Love It or Leave It: Avril Lavigne is Still Trying for That Hardcore Thing

… Either that or she’s trying to channel her inner drunkard, which isn’t all that hard because I hear she floats rather close to the surface of both Avril‘s physical being and psyche. I mean, honestly. Does girlfriend not look absolutely tanked in these photos??

Also, get ready for it—I’m about to say something nice about Avril. It doesn’t happen very often, if it’s ever even happened in the history of this site. From me. Are you prepared? Here goes: I think Avril would actually look … well, quite pretty if she decided to buzz the rest of her head, because the way no hair would contrast against and enhance her cheekbones would, I think, be rather striking, if I have to speak honestly about it.

Anyway, this is Avril’s new look, and I have to say, it’s gads better than the way Ke$ha tried to pull it off on her birthday. Ke$ha’s look was alright, I guess, but there’s just something about the way that Avril did it that makes it almost presentable. All I know is that tomorrow is my birthday (whee! Twenty-nine!), and I won’t be shaving my head or affixing spikes to my temples with any kind of riveting machine or glue. The closest I’ve come to that is what I did two weeks ago, and let’s just say that I went from having hair that touched my lower back to … well, this:

Note: No, before you ask, I am not Anne Hathaway.

Are you guys liking—or at the very least, able to tolerate—Avril’s new look?