“Sofia’s hair was at the stage where it needed a bit of a revamp,” Curran tells Vogue, noting Richie Grainge’s hair history of updos; looks that have come to define the clean girl aesthetic which she’s been a driving force of. “She was nervous, but super excited,” he adds. It’s a decision, Curran says, that Richie Grainge had been thinking about for a few weeks. “Sofia had chopped a bit off before – she had cut off about five inches already – but she wanted the full refresh.”
The star explained her own thinking in a TikTok that documented the bob du jour. “I did one too many Keratin treatments on my hair, and I’ve just been cutting at it and cutting at it, hoping I could get this ‘dead’ away… and it’s just not going away,” she said to the camera. “I know what I have to do to make this hair healthy again, and it’s to start over – so we’re cutting a bob.”
The nerves were palpable – doing what we all do before a big chop, she decided for a moment that it looked pretty good as is. Still, she soldiered on. “It’s a great look for 27, we’re starting fresh,” she reassured herself. In bed the night before the haircut, she added: “I’ve decided I want a bob. Like a real [gestures to her chin length]. It’s gotta go – it’s fried.”
She asked her husband, Elliot Grainge, for some solidarity: “Will you shave your head?” she asked.
“I already have a bob,” he replied.
“No, you have a pixie,” she retorted.
“We had spoken a little bit about references before and she had sent me a few pictures – the ‘old money’ longer bob, with a few layers around the face,” explains Curran, who cut her hair on location in France. “There were lots of different lengths, and she was undecided on what she wanted to do. But like I said to her, until I see the person in real life, when they’re sat in front of the mirror and we’re chatting, it’s hard to decide before. We decided on the day.”
Back on Richie Grainge’s TikTok, she shows Curran coming to her hotel room to start the process. “Last time I had a bob, I was a crazy teenager, and I didn’t style it, not one day and I looked insane,” she told him, while sipping a matcha and eating a croissant. “I love George – if I have a son, I’d probably name him George.”
