Ciara had us fooled with her short haircut. It turns out that Super C’s super cut is only a wig.

Ciara didn’t chop off her precious locks after all, according to her hair stylist Kiyah Wright.

“Yes, it’s a hair piece,” Wright tells BellaSugar. “She still has really long hair—this look is just for the summer.”

The “Love Sex Magic” singer, who recently made the move out West, wanted to try something new. “She’s in L.A. for the summer and wanted something lighter, something different.”

Wright reveals where she got her inspiration from. “Ciara has such a little, petite, cute face, and she told me that she wanted to go short. She wanted to do the Halle Berry, but I thought, ‘We need a little sexy, we need a little swagger in front, so let’s just give it a little bit of lift,'” she says. “But I didn’t want it to look like Rihanna’s cut, either, so I cut all of it with thinning sheers and kept it tight on the sides, then added a swoop bang and gave her a reddish-auburn highlight in the front, just to break up the black a little bit.”

Spotted at RapRadar.com