Each time I get bitten by the hair-color bug — and I imply an enormous chunk that makes me need to make a humongous change — my mother all the time says one thing alongside the strains of, “Why do not you see if you may get the identical impact with simply highlights?” Spoiler alert: On hair as darkish as mine, highlighting alone hardly ever leads to the identical impact as bleaching and coloring each strand — however that does not imply you may’t nonetheless get attractive, look-altering outcomes. And I feel that could be precisely what Lucy Hale simply did.

You could recall that Hale had a wonderful photoshoot final month with Solely Pure Diamonds through which she wore a wavy wig in a buttery blonde — a colour she hasn’t been in years. She’s been sporting a wealthy, darkish brown hair colour for fairly a while, but it surely appears sporting that wig may need began one thing of an itch to return to a lighter, brighter colour. And maybe, like me, Hale has somebody gently suggesting that possibly a dramatic, probably damaging, high-maintenance dye job is not essentially the way in which to go.

Hale posted a super-cute selfie to Instagram Tales on Sunday, December 17, and her dark-chocolate hair isn’t any extra. It appears because the climate will get cooler, so goes her hair colour, thanks to chill blonde highlights.