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How does someone’s beauty thing become their beauty thing?
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Thats the question were posing to celebrities and their beauty pros in our new series,Just One Thing.
Ive always had a signature hairstyle, even when I was in elementary school.
Back then, it was a ponytail with some very highbangs.
Bilson during season one ofThe O.C.
It was a half-up situation, and I was like, I don’t do that.
And she said, No, youhaveto do that.
But my hair has always been undone.
I dont like put-together hair.
For me, its always been the messier, the better.
I guess you could call that a natural look, but my natural hair definitely needs some tweaking.
My routine is really badI don’t do anything to my hair unless I absolutely have to.
It brushes out, and its a miracle.
I want to do something crazy with my hair, like, weekly.
My hair changed completely when I became a mom [to daughter Briar Rose, 9].
It is so thin now; my ponytail is like the size of a penny.
Im already so low-maintenance with my hair, but I am definitely still in my mom-bun era.
But Ihavelearned how to curl my hair without it looking like a bouncy, put-together curl.
I can make it morebeachy, but I’m still not great at it.
[The look thats become my signature] really started onHart of Dixie.
I remember wearing some big Southern belle costume with crazy hair; I think there were twigs in it.
[My character] Zoe had the most fun hairstyles.
Zoes hairstyle with the twig dos and whatnot?
That was more me.
Bilson during season one ofThe O.C.
[In later seasons], they calmed Summer down a bit.
She wasnt asbronde, her hair wasnt as high.
She had such an arc, and she ended up more evolved.
I just feel like that tracks.
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