Toni Colette gets a stylist - finally

I love Toni Colette. She's one of those actresses that is prepared to transform herself (read: doesn't mind putting on weight for a role or looking like a real person who hasn't spent 10 hours in makeup), and she chooses appropriately gritty characters. She is, as one person wrote, an actress and not a movie star. A description I think any self respecting actor who takes their trade seriously and considers themselves a technician would be proud of.

But as much as I love her transformations on-screen, there really is no excuse for some of her red-carpet outfits or hairstyles for that matter. I mean, the outfit on the top left is a good example of not just getting it slightly wrong, but ugly charity shop wrong - and not even vintage-chic charity shop either. And what's with the crazy sunglasses? The photo above that, is just a very bad dye-job - with the grey peeping out from the sides. I mean, you have a premier, even if you don't have time to book a stylist to come to your house, surely there's time to nip down to a chemist and get a box of hairdye and stick it in your hair for 30 minutes?

I found some pictures taken this year, among others at the 'In her shoes' premier, with Toni not just looking red-carpet presentable, but in fact rather beautiful. In a series of photos taken with her and Cameron Diaz (who played her younger, irresponsible, and hot younger sister in the movie), she's actually a lot more attractive than Diaz.

Who knew a great dress and new hairstyle could make such a difference, or rather, the damage a wrong haircut and fugly outfit could do?