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Reba McEntire is one celeb who seems practically unrecognizable together with her pure hair. She’s rocked her pink tresses because the begin of her music profession in 1974, and regardless of the stigma usually related to having ginger hair, Reba wears hers like a badge of honor. “I’ve all the time been very, very pleased with it,” she informed Dallas Voice in 2015. “My mother was a redhead, so I felt she gave me her pink hair.”

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However the so-called “Queen of Nation” has been identified to commerce her pure hair for wigs now and again. In actual fact, there have been occasions when Reba has been caught carrying wigs on stage and at award exhibits, such because the 2024 Academy of Nation Music Awards (as seen within the picture above). Nevertheless, she’s no stranger to displaying off her rarely-seen pure hair, both, posting a throwback snap of herself in honor of World Redhead Day in Might 2024.

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The Grammy winner took to Instagram in May 2025 to post the photo, showing her much-younger self with her gorgeous curls on display. “A little birdie told me it’s #WorldRedHeadDay!” she captioned the photo. “The only person who can rock the red hair,” one fan gushed, while another exclaimed, “Love the big hair on u!! I miss the big hair days.” Of course, that was hardly the first or only time Reba had exposed her natural hair to millions.

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Before she started wearing wigs, Reba McEntire proudly embraced her natural hair. Seen here performing at the 21st Music City News Awards in 1987, now known as the CMT Awards, Reba sported thick, rounded, and curly hair in lieu of her feathery layers and signature bangs. In 2024, she spoke to Glamour about the beauty trend she regrets trying in her mid-20s. “In the early ’80s, I got a perm,” she said. She revealed she was born with naturally curly hair. “And so when my hair would be a little past my shoulders with a perm, it was just super tight, because if you add a perm to naturally curly hair, it looks angry.” And, sure enough, “It did.”

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Reba McEntire performed the song “I’m Checkin’ Out” from the Oscar-nominated film “Postcards from the Edge” at the 63rd Annual Academy Awards in 1991. It was during a tragic time in her life after a devastating plane crash had taken the lives of Reba’s entire band while they were on their way to Indiana for a concert. By then, she had grown out her curls into a thick, voluminous style, complete with soft fringe, as pictured above. She opted for a black floor-length gown embellished with green studs and beading that ran from her sleeves down to the center of her hips. 

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Reba McEntire embraced her pure tresses whereas attending the 1992 Individuals’s Selection Awards together with her then-husband and supervisor, Narvel Blackstock. She wowed in a shocking off-shoulder quantity with intricate beading alongside the panels, her hair styled in a teased crown with bangs framing her face. She received the trophy for Favourite Feminine Musical Performer that night time (after which once more in 1994 via 1998). In her e book “Not That Fancy: Easy Classes on Residing, Loving, Consuming, and Dusting Off Your Boots,” Reba stated she used a blow dryer and scorching rollers to tame her pure curls. “[Next I] pick curls and tease to desired top and fullness. [I then] spray with mega-hold hair spray. I like Aveda Witch Hazel,” she added.

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“The upper the hair, the nearer to heaven,” as Reba McEntire’s fellow nation queen Dolly Parton famously stated. All through the mid-’90s, the Oklahoma native continued to sport thick, voluminous curls, which have turn into a signature a part of her look. In “Not That Fancy,” Reba — seen above acting at her live performance in 1994 — emphasised that model goes past choosing the proper garments. “It is also about the way you carry your self. Hair and make-up are an enormous a part of that,” she added. She additionally joked that the scale of her hair made it simple for followers to acknowledge her simply by the define of her head. “However I did not simply get up like that,” Reba famous. “It took scorching rollers, extra scorching rollers, teasing, and sufficient hair spray to choke a horse.”

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In 1996, Reba McEntire unveiled her quick hair on the Nation Music Affiliation Awards after preserving it a secret from her followers for a lot of months. Forward of releasing her studio album, “What If It is You,” she determined to get an enormous chop after rising uninterested in her thick, lengthy locks. “I had really reduce my hair off in June, however the album did not launch till November,” Reba defined in her e book “Not That Fancy,” including, “So I needed to put on a wig till we have been able to reveal the brand new look.”

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Reba described feeling “free” as soon as she went via with the haircut, although getting her staff and hairstylist to assist her concept took some convincing. “An entertainer reducing her hair as we speak won’t precisely be breaking information, however the nineties was a really completely different time,” Reba identified. “When you discovered one thing that labored, you caught with it, come hell or excessive water.” On the time, lengthy hair was the go-to search for most nation singers, however Reba was able to strive one thing new. She trusted her instincts and went for it.

Talking with Glamour, the nation icon recalled how her administration reacted when she revealed her plan to modify up her look. “‘You bought your huge hair all jacked as much as Jesus. You may’t reduce your hair off,'” she remembered them telling her. “And I stated, ‘Effectively, it’s going to offer you one thing else to speak about.'” Finally, they have been bought. “They stated, ‘Oh okay. That is an concept.’ So we did.” 

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