Numerous actors have agreed to dye their hair for a role.
Often, the process has left lasting damage.
In some cases, actors have even noticed that their hair began to fall out.
Dying can be dangerous.
“The chemicals used to color/straighten/perm/etc.
your hair can be extremely damaging if they’re not used properly,” hairstylist Chris Dylan toldThe Skinny.
Here are 15 actors who suffered lasting hair damage for a role.
“As one would assume, that completely destroyed my hair,” Grande wrote onFacebookin 2014.
Eventually, Grande had to wear a wig to play the character.
In her day-to-day life, she opted for a ponytail.
“I tried wigs, they looked ridiculous.”
“It’s how I like my hair,” she toldByrdiein 2020.
“It’s how I’ve always liked my hair.”
Apparently, Clarke has learned her lesson.
“I do nothing crazy to it now and use really beautiful products …
I really try and take care of it.
But after bleaching my hair, I am learning to embrace my natural hair,” she said.
Turner played the eldest Stark daughter, Sansa, known for her fiery red hair.
Turner, a natural blond, had to dye her hair consistently while filming.
“They wouldn’t let me dye it back red or my hair would’ve fallen out.”
Since then, Turner has been more careful about taking care of her hair.
She now uses the WellaPlex hair mask.
As the actor told InStyle, all of this dying took its toll.
“I have dyed my hair virtually every color imaginable for different films,” she toldInStylein 2016.
“It got so bad that my hair literally began to fall out of my head!”
In 2011, Knightley decided to stop dying her hair for roles and start using wigs.
Carey Mulligan
Carey Mulligan has been through her own hair journey thanks to her acting career.
Shortly after, she cropped her hair into an ultra short pixie cut.
It turns out, the hair dye was to blame.
“And I got stuck with the short hair thing.”
In fact, Mulligan emphasized that she wished she had never had to cut her hair so short.
“I loved having long hair,” she said.
Apparently, Mulligan’s hair actually stopped growing after she cut it short.
“She’s been recommended to take the pills for six months.
In the 2013 film “Sweetwater,” the actor went red for her role as Sarah.
That same year, her character in “Mad Men” went brunette.
I’m going to have to shave it off and wear a wig.”
After all of the damage, Jones was careful to give her hair a break.
“My hair was ready to fall out at that point,” she toldMarie Claire.
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Aniston has also struggled with hair damage over the years.
It’s nice to take the extensions out of the hair and do something more natural."
“The real reason I cut my hair?”
“My real hair was getting thinned out again from all the extensions.
It was starting to look fake.”
That is, she did until her hair started to fall out.
“My hair fell out,” she told MTV News after the first film (viaAccess Hollywood).
“This time around, we are testing out different wigs and stuff,” she said.
“My hair color changed all the time,” she said of her wigs.
“We look like different people in every movie.”
The character famously had dark hair.
In fact, thebook describesher “straight black hair.”
That meant that she had to dye her hair darker.
However, the hair-dying process wasn’t great for her hair.
As she told Yahoo!, her hair was “fried” by the end of it.
“My hair couldn’t get any uglier,” she went on (viaE!
In anotherinterview, Lawrence laughed, “In a roundabout way, Katniss did ruin my hair.”
Lawrence sought the help of her stylist, Mark Townsend.
She ended up going for a dramatic pixie cut and wore a wig for the last few films!
Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin played Sookie, the halfling at the center of “True Blood.”
Although Paquin loved her role, there was one thing she wished was a little different: her hair.
Luckily, Paquin’s hair damage wasn’t too horrible thanks to her hair stylist.
“I have a very talented colorist,” she said toInterview Magazinein 2008.
“And I’m not changing it back between seasons.”
“This week, we’re on purple and blue,” she said toEntertainment Weeklyin 2014.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron played Imperator Furiosa in “Mad Max: Fury Road” in 2015.
Viewers were surprised to see that Theron had opted tofully shave her headfor the role.
Her hair was left seriously damaged.
“I had done a press junket.
My hair was really fried,” Theron toldEntertainment Weekly.
“And I had a night where I thought, ‘You know what?
What if we just shave it?'”
Although being completely bald was a big change for Theron, she actually ended up enjoying it.
“After that, I was 20 minutes early to everything in my life,” she said.
“It was unbelievable, like how much time we spend on our hair.”
Theron even found a new meaning to her own femininity.
But, she added, “It’s also nice to have hair.”
“It’s from dyeing it, and having hot roller sets,” she said.
These days, what we see on the red carpet is apparently an illusion.
“I really need a hairstylist to do my hair if it’s going to look good.
I have like three hairs left on my head.
A hairstylist will come in and put all this fake hair in and it looks luscious and amazing.”
Luckily, some film hair stylists have given her hair a bit of a break.
Lili Reinhart
Lili Reinhart starred as Betty in the “Riverdale” series.
A natural dirty blond, Reinhart had to dye her hair for the role.
Stylists also curled her hair before tying it up in Betty’s signature ponytail.
After seven years of dying and curling for the show, her hair was in rough shape.
“So I attempt to take really good care of my hair.
I use a lot of Kerastase.
I really like the brand.”
Reinhart also uses Olaplex, she said.
In the future, Reinhart’s hoping to find a project that allows her to wear a wig.
Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya Taylor-Joy is another actor who has ruined her hair for a role.
“Then I dyed it brunette, and the stylist said, ‘Oh, that’s so cute.
You have an undercut.’
She lifted up my hair and the whole bottom was completely fried off.
I was like, ‘Ah, okay, bleach is bad, good to know.'”
Like many other actors, Taylor-Joy now prefers to wear wigs rather than damage her own hair.
Tia Mowry
Tia Mowry found fame in “Sister Sister” alongside her twin, Tamera.
It was only years later that she felt confident enough to start embracing her natural curls.
“This was amazing, because for so long I felt like my natural hair wasn’t being celebrated.
I did not see it in magazines.
I did not see that being depicted as beautiful.”
However, getting her hair back into a healthy state took a long time.
She had to use hair accessories to hide her hair and eventually had to chop it all off.
Plus, she used a lot of products.
Now, it’s finally back to its healthy, curly self.
