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JoJo Siwa’s days of sky-high ponytails are over. The singer, kids’s performer and LGBTQ advocate has chopped her signature locks.
Siwa shared her new quick ‘do on TikTok and Instagram this week – it’s nonetheless blonde however with carefully cropped sides and a curly pompadour in entrance. Beaming over her contemporary look, she captioned a picture and video of her haircut with “HAPPPPPPY.”
“It’s manner totally different than lengthy hair; it’s loopy,” she stated in an Instagram story, earlier than breaking into an excited smile. “However I’m obsessed!”
The quick hair is a departure for Siwa, who for years rocked a excessive ponytail and large, bedazzled bows that turned so synonymous along with her that she bought themed hair bows for youngsters. (Although, in an Instagram story shared Thursday, she revealed she will be able to pull a tiny lock of hair into a really small ponytail.)
Her haircut is the newest in Siwa’s evolution from “Dance Mothers” common to worldwide celebrity.
Siwa got here out as queer in early 2021, an unprecedented transfer from a kids’s entertainer that was largely celebrated. In January, one yr after popping out, she stated that though she confronted backlash for popping out to her fanbase – which, on the time, was largely composed of elementary school-aged kids – she felt like she “was placed on this earth to be a task mannequin for teenagers” and desires her younger followers to like “everybody for who they’re it doesn’t matter what.”
She additionally appeared on “Dancing with the Stars” final yr, inserting second and making historical past as half of the primary two-women workforce to compete on the truth collection.
Siwa additionally just lately accomplished her first nationwide tour (with earlier worldwide dates earlier than the pandemic), throughout which she, naturally, wore a excessive ponytail and rainbow sequined bow.