Bustle - Keke Palmer Goes Big Boss Blonde

There’s little that pleases me more aesthetically than to see a Black woman go blonde. I had a brief phase (is nearly 3 years brief?) after college, Mary J. Blige is the queen of it, and Keke Palmer recently joined the club with brows to match. If you find yourself bored during the shadow week between Christmas and the new year, itching for a change, I present to you a first-person account of how to bleach your hair the right way.

“It’s not often that I get to shoot fashion for a publication,” he says of the pictures you see here. “Really, it’s a dream.” To prepare, Shabazz immersed himself in Gordon Parks’s photographs, with their juxtapositions of delicate frocks and delirious cityscapes, while keeping in mind the darkly dreamy tableaux of Helmut Newton. But ultimately, everything reverted to his enduring vision of community. “My objective was to create an image of diversity,” he says. “To portray a sorority of women giving each other strength.”

The gift of gorgeous Black people, styled to perfection. Happy Holidays!