8 platinum blonde braiding styles to inspire your Hot Girl Summer

As the temperature increases and August nearing an end, all I can think about is the summer that is approaching. At this point, we all know that summer is synonymous with blonde hair and lately, bleach-blonde is the shade of choice.

All the cool girls have tried their hand at platinum locks, including Megan Thee Stallion, Teyana Taylor and Solange. In addition to this striking hair colour, creative braiding styles have entered the conversation. 

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Look no further than this for platinum blonde braiding styles to inspire your summer look and get ready to take screenshots for your hairstylist. 

Style stars are pulling all the stops at various fashion weeks in this spirited hair colour.

A guest is seen in blonde cornrows with dark roots outside Day Birger et Mikkelsen in Copenhagen, Denmark.

During Paris Fashion Week - Menswear Spring/Summer 2022, a guest is seen in waist-length platinum blonde box braids in Paris, France.

Celebrities have also been taking full advantage of this trend. Here are a few styles to draw inspo from:

Amandla Stenberg

Amandla wore a bleached blonde bob at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.  

Recently she posted a cornrows look with curled tips on her Instagram.

Solange

This iconic cornrow look by Solange from New York Fashion Week in 2017 is timeless.

Saweetie

This rapper loves a blonde hair moment, having sported many style variations, but we can't enough of these Rapunzel-length box braids with beaded ends.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Miss Jada loves a faux hawk, at the LA Premiere of Lionsgate's Angel Has Fallen she wore it in blonde braids tied in a bun.

Zoë Kravitz

At the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Zoë Kravitz showed up in  a finely-braided undercut look curled to a bob.

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