The POB is back – with two very fashionable twists
Welcome to the Victoria Beckham Bob Story episode 2025: aka The When We Thought It Was A Fake. VB has been teasing Paris Fashion Week with what looked like a chic faux bob, tucking her hair inside high-neck jackets and jumpers and leaving a few chin-skimming tendrils poking tantalisingly out.
But now there’s a twist and, of course, it’s the most fashionable one imaginable.
At a Buckingham Palace reception with Queen Camilla, Victoria revealed that her iconic bob was back for real and she’s added a very on-trend update.
The Spice Girl turned fashion icon has complemented her shoulder-skimming chop with a smattering of ‘hair blusher’, in this season’s It colour: soft terracopper.
Three trends in one? You have to hand it to Posh, this girl knows how to do fashion.
The bob is the work of Victoria’s trusted hairdresser Ken Paves, who was by her side in Paris and presumably chewing his comb in frustration at PFW as his handiwork was hidden away in rollnecks.
Now, though, Posh-punzel has let down her hair (well, lob) for the world to see and we think it’s straight into the Top 10 of VB’s best hair looks of all time. (While she always shows how great long hair can look on women over 50, there’s just something extra chic about VB with a shorter cut.)
First, there’s the ‘hair blusher’ element, highlighted by Toni&Guy’s 2025 London Fashion Week report as One To Watch for the season. ‘Lumi Blush adds soft, blush-toned accents around the perimeter to frame the face and illuminate features, while creating a subtle play of light and shadow throughout,’ explains Charley Henery, British Colour Technician of the Year and International Artistic Director at Toni&Guy. ‘It’s a beautiful soft sun-kissed effect to create depth and brightness, without harsh contrast.’
It’s a new, grown-up spin on ombre, made subtle and sophisticated by keeping the lighter pieces focused around the cheeks but also gently graduating the lightness further back. ‘Like a perfectly blended blusher, it’s about diffusing the shade away from the cheek area, in a soft graduation, so the overall effect lifts and brightens,’ says Charley.
For her shade of ‘blusher’, Victoria has leaned into spring 2025’s take on the terracopper trend. While copper has been big for the past few seasons, the mood has shifted away from brighter oranges towards either deeper earth colours, or (as per Victoria) ‘lighter, peachier and more powdery shades,’ according to hairdresser and trends forecaster Tom Smith. ‘This version of the trend is “soft contrast”, where you wear colours close in depth to your skin tone. Things all blend together for an expensive look.’
We’d expect nothing else from Posh.