Claire Danes’s Modern Marilyn Look
11 years later, Claire Danes still has the innocent face that we fell in love with in My So-Called Life. She’s since ditched her angsty auburn hair in favor of a peroxide hue. The 37-year-old actress’s Marilyn inspired color lends to her all-American look as a CIA agent in Homeland.
Danes created a modern Marilyn Monroe look with loose finger waves per Marilyn’s signature Old Hollywood style. Danes updated the look, swapping out a contoured red lip for a soft pink gloss and youthful, dewy skin. Her color is dimensional and never brassy. “I’ve been coloring it since I was 13,” Danes told Stylelist. “I look at my brother and say, ‘Oh, that’s what I would look like.’ I identify my current blonde as my ‘base color,’ so I return to it when I literally have to wash a character out of my hair.”
To get goldy peroxide locks like Danes, take photos of Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly to your colorist. Danes’s hue is somewhere in between the two, and it’s doubly fresh and modern. “Of course, a more updated and modern version of this was my intention,” colorist Steve Amendola told Glamour of achieving Danes’s Grace Kelly inspired hue. Amendola achieves the look by incorporating lighter highlights for a multi-dimensional look. “Claire’s natural color was gently lifted to produce a color that acts as ‘back-lighting’ for her blond highlights. The highlights are strategically placed around her face and off of her part to create maximum reflection and also allow the base color to shine through. The finished product is a modern take on old-Hollywood glamour.”
