Nara Smith Opens Up About Her ‘Hair Thinning Out’ Postpartum While Making Dramatic Color Change

Skyler CarusoThu, May 21, 2026 at 8:50 PM UTC

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Nara Smith opened up about her major hair transformation in a new Instagram video shared in May 2026

The lifestyle and fashion influencer also opened up about her postpartum haircare, involving hair tracks

She explained why she changed her hair color, despite being "the most indecisive person"

Nara Smith took the risk!

The fashion and lifestyle influencer, 24, opened up about changing her hairdo to a bold new hue while chronicling the transformation process that turned her bold black bob to a fiery red in an Instagram video on Wednesday, May 20.

"I'm the most indecisive person when it comes to smaller decisions, and dyeing my hair has been something that I wanted to do for a while. For the last few months, I've been texting my hairstylist a lot, asking her if this is the right decision," she says in her recognizable voice narration.

Nara Smith hair transformation May 2026.
Credit: Nara Smith/Instagram (2)

Ultimately, Smith was convinced by her hairstylist, who eased her fears about the color change, making clear that she can "definitely" dye her bob back to black if she wasn't a fan of the newly dyed red.

Smith, who cited "the seasons changing" and "feeling really good lately" as the two reasons she believes are why she was called to change her hair color, went on to detail the process. Since she was switching to color, she had to chemically make her hair lighter first.

"We started by lightening my hair, and seeing this orange reminded me of this German character... whoever is German will know what I mean," she says in the clip. "Then we layered the color on top and obviously couldn't forget about the eyebrows."

"We tested this color, and even though I loved it, I wanted to go just a little bit more brown," Smith explains. "We went over with some brown and some ash tones. I thought that I liked it at this point, so we went ahead, blow-dried it to style it."

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Nara Smith gets hair tracks applied after dying her hair in May 2026.
Credit: Nara Smith/Instagram

Smith's stylist then trimmed her locks to perfection and added a few hair tracks, a way to combat her thinning hair after the birth of her four kids — Rumble Honey, 5, Slim Easy, 4, Whimsy Lou, 2, and Fawnie Golden, 11 months — whom she shares with her husband, model Lucky Blue Smith.

"Obviously, I needed to cut a few inches off," she makes clear. "Love when the bob is just crisp, I don't even know how to describe it. My postpartum and eczema has made my hair thin out a little, so we added a couple tracks in — and I was obsessed."

Smith, who went viral online for her made-from-scratch cooking tutorials and unconventional meals, has been open about her hair loss in the past as a result of her "severe eczema."

Nara Smith.
Credit: Nara Smith/Instagram

On July 3, the content creator shared a throwback photo with her husband and herself with curly hair on her Instagram Stories. She added the text, saying," My hair before getting severe eczema on my scalp which caused me to [lose] a lot of hair…"

Prior, Smith detailed her journey with eczema and eventually lupus after she made known that bad flare-ups were in part the reason she started making food from scratch. She posted a carousel in December 2024 that featured a picture of her dry and itchy scalp.

"It’s been about 3 years since my eczema started flaring up severely," she began her lengthy caption alongside a roundup of pictures showing her flare-ups. "I had just given birth to my second child. It started off as a small cracked patch of dry skin that I just moisturized and ignored."

"My eczema spread rapidly starting on the palms of my hands and making its way onto my back, arms, scalp and eventually my face," she added. "I felt exhausted and my body ached so bad that on some days I couldn’t move or hold my babies."

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