Miley Cyrus has experimented with her hair several times throughout the past few years. Just last year the singer debuted an edgy, razor-cut “modern mullet” that she got first with her mom, Tish Cyrus, and then with the guidance of celebrity hairstylist Sally Hershberger. But for 2020, she’s going even edgier—and shorter.
Cyrus posted several photos to Instagram this week that show off her new, punk-rock shag cut, which, again, comes after a session with Hershberger. “New Hair. New Year . NEW MUSIC!” she captioned three separate images. Compared to the mullet she was sporting last November, this shag is shorter and wispier, and as Hershberger said in an email, “It’s a very fashion-forward look yet very no-fuss, both reflective of Miley’s personality.”
Hershberger is known for her shags, and she explained that she kept things pretty natural when it came to Miley’s version. “To get the edgy look, I point-cut her hair and then used a razor to slice it into a shag—it was a very organic process,” she said. “To style it, we did a rough dry and then I used my 24K Vanity Hair Shaping Balm and 24K Golden Touch Nourishing Dry Oil to finish off the piecey look.”
This hairstyle might also be an indicator of Miley Cyrus’s mood as she starts working on new music, which she’s promised a few times now. In December, following her split from ex-husbandLiam Hemsworth and rumors she’d ended things with boyfriend Cody Simpson (which were untrue), Cyrus released an emotional holiday song, aptly titled, “My Sad Christmas Song”. She was met with tons of support from her fans, but perhaps she’s moved on from melancholy and is ready for a rock-inspired sound. She hinted as much with pictures she posted later that show her carrying around a guitar.
Either way, we love this look—and can’t wait for the new music.
The internet broke over the summer when Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth announced they were separating after less than a year of marriage and 10 years of dating. Their follow-up relationships have been the subject of intense tabloid scrutiny, from Cyrus’s short-lived one with Kaitlynn Carter to her current situation with Cody Simpson. Hemsworth, meanwhile, has been linked to Dynasty actor Maddison Brown.
But even with all these updates, people are still fascinated with Hemsworth and Cyrus as a couple. Case in point: The comment Cyrus just wrote on the artist Matty Mo’s Instagram. (He’s better known for creating the art collective The Most Famous Artist.) “Getting married to @mileycyrus in 2020,” Mo wrote, to which Cyrus responded with, “It probably won’t last long. But always down to try. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
See the comment for yourself, below.
Granted, this could be absolutely harmless—or it could be Cyrus subtly trolling herself over her short-lived marriage to Hemsworth. (They married in December 2018 and officially divorced in the fall of 2019.)
Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus haven’t made any public comments about one another recently. The last thing Hemsworth himself said was back in August. “Just a quick note to say that Miley and I have recently separated and I wish her nothing but health and happiness going forward,” he wrote on Instagram. “This is a private matter and I have not made, nor will I be making, any comments to any journalists or media outlets. Any reported quotes attributed to me are false.”
Meanwhile, Cyrus took to Twitter in late August to address rumors she cheated on Hemsworth.
“I can admit to a lot of things but I refuse to admit that my marriage ended because of cheating,” she said. “Liam and I have been together for a decade. I’ve said it before & it remains true, I love Liam and always will.”
Despite having a saved folder on Instagram of elaborate manicures decorated with butterflies, cherubs, and bedazzled crosses, the closest I ever get with nail art is a single sticker. The issue isn’t my lack of skills—I know exactly what salon to go to instead of DIYing—it’s the fact that my nails are constantly a short, jagged mess due to chronic nail biting. (Thanks, anxiety!)
For years, I’ve been unable to grow my nails longer than a couple millimeters past my fingertips, so I’ve always stuck to solid polish under the assumption nail art for short nails just wasn’t in the cards. But thankfully, the tides are turning, and for every over-the-top nail design I see on the ‘Gram, there’s an equally chic one that’s easy enough to do on tiny nails. In fact, nail artists like Betina Goldstein and Steph Stone almost exclusively showcase their minimal designs on shorter nails.
Whether you’re planning to DIY or bring a screenshot into the salon, these are the best nail art ideas for short nails. Biters, you’re welcome.
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Until a few weeks ago, Chanel Miller was known to the public as Emily Doe. A sexual assault survivor—whose powerful impact statement addressed to her assailant, Brock Turner, went viral—Miller chose not to speak out under her own name but instead to let her words stand on their own. That decision, Miller told the New York Times, “let me have a life in which this never happened,” giving her time to still be Chanel and not “the nameless, faceless, half-naked body from this case.”
But earlier this month, the former 2016 GlamourWoman of the Year (then still known as Emily Doe) came forward and announced the release of her memoir, Know My Name. The memoir focuses not just on the trial or its immediate aftermath, but on her life before and since as she’s worked to figure out where she goes from here. With Know My Name now available in bookstores nationwide, Miller has released a short companion film about her experience as a survivor that she wrote and codirected.
Chanel Miller finishing up an illustration in 2017
Courtesy of Chanel Miller
“I Am With You” is a five-minute film in four acts, with animation created from Miller’s original illustrations. It’s both an exploration of Miller’s journey to reclaim her voice and a moving love letter to the strength and power of survivors everywhere. “While writing Know My Name, I was constantly drawing as a way of letting my mind breathe, reminding myself that life is playful and imaginative. We all deserve a chance to define ourselves, shape our identities, and tell our stories,” Miller said in a statement. “The film crew that worked on this piece was almost all women. Feeling their support and creating together was immensely healing. We should all be creating space for survivors to speak their truths and express themselves freely. When society nourishes instead of blames, books are written, art is made, and the world is a little better for it.”
You can watch Miller’s beautiful tribute to her healing process in its entirety, below.
Reese Witherspoonjust clears 5 feet at 5 feet 1 inch tall, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke just passes her at around 5 feet 2 inches, and Kim Kardashian barely tops them both at a whopping 5 feet 3 inches. Yes, they’re on the shorter side of the spectrum—or “petite,” to use the more common retail language. But that’s never stopped them from nailing a red carpet look. Same goes for influencers like Alyssa Coscarelli and Nadia Aboulhosn, who consistently show their followers how to master some of the most exciting, out-there trends regardless of size.
If you, too, are part of this select group who will never use the top shelves of their closets, read through for the biggest “it” items for summer 2019, according to the petite fashion pros (plus our picks for how to shop them).
What the film does well is highlight both the experiences that girls all over the world have in common and the terrible, particular difficulties and threats that a girl like Nasro faces. How much of girlhood is a shared experience?
Being a girl is always difficult. It’s a strange rite of passage, and being a woman in this world is difficult. But there’s a massive difference between what it feels like to be a woman in [America or England] and where Nasaro is. And a girl’s [experience] will be different, too, based on her race, her socioeconomic background, how much education she has. Does she have people in her life to support her? What part of the world is she in? What resources does she have access to? That will decide what her life will be like.
In the New Yorker, Alexis Okeowo wrote that your work “evokes longing for home,” which I think is true. When you feel that ache for home, what do you do?
I feel that every day of my life. For me, home is Somalia. I’m living in L.A. now, but London was home for a really long time, and now I’m living in America under Trump. So it’s double. I miss London, but I miss home home, which is Africa. It’s really important for me to listen to old Somali music and to speak in my mother tongue. It gives me a lot of pride. I like looking at old photographs of Somalia. I love to eat Somali food. I love to put on Somali incense. It’s all the time reminding myself a little bit of where I’m from, and the richness of it. Because it’s very easy to not do that and then you forget—how to cook, how to speak the same language, the comedy, the music.
I don’t want to grow older in different parts of the world and forget all the things that bring me a lot of joy, so I spend a lot of time on YouTube looking for Somali videos. And whenever I want to connect with London, I hope for rain. It’s rainy today in L.A., and it always makes me feel comforted. I just have to stay connected so I don’t forget where I’m from.
It can feel like time travel a bit, to surround yourself with those memories of home.
Yes, definitely. That’s a big help for writing as well. If I want to write about my teenage years, I’ll go back and listen to all the music I listened to and look at photographs of myself back in the day, and I’ll even ask my mom to send me old clothes from London. It’s like a time machine.
International Women’s Day can feel a little two-dimensional, I think. Because so much of it takes “place” online. I’m sure people will see the film and read articles about it. But then what? Do you have advice for people who want to do something with the pain or emotion that they feel?
I’m interested in the ways in which human beings are able to practice empathy, so my recommendation would be to read books written by different women from different backgrounds you don’t know anything about, watch films made by women all over the world, not just by women who look like you.
And try to practice empathy. Think about how massive the world is and how small your life is in comparison to that. Think about what it means to be a woman. Think about how you want to bring awareness to the suffering of other people. Think about women from different parts of the world, trans women, poor women, black women, women in prisons, women in shelters, women all over the world, women and girls in refugee camps. The world is so massive, but we forget that all the time.
