Jenna Dewan Tatum Spills the Secrets to Her Absolutely Perfect Hair
Jenna Dewan Tatum Spills the Secrets to Her Absolutely Perfect Hair
Lipstick: Our readers are obsessed with your haircut. What secrets can you spill?
Jenna Dewan Tatum: “Jen Atkin and her magical scissors is what it is. I had long hair my entire life, and I had every color hair, but it was always long hair. I think it was when Witches of East End was canceled, and I had time for the first time. I think I was like. ‘I just want something new,’ and now it keeps inching and inching shorter every month.”
Lipstick: So how short will you go?
JDT: “I think I can go a tiny bit shorter, but after that, I don’t know. I enjoy the movement, and I can’t have a haircut that I have to “do.” So if I can’t wake up, shower and have it lay right, I won’t do it.”
Lipstick: How do you style it?
JDT: “You’re going to hate me. Generally I shower or use dry shampoo, and it lays like this because it’s such a good cut. It just lays nice. I have wavy hair, so it just falls into place, but it’s way easier than long hair. It’s so nice! It’s a nice, fresh, new thing…it just gives you a new energy.”
Lipstick: Would you ever go back to long hair?
JDT: “Not at the moment, although maybe for a role. There’s certain things I love about long hair, and I’m such a girl. I’m a Texan, and I love long, pretty, wavy hair, but it’s harder. This is so much easier for me. I have thick hair, so Jen kind of cuts into it and makes sure it’s layered quite a bit.”
Lipstick: Any trends or looks you wish you wouldn’t have been so scared to try?
JDT: “I was a little bit afraid of having short hair, because when you have long hair, it sort of becomes a crutch. I was always like, “No, no, no, no” and I thought a lot of the roles I was getting or responding to was because they liked my long hair. But then I decided, “I’m going to do what I want to do, and the universe will line up” and it did. So I sort of like that attitude! [Laughs] And if they want it long, there’s some serious hair magic I can do. Wigs, falls…falls are my favorite things in the world. I’m such a closet drag queen!”
Lipstick: Do you ever watch old clips of you dancing and think, “Oh gosh, why did I go for that look?”
JDT: “Oh yes! My dancer hair and makeup choices were sometimes epic…I had pink, Rainbow Brite hair for a long time. And glitter eyeliner! Although I’m still asking people all the time if I can wear glitter. We did the Lip Sync Battle and I got to wear glitter!”