Michelle Obama Has Retired Her Bangs

First lady Michelle Obama just keeps us guessing with her indelible fashion sense. New York magazine duly notes that on Friday she sported a new look for her commencement address at Bowie State University in College Park, Md.: side-swept bangs. Suggested Reading Y’all Wanna Make Sherrone Moore About White Women…at the Expense of Black Women…

First lady Michelle Obama just keeps us guessing with her indelible fashion sense. New York magazine duly notes that on Friday she sported a new look for her commencement address at Bowie State University in College Park, Md.: side-swept bangs.

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Gone are the blunt midlife crisis bangs she debuted in February, leaving behind only a poofy, angled trace of the controversial fringe action. Michelle weathered the most difficult part of the bangs aftermath well — though she admitted they were “irritating,” she never dealt with the clips and headbands mess many parents use on their kids to get them through the unflattering growing-out period.

But, why now? Is she over the look? Does she know that instead of providing shade, bangs are inviting sweat to cover a forehead during a D.C. summer?

Read more at New York magazine. 

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