Ellie Goulding Debuts Dramatic New Hair Transformation in Cutout Dress

Ellie Goulding left everyone “Starry Eyed” with her new hair colour at the 2022 Royal Variety Performance on 1 Dec. Since bursting onto the music scene in 2010, the singer has kept her hair on the lighter side of the colour spectrum. She’s tried out “cashmere blonde“, white ash blonde, “butterscotch blonde“, blonde with a pink tint, and even blonde with purple, but she has now officially gone to the dark side and debuted a brunette look for Christmas.

Goulding attended the event at the Royal Albert Hall with her new brunette hair kept sleek and shiny. Anastasia Stylianou posted a photos of the singer on Instagram with the caption, “The brunette you never knew you needed 🤎 …”. She used Redken products to dye her hair, and styled it into a middle parting used Kerarastase and kept poker straight using Dyson hair tools.

To debut her new hair, the mum-of-one wore a chic black cutout Michael Kors dress. Styled by Nathan Klein, the asymmetric gown came complete with a thigh-high slit and cutout section at the torso. Teamed with platform ankle-strap heels, she was the height of sophistication. Makeup artist Francesca Angelina Brazzo added black eyeliner and a sweep or orange-hued YSL Rouge Pur Couture The Bold Lipstick to complete the look.

Goulding later slipped into a gold dress to meet Sophie, Countess of Wessex. Scroll ahead to see all angles of Goulding’s new dark look.