Сегодня её чёлка выглядит лучше, чем вчера.

Чёлка means the hair that falls over the forehead — in English, usually bangs (US) or fringe (UK).

A few useful notes:

• In Russian, чёлка is grammatically singular.
• In English, bangs is usually plural, so the translation may look mismatched.
• Russians normally use чёлка for the hairstyle/part of the hair, not for each individual hair.

So:

• её чёлка = her bangs / her fringe

Here её means her.

In this sentence, её is a possessive pronoun modifying чёлка:

• её чёлка = her bangs

A very important point for learners: её does not change form the way many adjectives and pronouns do. It stays её regardless of gender, number, or case of the noun it belongs to.

Compare:

• её брат = her brother
• её сестра = her sister
• её волосы = her hair

Same form every time: её.

Because the Russian subject is чёлка, which is singular.

Russian grammar follows the Russian noun, not the English translation:

• чёлка = singular
• therefore выглядит = 3rd person singular

So literally, the structure is closer to:

• Today her fringe looks better than yesterday.

Even though English often says bangs (plural), Russian uses a singular noun here.

Выглядит means looks / appears.

The dictionary form is выглядеть = to look, to appear.

In this sentence:

• чёлка выглядит лучше = her bangs look better

This verb is very common when talking about someone’s appearance or how something seems visually:

• Она выглядит хорошо. = She looks good.
• Это выглядит странно. = That looks strange.
• Ты выглядишь уставшим. = You look tired.

Here it is not about actively looking at something. It means to have a certain appearance.

Лучше is the comparative form meaning better.

After выглядеть, Russian normally uses лучше as a comparative predicate:

• выглядеть лучше = to look better

This is natural Russian. You do not need an adjective agreeing with чёлка here.

Compare:

• Сегодня она выглядит лучше. = Today she looks better.
• Сегодня её чёлка выглядит лучше. = Today her bangs look better.

So лучше works like English better after look.

Чем means than in comparisons.

So:

• лучше, чем вчера = better than yesterday

The idea is:

• Today her bangs look better than they did yesterday.

Russian often leaves out the repeated verb because it is understood from context.

So чем вчера is a compact way of saying:

• than yesterday
• more fully: than yesterday they looked

Because Russian often omits repeated material when it is obvious.

The full idea would be something like:

• Сегодня её чёлка выглядит лучше, чем вчера выглядела.

But that sounds heavier than necessary. In everyday Russian, it is much more natural to shorten it to:

• Сегодня её чёлка выглядит лучше, чем вчера.

English does the same sometimes:

• She looks better than yesterday.

Even though the full meaning is really:

• She looks better than she did yesterday.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible.

Putting сегодня first is very natural because it sets the time frame right away:

• Сегодня её чёлка выглядит лучше, чем вчера.

But other orders are also possible, depending on emphasis:

• Её чёлка сегодня выглядит лучше, чем вчера.
• Её чёлка выглядит лучше сегодня, чем вчера.

All of these are understandable, but the original version sounds very natural and neutral.

In Russian, word order often reflects focus and emphasis, not strict grammatical roles the way it often does in English.

A rough pronunciation guide:

• её ≈ yi-YO
• чёлка ≈ CHYOL-ka

A few helpful details:

• The letter ё is always stressed.
• ё sounds like yo.
• ч sounds like ch in cheese.

So:

• её чёлка ≈ yi-YO CHYOL-ka

Also, in printed Russian, ё is often written as е, but here it is written correctly with ё, which is especially helpful for learners.

Because чем introduces a comparative phrase, and in standard Russian spelling this is separated with a comma:

• лучше, чем вчера

This is normal punctuation in Russian comparisons.

So the comma is not optional here in standard writing.

Yes, you could, if the context already makes it clear whose bangs you mean.

• Сегодня чёлка выглядит лучше, чем вчера.

This would sound like:

• Today the bangs look better than yesterday.

However, её is useful if you want to clearly say her bangs, especially if several people are being discussed.

So:

• with её = more explicit
• without её = possible when context is clear

Here вчера is an adverb, meaning yesterday.

It does not need a preposition, and it does not change form here.

So:

• сегодня = today
• вчера = yesterday

In this sentence, both words function as time adverbs:

• Сегодня ... = Today ...
• чем вчера = than yesterday

This can feel slightly unusual to English speakers because English often prefers a fuller phrase like than it did yesterday, but Russian is very comfortable using just вчера.

Yes, but the meaning would change slightly.

• чёлка specifically means bangs / fringe
• волосы means hair in general

So compare:

• Сегодня её чёлка выглядит лучше, чем вчера.
  = Today her bangs look better than yesterday.

• Сегодня её волосы выглядят лучше, чем вчера.
  = Today her hair looks better than yesterday.

Notice that with волосы the verb changes to выглядят because волосы is plural in Russian.

So чёлка is the right word if you specifically mean the front section of hair over the forehead.