If you cast your mind back about a decade, you might recall Ariana Grande’s iconic ponytail era.

Almost every time Ari stepped out, she rocked a signature high ponytail, which turned out to be a deliberate style choice to help mask the severe damage she’d endured from consistently dyeing her hair red while starring on the Nickelodeon series Victorious.

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“I had to bleach my hair and dye it red every other week for the first 4 years of playing Cat… as one would assume, that completely destroyed my hair. … I wear it in a ponytail because my actual hair is so broken that it looks absolutely ratchet and absurd when I let it down,” she explained in 2014.

In recent years, Ari has ditched the ponytail and rocked a series of other hairstyles — including a blonde ‘do during the Wicked press tour, and, momentarily, her natural, short curls.

At the 2026 Golden Globes in January, Ari wowed fans by bringing back her signature pony.

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And this week, she sent internet users into a frenzy once again after posting a bunch of Instagram photos rocking a long ponytail once again.

Though not quite as high as her signature pony, Ari’s hairstyle left fans writing, “She’s back to looking somewhat like herself,” and “Nature is healing.”

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“This makes me so happy :)” one Instagram comment read. “the ponytail! the heels!” someone else wrote.

“Hairrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!” another comment read, while Ari herself wrote in a comment to celebrity hairstylist Alyx Liu, “i love this long (not high) pony @alyxliu sm 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 and you.”

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