Fans Are Adamant These Are Lorelai's Best Hairstyles On Gilmore Girls
None of us emerged from the 2000s without regrets, at least when it comes to our hair, and that includes Lauren Graham. As Lorelai Gilmore on "The Gilmore Girls," her style morphed with the trends, going from dark to highlighted, medium to long, layered to one-length, and curly to straight and back again. In the end, fans preferred her most natural looking locks of the earliest seasons.
"I think Lorelai's best look was her natural very dark hair, curled in ringlets, at a medium length," one Reddit user posted to the "Gilmore Girls" subreddit in 2021. They cited the Season 2 episode "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" as the highlight of her lack of highlights, describing those later lightened strands as poorly placed and flat. The overstyled waves she sported in Season 4 were Lorelai's least comprehensible look, they reasoned, since a woman who meets her daughter's principal in tie-dye because she overslept definitely wasn't blowing out every morning.
In the comments, other fans agreed. One pointed to Season 1 as their favorite, claiming that Lorelai's 2000–2001 style was the closest to Graham's natural hair color and texture, while another noted that darker shades contrast nicely with Graham's bright blue eyes. Another fan confirmed that Season 4 was definitely Lorelai's "worst hair season."
Lauren Graham went on a hair journey for Gilmore Girls
Armchair hairstylists may not realize just what an ordeal it was to achieve Lorelai's "natural" curls. In her 2016 memoir, "Talking As Fast As I Can," Lauren Graham went behind the scenes of "Gilmore Girls," including the fashion and beauty challenges. Although Graham's natural hair is stunning, its very curly texture makes it prone to weather-related frizz, she explained. To create the looser curls seen on the early seasons of "Gilmore Girls," her hair actually had to be straightened first and then recurled, a precarious state that could be catastrophically undone by the faintest hint of humidity at any point in the long shooting day.
In fact, Graham singled out Season 2 as a particularly disastrous period in the life of her hair. She'd colored her hair red on a whim between seasons and then had to color it back, and she'd also undergone a chemical straightening treatment, all of which resulted in serious damage that left her hair "stick straight and shiny, yet rigid and broom-like." It turns out everything you see on TV is fake, even the healthy curls.