The Pixie Cut Trend of 2025 May Outshine the Ever-Popular Celebrity Bob

The pixie cut trend can be traced back to the 1920s, and more than a century later, it's still the most thrilling chop a person can request at the salon. Inherently dramatic and rebellious, the pixie cuts dominating Hollywood right now make a declarative statement: Our hair is ours and ours alone.

2024 kicked off with several celebrity pixie cut debuts on red carpets and magazine covers—and It girls requested the chop for more reason than its enduring appeal. After two years of celebrity bob hair mania, many of the trend's earliest adopters may be tiring of the look and how ubiquitous it's become. Where do you go when your chin or collarbone-grazing cut turns into a meme? You can patiently wait for the grow-out process to bear fruit like Sydney Sweeney did. Or you can ditch your middling chop for something even shorter like Renée Zellweger.

On the latest cover of British Vogue, the Bridget Jones alum debuted a transformative cut that sits somewhere between David Bowie's boyish flop and Princess Diana's gamine blonde crop. Shorn for the February shoot by hairstylist Syd Hayes, her pixie was both a surprise and a self-referential choice: It paid homage to the rom-com protagonist style she wore to the 1999 Oscars, as well as the lengthier pixies she sported between 2007 and 2010. Hayes used clippers to create clean lines at the nape of the neck; scissors and razor blades to achieve those piece-y textural ends; thickening spray for volume at the roots; and a vent brush to finish the look with a bendy blowout.

“When people go for a cut that’s too in-between and not big or bold enough, you don’t get the dramatic effect," Hayes later told the outlet of his process. "You don’t get the wow factor. That’s why Reneé was so cool; she felt the cut. She believed in it.”

Zellweger isn't the only celebrity who's taken the pixie plunge lately. At the 2025 Golden Globes, Emma Stone turned up with a cut reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn and Mia Farrow. Whereas Zellweger's chop was carefully planned in the lead-up to her cover shoot, it sounds like Stone's version is actually a grown-out buzz cut she got for her next film with director Yargos Lanthimos—a science fiction comedy called Bugonia. Of course, Stone's longtime stylist Mara Roszak made sure to trim the ends before the Oscar winner hit the red carpet in January.

"It's been growing out, and it's looking so stunning—very nineties in that nostalgic way," Roszak explained to Allure.

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Like Stone, Brie Larson's brunette pixie cut—unveiled via Instagram in November—was performed in service of a for