Carly Rae Jepsen Explains Why She Dyed Her Hair Blonde

Carly Rae Jepsen looks gorgeous while posing for a new feature in Allure.

Here is what the 33-year-old singer had to share with the mag:

On why she went blonde: “I think I got a little hooked on the feeling of chameleon-ing yourself and what that does for your confidence, even your sense of identity. It allows you the ability to kind of play and not have this expectation of what you’re supposed to be like. I was very much the girl next door — brown hair, kept the safety bangs, didn’t ever change a thing. The first time that I dabbled [in hair color], I felt like a new person.”

On not having dissonance between Carly the performer and Carly the person: “My theatrical side onstage is very much just who I am. I don’t do the Beyoncé thing where I’m like, ‘And now I’m Sasha Fierce.’ I’m just — I’m always me.”

On one of her favorite hairstyles––the mullet: “You can’t go wrong. If it’s short enough, you’ll wake up, throw some gel on the front and the rest looks like you made a decision, and that for me is really fun. And maybe it’s such a historically unattractive hairstyle to some that there’s a boldness in it that I quite love, because then you just dial it up with makeup and you feel — I don’t know, I just always felt really empowered when I had it. I don’t know if I want to be Goldilocks. I want my edge.”

For more from Carly, visit Allure.com!