With naturally light brown hair, the Khloé Kardashian we first met back in 2007 on Keeping Up, had dyed her hair dark to match her sisters and fit in. I mean understandable, they caused a brunette hair dying wave across the western world, after the solid domination of early 00s blonde, led by the likes of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, all of the PlayBoy bunnies and well, everyone.
Around 2014 she worked her way gradually to blonde and has mostly been that way for the last decade, carving out her niche as the blonde Kardashian. But to get to the point — I know you're not here for a history lesson on Aunty KoKo's hair — of all her many different blondes over that time... this might be our favourite.
The star just posted this video on her Insta story and the colour is just so flattering.
Late last year we saw her trademark peroxide blonde swapped out for a much darker, dirty honey blonde that didn't seem far from her natural hair colour and looked *chefs kiss*. Now she's gradually getting blonder again, but she's holding on to the creamy neutral tones of that dirty honey, for a shade we're dubbing 'Vanilla Latte Hair'.
Less harsh on the complexion than a bottle blonde, it captures that super light blonde without being bright, cool or even ash; existing in a milky, vanilla-y, creamy oasis between warm and cool.
Barbie blonde maybe be a whole lot of fun, but this neutral hue is far from vanilla. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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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.
