By james art While celebrities like Priyanka Chopra and Elle Fanning have embraced shorter bobs in recent months, Jennifer Lopez has been leaning into her longer tresses with hair extensions.
Lopez has long been an inspiration for sleek, polished brunette locks, a look that’s no doubt achieved with some cleverly hidden extensions. But after a brief stint with chest-length hair, it’s clear the singer-actress is returning to her longer, Rapunzel-esque tresses — this time with a modern twist.
Lopez appeared at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, where she gave a speech in support of presidential candidate Kamala Harris, saying: “I am a mother. I am a sister. I’m an actress and I like the Hollywood edge and I like it when the good guy, or in this case the good girl, wins.”
For the event, Unstoppable the star wore a fitted caramel dress with matching sandals. Her waist-length highlighted hair was styled in soft waves and lots of volume.
A week earlier, she attended the American Film Institute Festival, and hairstylist Chris Appleton gave her a slightly sleeker finish that looked decidedly grown-up and polished.
“Never underestimate the power of a bang,” he wrote on Instagram. “We wanted the focus of the hair to be the length and the color.”
According to Appleton, his goal was “to make it as shiny as possible and as lightly textured as possible, giving it a light feel,” and he achieved this by creating a ’90s-style hair dryer with a soft motion and ends that curved inward for that clean, classic vibe.
The soft waves perfectly show off Lopez’s copper-colored tresses and brighter, face-framing lengths.
According to Hadley Yates, whose eponymous Covent Garden salon focuses on providing lifted hair extensions, keratin bond extensions are the best for creating that subtle effect in the long run.
“These extensions can be completely customized and made super small and seamless,” he explains. “Over the past few years I have developed a hair ‘fill in’ service which is now a signature offering at Hadley Yates and is great for anyone looking for subtle or ‘believable’ extensions.
“Using this filling technique means I can use minimal hair with maximum results and can achieve polished styles that don’t look like your traditional extensions.”
Depending on your style, it can last up to six months—a worthy investment, especially if you’ve always dreamed of Lopez-style lengths.