Pixie cut

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    Winona Ryder showing off her pixie cut in 2008. (Photo by Eric Weiss, licensed under CC-BY.)

    The hairdo for women who think that a Bob Haircut is too high-maintenance, the Pixie cut is a crop cut, generally short on the back and sides of the head, slightly longer on the top, with very short bangs. It's named after the mythological pixies.

    The most famous pixie in the 20th century, Disney's version of Tinker Bell, adds a Prim and Proper Bun to her pixie cut hairdo.

    While considered to be a feminine hairdo in Real Life, a pixie cut is often an indicator that a fictional character is a tomboy; it's a low-maintenance haircut that doesn't get in the way of being "one of the boys".

    Compare with Boyish Short Hair and (as already mentioned) Bob Haircut. Anything shorter would be either a buzz cut or Bald Women. Contrast with Long Hair Is Feminine.

    Examples of people with a pixie cut include:

    Anime and Manga

    Fan Works

    Film

    Live-Action TV

    • Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce) in Blake's 7.
    • Goldie Hawn wore a pixie cut with a permanent wave when she was a regular on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
    • Mary Martin, and Sandy Duncan after her, when performing as Peter Pan on television.
    • Actress Jane Norman as the eponymous hostess of the 1960s-vintage Philadelphia-area children's show Pixanne.

    Music

    • Caterina Valente wore a pixie cut when she performed on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall in 1966.
    • Jennifer Hudson, in 2020
    • Katy Perry, in 2017 and 2020
    • Janelle Monae, in 2017
    • Kehlani, in 2016 (one of several styles)
    • Salt-N-Pepa
    • Halsey, in 2016
    • Rita Ora, in 2015
    • Miley Cyrus, in 2013
    • Rihanna, in 2012
    • Madonna, in 1986
    • Beyoncé, on occasion
    • P!nk
    • Averted with The Pixies - the group's only female member, original bassist/vocalist Kim Deal (a.k.a. Mrs. John Murphy), is no longer with the band and never had a pixie cut anyway.

    Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends

    • It's Victorian-era and modern folklore that says pixies wear their hair in pixie cuts.

    Web Comics

    • Haley wore a pixie cut for a short time in The Order of the Stick, after getting a Traumatic Haircut.
    • Ivy Collins, the protagonist of webtoon The 101ˢᵗ Heroine, which along with her tomboyish personality and her Penny Among Diamonds situation in the Royal Consort Contest makes her contrast even more with the long-haired princess she has to compete against.

    Western Animation

    Real Life

    • As soon as she had been released from her decade-long contract to make the Harry Potter movies, Emma Watson immediately disposed of the hairstyle she had been contractually obligated to keep from age 11 to age 21. Her subsequent appearance in public with a Pixie cut generated favorable comparisons to Mia Farrow and Audrey Hepburn.
    • Actress Larisa Oleynik shifted from shoulder-length blonde locks to a darker pixie cut when she "graduated" from child and teen roles to being an adult actress.
    • In the late-1960s, Twiggy near-singlehandedly changed the modelling world's preferences from "voluptuous models" to "waif-like models" with her thin build and her pixie cut, as seen in this promotional photo on Wikipedia.
    • Diahann Carroll, Shirley MacLaine, and Barbra Streisand all wore their hair in pixie cuts in the 1960s.
    • Audrey Tautou and Charlize Theron are modern-day actresses who have appeared in public wearing their hair in pixie cuts - Ms. Tautou at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and Ms. Theron at the Academy Awards in 2010.
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