This caramel-colored side-swept pixie is yet another example of why women around the world can’t get enough of Moss.
It was the moment that defined her career and apparently quadrupled her rate, but Evangelista said she wept as hairstylist Julien d’Ys created the layered chestnut pixie that she would later describe as a “bowl cut with sideburns.”
What could create even more of a sensation than Holmes’s chin-length bob? The wispy pixie that followed it.
AGYNESS DEYN, 2008
‘It really depends on how I’m feeling,’ the model told fashionologie about her famous punk-influenced short hairstyle.’ It’s something I like to express in addition to the way I dress. I’ve done that all the way through growing up. You juest get to the point of shaving it all off, and I’ve gone through years where I dye it, shave it, grow it out.
Not just anyone could replace Nicole Kidman as the face of Chanel No. 5 perfume. But Tautou did just that, with her wavy, gamine short hairstyle.
NATALIE PORTMAN, 2006
‘It was a one-shot deal, and that was the most stressful thing about the experience,’ Portman said of her scene in V for Vendetta in which her hair is shaved off. It was hairstylist Mark Townsend who made certain growing out the buzz cut wouldn’t be as stressful, leaving her hair longer on top for what he said offered her more versatility.
SIENNA MILLER, 2006
When Miller was 16, she walked into a salon, clutching a photo of Winona Ryder in her pixie cut. ‘But when I walked out, I looked as if I has a helmet on,’ the actress told PropleStyleWatch. ‘My boyfriend at the time opened the door and closed it in my face.’ Fortunately, her second go at wearing the look, for playing the role of Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl, made her into the ultimate femme fatale.
At the MTV VMAs, Rihanna took home the award for best video of the year for “We Found Love,” and also put together one of our favorite beauty looks of the year, with the debut of her pixie cut that looked downright stunning with bright red lipstick and a white gown.
This actress is so attached to her pixie cut that she now has a wig clause written into every one of her contracts. “I find it hard to express myself when I’m growing out a very bad character haircut,” she said. “As long as I can wear a wig, I can be any character and in real life I can be myself.”
Watson got a magical makeover when the Harry Potter series wrapped filming, trimming her shoulder-length hair into this pixie style that transformed her from Hermione Granger into a red-carpet superstar.
It’s been red, it’s been brunette. It’s been braided, it’s been set with finger waves. It’s been worn every which way, but we still can’t get enough of Mulligan’s pixie paired with a Prada dress and Fred Leighton earrings at the 2010 Academy Awards.
Angela Bassett is known for embodying badass women, so what’s more badass than a short and choppy cut?
“Tick tock tick tock,” Cyrus wrote to her Twitter fans, only a short time before posting a photo of hairstylist Chris McMillan about to chop off her girl-next-door locks. The big reveal was a drastic bleached pixie cut with shaved sides and long bangs that sent the social space into a frenzy. But the singer stood by her look. “Never felt more me in my whole life,” she wrote in
When Berry first cut her hair short in 1989, her manager told the future Oscar winner she was never going to get work. She believes she booked her first role in the TV series Living Dolls simply because she stood out among all the other actresses with long, wavy strands.
CHARLIZE THERON, 2013
When you are playing a character named Imperator Furiosa, not just any hairdo will do. That is why Theron went bold and shaved off every last strand for Mad Max: Fury Road. She said it took her about three months to get it to the perfect pixie length, and she showed us just how perfect that length could could be at the 2013 Academy Awards.
ANNE HATHAWAY, 2012
As she shed her hair for playing the role of grisette Fantine in Les Miserables, Hathaway admitted she shed tears as well. But, alas, all that woe was for naught. After all, she took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her part in the film and soon became a force to be reckoned with on the red carpet, as well.
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Lena Dunham returned to the pixie club in March 2015 after first trying the look two years before. She showed off the short ‘do on Late Night With Seth Meyers.
The former Dancing with the Stars favorite is not a stranger to short hair: She has gone from long waves to an asymmetrical bob and back again.
Jennifer Lawrence is living proof that a pixie cant can be as versatile as any hair length. She debuted her chopped hair on her Facebook, during her Hunger Games: Catching Fire press trail.
Pamela Anderson may have been America’s blonde bombshell in the nineties, frolicking on the beach as her long hair whipped through the wind, but this shorter style suits her.
A true hair chameleon,Zendaya can wear any style and make it look natural. This roots showing bowl cut is a piece of cake.
We’re digging Tyra Banks short take on little orphan Annie’s auburn curls.
Shaved on the sides, pushed forward in the back.
Halsey gelled her short hair skyward for a modern take on the ’60s greaser look.
Janella Monae experiments with a red carpet pixie, topping the look with a gilded headpiece.
After wearing her natural dark hair for years, Katy Perry decided that switch things up. She shared her undercut journey on Snapchat, too.
We’re gonna go ahead and assume Kehlani’s cut was inspired in part by Salt N’ Pepa.
Viola Davis turns the pixie into an Oscar-winning hair look.
Make the most of uneven texture (hair that’s flipping out too much at the ends or hair that’s hanging too flat) by curling the ends with a barrel iron. The ends will wrap up loosely by the nape of your neck for a sophisticated old Hollywood look.
Nyongo’s “short hair, don’t care” look is the coolest of looks for summer.
Spritz some sea salt spray in your hair to achieve more natural waves like Miller’s, and take a ’20s spin on the bob by tucking one end behind your hair and securing with a pin, while letting the other strands blow in your face.
The expert layering and beachy texture keep this bob from falling flat.
Depp keeps it classic with this elegant, ever-so-slightly rounded-at-the-ends style.
The OG pixie of the early aughts that make us think, “Well, growing out a shaved head isn’t THAT bad, after all.”
Knightley often straight-irons her short bob, but we love the natural texture of this lived-in, wavy look.
One of our favorite Bey looks yet. The blunt ends and golden highlights give this bob a cool-girl flair.
A true bob, down to the subtle layering at the ends to round out the shape. Waves keep it from being too cutesy.
Exhibit A proves that a stick-straight finish looks just as good on short hair.
The queen of everything you’re too scared to do, here with perfectly mussed-up French girl pixie inspiration.
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