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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Anna Pickard

Winehouse: rocking it hard, badger style

A few weeks ago it was reported that Amy was sporting a few highlit hairs, now - stop the presses - it appears to be growing into a footwide streak of blondeness. And good for her. Experimentation is a wonderful thing (unless it's with Class A Drugs, in which case it isn't, it's bad, and wrong, and you should just say no).

Now Magazine reckon she's running the risk of looking like Cruella De Vil, but there are perhaps other, more serious, ramifications.

My main concern involves the gargantuan beehive look that continues to be rocked by the House of Wine. Combined with the black and white effect, it cannot help but summon up something of a badgers arse. Possibly with its back legs tied behind her ears. Like a bearskin hat of badger, but with the badger still in it. And possibly alive.

Also, with the stern black either side of the pale face, the colour of the bleached hair has to absolutely right. Because frankly at the moment, it's looking quite similar to her skin tone (a sort of pale off-white/yellow), and the effect could plausibly be to make her look as if she has a forehead that just keeps on going, tapering to a point at the top like a Conehead, or like one of those people that used to sell toasters in the 80s. Or perhaps like a unicorn. A unicorn with eyemake-up. Eyemake-up and a smack habit.

Another worrying possibility is that the higher the 'hive gets, and it does seem to get higher by the week, if the bleach starts to yellow, it may start to look like she's being constantly showered with a meaningful ray of light from heavens, and people may start to believe that she has a direct Message from God to convey, and that's a lot of weight on the poor girl's shoulders that she frankly doesn't need right now.

And of course there's the chance that one morning she might get and put her hair on funny - it's something that can happen - and then she's going to look like The Bride of Frankenstein (first image on page linked, said character is pictured with Pete Doherty).

Again, it is certainly a look worth working on, just suggesting some points she might want to think about. No, I'm sure there can't be anything more pressing on her mind right now.

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