Hayley Williams Reveals Which of Her Colourful Dye Jobs Was Her Least Favourite: ‘I Regarded Like a Corpse’ (Unique)

Paramore’s Hayley Williams is aware of firsthand that not each hair shade combo is a winner.

Early in her profession, the star had made a splash with a signature orange-red hair shade and was prepared for a change — and the place higher to do this than on a large stage?

Williams, now 34, was prepping for her band’s massive debut at Jingle Ball in New York in 2008, and he or she determined one of the best ways to show heads could be to stroll out with a brand-new, sudden hair shade.

She turned to her hairstylist and buddy Brian O’Connor — who’s now her enterprise associate in hair shade model Good Dye Younger — for a brand new ‘do.

“I got here to him, and I used to be like, ‘Brian, I would like purple hair with orange bangs,’” Williams tells PEOPLE completely at an occasion celebrating Good Dye Younger’s launch in Ulta shops. “It was proper earlier than our very first Jingle Ball, the band was simply beginning to be performed on the radio, issues are taking place.”

Williams remembers that on the time, she had grown to “resent” the viral orange “Distress Enterprise” hair shade that she’d turn into recognized for and was prepared for a change.

“I wanted to modify it up on them!” she says of wanting to offer the followers one thing new. “However the purple got here out on me so darkish, and my pores and skin could not deal with it. I regarded like a corpse that yr at Jingle Ball. We mourned that for a bit.”

Although she was burned by that have, time, experimentation and a few private development has taught her that she will nonetheless experiment and she would not need to all the time be operating away from that look that she has turn into so synonymous with.

“Simply because I am in Paramore and simply because individuals know me as one thing, does not imply I can not nonetheless change and be who I wish to be,” she says. “Blonde has really turn into a favourite. Bleach blonde! Earlier than this tour, I informed Brian I used to be prepared to do this. I used to be nonetheless OK with some orange to have some enjoyable, however I wished blonde.”

The consequence was a completely bleached look with only a trace of orange on the tricks to hearken again to the coiffure that begin all of it.