Kim Kardashian becomes a real life Rapunzel with a 15-foot braided hair look

Keeping Up With Kim Kardashian’s Hair should be a new E! reality show. The star goes from a raven-coloured bob to peroxide blonde mermaid waves basically overnight – and now she’s showing off her most dramatic change yet.

Posing for the August cover ofAllure, Kim looks like a goddess with floor-length blonde hair and wearing a naked illusion Skims bodysuit. Her extra-long lengths have been styled into two braids which wind around her waist and all the way down past her ankles. Queen Daenerys has officially been knocked off her throne.

For her second look, Kim poses again with floor-length hair. This time, it cascades around her body in loose, mermaid-like curls. We would say that we wonder how long it took for Kim’s hairstylist Chris Appleton to style, but he just posted an Instagram Reel explaining how he achieved each of Kim’s cover looks.

For the braids and the mermaid waves, Chris pre-prepped wigs, which saved him considerable amounts of time on the day of the shoot.

“This is the longest hair I've ever done on Kim, it’s 85 inches,” Chris explains in the Reel, showing the flowing hairpiece. He also goes on to reveal the braid was a whopping 15 feet in length, and had to be entwined around Kim on-set.

“The body wrap made out of hair was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I had to dress hair around Kim like a cocoon. We also did it in real time when everyone was there,” he adds, sharing a picture of Kim in a bodysuit made out of hair.

The mum-of-four used her cover as an opportunity to chat about beauty standards and her mentality in regards to being compared to others.

“There are so many different beauty standards — whether it’s Gwen Stefani, Jennifer Lopez, Marilyn Monroe. When I was a teenager, [the look] was just blonde waifs. My mentality was never like, you see them on TV or in magazines and pick who you want to be. It was always: Be yourself, find beauty in everything,” she tells Allure.

“I’m at peace with not being perfect and I wasn’t like that before. I hate my hands — they’re wrinkly and gross. But I’ve lived life and I’ve changed so many diapers with these hands and I’ve snuggled my babies with these hands, so I’m okay with them. [Getting older] doesn’t mean that I won’t strive for perfection, but you get to a point where you’re like, ‘Okay, my health is more important than anything else.’”

We hear you, Kim.

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