with shampoo( conditionner included). Then I put on morocco oil . The rest of the time, I put dry shampoo in it. My hair has never looked better!

    I’m also going to salon to dye it this afternoon.

  26. shelley says:

    I think one of Blake’s strengths is definitely her hair. I love her hair. I get what she’s saying about her hair being a security blanket. Mine is for me, too.

  27. Jayna says:

    I’ve always loved her hair.

  28. astra says:

    Let’s be honest, her hair is all she’s got going for her. My husband thought she was cute until I showed him the pic of her with her hair parted in the middle and slicked back…so yeah she needs that hair.

  29. A.Key says:

    Her nose job was and is her real safety net.

  30. Grant says:

    That’s funny, because when I look at Blake the ONLY thing I think is “great hair.” It’s thick and long and voluminous and a lovely shade of blonde. It really is the only thing she has going for her.

  31. Naddie says:

    Shy, yes. It makes my skin crawl whenever people define themselves as “shy” because they have moments of shyness, since its normal to feel embarassed sometimes. I have no right to decide what people are, but this woman? Give me a break, please.

  32. Overrated says:

    She’s got a great, natural smile when she’s not doing the narrow-eyed posing thing.

  33. Rose says:

    I hope she’s being paid for this…just bought $200 worth of s Kerastase and my hair is solid coconut oil (I wish I was joking).

  34. Josefa says:

    Why is shyness incompatible with being driven? I don’t like interacting with people I don’t know and big crowds make me really awkward, but I got clear goals in my head and I fight for them. If they require talking to someone who I don’t know well then I’ll fuck*ng talk. If not, I’ll try to do everything on my own, avoiding those awkward talks with strangers as much as possible.

    Now, do I think she’s shy? Definitely not. She seems like a bit too much of a fame wh*re for that.

    • Naddie says:

      I’m quite driven myself, but shy as well. The thing is, some people have a specific situation when they feel embarassed, and quickly assume they’re essencially shy, like this dull chick.

  35. Alyce says:

    She has fantastic hair!