For as long as Billie Eilish has been super-famous, she’s dyed her hair various ombre shades of green and black. I remember seeing photos of her when she was a young teenager where she had kind of washed-out strawberry-blonde hair. Still, Billie exists in the cultural zeitgeist as a somewhat surly teenager with green and black hair. NO MORE! Billie debuted her new blonde hair on Wednesday and this was one of the reasons why “Scarlett Johansson” was trending on social media. Because Blondie Eilish = Young ScarJo. It’s uncanny!!
It’s the end of an era. Billie Eilish may have broken an Instagram record debuting a completely different look on Wednesday — showcasing a blonde bombshell hairstyle that instantly won over social media. The look, complete with a tight-fitting sweater, appears to be part of a new project. A video posted to the “bad guy” singer’s Instagram shows film equipment in the background with the caption “did you guess correctly?”
Fans speculated that she may have been referring to her new hair color, which she previously teased following the release of her documentary “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry.” Early pictures from her youth show that the 19-year-old’s natural hair color is actually blonde. Back in December, the Grammy-winner said she was planning on changing her signature green and black hairstyle to signal the “end of era.”
“I’m gonna give you a new era,” she continued. “I have announcements to make, I’ve got some s – – t to put out.”
Billie has already released one single (“Therefore I Am”) from her forthcoming sophomore studio album, but that’s about all anyone knows. We don’t even have the name of the album, or a release date. Allegedly, she’s giving her fans 16 new songs and she recorded the whole album during lockdown, in her childhood room in her childhood home (which is where she recorded the first album). So, judging solely from the change in hair, I would say the album is probably coming out sooner rather than later. Unless she wanted to change her hair for all of the publicity and promotional photos, in which case it could be a lot longer. Anyway, I love this for her. What a bombshell!
Photos courtesy of Billie’s IG.
She is so great. She may not be for everyone but I love that she does her own thing and her brother produces her.
Scarlett Johannson? Clearly this is pure Debbie Harry/Blondie.
Totally with you on this @Ang!
Yes! My first thought was Debra Harry! Billie is going pop/punk!
Me too!
Yes, that was my immediate thought. I love it.
Debbie Harry. Who I love.
yup. even commented the same thing on her Insta page. 🙂
A bit of Debbie, a bit of ScarJo!
I kind of like the hair color on her. And I’m looking forward to her new album, I really liked the first one, and still listen to it a lot.
I have a soft spot for Billie Eilish. She is tremendously talented.
She’s gorgeous – whatever her hair colour. Her features are stunning. Renaissance artists would have fought duels to paint her.
Billie is gorgeous. I hope that one day she feels ready and comfortable to stop hiding under oversized clothes.
She’ll grow out of that phase and will embrace her own body eventually.
I can’t even begin to imagine the pressure she experienced getting so famous so quickly and so young.
I’ve always thought she is stunningly beautiful as well as insanely talented.
I find her brother really fascinating too.
I can’t wait to see them both develop and grow over the coming years.
I should add – that I have been really impressed to see a young role model who hasn’t gone down the overtly sexualised path that the music industry would have absolutely tried to make her embrace btw.
She’s been a breath of fresh air in a crazy manufactured and manipulative industry.
Why? Not every woman wants or needs to display her body.
@evenstar exactly. Sometimes people are much more comfortable just being comfortable and there’s nothing wrong with that / nothing to grow out of.
This!
I am really happy she menages to have all the major fashion houses adjusted to HER own style, instead of forcing herself into a gown she clearly doesn’t want.
I didn’t say she needs to “display her body”. You can wear your size and still be covered up and comfortable. It just seems like she is hiding under oversized clothes. I don’t blame her because the industry sexualizes women, and she rightly wants to be taken seriously for her talent. I hate that talented young women have to worry about that. Geez people.
Whose to say she isnt comfortable in her body? We have been so conditioned to see female singers wearing very little that we criticize women who dont. Frankly it’s refreshing to see a young female singer who doesnt rely on her body to sell her music. Its so different then what everyone else is doing.
What Eleonor said! How bad ass is that? Love it.
exactly evenstar.
Modesty ftw
IDK, sometimes we (cis-Fem here) end up with physical attributes, like breasts, that are automatically sexualized and incongruent with our own self-perceptions. I hope she does whatever she’s most comfortable with.
Personally, I had a breast reduction at 18 which saved my back but also gave me a physical body that better reflected how I saw myself and my sexuality and sexual power. 25 years later and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
I hope she just feels comfortable wearing whatever she’s wearing. If she likes oversized clothes, great! If she eventually moves towards more fitted stuff, great!
She wants to be judged by her music and her voice. Not her butt and boobs, the body shaming and hate she gets is unreal.
Her new clothing line has skirts, so she will probably be wearing those more.
I love the baggy clothes. It’s refreshing after decades of hyper sexualized divas. IMO it shows MORE confidence to dress comfortably and off-trend
I really love this on her. She looks great!
Wow. That smile at the end is definitely ScarJo. I cant wait to find out what she has up her sleeve. She’s so talented.
Stunning !
She looks good but like every other popstar with blonde hair.
agree
I think this is the first time I’ve taken a proper look at her facer and she is stunning.
Blonde suits her so well!
Me too–I feel like I’m seeing her face for the first time.
I looked at her IG (I don’t follow her) and I guess I’ve always seen her with her hair shielding half her face lol She is beautiful
I like it. She’s got a Gen Z Debbie Harry vibe going on with this lewk.
Glad I not the only one getting the scar jo vibe. She is a stunning girl
Hmm. She’s beautiful, but her hair looks so damaged bleached blonde. I don’t like it at all.
No. Her dry hair, music, and persona are terrible.
Beautiful face. Love the new look
I thought at first she looked like Courtney Love and thought, “Courtney Love is retro?” Then I did the math and realized the 90s were 30 years ago. I’ll be over here researching retirement homes…#wowIamold
Needs a toner
I’m getting young Courtney Love vibes, with a dash of Debbie Harry mixed in. I like her music, it’s very unique in the current pop landscape. I will miss her green and black hair but sometimes change is a good thing
This won’t be the final color.
This is the color you get as your preparing to dye it colors.
I’m sporting this look right now before I go back to manic panic voodoo blue.
She had to go blonde first as a base.
I don’t think it looks damaged In the pics here but it has been through a lot as she would’ve had to bleach out the black and the green. Unless that was a wig
Her naturally hair is a strawberry blonde so she wouldn’t have had to do much to it with the green and black.
I’ve always thought she was so beautiful. I mean, look at that mouth! Those eyes! In fact, I think she is SO pretty that she was really right to kind of play down her looks earlier in her career otherwise I imagine there would have been ENORMOUS pressure to become a t&a show which might have totally distracted from her real talent.