Paris Hilton’s latest hustle is a Global Ambassadorship for Paul Mitchell hair products. It’s a “Luxe-Meets-Playful” themed campaign. This week, Paris hit the ground running, chatting about her hair care routine and spilling the beans about a behind-the-scenes story regarding an old hair-do. Remember back in the early 2000s when Paris suddenly debuted that bob haircut? Well, apparently, she didn’t mean to do that. There is a whole story behind how that haircut came about, and tl;dr, she was too busy playing on her phone to notice that her hair was getting completely chopped off.

Her accidental pixie cut: “I was not paying attention, just like on my phone and then I looked up and I had like long hair all the way down to my waist at this point, and I looked up and he had cut my hair all the way to my ears,” Hilton shares, revealing she was taken aback by the drastic chop. “I was so in shock and I looked in the mirror and I didn’t know what to say. He’s like ‘Do you like it?’ And I went to the bathroom and called my sister crying.”

From pixie lemons to a bob lemonade: “I got extensions to make it like a cute bob, and I liked it, but that was yeah, that was not done purposely,” she tells Us. “Then it became a trend, and everyone started cutting their hair. So, I was like, ‘OK.’”

Giving her hair a little TLC: “My advice would be to always make sure to deep condition your hair, especially now I work basically almost every single day, so I’m constantly getting my hair styled all the time. So, it’s really important to use amazing products.”

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She loves all the products: “That’s why I love all the Paul Mitchell products, using the deep conditioners and just using the different sprays that they have, texturizing spray, and just taking care of my hair,” she adds.

The effects of hair extensions: “Back in the day, everyone was wearing those extensions, which are just so hard on your hair,” Hilton says. “So, it’s just really important to take care of your hair, because it’s delicate.”

[From Us Weekly]

I had vague memories of Paris’ Short Hair Era, so I went back and looked at pictures of her bob. I thought she looked great with shorter hair. She’s done the long hair and the high-pony tail thing for a long time, but I honestly think that a shorter/shoulder-length cut is the way to go. I’d love to see her adapt that style again. That said, I have no idea how she could be sitting in the chair and not realize that her hairdresser was cutting off so much hair! She didn’t look up once as they cut her hair from waist-length to pixie? That is a whole other level of not paying attention.

I too have a similar experience of a haircut-gone-wrong. At the start of last year, I gave in to my periodical bob desire. It was my third visit to a new hairstylist who up until then, had done a great job with both my cut and color. At one point, though, I could tell that she’d messed up and had to keep going shorter in order to even it all out. It ended up being several inches shorter, and an entirely different haircut than I’d asked for. It was BAD. Unlike Paris, I was paying attention (in horror) and did not have the option to add extensions to make it longer. It’s taken until this summer to really start to look right again.

Paris is shown in 2004 before the haircut (“Don’t Be Jealous” t-shirt) and in 2005 after the haircut. She’s shown out with Benji Madden in 2007. Photo with long hair is from June, 2025. Photos credit: JFX Images/Look Press/Avalon, FameFlynet/Backgrid, NPictures/Backgrid