Something will be missing when MTV’s “Jersey Shore” returns for its third season: Snooki’s pouf.
Snooki (a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi) says she ditched her signature ‘do — a large hump of hair piled high on the crown of her head — earlier this year.
“I’m over the pouf, just because it’s everywhere, and people always associate me with the pouf. I don’t want to be known for just one hairstyle,” says the reality star, who recently has been sporting a slicker style with bangs.
While Polizzi, 23, may be done with the look, that doesn’t mean everyone else is. From fashion runways to red carpets, variations on the pouf have been all over in the past year, worn by everyone from Sarah Jessica Parker and Scarlett Johansson to Oprah Winfrey and Sarah Palin.
And, as far as Polizzi’s concerned, it’s all “very flattering.” Nevertheless, she seems intent on moving away from it.
Encouraged by her hairstylist, Antonio Luis Rosa, Polizzi says she’s going for a “more mature, sleek look” that is “still my style, but maybe more conservative.” Rosa, who’s opening a salon in Manhattan next month, says the pouf was “very Audrey Hepburn, very dated, and I wanted to bring her up-to-date. I wanted her to be more modern and to look her best,” he said.
As for Polizzi, the new look is in keeping with her career goals. “I feel like the direction that I want to go in my career … this needs to happen,” she says. “I want people to take me seriously. I’m not going to dress like Hillary Clinton but like a sexy Kim Kardashian.”
