Celebrities Who Regretted Changing Up Their Hairstyle: Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and More

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer shocked fans when she debuted an ultra-short pixie cut in 2013. She had her long locks previously trimmed into a shoulder-length look to eliminate “fried [hair] from being dyed too much,” but hated how it looked. “I cut it earlier, and it was just kind of like [shoulder-length] and it grew to that awkward, gross length, and I kept putting it into a bun, so I just cut it off. It couldn’t have gotten any uglier!” the Hunger Games star told Yahoo News in November 2013.

Kim Kardashian

Kim got a super short sleek bob haircut in 2018 and regretted it almost immediately. “Wait, I miss my long hair” she tweeted with a crying face emoji after getting the big chop. She got hair extensions a month later to restore her familiar look.

Rihanna

RiRi cut off her longer locks in 2013 and didn’t appear to be happy with her new look when she shared it with fans in an Instagram post. “Still tryna get used to my hurr, so I threw on some #redlipstick #RiRiWoo,” she captioned the sad-faced snapshot.

Cameron Diaz

The Something About Mary star wore her hair very short in 2012, and not in a stylish way. She revealed her locks had been butchered by a stylist who didn’t follow her instructions when it came to trimming her just past shoulder-length tresses. “There was a little misunderstanding. I said, ‘Oh I just want a little bit off’ … and it went from here to here. I just burst into tears and started crying, and I felt so vulnerable,” Cameron revealed about her super short hair during a stop by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Sarah Jessica Parker

While Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw claimed her drastic short haircut in 2001 was due to getting a fresh look following her breakup with Aiden, in real life, actress Sarah Jessica Parker couldn’t stand how it looked. “Serge [Normant] cut it off for Sex and the City. That’s maybe time to be forgotten and to never be discussed again!” SJP told Yahoo Style in 2015.

Carey Mulligan

The Oscar-nominated actress is thankful for her long locks, after being forced to get a pixie cut in 2008 following a dye job gone wrong that ruined her tresses. Carey told Elle UK , “I hate my hair. After An Education, I had a small part in Michael Mann’s film Public Enemies, and he wanted me to dye it white blond, and it wrecked my hair. Literally, ruined it. It was falling apart, fried. So, I had to cut it off,” admitting, “I cried.”

Ashley Benson

The actress was also the victim of a hair dying crisis. “My biggest hair regret was when I tried to bleach my hair and then the person who did, bleached my whole head off and I lost all my hair. You can see it in season three of Pretty Little Liars. I have horrible hair,” the star revealed to People in 2017.

Jennifer Aniston

Despite “The Rachel” being one of the most popular hairdos of the 1990s thanks to Jennifer Aniston’s Friends character, the actress herself hated it. “How do I say this? I think it was the ugliest haircut I’ve ever seen. What I really want to know is, how did that thing have legs?” she complained to Allure in 2011.

Jen later revealed how it hard it was for her to replicate the look without the help its creator, her longtime pal and stylist Chris McMillan. “I got that haircut and was like, ‘Wow this is amazing,’ and then I was totally left with this frizzy mop on my head, because I had no idea how to do what he did,” she said of the hair guru while presenting him with an honor at the 2018 InStyle Awards.

Lauren Conrad

Thank goodness for hair extensions! The Hills star revealed to People in 2014 that after getting a shoulder length cut during the show’s run, her locks wouldn’t grow back. “My biggest hair mistake it was chopping it off! It’s so funny,” she told the publication, adding, “My hair won’t grow — my hair has not gone past this length since I cut it seven years ago to my shoulders. I’ve tried vitamins, I’ve tried everything. It just won’t!”

David Beckham

The soccer hunk tried out cornrow braids in 2003 and realized the culturally appropriated look was going to come back to haunt him. “[The cornrows] were maybe a bad decision! It was bad timing as well because I was going to South Africa at the time with England and ended up meeting Nelson Mandela, so that’s why I regret that,” David told British talk show host Graham Norton in 2015.

Taylor Swift

David isn’t the only one to regret wearing cornrows. Taylor showed off the unfortunate look in a November 2014 Instagram post to celebrate the success of her first pop album, 1989. “The last time an album sold as many copies as 1989 did first week, it was 2002. I was 12 and going through my ‘braids phase’. #nofilternecessary,” she wrote next to a school photo of her blonde hair in cornrow braids.

The singer previously told Teen Vogue in a July 2014 interview, “My high school pictures are, like … tragic. My style forever was going to be cornrows. I took my school pictures with the cornrows.” She sure did, by later showing fans the receipts.

Jessica Biel

Jessica is another celebrity who hated her teenage hair, even though she was already a TV star on 7th Heaven. As for the bob she had as a 17-year-old, “It was a blunt cut all the way around, and I used to hairspray it until it was stiff. When I look back, I’m like, ‘Ugh!'” she told InStyle.