I Want to Take a Magnifying Glass to Willow Smith’s Massive, Sculptural Updos — See the Photos

ICYMI, Willow Smith is Attract’s latest cover star, and each the interview and Smith’s gorgeous sculptural hairstyles are to not be missed.

The musician, whose new album empathogen drops on Could 3, discusses this new chapter of her profession; the report sees Smith shifting away from the rock sound she’s turn out to be recognized for and as an alternative incorporating parts of jazz, as impressed by Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, and Sarah Vaughan. “Everybody needed me to make one other rock album. I simply all the time do the factor that everybody thinks is a nasty thought,” she explains in our interview. “Individuals thought that doing a rock album was going to be a nasty thought, after which it turned out to be a good suggestion, and so I simply need to belief myself since you stay and die by your individual hand. That is the lifetime of an artist.”

Hairstylist Vernon François, who regularly works with Smith, created a number of braid-centric appears for the star, together with a sky-high updo that begins with braids and evolves right into a wrapped, multi-layered outsized knot on the prime of Smith’s head. Teeny tiny microtwists descend from the highest of stated knot, flowing all the best way down almost to Smith’s waist, a beautiful complement to the avant-garde Iris van Herpen and Issey Miyake appears.