Though she's mixed it up over the years, Rita Ora's long golden curls are her trademark. So, even when they got super long, we didn't really think much about them being extensions. They just looked so real, falling down her back in her natural curl pattern.
Well, minds were blown (mine), when she revealed her real hair length on her Instagram story, showing off her new 'barista blonde' colour refresh by celeb colourist, Matt Rez (@colorbymattrez). Her blonde tresses barely fall past her shoulders, making the extensions even more unbelievable.
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Once her hair had been given a trending touch-up with a mix of vanilla and caramel latte tones, she was ready to get the extensions back in and the mastermind behind them is Violet Teriti (@chaviv_hair).
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Proving it's not just those gorgeous and uber-real curls that hide the blend, Rita showed off the extensions blown out, too. Matching extensions to your natural curl pattern then gives you the option to wear them curly or straight, as you would with your natural curls.
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And Rita wasn't the only head of curls Violet transformed that very same day. She turned Vanessa Hudgens bouncy curly lob into a cascade of curls that once again look so bloody real. Repeat after me: "We all have the same 24 hours in a day as Violet".
As a curly girl, I'm starting the manifestation now. I need this curl magician to work her magic on me one day. A girl can dream.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
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