Dua Lipa Is Unrecognizable With Bleached Eyebrows

Are you completely certain that is Dua Lipa? The musician appears to be like almost unrecognizable on the duvet of Vogue France sans her signature full, darkish eyebrows. I completely did a double-take, and I wager you probably did too!

Lipa snagged the coveted September cover of the magazine this yr. She’s pictured posing for the lead shot along with her brows utterly bleached, a brand new search for the multi-hyphenated pop star. The musician wears a leather-based jacket with an outsized suede collar pulled up round her neck and on both aspect of her face. Her lengthy black hair is gelled down and slicked again from her face and her make-up is minimal to place much more emphasis on the bleached-out brows. Her pure darkish brows have been lightened till they’re virtually invisible, and her lashes, too, are tremendous pale. “Dua Lipa, as you’ve got by no means seen her earlier than,” the journal wrote on Instagram, and yep, they nailed it.

In additional pictures from her September shoot, Lipa retains the bleached brows and wears them with a extreme, slicked-back updo and a pointy contour, the perfect distinction to the outsized fits and jackets by designers like Courrège and Givenchy in her unfold. In one other shot, she dons a black bob wig with child bangs, however retains the bleached brows. The pictures have been taken by iconic photographer Mert Alas and are a giant departure from Lipa’s normal sparkly, glam aesthetic.

The pictures and accompanying article are all about duality and exhibiting each side of the singer’s persona — the public-facing pop star and the actual Lipa — and the bleached brows and glossy hair are actually transformative. “There’s a variety of duality in me… Nevertheless it’s inside this duality that I discover peace,” Lipa defined, “And the place I enable myself to show down my confidence after I’m at house. It’s refreshing.”