Ladies & Gentlemen: Blonde in Cannes

Model Bella Hadid has made it her Cannes trademark in recent years to wear dresses with particularly high slits or particularly low necklines. It always looked great, but of course, it wears off as breaking internet news. No problem, because there's another crazy move to generate gossip: changing hair color! So, Bella Hadid is suddenly blonde. Champagne Smoke Blonde, as Cosmopolitan specifies, not Aspen Blonde, which she already wore hip-length in 2022, as Vogue reports. If you want to stop reading now because it doesn't matter, you're of course right.

On the other hand, he's probably male and has no idea how much time women waste on hair color. They don't just sit at the hairdresser's to fight gray. They also discuss their own and other people's results at length. Why does she always have such a yellow blonde, and why are German hairdressers so incompetent when it comes to brunette shades? Is it too reddish, too light, too dark, and does Economics Minister Katherina Reiche not care about her hair? It's jet black! Can someone please tell her that it looks like it came out of a drugstore tube, Mr. Guttenberg perhaps? That's honestly the vibe when it comes to hair color: nasty, but unfortunately true. So how does Bella Hadid suit her new blonde? Well, for our taste it's a little too ashy, not to say shepherd-like. But it's better than chocolate brown with a purple tinge.

For many men, their own hair becomes a permanent source of trouble at some point in their lives. For some, it falls out mercilessly, for others it forms strange patches, and for almost all of them, it turns gray sooner or later. There are different phases when it comes to discoloration. For a long time, you console yourself with the thought that it's just a few strands of hair visibly going into retirement. If the graying can no longer be combed out, you're temporarily dominated by the hope that you're the type of man who becomes more attractive with gray hair. But at some point, a photo comes along that dashed this hope and makes it clear that the unflattering terms "flour-head" and "graveyard blonde" are, unfortunately, exactly right. Then panic sets in, and anti-gray shampoos and home remedies strike. Although they rarely work, they do give the impression that you're doing something to combat the external calcification.

After that, the only option is dyeing your hair, something many men shy away from, but director Quentin Tarantino doesn't. The problem of men dyeing black hair has been discussed many times, most recently with George Clooney, who darkened his hair for a role. Firstly, the color always looks very unnatural, and secondly, it makes many men look even older and foppish. And that's an effect nobody really wants. In Mr. Tarantino's case, however, the remaining fake black hair reinforces his always slightly devilish, crazy overall impression. And who knows, maybe that's exactly what he intended.