Nina Dobrev became a household name playing two characters at once in The Vampire Diaries, with a third thrown in for good measure in later seasons. But all I can say is, thank goodness they never gave one of her characters a fringe because people might have missed that it was still Nina. Ok, I'm wildly exaggerating, but I'm just far too excited about the actress debuting an absolute beauty of a full fringe on the red carpet for Netflix's The Out-Laws premiere.

Captioning her instagram post: "She’s bangin’ for the Outlaws Premiere ✨," the star showed off the new bangs; cut full and thick, she really jumped in the deep end and it paid off.

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It's changed her face so much (beautiful before, beautiful after), and we don't blame one fan who mistook her for a more notorious fringe babe, commenting: "For a moment I thought it's Lily Collins," – from the 500+ likes it got, it seems people relate.

I mean, just look at her a week ago. So different.

The fringe was cut in by celeb hair stylist Mark Townsend, and clearly they knew how monumentous it was going to be, because they kindly documented the whole thing (probably also to stop us beauty writers debating if it was a hair piece).

Making sure no doubt was left at all, the slides were captioned: "chop chop 💇🏻‍♀️". And what a chop chop it was. I mean, just look at it here from the side to get the full picture of the density and commitment to bang.

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Now, this is what we want from a hair transformation. Bang Watch will be back soon with any breaking news, and until then, remember, don't try this at home.

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