Just like the Barbie she sings about so superbly in “What Was I Made For?,” Billie Eilish is aware of the ability of platinum blonde hair. And he or she has blended emotions about buying and selling in her signature two-tone for a Marilyn-like hue just a few years in the past.

When Eilish first hit the scene, she was rocking two-tone locks: lime inexperienced on high and black all over the place else. These days it is red — on high, black all over the place else. However in between there was Blonde Billie. “At first it was enjoyable,” she advised the LA Instances about her interval of bleached-ness. “I used to be actually excited for the blond period — like, Blond Billie is gonna be so cool. However it didn’t go how I needed it to go.”

Like many younger ladies, Eilish remains to be figuring herself out, and her hair color usually displays her temper. We have all heard of the crimson hair part! However for the singer-songwriter, being a lot within the public eye, the fallacious hue turned debilitating. “I utterly had no thought who I used to be,” she recalled. “I got here up with this entire aesthetic, and I simply received swallowed up into it.”

Going, as Amy Winehouse as soon as sang, again to black helped Eilish really feel extra like herself once more. Even to the purpose that she will get pleasure from being seen…in sure situations. The Los Angeles native admitted that she received a thrill from seeing her face on the Jumbotron at a latest Dodgers sport. “I cherished it,” she stated. “That was actually my dream as a child. Going to stuff like that’s actually cool whenever you’re well-known, I gotta be sincere. Fame could be so horrendous, however there are components of it that rock.”

Eilish’s return to her darker roots has undoubtedly been a welcome adjustment, and she or he appears extra snug with herself lately, not too long ago opening up about her attraction to ladies. “I’ve deep connections with ladies in my life, the chums in my life, the household in my life,” she stated to Selection. “I’m bodily interested in them. However I’m additionally so intimidated by them and their magnificence and their presence.” Honesty is a color that flatters everybody!

This text initially appeared in GLAMOUR (US).