Erykah Badu wasn’t going to accept the Icon Award at the 2025 Billboard Women In Music without an iconic look to match. Even before her performance—where she appeared in a knitted, full-figured “booty suit” and smeared eyeliner—you couldn’t miss her red carpet hair, which was just as bodacious.
As an appetizer to what was dubbed her BBL suit, fruit-colored hair seemed like the perfect compliment to her message on fertility, womanhood, and body image. Her eye-catching, rich orange hair was chopped into a bob, one of this season’s most popular cuts, with bumped ends grazing her jawline.
The wig isn’t new, however. Thrown on here and there on her Instagram, Badu’s then disheveled hair was first a golden blonde color. But giving her wig a face lift by dunking it into a bowl of hair dye just before being this year’s undisputed icon, was just that.
To pair with it, fronts peaked through a deep, matte red lipstick while oversized eyeliner and pale orange shadow was smudged against her hazel eyes. While her hair was covered in a knit hood the rest of the night, she couldn’t have started off the awards more iconic.