It’s undeniable that Kate Hudson has inherited her mother’s looks, from her elegant bone structure to her blue eyes, and now she's unveiled a new hair look could be straight from Goldie Hawn’s beauty archives. Kate has swapped her signature beachy waves for a very different curly look that can be summed up in one word: perm.
A new Instagram post shows Kate with tight blonde curls that bear a striking similarity to vintage images of Goldie wearing the classic 1980s hairdo. Kate can be seen (quite literally) rocking the look for her role in Song Sung Blue, playing a singer in a husband-wife Neil Diamond tribute act, alongside Hugh Jackman.
The upcoming film is based on a true story, but one presumes that Kate wasn’t required to sit under a heat lamp with perm rollers for real. Whether it was achieved through curling tools or a wig, her curly look does look convincingly authentic, and very much channels her mum’s springy styles from her romcom heyday.
It’s perhaps no surprise that Kate has leaned into the retro look so easily as she’s often spoken about taking beauty advice from her mother. She recently spoke exclusively to Good Housekeeping about her beauty regime, telling us: ‘My mom has been cold plunging and doing saunas since the 1970s; I think that both are brilliant for you. If I do a cold plunge before bed, I’ll have an amazing night’s sleep, even if I just hop into cold water for 30 seconds.’
Kate also confessed to GH that she doesn’t find it easy to look after her golden crown. ‘When it comes to haircare, I’m lost,' she confessed. 'I never quite know what to do with it; should I be washing it more? Less? Should I steam my scalp? I need to look into all of that – it’s a work in progress!’
Her latest musical film project is all part of her ethos to spend more time devoted to her passions. ‘The older I get, the more I’m doing the things I love,’ she told us. ‘I’ve gone back to making music – it makes my soul happy and I don’t mind what anyone else thinks. You realise that life moves so fast and that trying to be relevant is ridiculous.’
So who knows – if it really IS a perm and it's sparking joy, it could just be here to stay.
