The Changing Looks Of Gwen Stefani

Sometimes big life changes mean you need to change your hair. That's exactly what inspired Gwen Stefani's 1999 VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards red carpet look! The bright pink hair and metal braces definitely had viewers turning their heads, as even the interviewers couldn't help but ask for her inspiration behind the look, though Stefani didn't delve too much into why she decided to completely change her appearance that year. However, in 2019, Stefani did tell Vogue that a rough period in her life inspired the change. "Sometimes you go ahead and change your hair to try to, like, wash whatever those feelings are out of your hair," she said. 

At the time, Stefani noted, there weren't a ton of different product options you could use to dye your hair bright colors, except for Manic Panic. "I wanted my hair like cotton candy light pink, and I had this vision of what I wanted," she told Vogue. "And I ended up with fuschia for, like, a year."