Leighton Meester Debuts Micro Bangs
Spotted — Leighton Meester With New Micro Bangs
Just wait untilgossip girlseesLeighton Meester's new haircut. At the "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" premiere on March 14, Meester completely transformed her signature brunette style with a set ofchoppy micro bangs. She left the rest of her long hair in loose waves, showing off a fringe alongsideher husband, Adam Brody. While Meester is most recognizable with straight brown hair and love of headbands on "Gossip Girl" as the iconic Blair Waldorf, her new bangs should come as no surprise.
"I like bangs!" she toldEllein 2018, reviewing a hairstyle from 2011. "I was really into short bangs for a while but they're really hard to disguise, so you have to just be able to rock them." With this attitude in mind, Meester debuted bangsback in November 2022, leaving them long and wispy so that they reached her eyebrows. At the recent premiere, however, her forehead-grazing bangs hovered quite a bit higher, with a choppier finish for added texture.
As previously explained to POPSUGAR byDevin Toth, a hairstylist atSalon SCKin New York City, "Micro bangs can add flair to any hairstyle and work on all hair types — super curly, pin straight, updos, pixies, long, short, thick, thin, box braids, Afro." Celebrities who have already shown这style of bangsome love includeFlorence Pugh, who wore hers with a spiky updo, andBella Hadid, whose blunt micro bangs served as the perfect complement for her edgy paint-splattered corset.
Now that she's become a part of the micro bang community herself, will Meester make this her new signature look? That's one secret she'll never tell. Read on to see her new micro bangs in closer detail.
