As often as Pamela Anderson is pictured in the public mind’s eye with the wispy bangs she wore during her Baywatch era, the actor and author has left her forehead free of strand obstructions for the vast majority of her more-than-three-decade career. Sure, she’s had curtain and side-swept fringe more than a few times, but a more blunt, across-the-brow bang has been extremely rare if not entirely absent. But perhaps, in clairvoyant celebration of her first Golden Globe nomination, Anderson debuted bangs that truly change her entire look.
Anderson’s makeup-free era has been a hot topic for over a year, giving us a fresh-faced facade that stands in stark contrast to the major glam she’s been serving since the ‘90s. And though she’s still bombshell-blonde, she has also kept her hair quite simple to go with her low-key look. The SAG-AFTRA screening of The Last Showgirl on December 8 marks the first time she’s very noticeably changed her hair during this eyeliner-less chapter, and the first time in a very long time that we can’t see most of her forehead.
Mere hours before receiving the news that she’s been nominated for best female actor in a motion picture, Anderson posed in a brown Bottega Veneta dress with cape-like details at West Hollywood’s Pacific Design Center. But as much as her outfit made a statement, we think her new bangs make an even bigger one. Her glossy, blonde, straight hair draped over her shoulders, its layers flipping inward, topped off with the perfect piece-y fringe that sings the siren song of “Yes, You, Too, Should Get Bangs.”
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