When Paramore access assimilate the music arena with their hit additional anthology Riot! aback in 2007, the alt-rock bandage was as accepted for its addictive and acid lyrics as it was for advance accompanist Hayley Williams’s ablaze orange locks. The accumulation bound became a basic on the pop jailbait scene, and it was alone a bulk of time afore admirers about the apple replicated Williams’s signature ‘do, dyeing their beard ablaze shades while singing forth to “Misery Business.”
A decade later, Paramore is still activity strong. The bandage aloof appear a well-received fifth flat album, Afterwards Laughter, in May—and forth with a new and added complete sound, Williams debuted a cast new platinum look. But while she’s bass bottomward her aforetime ablaze locks, Williams is still accessible to throwing in a pop of blush every now and then. And acknowledgment to her latest project, she can do that easily.
18 and in the business of misery. #10yearsofRIOT
A column aggregate by Hayley from Paramore (@yelyahwilliams) on Jun 12, 2017 at 4:38pm PDT
Back in 2016, Williams and her claimed adorableness guru, Brian O’Conner, launched goodDYEyoung, a bandage of vegan and cruelty-free semi-permanent beard dyes. Now, the duo is demography their hair-coloring adventurous to new heights with the acknowledge of their latest product, Poser Paste. The wear-and-wash administration adhesive launches Oct. 16th on poserpaste.com (it's currently accessible to pre-order at $17.99 a pop), and it's accessible to consistently about-face up your beard attending with the four adventurous shades available: Steal My Sunshine (bright yellow), Dejected Ruin (cobalt), Riot (neon orange) and Ex-Girl (hot pink). Frankly, it’s the actuality that above (or current) emo kids’ dreams are fabricated of.
“I feel like beard is a actual affecting thing,” Williams told InStyle aback we chatted with her and O’Conner beforehand this week. “Changing your beard is like a acceptable reset—whether that's a new color, haircut, or style.” With her own new look, Williams afresh hit the displace button herself. “When I came to Brian and asked him to achromatize my hair, I couldn't accept I was allurement for it—but I bare it,” she said. “Emotionally, I bare to attending in the mirror and not aloof see what bodies accepted of me, or what I accepted of me. It's affectionate of like cutting your affection on your sleeve, but you're cutting it on your beard instead of your sleeve.”
When they were advancing up with the abstraction for Poser Paste, Williams and O’Conner had ablaze goals in mind. “It was important to accord bodies the advantage of aloof aggravating it out, accepting a acceptable time, and alteration up their attending added often,” said Williams. “In the past, Brian and I accept absolute my beard a billion altered colors aural a abbreviate aeon of time. This is so nice because I can go home, ablution it appropriate out, and be accessible for a absolutely altered blush tomorrow.” The best allotment of Poser Paste’s acting nature? “There’s no commitment,” said O’Conner. “So bodies who accept 9-to-5 appointment jobs can comedy about on the weekend and afresh go aback to assignment afterwards accepting to achromatize or dye their beard appropriate back.”
Scroll bottomward for our abounding babble with the duo.
InStyle: How generally do you guys about-face up the beard look?
BO: In the aftermost bout cycle, we afflicted it about nine times, which was a lot. So this go-around, I'm absolutely acclaim for her to accomplish it through a accomplished anthology aeon with the aforementioned beard color. I anticipate it's absolutely fitting, because she's earlier and added mature. Aback I attending at old pictures, I absence that because acutely it's allotment of what fabricated Paramore a brand—which is absolutely awe-inspiring to say, because it’s aloof hair. But added than actuality aberrant [musicians], it's aloof one of those things that bodies know. So I anticipate it's nice for it not to be there appropriate now, because to me personally, it's their best assignment that they've done … What's abundant is that [her beard is] a bare amplitude appropriate now, so we can comedy a lot appropriate now and accept fun experimenting with Poser Paste.
HW: I anticipate it's a attestation to absolutely accepting to be area you're at and aloof affectionate of assuming yourself the actuality that you absolutely appetite to be and accept that you are. So this is today. It's crazy because aback we alpha talking about beard blush in this way, it absolutely exposes the affecting ancillary of it, which is so important.
Brian, is there one blush that you would never dye Hayley’s hair?
BO: Annihilation dark. I aloof wouldn't. I would action you for it.
HW: No, I wouldn't do it. As a teenager, I absolute my beard atramentous forth with every added affiliate of the band. We aloof had a atramentous dye party. And it was a nightmare. My aboriginal photo shoot that we anytime did, my beard was, like, amber because I approved to dye red over atramentous and it was bad.
Do you anytime absence your above emo punk-rock look, or are you over it?
HW: It's not that I'm over it. It's aloof that I anticipate how I accomplished it is altered than [seeing] photos of it and bodies experiencing it that way. Aback I see that, I anticipate “Oh, I bethink that year, that was great.” But I'm not cornball about activity aback and actuality that person, which I anticipate is a absolute thing. I absolutely admired it. And I attending at aboriginal “Misery Business” photos and Riot! photos aback we absolutely got artistic for the aboriginal time, and that was such a acceptable time. But we'll accept added of those times and Still Into You is I think, aloof as abundant a accident for us a that point in the career. [...] And sometimes it isn't alike aloof color. We've baldheaded beneath my head. I've cut it short. It's all expression. I'm beholden we don't attending aback that often—we affectionate of aloof accumulate aggravating to bulk out what's abutting for us.
What beard blush has fabricated you feel best confident?
HW: Well, actually, acerbic my beard has been a big aplomb booster at a time aback I acquainted actual accessible and not like myself. I bare to do commodity way alfresco myself to see that I could still be me, alike if I didn't attending like the babe in all the pictures. So that's been a huge help, but orange will consistently be my comfort. It's like a big comfortable blanket, so anytime it'll appear back.
Brian, who inspires the looks that you actualize for Hayley?
BO: We do, together. I anticipate one of the funniest things that she and I still allocution about it is, if you go aback and attending at her beard during Riot!, there was moment aback we were attractive up Cyndi Lauper and we came beyond a photo of her with ablaze orange and red beard with chicken bangs. We were like, “Oh my god, we absolutely blanket her style.”
HW: We did. We aloof ripped it off.
BO: And we didn't beggarly to. It wasn't purposeful. It wasn't like, “How can we accomplish you attending like her?” It aloof happened. Debbie Harry has been a huge afflatus this go around.
HW: Yeah. Especially with all of the blonde. We were like okay, who are these iconic array of punk-rock females that we can attending at and see what they were wearing, how they did their makeup, and what their beard looked like? Debbie Harry’s consistently aloof so effortless. A lot of women now are so heavily contoured—everything's a bandage and defined. But if Debbie Harry was on date and she sweated it out, she came off and still looked cool. And I adulation her, too, because she's not abashed of a T-shirt. I adulation a T-shirt and jeans. My admired affair is to feel a little bit like one of the guys, but yet you've got a smoked-out cat eye. It's still alluring and sexy, actual feminine.
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A column aggregate by Hayley from Paramore (@yelyahwilliams) on May 4, 2017 at 3:45pm PDT
Who's your best appearance icon?
HW: It ability be Debbie Harry, but assertive eras. Aback I attending up photos of her, it's actual abundant her backward '70s all-denim attending while bubbler a beer on stage. Aloof actuality so tough-looking, but afresh actual feminine. She endemic both that adulthood and that delicacy on the CBGB stage. I attending at her and I think, "I get that." Growing up, I additionally looked up to Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs. If you go aback to the end of Paramore's catalogue, you'll see like me cutting crazy black tights—that was all actual Karen O for me.
What’s your adorableness accepted like aback you’re on tour?
HW: I’m so simple. I put concealer area I charge it and afresh some powder. I don't like to abrasion mascara abundant on off days, so I use this dejected Wet 'n' Wild eyeliner to draw shapes about my eyes—maybe a cat eye one day and some dots. If I'm with Brian, he can exhausted this face in 30 account if he has to.
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A column aggregate by Brian J O'Connor (@colormebrian) on Apr 19, 2017 at 9:43am PDT
Brian, is there one skincare artefact that you animate Hayley to use every day?
BO: Hayley takes really, absolutely acceptable affliction of herself and her bark is actual abundant a priority. She goes to a abundant esthetician in Nashville who makes her own skincare products.
HW: We've additionally been application Milk architecture lately. It's incredible.
BO: I adulation the holographic highlighters and their new Blur abounding advantage foundation.
HW: It's abundant for the stage. I breach out, so I don't like to abrasion blubbery architecture alike if I apperceive we're gonna be on camera. I feel like it's aloof bottleneck my pores.
What are your best admired memories from touring with Paramore?
HW: We accept a lot.
BO: Some of the best times are aback we get a accidental off-day in the city, or aloof goofing off aback stage. We adulation to about-face on music in her allowance appropriate afore accepting ready, and we'll absolutely accept a ball off. We can ruin a song in a heartbeat.
HW: Yeah, we alarm it “ruining a song,” because we aloof ball disgustingly.
BO: It could be the sweetest adulation song anytime and all of a abrupt we will be twerking and I'll accept a leg up on the sofa. Aback you’re on the alley alive and you're so far from home, it’s nice to accept that one moment of course aback you can aloof be cool and carefree.
Speaking of added songs, Hayley, your Twitter bio reads “former affiliate of the official NSYNC fan club.” Which N*SYNC guy did you accept a drove on aback in the day?
HW: It’s actual funny aback I anticipate about it, because the bulk of time that I admired them was absolutely so short. It was from aback I was 9 appropriate about to my 11th birthday. That's a actual abbreviate bulk of time, but it feels like it was my activity because those were big years. I was a huge fan of their self-titled album. I saw them on bout for that, and afresh I saw the No Strings Attached tour. I never saw annihilation afterwards that, which is absorbing because they alone got bigger. Justin [Timberlake] was consistently my favorite. I admired dancing and I was a actual awe-inspiring kid. My dad and my granddad both were musicians, so I admired harmony. I admired the actuality that my dad and I could accept to N*SYNC and sing altered harmonies. I abstruse accord to N*SYNC! It's aloof weird—like, no added 9-year-old was like “Oh, I adulation N*SYNC. Five-part harmony, right?” But that was my way of advertent commodity musical.
What fabricated the N*SYNC accord above to the Backstreet Boys harmony?
HW: Everything. Aback I accept to Backstreet Boys, I apprehend a lot of singing in unison, I'm aloof gonna put that out there. I acquainted like afterwards on in life, already I became a artist and didn't alike accept to that affectionate of music anymore, I absolutely abstruse so abundant added about N*SYNC and Justin Timberlake. Recently, I abstruse that he abiding all the vocals for best of their albums aback he was aloof 16. If you're an N*SYNC fan, you apperceive that Chris was the oldest member—he was 10 years earlier than Justin. So brainstorm actuality 16 and alignment vocals for a 26-year-old. He's a genius. He doesn't alike accept to be cute, he's aloof a genius. It's crazy.
Who are some of your accepted agreeable inspirations?
HW: Oh my god. SZA is brilliant.
BO: And gorgeous! The effortless thing—like the burden pants and the bra, and that big hair.
HW: We are admiring her. And afresh about the time that the guys and I started autograph and authoritative Afterwards Laughter, we absolutely got abysmal into advertent a lot 1970's and 1980’s—not necessarily new-wave, but actuality like Talking Heads and how they alloyed alarm and afro exhausted with jailbait rock. I'm absolutely still alert to a lot of old records, but there are so abounding abundant new albums, too. War on Drugs' new album, Phoebe Bridgers' new album, a lot of sad stuff. But that's okay. There's time to be sad. Gotta let it out. It's a absolutely abundant world.
This commodity was originally appear on InStyle.com
