SHUT YOUR MOUTH, I LOVE THIS. I really do. Twitter blew up last night when Halle Berry arrived on the Oscar red carpet in this Versace and what looked like a backwards wig. First of all, the only thing wrong with the wig is that it distracted from what was actually one of the best gowns of the night! This Versace is really beautiful and flattering. Second of all, are we absolutely positive that this is a wig? Halle’s been growing out her hair for a few years, and I actually think the lopsided “wig” effect is a genuine hairstyle designed to telegraph the fact that Halle has no f–ks to give. In any case, I love it, from lopsided curls down to the ground. She’s wearing everything like she’s having fun too.
After that entire controversy involving Karl Lagerfeld and accusations of cheapness, Meryl Streep didn’t even walk the Oscars red carpet to show off her custom Elie Saab! I guess I don’t blame her, really. She’s Meryl Streep, she got an Oscar nomination for a cheeseball performance and she got a standing ovation for just showing up, basically. As for this Elie Saab… it’s actually a pantsuit/gown hybrid. I would dislike this on someone else, but it sort of works on Meryl.
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Halle said it is her natural hair curled.
Which no one on Twitter was buying. So I don’t know if it was real or not.
As for the dress, it looks like something you would see on the red carpet in the 90s.
I know! Like, yeah, her naturally curled hair is down in there somewhere. Buuut, come on. vast majority of that is a wig. My husband just would not believe me that it was her when we first saw her in the ceremony (we didn’t watch the carpet). I had to argue him down. He can not identify women if they change their hair even a little. And this is a LOT of change.
i love it! she looks 20 yrs younger and has that something very sexy and interesting.
probably after a 4 hours with the hairdresser though.
It looks like her natural hair close to her face with a bad wig slapped on top with her real hair peaking out below.
You’re right! When you look closely, the shorter curls framing her face are darker and there is a definite contrast with the curls on top. I don’t believe ALL of that is her real hair – she posted a picture of herself in December with a pixie cut, so no way is her hair that long now. That being said, the curls are lovely and her dress is lovely. I still think short hair shows off her incredible bone structure though 🙂
I think you’ve nailed it!
No Black Lady in twitter believes that for a second, This is a classic “Lets Turn our wigs around” moment and if ya’ll dont get it is a-ok! 👌🏾
Also that dress isnt even a Best Halle Berry does Lingerie Dress Best Not by a country mile
Dream Girls!
That is all😂
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umm I don’t get it. Eek sorry. Please explain?
I’m a black lady. I am on twitter and I do believe it. I’ve had people (read jealous bitches) claim my hair was too curly and full to be my own, so I totally get it. She looks amazing anyway, I havent seen a meme denying that fact.
@loveotterly Theres a scene in Dream Girls where the group decides to wear their wigs back to front to distinguish themselves from another act.
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That is a TON of hair. If it isn’t a wig there are definitely some clip in extensions doing some of the work.
When I saw her on the red carpet, I immediately thought of Whitney Houston on the “Whitney” album cover. That made me immediately like it (as Whitney was my everything back then). On closer inspection, it does seem to be a wig with some of her own hair peeking out from the bottom. As a black woman with big curly hair, I’ll give her props for showing up with a curly ‘do.
Yes my first thought was Whitney too.
I have no idea about her hair, but I LOVED the dress! I was flipping through thumbnails and I actually went back to look at it. Gorgeous!
There is actually an old Essence cover of Halle posing with her natural hair texture. What we saw on display last night isn’t it. She can have a few seats for that f***kery. The dress was ok, but by no means one of her best.
I just realized how much I missed Halle’s face. She looks quite lovely here.
Meryl’s outfit is horrible. The best outfit I have every seen her in is the dress she wore when she wore the oscar for The Iron Lady. Meryl is not a fashion lady though and never has been.
I miss her face too ’cause that definitely isn’t the one she was born with! Damn! Her nose! It’s shrinking along with her lips! Noses widen as one ages, not become more narrow. Yikes!
I just can’t with the glasses that Meryl wears. Sarah Palin vibes. She needs to wear contacts or get something more fashion forward (see Diane Keaton) and stop looking like a matron from The Midwest.
I wonder does Meryl love the constant praise or has the novelty worn off?! It’s a bit ridiculous being nominated for practically EVERY single performance. I’m not mad on her outfit either.. the trouser part might have worked had it been tighter.
Halle’s dress is magic. Absolutely stunning. A work of art, and truly Oscar’s-worthy. The best dress of the night, in my book. That said, the hair is way too much. The dress has a lot going on, and would have benefited more from a subtle updo. The huge hair is distracting from what is a truly amazing dress, and something that inticrate needs simpler hair, imo
I agree, spectacular dress but the hair detracted (also overwhelms her small frame).
I didn’t even notice the dress. I couldn’t see past that godawful hair.
I just said in another thread that I hated all of the dresses last night, but then I remember Halle’s. I LOVE this!! She gets that this is the biggest night of the year, the biggest night of many of their lives, and she dresses accordingly. And so many of the dresses many of the white women wore looked like dishwater – just so boring with pale skin.
Halle brought it, and she looked fabulous!!
I love everything about Halle’s look. When is she going to start to age? Absolutely flawless.
My thoughts exactly. Everything about this look is perfect. And her body is insane. Batshit, cuckoo Bedlam insane.
The woman is a freak of nature gorgeous. Inconceivable she’s 50 years old.
I had to fend off Halle’s hair from the peasants on FB with insult torches and pitchforks. Sit down fools- beauty isn’t Soccer mom. Halle hair Halle bod Halle Gown- nailed it!!
Yes, I loved everything about her look.
I’m with y’all. Halle looks incredible especially her hair! Love this.
Count me in, she looked wonderful!
Yes, she is amazing and ageless and the dress is wonderful on her. Don’t care so much for the hair as it does not seem formal enough to go with the dress.
She is gorgeous and I love huge, big curls like the next but her hair was way too crazy. It looked like she slept on it – flat in the back and crazy asymmetrical in front. Nutter. Gotta love she doesn’t give 2 f’s.
I love Meryl but all this praise about nothing makes me want to say ‘enough Meryl! Go away for a while!’
Media does that to you.
I love her shoes but why is her hair always a mess??? She always looks so unkept.
I wish my hair could look like Halle’s after having perm rods and a tub of Shea butter overnight. I think she looks great, hair included.
Sorry Kaiser, lopsided wig all the way.
I WANT to like it so bad, but it’s 5 cms too much. IF it was really her hair then yes.
But it looks fake and not in a good way.
So sick of Mery Streep. After her “feud” with Lagerfeld I am starting to think she likes all the attention. She seems to be the default setting of awards and praises.
Halle looks amazing. I love the dress but the hair is the show stopper I love it.
Florence foster jenkins is a terrible movie. 20 oscar nominations, that has got to be a joke.
meryl give viola her oscar u stole.
I loved Halle’s dress. I usually like big curls, but that was just a bit too much I think.
I like the color of Meryl’s dress. Otherwise, whatever. For all of the fuss about her gown leading up to the show, she’s not really a fashion person so it seems odd.
I love Halle’s whole look!
Halle’s stunning dress and figure to match were totally taken over by the wig. She generally wears her hair short…..like they say if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it!
the dress is stunning, but the hair is just too distracting. A real shame actually, but wrong hairstyle for such a sleek dress.
Totally. The idea of that hair is fine, but execution is no way. Too big, too overwhelming.
glad halle was there, she looked amazing.
Love the hair, the dress is meh.
Meryl always nas awful hair.
All I could think of was Halle’s inner crazy was showing.
@ THIS!
^^^ Donna
Bingo!!!!
Feel for the person seated behind her who had to find way through that wig to see the stage.
The dress is beautiful and she is flawless but the hair and the wig yes too busy.
I think she just wanted to have fun so I’ll give her a pass!
Meryl feeding off all this attention from the feud w Karl. Pretty b list of her. Walk the carpet, answer the awkward questions about it and get over it.
Love the hair love the dress she looks amazing!!
The hair, the dress, I love it. The highlights on the hair? That I do not understand.
Thank god for Halle’s hair/wig, whatever. Otherwise, Oscar 2017 Fashion was a snoozefest.
I love Halle’s hair but I can’t help but feel sorry for the person who had to sit behind her. Must have blocked at least half the stage from view
Love Love Halle’s dress. The wig is the definition of tragic. I think Meryl wore pants as a nod to Hillary. Even so, I liked this look on Meryl.
I agree-the hair and dress were at war. The silhouette is sleek, but there is a lot going on on that dress, and it’s lost bec of The Hair. Don’t get me wrong- I love the hair, but with a simpler dress.
Her hair is AMAZING. Flawless. I don’t care if it’s a wig…. I’m dead.
The dress is perfect. I loved seeing Halle with the big hair, she seemed to enjoy it and I liked to see her happy. I still cant get over the year she won. It was magical. The dress, the movie, her crying, everything. Stuff of dreams.
I quite like Halle’s dress. it was one of the better ones last night. I’m not mad about the wig but it seemed to work for her. Not everyone would be able to pull off the look but she managed.
Meryl looked like a sack of potatoes in her outfit. It was a nice colour but too fussy and shapeless. it did nothing for her.
It’s very clearly a wig but the issue isn’t that she’s wearing one.. Halle can wear a wig if she wants. The problem is that the wig hasn’t been shaped/styled properly to fit her head and face. It’s either straight out the pack of straight off the mannequin head with no further adjustments made.
There’s lots of women who’s real hair actually looks like this though kudos to her for going against the grain and attempting to rock a natural look.
I agree. I love that she went with a curly wig. But it desperately needs to be styled. It looks like she just took her 1B/30 out the bag and slapped on her head. I mean did she even shake it?
Exactly, it wasn’t affixed properly to her head. The dress wasn’t my favorite but the overall effect was interesting at least.
She said it’s her own hair and I’ve seen other pics of her wearing it like that. It’s gorgeous!
I love it when women rock a natural look like that, which was why I was disappointed that Halle’s was slightly off (wig or not). Though I appreciate the fact that she did something different.
I don’t like the black and nude competing fabrics on Halle’s dress. Maybe with simpler hair it would have worked…. but the whole thing just reads as too much together. Which is a shame because the dress fits her beautifully, and the hem is GORGEOUS. It looks like its dripping in crystals or something, I love it.
I loved Meryl’s look! it was very her, the color and cut were interesting and well executed.
I like the hair but HATE the dress. I think those black scarves look like they were thrown on at the end and tied and it detracts from the pretty shimmer at the bottom.
I feel like at this point Meryl can wear what she wants. She can literally show up in pajamas and a robe (designer natch) because the Oscars are practically home for her.
I like Halle’s look but in my opinion all that hair does take away, a bit, from her gorgeous face. The woman has got to have an aging painting stashed away in an attic somewhere.
Meryl is Meryl, she’s not a fashion person. I like the idea mentioned above that the pants were a nod to Hillary.
More importantly….why was Halle Berry sitting in the front row?
She belongs there. Forever and always.
I loved the dress. It’s amazing and Halle berry is one of the few women who can rock this dress,
But the hair? Ahh hell no. Shirley Temple re-do. Couldn’t get “the good ship lollie pop” song out of my head,
I’m not even looking at her hair, I’m looking at how utterly amazing Berry looks at almost 51. I don’t even care for her and I’m all Whoa!! And with a body that 25 year olds gasp at. Holy moly!!
Absolutely! She looks amazing!
Once again Meryl’s fashion statement falls flat — she really has no taste in fashions. Halle Berry – She looks amazing though I almost believe she could wear a paper bag and make it look good.
Halle best of the night! Love the dress and the hair. Halle and Charlize are the most beautiful women in HW imo.
I dunno if Halle’s got a wig on or not but I love the hair. The dress is ok but I am not a huge fan of the nude cloth.
I need to know the secret of getting hair/wig’s to do this. I want but sadly it does not happen. I try it and I look like I stuck my finger in a light socket. More Doc Brown than Halle.
I think she looks beautiful I love her hair and Ive seen girls with bigger hair than that, all natural, so whatever I have more things to do with my life than bag on a gorgeous lady for rocking it 100%
Did anyone else see her Instagram video where the camera follows her to a pool where she strips outta that dress?! Find on DM or Insta bc it’s a pretty great homage to her dress and her body 🙂
Her hair is over the top, but if it’s really real – and she says it is – it’s fantastic, altho my first reaction was WIG. Looks great on her. I don’t understand why she can’t have hair AND a dress.
Meryl looks good in that shade of blue, but pants aren’t great on her and it would have been fine as a skirt, but I guess that’s not unique enough. I really don’t like her open toe shoes with those pants, but it’s cool that they appear to be flats.
Lots of people were laughing at Halle last night, and while it was slightly Foxy Cleopatra-esque, I actually liked her look!
Halle’s dress was AMAZING. I literally gasped when I saw it.
And Meryl can wear whatever the hell she wants. When you reach that point in your career, with that much success, you can do that.
Sorry but that’s a Scroll Down Fug is ever there was one!!
She may be a loon but Halle is soooo gorgeous. She just looks better and better. I love her dress.
Amazing.
don’t care if it was real or not, her hair is RE-FREAKING-FRESHING.
all that ironed hair, so flat and lifeless. and so obviously fake and where’s that jumping shark?
all those bouncing curls hypnotized me.
more wild hair. more natural hair. PLEASE. and then i want to see some natural hair color. when you are that beautiful and fit why not set your own standards? and even if your face and body are hardly the ones god gave you, throwing in something real and natural makes the rest better somehow. dk if it is more believable or more contrasty or what but when i see it i love it.
confidence is hella sexy and she had it turned on last night.
Halle Berry is one of those rare women whose hair is too distracting from her beauty. She always looks best when her hair is in a pixie cut, the shorter the better. I only wish I had that problem.
Imma call “wig” due to placement of “highlights”. While the look is glamorous in big curls, if this was someone’s actual hair, it would look like a divided road when wet or straight.