One of the worst-dressed of this year’s Met Gala was absolutely Nicole Kidman. Her Balenciaga gown didn’t have anything to do with the theme, and she debuted a terrible new hairstyle. At the Met Gala, her hair was a two-tone “skaterboi” haircut, cropped short with a longer dirty-blonde swoop in front. I wrote at the time that it looked like this was Nicole’s real hair after she had removed her wig and hair extensions/weaves. Well, Nicole was out last night in Texas for the Academy of Country Music Awards, alongside her husband Keith Urban. Her hair was back to “normal” – pin-straight strawberry blonde and past her shoulders. Now people claim that Nicole wore a wig at the Met Gala?
Nicole Kidman brought back her signature long locks at the Academy of Country Music Awards 2025 on Thursday — following speculation she wore a pixie-length wig to the Met Gala 2025.
Kidman arrived to country’s big night in Texas on the arm of her husband, Keith Urban, rocking a chic black leather halter top and tailored pants with a wraparound skirt detail and matching heels. Her hair was styled long and fell down around her shoulders as she posed alongside Urban on the red carpet.
Years of Wiglet Watch has brought me here, to this moment. It’s possible that Nicole wore a wig to the Met Gala. But it’s more than possible that all of her strawberry-blonde hairstyles are all just wigs and hairpieces too. If anything, I believe Nicole’s “real hair” looks more like it did at the Met Gala. In recent years, she’s been wearing some really obvious wigs to some of her red carpet events. CB just pointed out that Nicole’s hair stylist posted photos of Nicole’s Met Gala hair, and there’s a heated stylist-discussion in the comments about whether that short style is a wig. In the IG photos, you can really tell that it is a wig! But I also think her ACM hair looks like a wig too. Maybe she’s just wearing wigs every time she steps outside now?
Nicole’s black ensemble at the ACMs was Monse, btw. I really like it!
Photos courtesy Cover Images.
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- Celebrities attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit Gala 2025 in New York Featuring: Nicole Kidman Where: New York City, United States When: 06 May 2025 Credit: Matt Crossick/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities seen arriving at the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Featuring: Nicole Kidman Where: New York City, New York, United States When: 05 May 2025 Credit: Roger Wong/INSTARimages
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- 60th Academy of Country Music Awards at Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star Featuring: Nicole Kidman Where: Frisco, Texas, United States When: 08 May 2025 Credit: imageSPACE/MediaPunch/INSTARimages
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- 60th Academy of Country Music Awards at Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star Featuring: Nicole Kidman Where: Frisco, Texas, United States When: 08 May 2025 Credit: imageSPACE/MediaPunch/INSTARimages
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- 60th Academy of Country Music Awards at Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star Featuring: Nicole Kidman Where: Frisco, Texas, United States When: 08 May 2025 Credit: imageSPACE/MediaPunch/INSTARimages
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- 60th Academy of Country Music Awards at Omni Frisco Hotel at The Star Featuring: Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman Where: Frisco, Texas, United States When: 08 May 2025 Credit: imageSPACE/MediaPunch/INSTARimages
Noooo I loved her Met Gala hair, and I saw as as sign that she was moving away from her over-processed look. Is there any chance her curls still exist?
Agreed! She looked absolutely amazing! I was sad to see the long hair was back.
I did too! It was so fresh, nicely set off her facial features and she looked years younger. Now back to the dreary lanky flat ironed look I guess.
Someone needs to steal all the flat irons and hair dryers in the Urban/Kidman house. They need to go heartless for the summer.
I miss Nicole’s natural curly hair.
I feel like I saw or read an interview with Nicole in the last year or so. And she talked about how everyone wants to see that curly hair again but that after years of heavy styling and dying the curls just don’t even look like that anymore?
The close up Met Gala photos showed the netting of the wig. It’s a great look for her and I was disappointed to see it was not her actual hair. I’m also of the mind Nicole has been wigging it for a while.
This is obviously a wig. I love her short cut.
Even though it looks more casual, I think the Monse look would have been more on theme for the Gala – the tailoring of the leather top is great.
And yet with MILLIONS and MILLIONS of pounds at her disposal, Khate can’t get a wig or fall that doesn’t look like someone put a mismatched ball of yarn on her head.
This is the way to do it. So no one can tell.
She said in an interview last year that she wears wigs for almost all of her work now, because she was tired of the stress constant styling was putting on her hair. So I just assume she’s always wearing a wigs.
The short hair makes her look like Sarah Paulson. If she is wearing wigs, they are high quality. I don’t get the big deal. Cher has been doing it for decades.
This how to wear wig and extensions well. A good wig/extensions will cost a fortune, but can’t instantly be spotted. I wish she would stay with the short look. Her hair looked amazing at the Met Gala. I wish she would keep the short look.
Are you kidding me!? Her hair looked FABULOUS!!!! She should cut her hair to that style ASAP!!! She may not have dressed for the Met Gala theme but she looked UNREAL 🔥💓 y’’all need to get your eyes checked over at Celebitchy
I think the Met Gala hair was her real hair and the long hair is a wig. It’s been obvious for a long time that Nicole wears wigs.
She looked so good with that pixie crop (wig) in Birth. She should just go ultra short with her natural hair and not hide that she’s wearing wigs most of the time. Zendaya doesn’t hide that she’s wearing wigs and extensions on the carpet. Neither should Nicole.
As a formerly chemo-bald woman with considerable wig experience, I think the short hair is real & the long hair is one of her many wigs. The reveal with wigs isn’t the upper hairline, it’s the side burns. Unless the natural sideburn are shaved off in back of & above the top of the ears, there’ll always be a visible unblended area.
Nic’s curly red hair in her youth was adorable hair was but years of straightening & coloring led to damage, along with natural thinning with age that some women have. Nic had visible gray roots + thinning scalp in some pics 10-15 years ago & that’s not likely to have improved. she could have had a hair transplant for some
front fullness & maybe Minoxidil gave some improvement. Some women get bad side effects though from the topicals. I tried both minoxidil & Keranique but got cystic acne + a wiry black mini-mustache from both. Now I wig it.
A pixie-cut wig with a curl in front the ear solves the sideburn problem.
If I had loads of money I’d wear a different wig every day! Let’s normalize wigs, they’re fun and also easier for some people than wrangling their natural hair.
What do I know. I am terrible at wig-spotting. I loved her Met Gala hair and thought it was absolutely real, and I hoped she would go with it for a while. Phooey. Oh, and I really didn’t like her outfit at the gala, but this outfit is just super-cool. Hate to admit it, but her hair is pretty too. But you know what would really be cool? For her to show up in an outfit like this, with red curly hair. I think people would lose it. Oh well, no one is listening to my sage advice. Even Charles’ side piece won’t listen to my good fashion advice, and she really needs it. Nicole seems to be working with a very savvy stylist. (Every one has hits and misses). But you know, they can always call me for advice.