Ryan Gosling is bringing bangs back. The Barbie star ditched his platinum blonde Ken doll coif in favor of a superbly imperfect cut with a touch of beachy blonde highlights.

Gosling headed to London for a TAG Heuer Carrera party and posed for pics to point out off his latest style, a for much longer length than we have seen these days from the star, though not quite so long as his Notebook-era Noah look. His dark blonde hair is cut in choppy, forehead-skimming bangs to match the tousled texture of the remainder of his hair, as if he just ran his hands through it to mess it up ever so perfectly.

Bangs aren’t the one trend Gosling is embracing today. He’s also gotten highlights! In case you look closely, you will see the glint of teeny-tiny but impactful warm blonde highlights picking up the sunshine and adding depth and dimension to Gosling’s base color, which looks pretty near his childhood hue. The look is giving leading man in a Y2K romantic comedy in one of the best ways — perhaps a possible clue of what is to return from the Barbie movie, where Gosling plays the lovelorn Ken? And speaking of Ken, while this recent red carpet look is a big departure from the tan, white-blonde Ken within the Barbie trailer, it does resemble something my Ken dolls would have rocked back within the ’90s.