Breaking news: Miranda Kerr got a haircut! And unlike the faux-lobs going around the past few months, I think this haircut actually qualifies as an honest-to-God lob (you can see video of the lob here). A “lob” is the trendy word for a “long bob,” the It Haircut of the season. Even I came close to trying it – around Thanksgiving, I cut off about 3-4 inches of hair in a faux-lob. It actually was sort of a precursor to what Duchess Kate did, and hers was called a “lob” too, only it wasn’t. Kate and I both could not pull the trigger on actually cutting our hair to our shoulders, but I’m genuinely tempted. God help me, but I loved Khloe Kardashian’s lob, and I really like Miranda’s lob. Sigh… should I pull the trigger? GAH!
To celebrate her haircut (seriously), Miranda gave an interview to Harper’s Bazaar about her hair and some other beauty stuff. Some highlights:
Why she did the lob: “Well, I’ve been wanting to cut my hair now for at least a year. I’ve often fantasized about it but I haven’t been able to do it because of the contracts that I’ve had, but now I just got clearance from all the clients that I work with, so I was like, “Let’s just do it!” And everyone’s like, “Oh, we should do it for a special event, but I just wanted to cut it—I’m ready.”
Hair inspo: “I’ve been looking at different pictures, like one of my friend who’s always had really long hair but cut it really short. I’ve had long hair pretty much my whole life. I’ve never cut it this short before, except maybe when I was like, four years old, I guess I had this haircut. Not this exact haircut, because I used to have bangs and I obviously didn’t cut bangs today. But it’s really nice for a change—it feels really fresh. When I’m not working, I generally let my hair air dry. So I just dried it and then he put wave in it which I quite like and I was like, “Oh, this is perfect.”
Her bad beauty habit: “I love to tweeze my eyebrows and I’m a little bit OCD with my nails being perfect. And if I get a pimple, or if I see a pimple on anyone else, I love to get it. Obviously I do it properly with a tissue and what not, but I really like to squeeze, especially if it’s friends or family.”
One, I let my hair air-dry too! It’s so rare to hear that a famous woman air-dries. Two, she pops other people’s zits? That’s gross. Sure, it’s gross to pop your own zits, but most of us do that and it’s a private thing. But to go around, popping other people’s zits? Gross.
Incidentally, I’m sort of just using this “Miranda got a lob” story as an excuse to once again post these photos of Miranda at the Saint Laurent show in LA last week. I think I was one of the first people to point out that she looks kind of pregnant. I still think she is knocked up with Evan Spiegel’s billionaire baby. And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if she was quietly engaged too. But sure, she just loves him for his personality. Not because he’s a billionaire. She would totally be with him if he was just some guy, right? SO KNOCKED UP:
Photos courtesy of Miranda’s Instagram, WENN.
