Pop Princess ditches the extensions in favor of a bob

Jun 11, 2015 15:05 GMT  ·  By

Britney Spears doesn’t look like she did at the recent Billboard Music Awards 2015, where she shared the stage with Australian rapper Iggy Azalea and performed, to the fans’ delight, their new collaboration, “Pretty Girls.”

She is now sporting a very cute layered bob, which she debuted on social media, again to the delight of her loyal fans.

Britney goes sleek for summer

Many media outlets are saying that Britney went and did something “drastic” to her hair by cutting it down to the layered bob she’s seen showing off in the two photos below, which she posted to her social media feeds.

The change is startling, it’s true, but it probably involved very little cutting of Britney’s actual hair. Of all the celebrities, she is the one who got the most media coverage ever for her extensions, mostly because they were always visible when she didn’t have a stylist on hand to do them justice.

In fact, there was a time when not a day passed without a mention or a photo of her “ratty” extensions. Here was one of the most successful pop stars in the world and she couldn’t seem to find a proper stylist to get decent extensions, the kind that wouldn’t be visible when she put her hair up.

So basically, while it might look like Britney cut a lot of her hair for this new bob, chances are she only took the extensions out. And she looks great!

Extensions can damage natural hair

Whether the change was for aesthetic reasons or not we might never know, but you should be advised, in case you’re considering getting extensions yourself, for fuller and longer hair, that you might be doing it at the expense of your natural tresses.

Removing the extensions, even high-quality ones isn’t done without significant loss of the natural hair, with the strands they were attached on being damaged or torn in the process.

Wearing extensions for longer stretches of times is even known to lead to the appearance of bald patches, areas where natural hair will not grow later. Best case scenario, it will thin out natural hair, which is still pretty bad, if you think about it.

Celebrities photographed with bald patches from extensions included Britney, Lindsay Lohan, , Kim Kardashian, Victoria Beckham and Serena Williams.

Maybe Britney is just giving her natural hair a well-deserved rest with this new, summery bob.  

My new haircut! ✂️ A photo posted by Britney Spears (@britneyspears) on Jun 9, 2015 at 11:46pm PDT