“I dyed my hair blonde because I wanted to feel better about myself. I do like it blonde, but it doesn’t make you happy. The truth is: it was a long hard winter and I thought, maybe this will change my life. But it never does. I should know that by now, I’m 36 years old.”
When Maggie Gyllenhaal dyed her pixie cut a lovely shade of blonde earlier this year, I assumed it must be for a role. But in a recent interview The Independent, Gyllenhaal confessed that she had turned to the (peroxide) bottle in an attempt to ease her seasonal depression. She’s right that a new look rarely has a lasting impact on one’s mood, but thank goodness the blonde actually looked nice on her. (She’s since gone back to being a brunette.) I once ruined a perfectly decent spring by getting a terrible wedge haircut. [People]