Jennifer Love Hewitt Shows Off New Red Hair Color on Red Carpet

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is making a nostalgic return to screens this summer with the long-awaited sequel to her 1999 classic I Know What You Did Last Summer—but looking at last night’s premiere photos, you might not have known it. Hewitt looked practically unrecognizable at the event thanks to a very dramatic hair transformation.

At the premiere, which took place at The United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles, Hewitt swapped her signature dark brown hair for a lighter apricot red shade. She wore her new golden tresses long and straight in a center part.

The actress paired her new summery look with a black strappy minidress covered in a textured geometric studded pattern. She accessorized with several sparkly bracelets and an assortment of silver rings, and completed the look with a pair of black heels with silver studs.

Although last night marked Hewitt’s first red carpet appearance with her new hair, she previously shared the look with an Instagram selfie. “I have wanted to be red for so long! @nikkilee901 crushed this color! She named my color Sunset Lover🌅,” she wrote in the caption.

Lee also shared the look on Instagram, adding that she used a variety of Wella products to achieve the subtle red hue.

Hewitt turned 46 this year and took the opportunity to share some honest thoughts on aging. Alongside a makeup free selfie, the actress confessed that she sometimes felt “lost.” “It’s been a hard start to the year,” she wrote. “I don’t quite feel myself. But yet I feel like maybe this is all to bring me closer to who I am meant to be. In this feeling of loss and being lost I have found a strange calm and letting go that doesn’t usually come easy to me.”

She went on to explain that she was learning to “let go” and was excited to embrace the positives that come from getting older. She later concluded, “I am so deeply grateful for this life, I love all who choose to do it by my side and I am ready to give love today to the younger me and the older me because they are my ride or die’s. Sending love to all and cheers to 46! ❤️”