Autumn may be right around the corner, but Hayden Panettiere [1]'s new look screams summer. After dyeing her blonde hair bubblegum pink earlier this month, the actor added pastel green roots, creating quite the juicy colour combination. "Love my new watermelon 🍉 vibes up top!" she wrote on Instagram on 18 Sept., crediting Los Angeles-based colourist Erick Orellana [2] for the dye job. Her mint roots blend seamlessly into the rest of her pink hair, and she also resurrected the wispy bangs [3] she was rocking a few years ago.
Panettiere has drastically changed up her classic blonde hair a few times throughout her career, briefly experimenting with a reddish-brown colour in 2010 before chopping it into a blonde pixie cut [4]. The star brought back her pixie — in a cool silver hue and with shaved sides — in 2019, closely channelling her "Scream 4" character Kirby Reed's signature hairstyle.
Panettiere's watermelon-inspired hair fits right in with the plethora of fruit-themed beauty trends that've inundated our social media feeds this year. There was the "tomato girl" aesthetic [5], embodied by bronzed skin and lots of blush, and Hailey Bieber's strikingly similar "strawberry girl" makeup look [6], which is all about flushed cheeks and glossy lips. And let's not forget about Zendaya-approved "blueberry milk" nails [7], a catchy term used to describe creamy blue manicures. Perhaps Panettiere is onto something and "watermelon girl" hair will make a splash next.
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