Pixie cut

A pixie cut is a short hairstyle, generally short on the back and sides of the head and slightly longer on the top, with very short bangs. It is a variant of a crop. The name is derived from the mythological pixie.^{[citation needed]}

History

Pixie cuts were popularized first in the 1950s, when

The pixie 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 pixie also was big in the mid 1990s, as worn by waif model Lucie de la Falaise, and Madonna in her 1993 world tour The Girlie Show. Halle Berry appeared in the 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day wearing a pixie. Pixies are very easy to maintain and can be worn casually, or dressed up for special occasions.^[3]

In December 2023, Eve Gilles, while sporting a pixie cut, became the first woman with short hair to be crowned Miss France, which led to media attention both in France and internationally regarding the cyberbullying she had received due to her hairstyle.^[4][5][6][7]

In popular culture

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.^[1]

Gallery

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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

See also

• Hime cut
• Pageboy
• List of hairstyles

References

External links

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