The Best Celebrity Hair Transformations We've Seen During Quarantine

If you've been thinking of changing up your hair during quarantine, you are not alone. A lot of people have had the urge to do something drastic to their locks during the pandemic. Vox noted that people doing "something kind of wild to their hair in isolation" has even become a social media trend.

Hair transformations during quarantine aren't just about the Instagram likes though. Mental health counselor Dr. Danielle Forshee told Elite Daily that changing up your hairstyle "during a transition period" is symbolic of "a new start," and quarantine has certainly marked a new way of life for people all over the world. It's no wonder that so many people are choosing to make radical changes to their hair, from neon dye jobs to major haircuts, in many cases carrying out the makeovers themselves.

Even many celebrities have jumped on the quarantine hair bandwagon with surprising results. Here are some of the best celebrity hair transformations we've seen during quarantine.

While many celebs are undergoing hair transformations during quarantine just because they can, actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler decided to chop off her long locks for an important cause. She debuted a stunning new bob on Instagram in May 2020, revealing that she cut off her hair on her birthday not just to mark the event but to also benefit those in need. Sigler donated her hair to the BeYOUtiful foundation which, according to its Instagram bio, is a "community created for women of all ages defying the odds against cancer." The organization's hair donation guidelines promise to use donations for "those in need." Sigler had been growing her hair out for two years, saying that the hair she cut off represented two years worth of "physical, emotional, and spiritual growth."

While giving yourself a haircut in quarantine could be considered risky business, Sigler took precautions to make sure that her new hair \style came out looking chic and professional. Professional stylist Riawna Capri aided Sigler in chopping off her locks, presumably virtually.

Miley Cyrus has never been afraid to experiment with her look, and she had fun changing it up in quarantine. A few months before the lockdown, Cyrus chopped her hair into what her stylist Sally Hershberger called a "modern mullet." Hershberger told E! News that the style, which Cyrus adopted in November 2019, "was just the right vibe," but apparently Cyrus didn't feel that her mullet was the right vibe for quarantine. In May 2020, Cyrus decided to go even shorter, transforming her hair into a pixie cut with the help of her mom, Trish, who wielded the scissors, and Hershberger, who helped out via FaceTime. The recorded call can be viewed at Vogue, but Hershberger also uploaded a cute pic of the Hannah Montana star's new 'do on Instagram. "I trained Trish well!" she wrote in the caption.

Cyrus may not have cut her own hair in quarantine, but she did transform her boyfriend's look. Cody Simpson posted a video on Instagram of Cyrus skillfully giving him a buzzcut in April.

Beauty guru Bretman Rock knows how to craft a perfect look, and he decided to play with his style even more during quarantine. While he started off quarantine with his natural black hair, Rock began playing with different colors as the lockdown progressed. He went gray in March 2020, captioning an Instagram photo of his hair with "Ms.Corona made me do it."

Just a week later, Rock's hair was a neon yellow green, but that didn't last for very long. At the beginning of April, Rock posted an Instagram video of himself with pink hair. A couple weeks later, Rock turned his hair a bright blue, debuting the look on social media while wearing matching blue sweatpants.

Rock revealed that the transformations were carried out with the assistance of his boyfriend, whose identity has been kept a secret. As the couple explained in a YouTube video, Rock's boyfriend prefers to keep his life private. At the beginning of May 2020, Rock posted a photo of the pair with his boyfriend's face obscured, only showing off his matching blue hair. "Oh y'all thought I was dying my hair a different color every week by myself?" he wrote in the caption. "No b****."

A celeb hair transformation doesn't have to be permanent for it to be stunning. Keke Palmer has played around with all sorts of different looks during quarantine, and they've all looked amazing. The celeb posted pictures of herself on Instagram with several different hair colors including green, bright pink, platinum blonde and pink, dark with purple highlights, and a rich chestnut. Palmer probably has a wide assortment of wigs on hand to pull off so many looks in such a short span of time. We're used to seeing the actress and singer with dark hair, so it's fun to see her shake things up.

Playing around with her hair is also one way that Palmer is able to keep herself busy during quarantine. As she told Billboard, she's just not used to being at home so much. "Quarantine is so weird," she said. 

What's better than dying your hair a fun new color during quarantine? Dying your hair several fun new colors during quarantine! Hayley Kiyoko was sporting blonde locks at the beginning of quarantine, although her dark roots were starting to come in. "Silver lining is that my roots are really accentuating my eyebrows," she wrote on Instagram.

It looks like Kiyoko got tired of the heavy roots look, because she decided to reach for the hair dye(s), but not to cover up her roots. Instead, she decided to go for a more colorful look, streaking her entire head with purple, green, and pink colors. "Created my own rainbow," she wrote in the caption of an Instagram photo of her new look in April 2020. It looks like Kiyoko opted for a temporary dye, though, because a few weeks later her hair had mostly gone back to blonde, although some beautiful streaks of purple remained in her formerly rainbow-colored hair.

Dua Lipa's quarantine hair transformation is absolutely to die for — or should we say to dye for? The singer posted a photo of her hair in May 2020, showing dark locks with streaks of pink. Lipa captioned the Instagram post with a series of strawberry emojis.

Lipa found many ways to stay busy during quarantine aside from playing with her hair color. While many singers, including Lady Gaga and HAIM, decided to postpone album releases during the pandemic, Lipa made the decision to release her album Future Nostalgia during quarantine. She explained to NPR that she struggled with the decision to release it and considered postponing the release date. Ultimately though, she decided that not releasing the album would be "a disservice" to her many fans. 

"I just want people to be able to take a moment away from what's going on outside and I hope it gives them some happiness and some moments of fun," she said.

Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be iconic, no matter what color her hair is or what celeb hair transformation she goes through. The actress traded in her usual blonde locks for pretty pink strands at the end of April 2020, and we've got to say she slayed it. It looks like Gellar opted for a temporary dye for what she called her "quarancolor." She uploaded a video of her new hair on Instagram, writing, "#roseallday (or until it fades out)." A couple weeks later, it looked like most of the color had, indeed, faded out of her hair, but who knows? Maybe she has some dye left and will decide to go pink again soon.

Then again, Gellar may just choose to stay blonde. She does, after all, seem to have an affinity for the tried and true as evidenced by the fact that she still has a dress she wore on Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer decades ago, as noted by Us Weekly. Gellar posted a picture of herself wearing the dress on Instagram during quarantine, adding the hashtag "#safeathome."