No matter what she’s doing, you always can guarantee Rihanna will turn out a vision board-worthy look. Even if it’s just a regular old Sunday evening. But this was not one of those Sundays: It was the Grammy Awards, and Rihanna was there to perform. So you already know we were waiting with bated breath to see what beauty look the singer would serve this time around. Never one to disappoint, the Rih blessed the awards show with some serious disco hair, courtesy of her longtime stylist Yusef.
“Because of the vibe of the whole performance, we wanted to go whimsical. Studio 54 meets Bob Fosse meets Blaxploitation,” Yusef (who also styled the dancers), told Allure over the phone. “It was a whole lot going on on that stage, you have no idea. So it was like, where do we fit?” Rih and Yusef decided to wholeheartedly embrace the Studio 54 mood by giving her a head full of voluminous curls, inspired by legends like Diana Ross, Bianca Jagger, and Donna Summer. “Big hair, fluffy — it was to make her look like a dream pretty much,” he said. “Like a disco diva with cheesecloth in front of her…total Barbara Walters filter.”
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