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

You could recall that Hale had a wonderful photoshoot final month with Solely Pure Diamonds wherein 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, however it appears carrying that wig might need began one thing of an itch to return to a lighter, brighter colour. And maybe, like me, Hale has somebody gently suggesting that perhaps a dramatic, probably damaging, high-maintenance dye job is not essentially the best way to go.

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