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Selena Gomez Reveals the Secret to Her Luscious Locks

As a brand ambassador for Pantene, Selena Gomez definitely gives us major #hairgoals with her shiny, brunette locks. What you might not know is that the “Good for You” singer has a trick up her sleeves, or should we say, in her hair—extensions.


Many actors and musicians often use hair extensions for extra volume and bounce for performances and public debuts, but tend to keep this detail hush and try to play it off. Selena, on the other hand, isn’t afraid to admit that her hair isn’t 100 percent au natural.

She recently filmed a video with YouTuber Lilly Singh, aka Superwoman, called the “Newly Friend Game” when the topic of hair came up into conversation. After giving Lilly a super sweet compliment about her personality, Lilly mentioned how people usually give her feedback about her hair rather than about her character.

Then, Selena felt Lilly’s hair to “check for a weave” and said it was nice, before saying, “Mine, however, is very fake” about her own beautiful locks. Say it isn’t so!

Despite this new discovery, we totally admire Selena for her confidence and honesty when it comes to her beauty routine. Plus, either way her hair looks great, so does it really matter how it got that way? We didn’t think so.

Thanks for reminding us that even pop stars aren’t perfect, Selena!

Jen is a 2016 graduate of Messiah College, where she majored in journalism and minored in gender studies. She's a proud Bostonian who is obsessed with tattoos, puppies, magazines and Sephora. She's been reading Her Campus since high school and was thrilled to join the HC team as a National Contributing Writer in September 2013. She became an HC Beauty Blogger in February 2014 and continued to write on-trend beauty posts until July 2016. A few highlights from her time writing for HC included attending and writing about two BeautyCon events and Cosmopolitan's Fun Fearless Life in 2015. You can follow her on Twitter @JenFlanagan14 and on Instagram @jenlea14.