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Tweeted: What’s Happening with Katy Perry’s Hair Color?

06/23/2011 at 12:00 PM ET

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Is it a brand new hue? Or a case of a dye job gone wrong? Last Thursday, Katy Perry Tweeted excitedly about an impending tress change. “tonight I dye my hair a different color… Can you guess which color?!” she teased to fans. The “Last Friday Night” singer has sported wigs and highlights of every hue, so the options were pretty limitless. But Friday afternoon, the star hinted that something may have gone awry. “So I didn’t get to the exact color I wanted from being black for so long,” she wrote. “2get to goal I have 2b GINGER for 3WKS.” Later calling the process an “#epicfail,” she shared, “If I don’t wait 3wks, I’ll end up w/no hair or a #pixie90scutw/abarretteinthefront It’s okay, I’ll get to my secret color(s) soon! #patience.” In the meantime, she hit the pool (in a Seafolly bikini) with husband Russell Brand in Miami on Tuesday, flaunting her new ginger hue. Hmm … could the singer be reverting to her natural blonde? What do you think? Tell us: What do you think Perry is doing to her hair?

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Sa on

I actually like her red hair.. maybe she’ll go back blonde and lighter for summer time!

Amber on

I love the color, and I love the braid everyone is doing!

JS on

I love it. super cute color on her.

melissa on

love it!!!!! but then I have to… I am a redhead !

christi on

She does look good with red hair. Not many people don’t…it’s such a pretty hair color. Of course, Katy Perry looks good with blue hair…so I don’t think she could ever go wrong. She’s a knockout.

Josie on

Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t really like the colour.. I prefer the jet black on her.

trina on

I like her hair color it looks good on her it goes well with skin it’s a good summer color.

Booyah1979 on

I wonder if we’ll get a peek at the ginger hair when she performs in Toronto next week!!!! Hope she doesn’t hide it all behind wigs!

Emily on

She’s going to back to blonde. Takes awhile for you to process dark hair to blonde, so that is why she has to wait.

Samantha on

I wish there was a better picture, because I think this hair color could look awesome on her! :D

ashley on

i always think katy is pretty… i like the red hair!!

Lala on

everyone knows black is the hardest color to get out and i don’t know why any hair stylist would recommend trying to get so much lighter in so little time. doesn’t seem very smart but neither is dying your hair black if it is naturally blonde! just saying. and she should stick with the wigs they are more fun any way!! :)

LOOVE on

I dyed my hair 2 times in ONE day and I still have a head full of hair :)

Julie Vickrey on

Love her no matter what color her hair is, but
wish it was a better picture of her.

Casey on

It looks really cute on her, but I bet she’s going to go blonde. Which would be equally cute. She has the right skin tone for almost every hair color.

ladyfashion on

Not a fan of her braiding, ,like, I know what I’m saying may be controversial, but look at her, I hope her new hue gonna be great, because this braiding is embarrassing

Mary on

She looks great, but I still love her with black hair. Either way she is still super gorgeous. I went to one of her concerts, and she is incredible on stage. She is a really good performer! Keep up the good work Katy :) <3

Dawn on

I think she looks good in any color, some are lucky that way. And change is always fun, especially in the beginning of summer and then fall, it’s a nice way to celebrate the change of seasons.

tori on

Don’t like the red on her at all!!!

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[...] recently revealed that she wants a new hair color, but has had her hair black for too long, states People. “2get to goal I have 2b GINGER for 3WKS,” Perry said on Twitter about having to leave [...]

E on

I like it. Mind you i just went red a couple of weeks ago. My hair stylist told me that red is really in this summer. Which i believe because she also dyed her hair red and she has never been red before.

Pat on

Can’t tell where or not it looks good because her hair is up.

me on

I prefer the black hair on her, it looked natural (despite not being natural). Please Katy do not go blonde, there are so many blondes in hollywood and you are unique.

Pat on

Oh, I didn’t read the last paragraph of the article before I commented. Yeah – going blonde.

Mel B on

Well, um , duh? I dyed my hair black for years and wanted a change. Black is the hardest color to change. You either have to bleach your hair white (and that’s not very healthy for your hair), OR, in my case, use a salon brand’s “back track” a few times to strip some of the black out and grow the rest out. I miss my black now, but I won’t go back. :)

Patrick on

She’s beautiful no matter the color of her hair…she looks amazing as a redhead!

adam nelson on

she’s still smokin hot to me !!!! lol

Darian on

She looks very pretty with red hair!

Eleanor on

She must be dying her hair a lighter color… I’m thinking maybe PINK! Blonde is an option, but I just feel like she was going for something a little more different or “out there”.

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Ed on

Yuk – I didn’t even recognize her! I like red hair, but she’s so gorgeous with her black hair. To me, this just doesn’t suit her or her personality at all.

PryV8 on

LOOV: “dying” your hair is different than “bleaching” your hair. If she’s going from black to blonde, then she will require a bleaching process which is very damaging to hair. Dying ones hair is adding color not stripping it away. Unnaturally black hair to Blonde in a day would leave her bald.

Sue on

If you hadn’t included her name in the article, I would never have guessed that it was her!

latifah on

I think she needed a change and probably stick with the red hair for a while.

Justea on

She looks a little like Emily Blunt.

hobieluv83 on

I say she’s strawberry, natural (as natural as possible) or platinum blond. I went from black to blond once and had to live with an awkward colored red in between for a while.

Christine on

thats not ginger thats brown!!

Natasha on

It’s totally obvious that blonde is the color that she’s striving for. It usually does take a good while to go from super-dark hair to a blondish hue. She can achieve it, but like she said, she has to be patient so that her hair doesn’t get damaged.

Mia on

I think that shade of red is a pretty decent dye job-but would be better if the eyebrows didn’t match…doesn’t look natural at all.

Katie on

That’s not a bad hair color. I definitely think she would look better in some other hue, but it’s fine. She probably had to bleach wash her hair and then add in color so it wouldn’t look like an awkward platinum mop. When you do that, particularly if it’s a brown, it’ll come out like this because your hair is so from the hardcore bleaching. I had to do the same thing a few years ago to fix a bad dye job. Hey, being red for a bit beats loosing all your hair.

Lisa on

I actually like this color on her!

jsl on

wow, that’s a very unfortunate color, but i empathize. she’s going blonde. my hair looked like that when i was in transition from black to blonde. note to anyone who is considering dying her hair black: its a lengthy and expensive process to undo so think twice!

Jana on

She’s going back blonde-the color she is now isn’t exactly a color-it’s the tone that happens when you lift black haircolor. They probably glazed it w/ a red tone to look more natural than the horrible orange it actually was. It takes WEEKS to do this and still have hair. Good luck to her colorist-I am a colorist and this is one of our toughest challenges.

Sarah on

I think she looks cute as a redhead!

katyperryfan on

its not her

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heyhey on

I think the color looks nice on her (from what we can see in the pic) Maybe she wants to go back to her natural blonde color or a light brown but it was hard after having jet black hair for years. It must be nice to be a natural blonde just because of how easily you can die your hair another color. But it must be a pain to go back to your natural color :)

H on

Doesn’t matter-she has got to be the WORST “singer” ever. She has no clue how to sing-she just talks/screams like the rest of the garbage out there……Makes me sick when they call these people “singers” when the last thing they do is SING. AND they become millionaires even without talent. Go figure :P

Maia on

Sorry, but most of the redheads I know think ‘ginger’ is a derogatery term. Please refrain from using it, it hurts their feelings…

cdubs on

She has hair? I never noticed.

MustLuvMonkeys on

I think her hair color looks great on her. I’m sorry she’s not entirely happy with it, but it’s not like she has to wear a hat to hide her hair everyday. Can’t wait to see the “end result” in a few weeks.

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Stephanie on

Her redish hair color is nice looking. She looks good in black and blue hair too. Never seen her with blond hair Not all skin types can wear redish hues but it looks good on her.

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sam on

i like katy with any hair color realy…and i wonder what she wanted it to turn out like…

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Ruxi on

BLOND, that’s it….it’s really risky to go blonde straight out of brunette…that’s the middle color.

MKB on

She is most likely shooting for Blonde. It will take a few times of bleaching “if she still wants her hair attached to her head” to get out all the dark hair color pigment the first time. This is a color transition on long dark hair NOT a mistake. This is why a colorist should never over promise a major color change can be achieved 100% in one appointment when dealing with longer hair. If she was sporting a pixie…different story…can be done in one day most of the time.

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