Pixie cut

Pixie cuts were popularized first in the 1950s when Audrey Hepburn wore the style in her debut film Roman Holiday, and later in the 1960s by actress Mia Farrow (notably in Roman Polanski’s Rosemary's Baby), British supermodel Twiggy, and then even later by Laugh-In star Goldie Hawn.[1] Jean Seberg also sported a pixie cut for Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.[2]

The crop became fashionable again in the late 1970s and 1980s, with one of its most notable wearers being the actress Jacqueline Pearce in the British TV series Blake's 7. The crop also was big in the mid 1990s, as worn by waif model Lucie de la Falaise, and Madonna in her 1993 tour The Girlie Show. Halle Berry appeared in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day wearing a crop. Pixies are very easy to maintain and can be worn casually, or dressed up for special occasions.[3]

Columnist Pamela Hutchinson notes that the pixie hairstyle is often portrayed in films in a negative way, usually had when actors play characters that have been traumatized, imprisoned or are undergoing cancer treatment.[2]

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  Leslie Caron with a pixie cut, 1953
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  Mia Farrow with a pixie cut, 1968
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  Audrey Tautou with a longer pixie cut, 2006
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  Cécile De France, pixie cut with a longer fringe, 2009
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  Mia Wasikowska, 2010
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  Halle Berry, medium length pixie cut, 2010
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  Michelle Williams, 2012
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  Ginnifer Goodwin, 2012
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  Charlize Theron, 2013
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  Zoe Kravitz with a short pixie cut, 2020

• Hime cut
• Pageboy
• List of hairstyles

• Media related to Pixie cut at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of pixie cut at Wiktionary