Rihanna's hair though, is something with is always changing, and always being replicated. When Rihanna dyed her hair red, you could guarantee you'd see 10 people a day with 'Rihanna Red' hair.
I'm going to journey back to 2005, and she where it all
started, and how we got to the blonde bomb shell she is today.
2005 - Simple Curls
When Rihanna broke through in 2005, she sported a very simple, but popular look for the time. You can't go wrong with curls in my opinion, even if this does look like a totally different Rihanna (she looks rather sweet).
Her caramel curls works brilliantly with her warm skin tone, but it is very play-it-safe for one of the world's next big stars. It could have done with more volume, more hair and more curls!
With her début, Pon De Replay, Rihanna's fashion was very simple and R&B (think Ciara). It suited her at the time, but bigger things were to come!
2006 - Soft Full Fringe
...and this girls, if how you pull of the full fringe. In 2006, Rihanna had a fringe cut in to her lovely chocolatey straight brown hair.
The fringe works perfectly for Rihanna's face, making her features look soft. It's just the right length (just below the eyebrows), not too straight (notice how it's shaped around her eyes) and it looks full and thick (not whipsy and flimsy, as some full fringes can look). The rest of the hair was long, with a soft long layer. A longer layer will always make your hair look thicker. The shorter the layer, the less hair there is around the ends of your hair and thinner it'll look (unless you have crazy thick hair).
This was another play-it-safe hair cut, but the soft full fringe was a big thing in 2006 and it worked so well for her. It's one of my favourite Rihanna looks. She's very pretty naturally, but I feel like this hair gives her such a soft, feminine look.
2007 - A-Symmetrical Black Bob
With the release of her third album, Rihanna finally took her first major risk with her hair. She chopped it all off into this stylish and sharp a-symmetrical bob and dyed it jet black
Just like all of Rihanna's other looks, this is another classic. Bobs always seem to be in fashion, and this one works perfectly. I love the length of both of the sides. Even though it's a-symmetrical, the shorter side still looks longer and is perfectly shaped around her face.
This, along with the red hair, is another cut I saw people running to get, and I still see a lot of people referencing this look when they go for bobs.
This look is sharp and edgy, and frames her face really well, given her more of a 'bad' look than her previous safe (but very nice) looks. This is Rihanna looking very classy and grown-up.
2008 - Short and Sharp
She may not have had an a new album out, but that didn't stop Rihanna staying in the spotlight. She re-released her biggest selling album to date, Good Girl Gone Bad, with even more smash singles (Disturbia anyone? Classic).
2008 saw Rihanna chopping off even more of her hair. With very cropped sides and a long top (kind of like the Rihanna version of Justin Bieber), this looks gives her a more rock look, but it's still a very girly and feminine style.
I like to think of this as a Pixie Crop gone bad. It's very sharp, very stylish and very cute.
You have to be brave if you want to rock hair this short, so good on her for taking that risk.
2009 - Brave and Blonde
After the very public breakup with Chris Brown, and the release of the 4th studio album, Rated R, Rihanna's style took a very drastic turn.
The sides went shorter, the top longer and blonde, the fashion went crazy, the music went dark and the attitude went with it (but I guess that's why we love her).
If Rihanna was still a teenager, these would be her rebellion years, but I have to saw I loved it. It was wild, it was big and bad and it was very Rihanna.
She's one of the modern-queens of reinvention, and I bet no one saw that in 2005 when she was telling the DJ to Song Pon De Replay.
2010 - RiRi Goes RED
2010 started off Rated R and ended LOUD, but let's focus on the Rated R side, because LOUD was mainly in 2011.
Here we see Rihanna combing down her crazy Mohawk, and dying in the colour that we relate to Rihanna these days. Red.
If anyone was born for this colour, it was Rihanna. I've seen so many girls dying their hair red and totally not suiting it. If you have a light complexion, darker reds will suit you better, if you have a darker complexion, light and dark reds will suit you.
I don't know how many girls I saw (and still see) with bright orange skin and bright red hair. Not a good look babe.
2011 - Long and Red
With 2010 seeing the release of Rihanna's new album, LOUD, 2011 was the year we saw Rihanna go all girly on us. Her hair was still red, but her hair was long and soft, her clothes her pretty and understated (some of the time), and her makeup was fun and glowing.
This is my favourite year (so far) of Rihanna's look. It's so fun and girly, and I just love her hair red. Her hair changed many times through 2011, but the girl theme stayed throughout. Towards the end of 2011, she got rid of the red locks, and went more natural brown, but that didn't last long, because it was time for...
2012 - The Blonde Bombshell.
So she kept the natural brown for...1 video? Then, she started toying with blonde wigs in the You Da One video, then, she just went for it. Rihanna is now officially blonde! And not, half and half blonde from the Rated R days, full on BLONDE.
It's only the beginning of 2012, so who knows how long we'll see these for, but so far, I like it. The fringe it very long and now be a side or full fringe (and looks great both ways).
I think this is Rihanna's natural hair, because it looks rather dry and a tad damaged (but it could be a ratty wig). If it is real, then I'm not surprised considering how dark her natural hair is. This will have taken some battering. Maybe she should check out this blog post to see how she can sort that out.
What's next for Rihanna? What hasn't she done? Blue? Green? Bald? Let's see what the future holds for her. Whatever it is, I'm sure she'll suit it. I have yet to see a hairstyle that she doesn't suit.
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