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While the world gasps at another boyfriend on Taylor Swift’s list, her beauty look has taken an even more unexpected turn. In fact, upon closer inspection it appears that Swift subtly shifts her hair at the same rate as her relationships. Might the musician be auditioning boyfriends in her quest to find the perfect haircut? Let’s dig a little deeper, shall we?
2008 – Joe Jonas
Off the back of her second studio album Fearless, Swift was very much sticking by the unofficial country-star beauty combo – blonde curls and shimmery make-up, while dating Joe Jonas. However as her first high profile romance proved, those who swooping side-fringe together sadly do not stay together. Next!
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2009 – Taylor Lautner
The fling was innocent and forgetful, just like her embellished side-bun phase.
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2010 – John Mayer
Despite her curls becoming more defined, her relationship status with John Mayer was not. Their courtship went under the radar until Swift penned the song, Dear John after their break-up. On stage with her beau though, Swift was the ultimate American angel to Mayer’s leather-clad bad boy.
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2010 – Jake Gyllenhall
In a bid to blend into Gyllenhall’s famously low-profile life in Brooklyn, Swift embraced her roots. Hair roots that is. Moving away from the bright blonde and towards a more natural hue, Swift ditched the girly hair accessories for hipster beanies and laid-back braids that were too cool to care.
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2012 – Conor Kennedy
While dating the school boy descendant of the famous Kennedy family, Swift swiftly ditched her entry-level Williamsburg look for some serious Jackie-O-in-training attire. Headbands and high ponytails were on high rotation that summer and while she didn’t keep Conor for long, her relationship with bright red lipstick was forever.
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2012-2013 – Harry Styles
Straight! Bangs! In peak-red era, the world watched Swift flirt with cute One Direction member Harry Styles. Beauty junkies however? They were too busy focusing on her fresh romance with keratin smoothing treatments. And with that now-statement fringe came a crisp make-up look to match, with Swift scarcely seen without her signature cat’s eye ever since.
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2015–2016 – Calvin Harris
Swift had a new sound, a new album, a new grown-up boyfriend and a new grown-up haircut. Making the hair shift from long to short for her first fully pop album 1989, Swift also had the cool-guy Calvin Harris on her arm. As their relationship lived out on Instagram, Swift stayed committed to her new bronde bob throughout. The second phase of her hair transition came via an even shorter bob at this year’s Grammy’s. A sign of haircuts to come, perhaps?
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2016 – Tom Hiddleston
Debuting a shorter, blonder, shaggier bob on the cover of American Vogue, this Anna Wintour-approved transformation showed a sign of her style maturation with her taste in men maturating for the ride. Following a Met Gala dance, Swift is now apparently dating Tom Hiddleston, who is nine years her senior.
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