Does Anybody Keep Their Natural Hair Color?
Celebrities are always experimenting with their style and physical appearance, so it can be difficult to know the shade of their natural hair colors. However, the truth might be something of a surprise.
Emma Stone
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
Emma Stone's red hair seems to be one of her most defining features, and yet her true hair color is blonde—a shade she sported during her run as Gwen Stacey in The Amazing Spider-Man movies.
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Amy Adams
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
Amy Adams is best known for her red tresses—but before becoming an A-list actress, she was actually blonde.
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Tyra Banks
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
Over the years, Tyra Banks has experimented with many lighter hair colors, ranging from red to platinum blonde. However, the supermodel's true hair color is dark brown.
Alyson Hannigan
Natural Hair Color: Light Brown
Fans of Alyson Hannigan have always seen her as a redhead, a color she maintained for her time spent on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and How I Met Your Mother. But if you take a peek at what she looked like at the start of her career, she had light brown hair.
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Scarlett Johanssen
Natural Hair Color: Chestnut Brown
In the Marvel Universe, Scarlett Johanssen plays Black Widow and sports bright red hair. However, she is best known for her blonde locks. Go back far enough, and you might be able to see photos of the actress's natural color—chestnut brown.
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Olivia Wilde
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
Olivia Wilde is a natural blonde, though she feels more comfortable with brown hair: "I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel people treat me now how I should be treated."
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Ariana Grande
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
Ariana Grande has changed her hair color so many times over the course of her career. Most recently, she's been sporting a platinum blonde look that aligns with her character from Wicked.
However, some might be surprised to learn that the singer once had curly, dark brown hair.
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Katy Perry
Natural Hair Color: Medium Blonde
When Katy Perry rose to fame in the 2000s, she became known for her dark brown, almost black, hair. However, her natural hair color is on the other end of the spectrum—medium blonde.
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Anna Paquin
Natural Hair Color: Medium Brown
Anna Paquin's hair color has been all over the map, bouncing between blonde, brown, and even black. However, her true color is closer to a medium brown.
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Beyoncé
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
Though Beyoncé's natural color is dark brown, the singer has kept her long, blonde locks for years.
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Britney Spears
Natural Hair Color: Brown
When it comes to hair, Britney Spears is famous. Though she went bald, and even black, at certain points, she's best known for her blonde tresses. Only those who remember her from The Mickey Mouse Club may know that her natural color is actually brown.
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Shakira
Natural Hair Color: Black
Since she catapulted to fame, Shakira has been dying her black locks blonde: "I like that blond hair gives a lot of light onstage and makes my face pop a little more. The dark hair made me look more goth. And besides, how many blond Latinas are there in the world? Hello!"
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Celine Dion
Natural Hair Color: Brown
For more than two decades, talented vocalist Celine Dion has chosen to dye her hair a lighter color, opting for blonde or blonde highlights. However, if you look at some videos from the very beginning of her career, it's obvious that her true color is brown.
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Julia Roberts
Natural Hair Color: Light Brown
Julia Roberts has had a number of looks over the years, but she seems to have settled on blonde waves for the time being. Fans of Pretty Woman might assume that her natural color is red, but in truth, Julia's true shade is light brown.
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Emma Roberts
Natural Hair Color: Light Brown
Just like her aunt, Emma Roberts prefers to dye her hair blonde. However, images of her as a young girl suggest that her natural color is light brown as well.
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Halle Berry
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
Halle Berry has always seemed to lean toward lighter highlights or light brown—but when she first started acting, her hair was a deep, dark brown.
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Jennifer Aniston
Natural Hair Color: Brown
Jennifer Aniston has been a blonde for many years, but during her early career, she was actually brunette.
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Jessica Alba
Natural Hair Color: Brown
Jessica Alba has never strayed too far from her honey-colored highlights and light brown color. However, she is a solid brunette.
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Kate Hudson
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
Blonde just suits Kate Hudson so well. It also just happens to match her mother Goldie Hawn's hair color. However, a clue to the actress's natural color can be found in her roots, which suggests that it's dark brown.
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Jennifer Lopez
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
It's been a long time since we've seen Jennifer Lopez's natural color—dark brown. Instead, she gravitates to a brighter color and consistently gets highlights.
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Lady Gaga
Natural Hair Color: Brown
Lady Gaga has never been one to stick to a single hair color. Throughout her career, she's been known as the queen of experimentation—though she does tend to return to blonde quite often.
However, back when she was known as Stefani Germanotta, her natural hair color was actually brown.
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Kristen Stewart
Natural Hair Color: Light Brown
Most recently, Kristen Stewart has been opting for a dark brown hair dye. However, pictures of her as a child actress prove that her natural color is light brown.
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Madonna
Natural Hair Color: Dark Brown
Madonna connected so much with her blonde hair, she even had a world tour titled "Blonde Ambition." However, there have been a few times throughout her career that she's gone back to her roots—a dark brown color.
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Mariah Carey
Natural Hair Color: Medium Brown
Mariah Carey has sported honey-colored tresses for a very long time, but her natural hair is medium brown and very curly.
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Christina Hendricks
Natural Hair Color: Strawberry Blonde
After watching Christina Hendricks in Mad Men, it's hard to imagine her as anything other than a bright redhead. However, her true color is closer to strawberry blonde.
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Nicole Kidman
Natural Hair Color: Red
Nicole Kidman is one actress who has completely changed her natural hair—both the color and texture. At the beginning of her career, she had tightly wound red curls, but today, she prefers to have straight blonde locks.
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Miley Cyrus
Natural Hair Color: Medium Brown
Miley Cyrus has flipped between brown and blonde hair throughout her career—but her natural color is medium brown.
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Rachel McAdams
Natural Hair Color: Medium Brown
We've seen Rachel McAdams with stunning blonde hair in The Notebook and Mean Girls, but she's also had brown and even pink hair. However, her natural color is medium brown.
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Karlie Kloss
Natural Hair Color: Light Chestnut Brown
The model Karlie Kloss has sported a number of styles and colors over the years, but her true color is a light chestnut brown.
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Leighton Meester
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
When Leighton Meester joined the cast of Gossip Girl, she had blonde hair—but because Blake Lively had blonde hair, they made Meester dye her hair brown for her role as Blair Waldorf.
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Sophie Turner
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
Sophie Turner had to dye her hair red for her unforgettable role as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones. However, she was happy to return to her natural color—blonde—once the series ended.
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Sofia Vergara
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
Regarding her hair color, Sofia Vergara has said, "I'm a natural blonde, but when I started acting, I would go to auditions, and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent—but I had blonde hair."
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KJ Apa
Natural Hair Color: Brown
KJ Apa rose to fame with his role as Archie in Riverdale. The character Archie has always been a redhead, but Apa's natural color is brown.
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Jessica Simpson
Natural Hair Color: Brown
Jessica Simpson has always been known as a blonde, but her natural hair color is brown.
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Eddie Redmayne
Natural Hair Color: Brown
Eddie Redmayne has played a redhead in a number of projects, including the Fantastic Beasts series and The Pillars of the Earth. However, he is truly a brunette.
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Gwen Stefani
Natural Hair Color: Brown
Gwen Stefani's colorist Danilo Dixon has said, "Gwen's an Italian girl with wavy brown hair—if you look at the video for Cool, we did her in her natural shade, maybe a little darker—so I developed a high lift formula for her."
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Laura Prepon
Natural Hair Color: Red
Laura Prepon has had many different hair colors, including black and platinum blonde. However, she is a natural redhead, closer to what she looked like in That '70s Show.
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Cole Sprouse
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
Cole Sprouse dyed his hair extremely dark for his role as Jughead on Riverdale—but his natural color is blonde.
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Ashley Tisdale
Natural Hair Color: Brown
When it comes to her hair, Ashley Tisdale has shared, "My natural hair is dark, so I do tend to like it more dark just because it's easier to manage. I like being blonde, too."
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Ariel Winter
Natural Hair Color: Dirty Blonde
Based on her character's look in Modern Family, Ariel Winter seemed like a genuine brunette. However, her natural hair color is a dirty blonde.
She has said, "I have dirty blonde hair and really dark eyebrows and dark eyes. I've dyed it so many times in the past so really the most important thing for me with my hair now is trying to keep my hair healthy."
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