Lisa Rinna Revealed the Origin of Her Iconic Hairdo

In the season five reunion of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Brandi Glanville shocked Lisa Rinna when she told her she’d had the “same hairdo for 20 years.” While Rinna has made some changes to her look in recent years, she has largely rocked the same hairstyle. In her new memoir, Rinna shared the origins of her iconic look.

Lisa Rinna shared how she got her now-famous hairdo

Rinna cut her hair short shortly after her first audition for Days of Our Lives. When she first auditioned, she had long hair.

“Every time I’ve done something that everyone tells me not to do, it always produces something good,” she wrote in her book You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It. “Case in point: I’d auditioned against exactly 211 girls for the role of Billie Reed on ‘Days.’ I went to the first audition with long hair and got the coveted callback.”

While she knew she should look the same for the callback, she’d recently gone through a breakup and wanted to change her appearance.

“You’re supposed to go back into your second audition looking exactly the same, but meh, I wasn’t feeling it,” she wrote. “I’d just broken up with Peter [Barton], and you know how people drastically change their hair after a relationship ends?”

She found a stylist, and he gave her the now iconic hairstyle.

“In a perfect storm moment, I met a girl with gorgeous hair in my acting class. I asked her if her stylist would come to my place to do my hair,” she explained. “And that is how the famous/infamous Rinna vintage pixie shag came to be: this random guy came to my little apartment in Brentwood and chopped off my hair. I have no idea who he was and never saw him again, but it was 1992 and I was 29 years old.”

Over 20 years later, she was still wearing her hair that way at the RHOBH reunion.