Nina Dobrev Just Made a MAJOR Hair Change

Nina Dobrev has signed up for the ombre club—today she debuted a new light brown ombre hair color at the CW network’s 2014 upfronts.

It’s a big change for the* Vampire Diaries *star, whose usual dark chocolate locks normally plant her somewhere toward “inky” on the brunette scale—and it seems she was reluctant to change it in the past, saying that her mother warned her “not to sizzle it off.” But perhaps she just felt like it was time for something different.

You guys like the look on her?

UPDATE: It’s for a role! Looks like it’s only temporary, folks!