Mischa Barton’s New Hair – Makeover or Makeunder?
February 17, 2010 in Makeover or Makeunder?, Mischa Barton by Versus
Mischa Barton stepped inside a hair salon as a brown haired girl and stepped out a few hours later as a pretty blonde.
How do you guys like the change?
Mischa Barton’s New Hair – Makeover or Makeunder?
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the new hair looks good on her…. her upper body looks quite slim but her feet are really big! :S
Makeover I like the hair but now that she’s curvier she needs to learn how to dress for her body also she needs to ditch the interview with a vampire makeup for once and all!!!!!
I love it! she looks cute and healthy:)
she look great as a blond and this hairdo suits her
Blond suits her so wel, and I love the dress!
looks good
she always looked best blonde!
but is it shorter? or ist it just an up-do?
and the dress isn’t perfect length for her legs
love her hair but i think she really should take up some kind of cardio so her body is more proportioned. like walking, biking etc..
She has a pear-shaped body; unless she goes back to being skeletal (which I hope she doesn’t!), she will always appear “disproportionate”. Girlfriend just needs to dress for her natural body shape, not the shape she still thinks/wishes she had.
I agree. She is beautiful. She would look even better if she dressed for her body. Maybe jeans or a longer skirt would look better.
i disagree about the dress. I mean i really don’t like it. nevr really liked her style, but it is very flattering on her top half, which is her best asset, and although it does show her legs, i don’t think just because you have less than perfect pins you should hide them away. I’m guessing by the dress that its pretty hot where she is and the last thing i would want to do is wear jeans or anything like that.
love her
she needs to lose abput 15 pounds and finde a job
and tada she will be so much better
agreed- she was SO beautiful back in the OC days. she still could be thinner…
looks good!
and I totaly agree with you, she needs to lose some weight.
how it`s possible that one who`s spent so many years in front of cameras still don t know how to dress to look her best. maybe I`m mean but I just don`t get it.
Her hair looks really nice, it gives her a fresh look I’ve been missing for a while! I also like her make up. The dress though.. Ouch.. Not a good choice. I don’t understand why she doesn’t see that? Please cover up you upper legs a little my dear, I you’ll look great
I agree! Hair and makeup- fabulous! The length of the dress needs to be longer…it’s just NOT flattering.
i think her hair looks great, def a make over. but its true, unfortunately this style of dress doesn’t suit her anymore.. although it is a VERY cute dress! anyone know where it’s from??? she does look much healthier too
cool har, bad outfit choice and covering a bit more her legs would help..I do not understand why she dress like that.
Lovely!
Aw, she looks so adorable!
part of me says she shouldn’t have worn that dress, and the other part of me says good for her for wearing something that others may think is not very flattering. Maybe she just thought the dress was cute and decided she didn’t care what other people say – I wish I had the guts to do that every once in a while. You know when you see a really cute piece of clothing but you don’t buy it because you know its not the most flattering on your figure…
As for the hair, it’s a definite upgrade! Her face looks really pretty now.
good comment bout the clothes.
I didnt like the hair as much as the dark! i think i just have bad taste =oD
right now, she is so real
Please do explain?
maybe doris means she isn’t doing unhealthy things (severe dieting, drugs) to stay thin.
idk, just a guess
makeover. she’s adorable.
I don’t think she has such big legs, she just wears clothes that don’t fit her bodytype!
I absolutely don’t like her new hairstyle, longer hair suits her better!
I agree; her clothing choices make her legs look bigger than they probably are. I have a similar body type and although I am probably 10-15 lbs lighter than her, I still wouldn’t go near half of the clothes that she currently wears.
definitely makeover. she would look great in any kind of hair style.
It is not a makeover, yet it is not a makeunder. It is just a nice change. All hair colors suit her so well, so she can change her hair whenever she gets bored to it! Her makeup is really great and she looks lovely. I like her dress also.
She’s one of the few celebrities where I can say she would look better if she lost 15 pounds. She looks more proprtioned with a little less weight, and her face looks better.
i like mischa very much and her hair and lips really makes her look radiant and natural beauty like a princess
I don’t understand when people see a non-skinny person and berate her for not “dressing for her type”
Yeah, like there’s a special kind of clothing that can simulate skinniness. NOT!
I don’t see anything that could look better then her. Those are her legs, what should she do, hide in a bag? Do non skinny people have the right to wear stuff above knee?
Haha, I like this. I’ve never understood the “dress for your body type also.” I understand it if they mean dress your best, but I hate it when fashion critics or whoever say “wear this it slims your legs, or makes you tummy appear smaller.” It’s all about camouflaging your flaws, but they’re still there in the end.
I think “dress for your body type” refers more to “dress your best” than to “dress to look skinny”. It applies to all people, not just to bigger people. It’s more about being proportional and about showing your best attributes instead of your worst ones
And exactly what horrible thing is she doing by dressing with that dress?
I just don’t see it. Wearing a longer dress – isn’t going to make her legs appear less proportional, or less big. Wearing pants will actually make her legs look bigger.
Everyone always suggests – oh she should wear “x general garment”. But even wearing anything she will still look 100% herself.
I’m a pretty unproportional person – skinny, but with a big ass. No matter HOW I dress it’s quite obvious I am indeed skinny, and I do have quite a back.
P.S. I’d like to add that I think she looks lovely in this dress. I’ve seen her in much more unflattering outfits. But this ISN’T one of them . A commenter down below said dressing for your type means not letting your big bigs hang out…I AGREE
But look at her, she’s COMPACT and TIGHT. I see no rolls, bulges, in fact her legs, while not picks, are shaped MUCH better then a lot of thin stars – bigger thigh, then thinner feminine calves and ankles.
I completely agree with you. And Sharen I understand what you mean about “dressing your best”, and also not letting your rolls hang out (I’m guilty of doing this, lol). But it does seem that sometimes when I’m reading magazines and what not they’re talking about how to minimize or maximize some body part. Like suzushii I have a bigger bum also that cannot be hidden I can sometimes downplay it, but you can still tell it’s big.
I just believe in wearing whatever you want as long as it’s appropriate and fits well.
LOLOL for cereal.
The “dress for your body type” mantra, for me, simply means to dress in ways in which your sh*t isnt hanging out all over the place. If you have little more to love in your belly/legs/corneas, dress in ways that you are not spilling out or emphasizing your problem areas. It doesnt necessarily have to mean dress to look thinner.
corneas? as in.. your eyes? oh so THAT’s why celebs are always wearing huge sunglasses.
this is kind of off topic but have you noticed in magazines how they might have a ‘dress for your shape’ section. And the whole thing pretty much goes like this…
if you have big tits- here’s how to MINIMISE THEM
if you are curvy all over- HERE’S HOW TO HIDE THEM
if you are skinny all over- HERE’S HOW TO MAKE CURVES.
if you have a big butt- HERE’S HOW TO HIDE IT
it’s like, no matter what shape/size you are you CANNOT win and obviously you need to hide those areas to make you fit another shape! Why not, if you’re skinny make the most of wearing ‘these’ clothes because you could get away with still looking skinny in them without lookinh bulky/ skanky.
if you are curvy- here’s how to emphasise that.
if you have big tits- heres how to show em off tastefully and how not to make you look like a balloon all over by hiding them etc etc
i always thought that she looked best blonde! the brown hair completely washed her out. she looks amazing
omg!!!! since when did she gain soooo much weightt????? does anyone remember when she used to look like this???: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/stylewatch/gallery/sharealike/mischa_barton.jpg
wow she’s beautiful, but she’s changed soooo much!
I don’t think she needs to lose weight she just needs to tone up. My legs used to look like that, but I lunged and squated until they became more lean and muscular. Unfortunately, females like us start out with NO knee definition which will make our stems look a little chubby. I mean, if she lost weight, she’d have no breasts and her arms would be stick-like. That’s just my opinion, but I guess I want to side with her a little, since I sometimes feel like my lower body is huge compared to my upper body. It’s not. It’s just similar to Mischa, my upper body’s just small…:-)
I like her new hair color, by the way, it suits her.
unless she loses weight, which she so doesn’t need to do, all she will do with lunges etc is add bulk.
so her legs aren’t perfect so what. i am envious of pear shapes. i know when you listen to stuff on this page it makes you paranoid, but honestly my pear shaped friends are always taken for being slimmer than they are because in person people don’t look at your knees much!
you’re lucky!
Yeah, I really like my body, so it doesn’t get to me much. I guess I used to pick apart my lower half, which caused me to exercise and bulk up, like you said, but I did the pilates thing, also, to elongate my limbs. That’s all I meant by the exercise part, because she has loooonnnng legs compared to me (I’m a shorty lol). Thanks, for calling pears lucky, that made my day!!!
Oh, I think that’s cute! It really suits her, especially with that red lipstick. I disagree with the people saying she needs to lose weight, as angelwing_0468 said, some people are just built with legs like that. Mine are similar, but with a bit more knee definition. If you’re one of those unlucky girls, like Mischa, angelwing and myself, you cannot get skinny legs unless you actually starve yourself, and Mischa is already very slim on top, if she lost any more weight she would start to look scary skinny again. She could maybe tone the legs a little bit, but they will always be ‘chunky’. Mine are always going to be ‘chunky’ because that’s the way I’m built, believe me, I’ve tried everything to get ‘skinny’ legs, and I’m sure Mischa has too. Some people just have the unfortunate curse of pear-shaped/hourglass figures. She looks great, much healthier and happier than she has in a while, I think that’s the most important
I don’t think that being a pear-shape or hourglass is a curse…
yeah…and what does pear shape have to do with hourglass anyway?
An hourglass figure is essentially a pear with big boobs, so we get the thighs as well.
An hourglass figure is not like a pear with big boobs. Hourglass figures have bone structure with wide shoulders, and store muscle and fat all over their top body not just their breasts. Pears’ shoulders are typically smaller than their hips, and they tend to have skinny arms/chest and small breasts, although occasionally you will see a big breasted pears especially at higher weights. However, a big breasted pear is still not an hourglass.
Gotta agree with Casey on this. Pears and hourglass shapes are completely different with the exception of the WHR.
Well the difference between Mischa and other pears like you and angelwing is that at a lower weight, she does actually begin to look proportioned and her top doesn’t become skeletal and breastless (except for at the lowest weight she has ever been at). I think the reason why people are saying she would look better if she dropped a few pounds is because she used to look like that, and in their and my opinion, she looked better. Nobody is saying she looks best scary skinny, just at a slightly lower weight. 10-15 pounds is not a drastic difference, and could probably be achieved through regular excercize and healthy eating, which is good for you anyway.
Yeah, I looked at older pics and I remember that she was evened out. My point was, for some reason, she’s been carrying more weight on bottom, which doesn’t always mean that she needs to lose weight. I tried one way and it works, some people go another way… For example when I lose weight, my hip bones and every bone on up protrude and my boobs disappear, so I build muscle instead. I pretty much compared my body and my methods to hers, but I just forgot about the OC days where she looked proportionate. So, for that, I eat my words, because I had a blonde moment, ha ha!
By the way, I don’t think it’s a curse to be a pear, either. I mean yeah, every body type has a disadvantage or two, but I’m cool with mine. I’m just inherited my latina roots on bottom, and it’s a blessing, lol.
SHE LOOKS LIKE HEALTHY WOMAN, YES SHE IS A WOMAN, not a boy.
she never looked like a boy.
Plus I never saw what was wrong with women who happened to have boyish figures.
she looks all cutie
She just needs to tone up that’s all. And I don’t think it’s fair that ladies with bigger thighs shouldn’t show their upper thighs. It’s not that serious. I think she’s really pretty here which is a big compliment coming from me cause I never thought she was pretty.
i think she would look better if she lost around 10 pounds. Why is it that if your skinny you generally tend to look fitter or more toned than if you are bigger or overweight?
I think that being toned refers to having low body fat so the muscle shows through, so skinny = low body fat = toned.
Awww I love Mischa’s hair this color! It reminds me of Marisa Cooper
And about her outfit/body… I don’t really find this dress particularly flattering, but like what suzushii said, clearly there is no way she can hide/camouflage her lower body, it’s there and it’s not going anywhere. I also agree with Casey, if she dropped 15 pounds she would look MUCH more proportioned, she is one of those women where extra weight on her body do not carry well at all. Plus I think her quirky outfits would be more flattering if she was a tad slimmer.
she looks very pretty
I don’t think she needs to loose 15 or 20… maybe 10 pounds? I would think that she would be a little too skinny on top if she lost so much.
I think she looks good now too but yes she is a definite pear and weighing a bit more makes it super obvious. She just needs to tone up and loose a few.
She has a gorgeous face.
That’s what I thought…I mean, where would her boobs go if she lost that much?
I’m sick of hearing people saying she should cover her legs. Why? Do they offend you? Let her be, yes she is a pear shape and so her legs will always appear large in comparison to her upper half, that is not something she can change unless she goes to thin again and that’s no good for her. Instead she is embracing her body and wearing what ever she wants, and she looks good. She can’t be expected to wear trousers and leggings forever just to please everyone else.
you’re so right! besides, mischa is a beautiful woman. even if she would have +10 pounds (which she hasn’t) she would look fabulous!
ya i dont love her legs, but i agree with your comment!
Makeover! She looks super cute and I love her outfit.
I worry for some of you girls. She is healthy looking. She used to look like she had anorexia. Maybe you like that look.
I agree. Mischa is clearly at a healthy BMI, but we are so distorted by having so many underweight celebrities. It really saddens me to think of the young girls that think a size 0 is normal. Hopefully they will learn there is more to life than being stick thin.
some girls happen to be size 0s and healthy. i don’t think mischa needs to lose 15 but she did look good in her OC days, which i loved that show while it was on air. and how do you know she could be healthy? you can’t declare someone is healthy just by looking at them. any size to me is normal, as long you eat right and exercise.
I never said she was healthy, I just said she is at a (medically) healthy weight. I do not know her eating habits and exercise schedule, so of course I cannot assume she is perfectly healthy.
And yes, a very few amount of girls do happen to be natural size 0s, but there is no possible way that all these size 0s can act/sing/model and find themselves in Hollywood. Many celebrities aren’t meant to be a size zero, but the public’s distorted image of beauty demands they be that way.
i agree, tho i think size 0 isnt normal and healthy for a large percentage of people. Mischa was a teen in OC, i know my bod changed when i got into my 20′s! Even friends have said int their 30′s they changed!- some got bigger boobs and smaller waists! lol. Anyway, i agree its hard to say who is healthy and who is not but ithink the above poster is trying to say there is a misconception out there that size 0 is the ‘most attractive’ size and that everyone/ most people can and should naturally be a size 0, its just that so many of us stuff our faces too much and therefore are bigger. when thats simply not true. sure there are healthy normal size 0′s but not all or even most of us are supposed to be that.
she is a mess. a hot mess
she has definately gained and thats probably cause she went off the drugs and pills so props to her, choosing health over vanity. She has had enough grief in and out of rehab, and with her tv show telling her to lose weight, but even though her body has gotten much larger her face remains beautiful and very unaffected!
wow
she gained a lot of weight again.. cannot be healthy, but he looks gooooooood her hair her face looks cute! hope she keeps this cute style
Mischa is a beautifiul young lady. I love her hair this color it really makes her complexion really glow. Now I do not like to say anything about anyones weight especially when it is obvious she has had some eating disorder issues. I really think she is dressing her body the same as when she was very very thin and so many people do this. The reason I brought this up is, I am 5’5 and 115 and I used to be 110 ( a small frame too). After gaining around five pounds I had to dress my body a little different to look my best and it has taken awhile for me to adjust to doing this. What does everyone else think about this ??
She looks good!
People make fun of her weight but in actual fact, she’s just not fat. You can be self-righteous and say that she’s unhealthy but she clearly doesn’t hold weight in her abdomen; if she did, that would be bad for her organs and therefore unhealthy. I’m willing to bet that her BMI is perfectly normal.
She should gain a few pounds in that ass and walk around with a pair of thunder thighs and become a right fat bitch
I think she doesnt give a F about her weight or how to dress her body.Probably next month she will get skinny again and people will say that she is using drugs
I’m not sure if she needs to lose a little weight or just tone up. I think a combination of the two would be best but honestly, she does not look as if she is not at a healthy weight. If she lost a few pounds, it would probably be purely for aesthetic reasons.
As for dressing for your body type, I definitely agree with emphasizing your positive points instead of accentuating your negatives. Do I think she accentuates her negatives? I sure do. She is a very attractive girl but she gains weight in her lower body and her legs don’t have much shape. Toning up would do wonders for her.
And just to add, I’m not taking trash about pear shapes at all. I find many women with pear shapes to be quite attractive, ESPECIALLY when they dress for their body type.
She is really pretty, she seems to have thicker thighs but who cares.
Dear Mischa,
Please stop torturing your hair and just lose the weight. Bleach does not fully distract us from your thighs. You cannot be healthy with all that yo-yoing.
Oh, and you look ridiculous. You’re welcome.
Love,
Concerned Former Fan
Yes, she’s definitely bigger than she was a few years ago. I really don’t know if this is a result of rehab, eating more/working out less, or just growing into her adult body….or some combination.
I think one of the reasons people comment a lot about her is because she has a style that is in some ways less conventional than other Hollywood girls. And like others said, unlike other girls her shape, she’ll go outside rocking a crazy short skirt.
For me, she’s a hit or miss. I often view her as sloppy, tired, and trying too many hipster trends all at once. In pictures like these, however, I think she looks AMAZING! I happen to love this kind of dress on a pear-shape like hers….it accentuates her petite upper half and makes her big ole thighs look alluring!
I have a body that is similar to Mischa’s…I am thin on the top, but I have very large legs. I think it’s good that she at least isn’t afraid to show her legs; I am very self-conscious about my legs and never show them in public. When you are a pear shape, it’s very hard to look proportionate, because even if you are at a healthy weight, your legs will always look bigger. The only way to look proportionate is if you lose most of your body weight and become underweight (like Mischa used to be). At least she looks happy.
She looks just like a cow! She is SOOO BIG!
The hair looks great. Really cute.
What happened! She used to be thin!! What a shame…
Finally ! She got her facial beauty back. To me she looks much much better as a blonde. It compliments her skintone very well and just gives her such a nice glow – reminds me a little of a blonde version of snow white.
Love the dress as well – no reason for her not to wear it just because she doesn’t have the picture perfect hollywood legs. I really wish her all the best and that she gets her life back on track ! I’d hate to see her get as wasted and poor Lindsay did. Shame that.
I think it’s pretty obvious (or at least it should be) by now, that her body in the OC wasn’t really natural. She’s been in and out of rehab for at least a year now, and her weight seems to have stayed the same.
She’s pear-shaped, and I think this is pretty much her body and weight. And I’m not saying she can’t tone up a little, but with how her legs are, it seems like she was not keeping her weight down (before) with exercise, since they have no muscle tone.
Love the hair!! It looks cute!! I don’t care what her weight is… worst legs in Hollywood. Hundreds of other celebs are curvier or heavier than her and don’t have that awful disproportion that she does. Please stop wearing short shorts!!!
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she looks like a modernized 40s girl! I’m surprised to see the bigger thighs (compared to when she was on the OC and VERY slim looking)
and stop hating! We’re never pleased, are we? Either celebrities are too skinny or too fat, never just right!
Wow – she is totally gorgeous! Always was, but she looks stunning here.
She looks cute. At least she’s not sloppy in this one.
very nice leg