From Bella Hadid's bleached blonde tips to Gia Love's flaming hot mullet, hair took center stage for this week's best beauty Instagrams. Makeup artist Erin Parsons rounded out Hadid's look with a glossy lid and juicy red lip, while Love's bare skin let her red mane shine. Always one to reinvent herself, Lady Gaga donned a sleek, white blonde updo for her duet with Tony Bennett, keeping it mod with icy champagne eyeshadow and thick, elongated liner. Lizzo also showed off a retro eye, with a black smoked out wing that was highlighted against her bleached eyebrows. Elsewhere, makeup artist Ana Takahashi amped up a choppy, technicolor fringe with a New Wave-inspired explosion of color on her eyes, while Tracee Ellis Ross...

To successfully persuade Milla Jovovich to dye her hair a career-defining shade of bright copper for Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi classic The Fifth Element, hairstylist Ward Stegerhoek appealed to her ambition. “I said, ‘Do you want to be a supermodel, or do you want to be an actress?’ ” recalls the visionary Dutch-born pro, who is perhaps best known for helping craft the artfully disheveled hair of the ’90s via his long-standing collaboration with the film’s costume designer, Jean Paul Gaultier. Jovovich’s bleached roots and neon undertones achieved Besson’s vision of someone who “looked like she came from 20,000 years in the past and 20,000 years in the future,” successfully cementing the “radioactive, almost alien” color into the pantheon of movie moments turned mood-board-mainstays. According to...

There’s no denying that the 2000s are back in full force. It’s why low-rise jeans, hair clips, and heeled flip flops are everywhere you look. Even Ed Hardy has made its return. With the hashtag #y2k having over 2.5 Billion videos on TikTok, the revival is not going anywhere soon. The timing is little surprise in our almost post-pandemic culture, with a study last year finding that nostalgia can help to combat feelings of loneliness. With this in mind, the recent throwback of some of the most polarizing ’00s beauty trends seems excusable. Maybe we all seek the warmth and comfort of a simpler time when growing back your eyebrows was our biggest issue. However, as with the cyclical nature of trends, each trend has reemerged...