Kourtney Kardashian has us stumped. She's the only Kar-Jenner sister to consistently wear her hair short these last few years and we've gotten very used to the trademark sharp bob she's been donning since cutting her long tresses off back in 2021. Yes, it varies up or down an inch or so in length as it grows and gets snipped, but that's standard with hair this short.
Exhibit A: let us rewind back to the initial cut (below) that Kourtney has kept around this length ever since:
But in carousel snaps of her latest visit to New York with husband Travis Barker, it's distinctly longer. Her bob has stretched to lob and the ends seem to have said hello to her shoulders for the first time in over a year:
Now yes, hair grows – we aren't stumped by that – but what we're trying to figure out is how just a few days before, it was as short and sharp as ever.
Exhibit B: a Christmas advert for Kourt's supplements range Lemme was posted just three days ago with her hair all its short glory. Just look at slide two:
So then we got to thinking: OK, well maybe this was shot well in advance.
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But let us present you with exhibit C. Just three weeks ago, Mr and Mrs Kourtney Kardashian attended the GQ Man of the Year awards where Travis was being honoured, and well, well, well...
Kourt's bob is teeny. There's no way that grew in three weeks, right? So this lob really must be the most seamless and subtle extensions we've ever seen. Swipe to the snap in the lift and you can literally follow the hair strands top to bottom.
I don't know what to say, except – Kourt, please drop the hair genius behind this look, ASAP.
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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.
