{"id":408226,"date":"2026-04-24T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408226\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:52:11","slug":"why-beyonces-lemonade-braids-are-inspiring-us-10-years-later-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408226\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u2018Lemonade\u2019 Braids Are Inspiring Us 10 Years Later – Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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10 years ago today, Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s sixth album Lemonade was born. While the beauty looks in the visuals spanned braids, from Nefertiti-inspired to jumbo twists and cornrows, one specific look took on another life. To the point, it was named after the album itself: Lemonade braids.<\/p>\n

\u201cBraids are big in this section,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s Lemonade hairstylist Kim Kimble told The Cut<\/a> in 2016 when the album first released. \u201cShe started wearing cornrows years ago and it has been a popular style for a while.\u201d While she wore long, blonde straight backs on the album cover, Lemonade braids are the side-swept braids seen in songs like \u201cSorry\u201d and the album\u2019s final track, \u201cFormation\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Lemonade braids are her most popular protective style yet, it\u2019s not the first time she\u2019s worn influential braid looks. In the early aughts of the 2000s, the then Destiny\u2019s Child member wore micro-cornrows and pick-and-drop braids<\/a> as her signature. She retired her braids temporarily in the late 2000s and early 2010s, which made her Lemonade era even more impactful. <\/p>\n

After the album released, she wore one jumbo braid in a high ponytail to a TIDAL X red carpet and frequented fishtail braids, like at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.\u00a0Then, for last year\u2019s Cowboy Carter roll-out, she put her hair in silver micro braids in one shot. And, in another, she\u2019s mounted on a horse in a braided bead bang, proving her braid moments aren\u2019t limited to Lemonade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In honor of the 10th anniversary of \u2018Lemonade\u2019, here are 10 times Beyonc\u00e9 delivered iconic braid inspiration since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"@beyonce \/ Instagram 10 years ago today, Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s sixth album Lemonade was born. While the beauty looks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-408226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}