Not long after Ashley Avignone helped celebrate Taylor Swift’s birthday, the pop star returned the favor. In a photo the stylist shared on Instagram on Sunday (December 30), she and her longtime pal celebrated another trip around the sun at a cozy restaurant gathering, sharing drinks and colorful cake.
In one photo, Swift wears a stylish black top, cherry red lipstick, and sharp black and white eyeliner as she sits at a table and hugs Avigno tightly. Another photo showed the pair sharing a dusted cake with pink and purple frosting that read, “Ash turns 25 (again).”
“Happy birthday to me, emphasis on *happy,*” Avegno wrote in the post.
Just 10 days before this post, the interior designer shared photos from Swift’s own birthday party, which featured Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes ) and Brittany Mahomes, HAIM sisters and more friends also attended the gathering earlier this month. The party seemed to be themed around the 14-time Grammy Award winner’s global Eras tour, which concluded in Vancouver on December 8.
“While she thought she was going to a small, quiet dinner party, it was actually a large surprise party with her friends and family, complete with props,” Avegno wrote at the time.
Avegno and Swift have been good friends for more than a decade, with the latter putting the former’s name on red The single “22” was released back in 2012.
After her smash hit “2024,” Swift appeared to be wrapping up her 2024 by enjoying quality time with family and friends, which for her included a 17-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. tortured poets departmentwon two new Grammys — including Album of the Year midnight — set a new record for most wins at the December Billboard Music Awards during February’s ceremony, and earned more than $2 billion by the end of her Eras tour. She and Kelce reportedly stepped out with Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley in New York over the weekend, a day after Swift and the tight end went on another date at private dinner club Chez Margaux .