Joy-Anna Duggar Cries After Her At-Home Hair Transformation Goes Wrong

Joy-Anna Duggar isn’t going to be opening up an at-home hair studio anytime soon.

On Monday, October 22, Duggar, 27, posted an Instagram video of her friend, Gabrielle Patton, coloring her hair in the sink.

“I cannot believe we’re doing this. We’re going all in. Do the roots first,” Duggar shared before Patton noted that Duggar is “beautiful no matter what hair color you have” and if it ends up not being the color they can “fix it.”

Patton continued to section out Duggar’s hair, adding that she is “so thankful” they brought two dyes because of Duggar’s thick hair.

“I’m probably going to go through regret then I’m going to love it or I’m going to hate it and then I’m going to go get it fixed,” Duggar explained. “You only live once, right? Might as well just do it. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while.”

Duggar then set the timer for 20 minutes before the pair went on to wash off the dye — revealing a hair color that was much darker than what Duggar had in mind.

“It’s dark,” Duggar cried before Patton noted that “it’s going to lighten with washes.”

“‘You only live once’ & ‘girls just want to have fun’ was behind this decision & then I quickly realized this was a stupid decision 😭🤣LOL,” Duggar captioned the Instagram video on Monday.

According to their 2014 book Growing Up Duggar, Joy-Anna and her siblings were prohibited from cutting or dyeing their hair due to their family’s conservative religious beliefs.

“Our hairstyle is our choice, and we choose longer hair based on our understanding of 1 Corinthians 11:4-15,” an excerpt from the book read. “While it is a shame for a man to have long hair, a woman’s hair is her glory.”

Joy-Anna is the daughter of Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, who have welcomed a total of 19 children throughout the years. The family, which follows the Institute in Basic Life Principles religion, starred in 19 Kids and Counting on TLC from 2009 to 2015.

Following her marriage to Austin Forsyth in May 2017, Joy-Anna decided to distance herself from the IBLP church. (Forsyth and Joy-Anna welcomed son Gideon in 2018, daughter Evelyn in 2020 and son Gunner in 2023.)

“We’d always talk about when we were dating that we weren’t gonna use their literature and stuff like that … Just kinda distanced ourselves,” she shared in a September 2023 YouTube video, noting that they choose to follow Jesus “alone” now.