‘Bleph bun’ trend, fueled by celebs like Ariana Grande and Anne Hathaway, is the free way to get an eyelift — and a ‘new face’

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Between nan reddish curtain and nan reddish carpet, nan classical slicked-back bun has stood nan style trial of clip — and now it’s taking connected a caller role.

Slicked-back buns and ponytails person agelong been a manner staple, peculiarly among nan achromatic and brownish communities who popularized nan protective hairstyle. Now, nan straightforward updo pinch a “clean girl” aesthetic is serving a caller function, becoming a measurement to springiness group a “new face.”

Ariana Grande astatine nan 2025 EE BAFTA Film Awards connected February 16, 2025, successful London, England. Samir Hussein/WireImage

Allure has dubbed nan arena nan “bleph bun” — a bun truthful taut that it has akin effects to a blepharoplasty, aliases an eyelid lift.

The tight buns and ponytails tin redirect brows and oculus corners to a different angle, arsenic good arsenic soft retired crow’s feet.

Celebrities person been rocking nan caller ‘do much and much connected reddish carpets, making it nan norm and cementing it arsenic a timeless hairstyle.

Given nan look’s lifting effects, there’s been overmuch speculation connected galore A-listers who rocked nan look are getting activity done to their faces.

“It dares maine to ponder if nan symptom they’re consenting to spell done for beauty is nan surgical benignant aliases simply from forcing their hairsbreadth follicles to bent connected for beloved life,” nan Allure newsman wrote.

Ariana Grande, who has been wearing her infamous slicked-back ponytail since her Nickelodeon days, is conscionable 1 illustration of an A-lister getting a free eyelift done a hairsbreadth elastic.

Anne Hathaway astatine nan 2025 Met Gala successful New York City. Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue
Anne Hathaway attends nan Ralph Lauren Collection Fall 2025 connected April 17, 2025, successful New York City. Theo Wargo/Getty Images

This past spring, Anne Hathaway did her hairsbreadth pinch an extra-tight updo astatine some New York Fashion Week, which sparked integrative room rumors and had group online saying she sewage a “new face.”

Lindsay Lohan hopped connected nan trend, too, prompting plastic surgeons and sleuths online to guess what procedures she’s gotten — contempt nan 39-year-old “Freaky Friday” prima denying ever getting a facelift.

Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber person besides been seen pinch nan intensely tight hairdo successful nan past fewer weeks.

Besides, nan trend of undetectable cosmetic surgery is rising, saying goodbye to nan melodramatic and utmost makeovers successful favour of barely-there work.

Selena Gomez astatine nan 2025 Disney Upfront astatine Javits Center connected May 13, 2025, successful New York City. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
Lindsay Lohan during New York Fashion Week, September 2025. BFA.com / BACKGRID

“In nan past, highly altered changes to your look were considered ‘normal.’ But now, celebrities person had ‘great’ activity — activity that doesn’t look for illustration activity — [which] are admired and requested,” double-board-certified facial integrative surgeon Dr. Akshay Sanan told The Post earlier this year.

However, while nan slicked-back pony tin springiness nan aforesaid effects of an eyelid for free, location are besides beauty downsides to putting your hairsbreadth successful a tight ponytail aliases bun.

According to Healthline, many times pulling connected hairsbreadth — for illustration wearing it successful a slicked-updo — could origin traction alopecia.

Hailey Bieber attends nan reopening of nan Tiffany & Co. NYC Flagship shop connected April 27, 2023. Getty Images for Tiffany & Co.

People tin create traction alopecia from wearing their hairsbreadth pulled excessively tightly successful a ponytail aliases bun — specified arsenic the “clean girl” slicked-back bun — aliases wearing tight braids, cornrows aliases dreadlocks.

Pulling connected nan hairsbreadth many times loosens nan hairsbreadth shaft successful its follicle. If nan follicle is damaged enough, it will scar and could yet extremity growing. The harm tin beryllium permanent, and nan hairsbreadth whitethorn not turn back.

To forestall hairsbreadth loss, experts urge switching up looks pinch thing looser.