We can't help but check our calendars on our laptops, phones and on the wall, because we're seriously lost. Maddie Ziegler has simultaneously taken us to the past and the future all in one photoshoot. The celeb (who Google seems to believe is 20 – sorry, what??) looks breathtaking in a new retro photoshoot, but almost unrecognisable from everyone's favourite Dance Moms Alum. Ok, wait JoJo Siwa is very beloved, so scratch that, a lot of people's favourite Dance Moms Alum.
Hairstylist Clayton Hawkins has swapped Maddie's long golden chestnut hair for a retro chocolate brown bob. Deliciously styled with the flickiest of flicks, a cute little beehive to accentuate the stylised bell shape of the 'do, and a gappy full fringe falling just longer than a micro-fringe, so maybe we'll call it a mini-fringe. Whatever it is it looks fabulous.
Obsessing over this totally 60s shoot, we feel like we've just stepped back in time. But simultaneously the future because how is Maddie so grown up and glam?
Maddie has been killing it since graduating the Abby Lee Dance Company in 2016. Proving that she's not just got the moves. She has also been modelling, acting and even collaborating on makeup lines. Which we're sure is all feeding into how much she's nailing this shoot, embodying the era, and doing that hair the justice it deserves.
Props to Heather Picchiottino for the impossibly cool fashion styling, meanwhile Tonya Brewers statement babydoll lashes alone are enough to make us swoon.
If we were Maddie's age (12*) this would be cut out and stuck on our wall, because we can't stop pouring over these photos. In fact, we still want them on our wall.
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*I am very aware of Maddie's real age but please let me live on in denial because I don't want to calculate how old this makes me.
^ Maddie at actual age 12, in 2015 and in our minds.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
