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Ryan Gosling is bringing bangs back. The Barbie star ditched his platinum blonde Ken doll coif in favor of a perfectly imperfect cut with a touch of beachy blonde highlights.
Gosling headed to London for a TAG Heuer Carrera party and posed for pics to show off his new style, a much longer length than we've seen lately from the star, though not quite as long as his Notebook-era Noah look. His dark blonde hair is cut in choppy, forehead-skimming bangs to match the tousled texture of the rest of his hair, as though he just ran his hands through it to mess it up ever so perfectly.
Bangs aren't the only trend Gosling is embracing these days. He's also gotten highlights! If you look closely, you'll see the glint of teeny-tiny but impactful warm blonde highlights picking up the light and adding depth and dimension to Gosling's base color, which looks pretty close to his childhood hue. The look is giving leading man in a Y2K romantic comedy in the best way — maybe a potential clue of what's to come from the Barbie movie, where Gosling plays the lovelorn Ken? And speaking of Ken, while this recent red carpet look is a huge departure from the tan, white-blonde Ken in the Barbie trailer, it does resemble something my Ken dolls would have rocked back in the '90s.
We'll be seeing lots more of Gosling as he gears up for the Barbie press cycle. The actor tends to stick to a short, side-parted style, but if his wardrobe in the Greta Gerwig movie is any indication, his onscreen counterpart will probably change it up more frequently. After all, he's gotta match Barbie at all those parties and events!
We already know that Ken loves a self-tanner and that tanning artist Kimberley Nkosi used two Isle of Paradise tanners to get the doll's signature Malibu beach glow, but we don't know a ton about his hairstyling habits — yet. If Gosling shows up on the red carpet with a full-on Ken tan and a mini plastic Barbie brush in hand, we certainly won't be surprised.
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