Jessica Simpson Debuts Soiled Blonde Hair Transformation on ‘American Idol’: Photograph

Jessica Simpson is shaking up her look!

The pop star, 43, rocked freshly dyed soiled blonde tresses with sunkissed highlights for a particular look on the season 23 finale of American Idol on Sunday, Might 18. 

Simpson turned to her longtime professional and pal Rita Hazan, a star hair colorist and salon proprietor, for the colour switchup, which Hazan calls “extra pure,” evaluating it to “a child on the seashore.”  

Describing the hair coloration itself as “desert sundown blonde,” Hazan says it took “two hours” to finish.

“The must-have in my equipment that I exploit on all my shoppers is Glaze’s Supergloss. For Jessica, we used the shade Vanilla Lights — her good match to tone down brassiness in her highlights,” she explains. “It delivers a wealthy, shiny payoff, and a silky, polished end that leaves hair wanting refreshed and more healthy after only one use.”

In keeping with Hazan, Simpson “liked” her new hair coloration. “She was so completely satisfied to get a brand new look and change it up,” the stylist says. “She all the time had an excellent buttery blonde — this time we wished one thing new and youthful.”

Hazan provides that the up to date hairdo is ideal for the “With You” singer, who’s adjusting to her new regular following her cut up from Eric Johnson earlier this yr. (Simpson and the previous NFL participant, 45, share three children: daughters Maxwell “Maxi” Drew and Birdie Mae, plus son Ace Knute.)

“I believe it is a contemporary and younger vibe, however with confidence and a slight perspective to signify her temper,” Hazan tells PEOPLE, including: “We’ve got been in one another’s lives for therefore a few years that there’s private and skilled belief.”

“Often I fly in from New York, and now we have a hair celebration in her rest room with a couple of of the identical folks each six weeks,” she continues. “First, we make amends for life for a fast second, after which proceed to giggle and inform very private tales about what all of us received into for the month. It is truly hysterical. I do not suppose there was one time I went there and did not giggle hysterically.”

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Final month, Simpson — who not too long ago launched her EP Nashville Canyon — opened up about her newest Walmart for Jessica Simpson Assortment that showcases her nation roots in an unique interview with PEOPLE.

“For me, personally, model evolves as I do on a private stage, by way of every stage of my life,” the designer stated. “That is the inspiration for my music proper now … Nashville Canyon is an evolution of previous, current, future, versatility, femininity, openness and confidence.”

Simpson added on the time that she has “no guidelines” in terms of her vogue inspiration.

“Something from a classic printed wallpaper in a film I’m watching or a efficiency piece displayed in an outdated documentary,” she stated. “Everybody who is aware of me is aware of I’m observant. I by no means miss a element. Inspiration comes at me in visceral methods, each single day. And I actually don’t know what I might do with out Pinterest.”

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The musician has been adventurous along with her seems to be in latest months. In March, Simpson shared movies on TikTok and Instagram of her rocking a cool airport look in Austin, Texas, the place she traveled to perform for the first time in 15 years at the Recording Academy’s Austin Chapter Block Party in the course of the South by Southwest festival.

Within the video, the style designer may very well be seen in an opulent Maison Common fake shearling coat that retailed for $2,350, earlier than promoting out, over what gave the impression to be a leopard-print jumpsuit and tall latex boots with heels. She additionally rocked outsized aviator sun shades and a big cross necklace.

Additionally that month, Simpson stepped out for a shock efficiency on the annual Luck Reunion competition in Texas, rocking an animal-inspired ensemble.

In the course of the gig, which passed off at Willie Nelson‘s Luck Ranch in Spicewood, Simpson wore a leopard-print costume topped with piles of turquoise jewellery, in addition to a cropped crochet lace bolero to prime all of it off.

Simpson’s many equipment included a large silver belt decked out in turquoise stones, which matched her equally styled earrings and necklace. She additionally wasn’t shy when it got here to her silver jewellery on her wrists and fingers in the course of the gig, along with her exhibiting off some bedazzled motion on her nails too.

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Simpson’s look on American Idol is simply the most recent in a string of music moments for the celebrity, who has been making the rounds since she debuted her pop-country rock single “Use My Heart Against Me” in February, marking her first unique music launch in years.

“It was a horny music to write down,” Simpson informed PEOPLE solely of the observe, which seems on Nashville Canyon, earlier this yr.

“I wakened with that lyric in my head,” she defined. “It’s sort of craving somebody that you really want once more and also you don’t care in case your coronary heart is used towards you – if it’s only for one night time. Like, give it over, only for the expertise once more.”