Whether it was cutting our own bangs, trying DIY highlights with lemon juice or using Kool-Aid for a dip-dye, pretty much everyone has a hairstyle or hair choice they regret. But, when you look at icons like Reba McEntire, who seem larger than life, it can be hard to imagine them ever having similar hair woes. Despite her iconic and consistently voluminous auburn strands, McEntire revealed in a recent interview with Glamour that there are certain hair choices she wishes she never made. We’re breaking down what she had to say ahead.
Reba McEntire’s Best and Worst Hair Choices
Throughout her years as a singer and actress on shows like Young Sheldon, Happy’s Place and, most recently, a celebrity judge on The Voice, McEntire has rocked quite a few hairstyles. But not all of them were a four-chair-turn if you catch my drift. “In the early ’80s, I got a perm,” McEntire told the outlet, “I have natural curly hair. And so when my hair would be a little past my shoulders with a perm, it was just super tight because if you add a perm to naturally curly hair, it looks angry. And it did.”
On the other side of the coin, there are some hair choices she stands by, like when she chopped off her self-proclaimed “angry” perm in the ’90s. “It was freedom. I loved it,” she says. “It was in ’96 or ’97 when I cut my hair off and it was freeing. But you know what? I had to talk to my management and my stylist who did my hair because it took almost a year for me to talk them into letting me cut my hair. They told me my hair was my image. ‘You got your big hair all jacked up to Jesus. You can’t cut your hair off.’ And I said, ‘Well, it’ll give you something else to talk about.’ And they said, ‘Oh, okay. That’s an idea.’ So we did.”
