10 Celebrities whose careers took off after changing their hair

It’s hard to imagine actresses like Emma Stone or Amy Adams without their “trademarks”: red hair. Highlights play a very important role in building personal style and can influence career and professional achievements.

In today’s article, we at awesome.club, we reveal to our readers the names of some famous actresses and singers, whose trajectories completely changed after a visit to the hairdresser. Be sure to check out our list!

Emma Stone’s hair is naturally blonde. However, Judd Apatow, the producer of the comedy Superbad: É Hoje, in which Emma plays a fun and stripped teenager, insisted that she dye them red. Thankfully, the actress agreed with the change of look: before the film’s premiere, Emma was an unknown actress, but her red hair caught attention. In a short time, the new Hollywood redhead became a real star and won an Oscar.

The actress admits that the change in look had a big impact on her career. Olivia spent the first few years of her career with blonde hair, but it really “took off” after starting to appear in tests with dark locks.

“When I was blonde, all my roles fit the ‘pretty girl’ stereotype. As I dyed my hair, I started playing characters like ‘a waitress with a heart of gold and a hard life’, or ‘a doctor’. I always wonder if I would have been offered these roles if I was still a blonde. I don’t think so,” said the actress.

According to the singer, her life completely changed after she changed her hair color. Early in her career, Gwen Stefani had them dark. As a teenager, her mother let her have highlights, but, in an interview, she confessed that she always wanted to bleach her hair completely.

“I remember when my boyfriend and I had just broken up, I thought, ‘I don’t care what the price is, I’m going to bleach my hair!’ That’s when everything really changed. We had already written all the songs on the Tragic Kingdom album, and this was the moment when the next chapter began,” said the singer.

Rita Hayworth was one of Hollywood’s most famous actresses of the 1940s. But for some time her talent was not noticed by producers and directors, and her first roles were largely unmemorable.

The aspiring actress, a brunette with black hair parted in the middle, was advised to change her look, as this was the only way to break out of the stereotype of the exotic and Latin beauty. Rita dyed her locks dark red and modified the hair growth area to widen her forehead. The glamorous new look helped the actress achieve dizzying success.

The creator of the iconic series Gossip Girl: The Girl on the Blog revealed that Leighton Meester showed up to the audition with blonde hair. But in the cast there was already a blonde – Blake Lively, so the producers proposed to Leighton to dye it a darker color. The actress did not argue, she just attended the audition once again. This transformation helped her land one of the leading roles in the series that made her famous.

Amy Adams claims that dyeing her originally blonde hair red significantly increased her chances of landing new roles, which helped her become a versatile actress. According to Adams, when she was a blonde, all of her characters were seen as “a silly girl who likes to flirt”. And when she became a redhead, her characters became “smart, fun women”. “It was really fascinating to see how just a change in appearance can alter people’s perceptions. That became for me a very powerful tool in my acting work,” explained the actress.

Debbie Harry is a singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the lead singer of the band Blondie. Before forming the group, Harry worked as a secretary, waitress and dancer. So, she decided to enter the music industry, bleached her hair and formed Blondie. Thanks to her beauty, sass, talent and unusual look, with bleached blonde hair in two shades, Debbie Harry quickly became a punk icon.

Blonde Cynthia Nixon dyed her hair red to land the role on the popular TV series Sex and the City. The series producer didn’t like the fact that the main cast had so many blondes, so he proposed to Nixon to change the look. The actress agreed and took her place in the production that made her a star.

The star of the sitcom Modern Family decided to dye her hair to avoid being left out of the cinematic world. “I am naturally blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and nobody would know where to put me, because I was sexy and had an accent, but blonde hair. For some reason they thought all Latinas should look like Salma Hayek. Only when I dyed my hair dark did they start to see me: ‘Oh, she’s the pretty Latina,’” Sofía said.

The “legally blonde” Reese Witherspoon actually has brown hair. At the beginning of her career, the young actress acted with her natural hair, but in 1994 she decided to go blonde and made the right choice. With this look, Witherspoon gained worldwide fame and won the love of the public.

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