Hayden Panettiere.Photo:Hayden Panettiere/Instagram

Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Panettiere/Instagram

Hayden Panettiereis revealing what inspired her to go pink.

“I’ve had pink hair before, and I loved it! I’ve been begging my team to let me dye it for a while now, and given what I had on my slate with work and photo shoots, I wasn’t able to,” she told the magazine.

“Then the strike hit, so I thought… why not!?” she continued. “I’m not filming anything right now, and it’s an opportunity to do what I want with it and be creative differently.”

Hayden Panettiere adds a touch of green to her hair.Hayden Panettiere/instagram

Hayden Panettiere Debuts New Pink and Green Hair: ‘Watermelon Vibes’ https://www.instagram.com/p/CxWjf60PSNH/

Hayden Panettiere/instagram

“Pink hair don’t care!” she captioned the post, adding the hashtags#photoshoot#pinkhair#glamteam.

However, Panettiere has stuck with the pink since then. She even gave it some extra punch with the addition ofa touch of greenat the roots. “Love my new watermelon 🍉 vibes up top!" she joked onInstagramin September as she shared two photos of her updated look.

She gave another nod to the watermelon inspiration in afollow-up postwhich featured a photo of her with a box of South Patch Kids Watermelon candies. “Yum 🍉,” she wrote.

TheNashvillestar told IRK that she has “always loved color” when it comes to her overall style.

“Especially bright colors, so that hasn’t changed,” she told the outlet, also explaining that when she became an adult, she began to experiment and explore her identity through fashion.

“I began to be encouraged to embrace who I am and the type of image I want to project,” she said. “In doing that, I’ve grown to love fashion so much more because it’s become a creative and freeing form of expression — not something that confines me.”

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Her love of color and self-expression has her toying with the idea of creating a makeup line. “I love color art, so any opportunity to be creative in that way is always fun. My makeup artist [Janice Daoud] and I have been brainstorming a few ideas,” she told IRK.

While she didn’t offer any details, she did tease that her collection would be “be different and unlike anything else.”

source: people.com