The pixie cut trend can be traced back to the 1920s, but more than a century later, you can still request the most thrilling chop in the salon. Essentially dramatic and rebellious, the pixie cut is now sweeping Hollywood: our hair is ours and ours alone.

The year 2024 began with celebrity pixie cut debuts on red carpets and magazine covers. After two years of celebrity bob-hair mania, many of the early adopters of the trend may be sick of the look and how ubiquitous it has become. They could wait patiently for the growing trend to bear fruit, as Sydney Sweeney did. Or, like Renée Zellweger, they can ditch the half-assed chop for something shorter.

On the latest cover of British Vogue, the “Bridget Jones” native sported a transformative cut that fell somewhere between David Bowie's boyish hairstyle and Princess Diana's girly blonde locks. Her pixie, cut by hairstylist Sid Hayes for a February shoot, was both a surprise and a self-referential choice: a tribute to the romantic comedy hero style she wore to the 1999 Academy Awards and the longer pixie she wore from 2007 to 2010 It is a tribute to the Hayes used clippers to create a clean line at the nape of the neck, scissors and razor blades to create piecey textured ends, a thickening spray at the roots to add volume, and a blow-dry to create a vent brush-like finish.

“If you go for an in-between, too-big or too-bold cut, you won't get the dramatic effect. You don't get the element of surprise.” That's why Renée was so cool. She believed in it.”

Zellweger is not the only celebrity who has recently stepped out in a pixie; at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, Emma Stone appeared in a cut reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn and Mia Farrow. While Zellweger's bustier cut was carefully planned for the cover shoot, Stone's was apparently a bustier cut grown for her next film with director Yargos Lanthimos, the sci-fi comedy Bugonia. Of course, Stone's longtime stylist, Mara Roszak, made sure the Oscar winner got her ends trimmed before she hit the red carpet in January.

“My hair's grown out and it looks great. It's a nostalgic 90s look,” Rozak explained to Allure.

Like Stone, Brie Larson's brunette pixie cut, revealed on Instagram in November, was done for her appearance in the West End production of Sophocles' Elektra. Cut by hairstylist Cervando Maldonado and dyed by colorist Jacob Schwartz, the haircut draws influences from Winona Ryder, Jean Seberg, and Edie Sedgwick, among others. 13] I love how the short cut fits Bree's face, personal style, and the role,” Maldonado told Vogue magazine about her edgy look

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Rihanna has never needed a reason to experiment with her hair, but the transformative cut has always been her favorite method; in 2008, 2012, and 2014, she experimented with pixie cuts of various lengths and colors, and the arrival of Fenty Hair gave her the perfect opportunity to reprise this look gave her the perfect opportunity to revisit this look. This time, she jumped at the chance to showcase her natural curl pattern in a honey blonde, highlighted pixie. It was clear that Singer loved her look when she posed for photographers at a step-and-repeat launch party last June. But she also returned to the look in January 2025 for a campaign image for Fenty Beauty's “You Mist” setting spray.

Emma Colin's pixie technically dates back to 2024, but the Nosferatu press tour gave the actor a chance to accessorize the cut in an exciting new way. At the Los Angeles premiere of the film on December 12, Colin showed off her wispy baby bangs peeking out from under a lacy black glam-goth hood. They also gave their tresses a mullet-inspired flip at the London premiere of a horror film two weeks ago.

Consider the new trend of pixie cuts, like bomber jackets and wedge sandals, another sign that 2010s fashion is back. Perhaps celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Watson, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, and Charlize Theron will return to the pixie of old, with Rihanna leading the way.

I can recall the mid-aughts inciting much fear about the awkward growth phase that inevitably comes after the pixie cut. But thanks to the rise of trendy intermediate haircuts like the mullet, shag, and lob, I think society has evolved beyond the need for such warnings. So don't be afraid to free yourself from the tired bob. Six months from now, it will still be there.