Dark roast appears in Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso.”
The famous blonde singer is barely recognizable on the cover of Perfect magazine’s latest issue, swapping her signature Goldilocks for a sleek jet black wig with blunt bangs.
She doubled down on the goth vibe with matching black nail polish and dramatically smudged eyeliner.
Photographed by Bryce Anderson and styled by Katie Grand, the 26-year-old also appears on the second cover, wearing voluminous strawberry blonde curls and a pink Marc Jacobs dress embellished with crystals.
Perfect announced a total of eight covers for the issue, captioning an Instagram image, “Sabrina like you’ve never seen before.”
In a simultaneous interview with Marc Jacobs, Carpenter spoke candidly about her 5-foot-1-inch frame and the fashion learning curve that came with it.
“I’m the shortest person ever, so my initial relationship with fashion was kind of painful,” she told the designer. “My life changed from the day I understood what tailoring was.”
The “House Tour” hitmaker also reflected on the emotional power that comes with wearing clothes.
“I really think of it as an art. I think it’s something that makes you feel so self-conscious and so incredibly confident that you don’t even realize what’s going on with your body,” she said.
That confidence was on full display during the shoot, and the Pennsylvania native said she welcomed the chance to experiment. “I really had to try looks that I had never tried before. A lot of wigs, a lot of different makeup, a lot of shapes that I might not normally wear,” she told Jacobs.
Black hair isn’t exactly new territory for Carpenter. She sported a honey brown hair color in the 2018 movie “Nora,” and when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” last October, she wore several black wigs during a sketch.
Carpenter is gearing up for his Coachella headline set this Friday, and although it’s been two years and two albums since he last performed at the festival, he told Jacobs that this performance has been months in the making.
“This is the most ambitious show I’ve ever done,” she said.
