Is Kim Kardashian Going Back to Brunette for an Upcoming Trip to Armenia?
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Maintaining platinum blonde hair requires a lot of work. Since Kim Kardashian debuted her new look just a few weeks ago in Paris, she’s already documented multiple trips to the salon for touch-ups. But it seems that her breakup with peroxide is on the horizon. (And this isn’t in reference to the Instagram picture Kardashian’s makeup artist recently posted of what looks like the celeb wearing a long brown wig.)
When Ken Baker, chief news correspondent of E! News, asked Kardashian how long she’ll be enjoying her new look, the 34-year-old teased that change—inspired by a big trip—is imminent. “I don’t know, I kind of feel like when I go to Armenia I should have dark hair. I don’t know,” she said on the segment that aired Wednesday night. Co-host Giuliana Rancic said a source confirmed that Kardashian is heading on a trip to her ancestors’ country as soon as next month. So, if all goes according to plan, Kardashian will be back to brunette before too long. (She even took to Instagram to share that “Being blonde is a full time job!” hinting that the reversion to her natural shade is to be expected.)
While the blonde has taken up a lot of Mrs. West’s time, returning her locks to their normal state won’t be as big of a commitment. According to high fashion and celebrity hair stylist Harry Josh, bouncing back to a natural brunette color shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours. But is it painful? And is it even more damaging? “You can go back from light to dark without damaging your hair anymore than you already have. It’s not going to make your hair health worse, in fact, it might make it healthier,” Josh, who’s worked on A-list locks like the Olsen twins, Christy Turlington, and Gwyneth Paltrow, tells Yahoo Style. “The whole procedure can actually be done without using a serious chemical at all.”
Instead of using products with ammonia and peroxide—like bleaches are laden with—Josh suggests using vegetable rinses that work just as well when refilling hair strands with deeper pigments. Color-correcting shampoos could help maintain the new color, too. And while it’s reassuring to know that Kardashian won’t have to resort to a platinum buzz-cut a la Amber Rose, (the resemblance would be uncanny, though!) it takes some serious deep conditioning and TLC to nurse heavily bleached hair back to optimal health. “Coming back does have its drawbacks because the elasticity of the hair is usually gone and it doesn’t have the natural pigments that it used to as the natural strands of hair did,” Josh admits.
More interesting than Kardashian’s impulsive hair color change is the fact that the celebrity feels the need to return to her natural roots when tracing her Armenian roots. For a woman who’s been so bold and brash about her image—unafraid to flash her rear or slip a nip—it’s surprising. Why, now, does she want to fit in, when it seems like her every day in America is spent trying to stand out? Is it that she has more reverence for the provincial culture? Or is she afraid to draw even more attention than she already will? With a trip to Armenia on the docket or not, nothing lasts forever. And that applies to Kim’s platinum ‘do, too. Like she said, “It’s hard out here for a platinum pimp!” For now, let the hair chronicles continue…
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