Victoria Beckham
She started the bob craze—it's only natural that she'd popularize the pixie cut, too.
Gwyneth Paltrow
New year, new look! At the beginning of 2008, Paltrow traded in her superlong strands for a shorter, more flattering blunt cut.
Anne Hathaway
Hathaway washed that man right out of her hair; shortly after troubling reports first surfaced about then-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri, Hathaway debuted a stunning new bob. Since then (and since dumping the convicted con man), the actress has grown out her locks to a fresh, just-above-the-shoulder length.
Liv Tyler
In a similar post-breakup snap decision, Tyler shed her sleek waves following a separation from husband Royston Langdon in May.
Reese Witherspoon
After a period of growing out her blonde tresses, Witherspoon returned to a shorter, above-the-shoulder look this past summer.
Agyness Deyn
Now that everyone else is catching on, Deyn—an original frontrunner of the pixie do—has grown out her signature stunted strands into a close-cut bob.
Rihanna
This good girl gone bad made headlines when she sported a bob last year, but now she's all about the pixie cut. Whether her hair's blown straight or side-combed and wavy, Rihanna knows how to rock short hair right.
Pixie Geldof
True to her name, British girl about town Pixie Geldof wore a pixie hairstyle long before many of her contemporaries.
Katie Holmes
When she first bobbed her hair, many thought she was under the spell of fellow fashionista and good friend Victoria Beckham. However, in the year since, Holmes has individualized her hairstyle—first by adding blunt bangs and later by morphing her mane into a shorter boyish cut.
Michelle Williams
Like her former Dawson's Creek co-star, Williams has also chopped her locks in favor of an edgier, more sophisticated do. And the look very clearly mirrors her career transformation; after being nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for Brokeback Mountain, Williams became a bona fide A-lister.
Mandy Moore
Although she wore her hair long and loose after introducing a more folksy, grown-up sound on her 2007 album, Wild Hope, as of late, the songstress has been showing off a shorter, less "wild"—but equally alluring—do.
Hilary Swank
Swank is no stranger to a cropped coif: For her star turn in 1999's Boys Don't Cry she sported severely shorn strands. Next up, she'll appear as the pixie-haired Amelia Earhart in Amelia.
Hayden Panettiere
Snipping her hair this past summer may have meant Panettiere had to wear extensions on the set of Heroes to mask her real-life bob, but the chic update more than makes up for any extra time in hair and makeup.
Jennie Garth
A pro at the above-the-shoulder look (she's worn it for some time now), Garth took her tidy tresses to a whole new level when she wore them curly and prettily pinned at the Twilight premiere.
Zoe McLellan
Hard to believe that, prior to her role on ABC's Dirty Sexy Money, McLellan sported long, below-the-shoulder locks. As a put-together art gallery manager on DSM, she sports a pixie do that suits her perfectly.
