Bella Thorne Returns to Red Hair With May 10 Selfie Post
bella thorne returned to her red ringlets in a May 10 Instagram selfie post after wearing dark brown tresses. The move links her current image back to the hair color tied to her Disney Channel years, and she made clear the change was hands-on.
Thorne wrote, “Merida down in this b---hhhhhh.” in the May 10 string of selfies. Two days later, in a May 12 Instagram Story, she added, “Did you know I actually dyed my own hair…who wants to see the video?”
Shake It Up years
Thorne starred on Shake It Up alongside Zendaya from 2010 to 2013, and she has been using that era as a reference point for the return to red. In an April 14 video, she said, “Just at the start of Shake It Up Bella,” while showing a photo of her earliest Disney headshot.
She also said, “I love this version of my red hair.” The line matters because it frames the new look as a deliberate return rather than a one-off styling change, with the earlier version already serving as a visual shorthand for her Disney-era profile.
April 14 to May 12
The timeline is tight: April 14 brought the first public nod to the older red look, May 10 delivered the selfie reveal, and May 12 added the note that she dyed it herself. For readers tracking her image cycle, that means the shift was not a quiet salon reset but a documented sequence she pushed out across Instagram.
At 28, Thorne is also old enough to turn a childhood TV association into a current branding move without it reading as nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. The red hair now does double duty: it recalls the 2010 to 2013 Shake It Up period and gives her a visible point of separation from the darker shade she wore before the switch.
Mark Emms plans
Thorne got engaged to Mark Emms in 2023 after meeting him in 2022, and she said the couple are making a movie together that she wrote and directed. That schedule appears to be part of why she said they are not rushing to get married until after the movie and the sequel to Spring Breakers are complete.
For now, the immediate takeaway is simple: Thorne has turned a hair change into a controlled public reset, with the May 10 reveal and May 12 DIY detail doing the work of announcing it. If she shares the video she teased, the focus will shift from the finished look to how she built it herself.
